Although the National Football League claims to have 32 franchises—all those logos, mascots and jerseys really mean nothing. When it comes down to it, there are only two NFL teams:
- The Dallas Cowboys
- Everybody else
Fans may purchase New York Giants season tickets and wear Miami Dolphins jerseys, but loathing the Dallas Cowboys is the NFL’s most unifying sentiment, and hating the Dallas Cowboys is America’s pastime. While the Los Angeles Lakers, the New York Yankees and the Kardashian Industrial Complex may come close, the Dallas Cowboys are far and away sports’ most disliked team.
Over the last 20 years, Dem Boys have a record of 174 wins, 182 losses, and haven’t appeared in a Super Bowl in more than a quarter of a century. Yet the team boasts the league’s biggest fan base and consistently garners football’s highest television ratings. Jerry Jones is widely considered the league’s most inept general manager but he owns two of the desired properties in all of professional athletics. His Cowboys is the most valuable franchise in American sports, but he also owns football’s second-most valuable team—people who hate the Cowboys. Jones turned a $150 million investment into $5.7 billion by tapping into one undeniable truth:
No bond is stronger than people who hate the same thing.
Although the Republican Party platform claims to hold a number of positions, all those political issues, policy statements and party goals mean nothing. When it comes down to it, the Grand Old Party only stands for one thing:
White people.
Oh, there are certainly Republican politicians who claim to adhere to conservative principles and fiscal responsibility. Some wax poetic about their love for America, the troops, Christian values and hard work. But now that those vacuous, bald-faced lies have been exposed as nothing more than what political pundit Mary Jane Blige termed as “hateration and holleration in the dancery,” the GOP has disintegrated into a single-issue party.
Like dem franchise boyz from Dallas, the value of GOP’s team has nothing to do with how well they play the sport of American politics. Although they have a loyal following, instead of trying to actually be good at passing (bills), running (the country) and tackling (issues), they have pivoted toward a platform of being against things. To be fair, they are still pretty good at blocking (progress).
For decades, the GOP claimed fiscal conservatism as a core principle. But when they gained control of Congress and the presidency, they ran up deficits that made their Democratic counterparts look like stingy uncles. While pretending to be socially conservative evangelicals, they elected pussy-grabbing, lying, cheating, cocaine-slinging, coke-snorting candidates like Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
They love the troops, except the ones who read Critical Race Theory, get captured or are just “a bunch of pussies.” They stand for freedom of speech, except when it involves Black NFL players, Black history, Black women, Black Lives Matter protests or Black...well, anything. They believe in law and order, democracy and the Constitution until they feel like overthrowing the federal government, throwing out an election and suppressing voters. Small government conservatives want the government out of their lives. But they are keenly interested in women’s vaginas, local school boards and where trans people choose to urinate.
But the GOP actually stands for something. The Republican Party is unmatched when it comes to conjuring up ways to protect whiteness. It’s not that they are pro-white as much as they are against anything that may result in freedom or equality for everyone else. It would take too much time and bandwidth to dissect every issue that the GOP opposes, but I can list a few specific issues.
Immigration reform, reparations, voting rights, affirmative action school equality, teaching history, removing Confederate statues, college admissions, health equity, criminal justice reform, police accountability, Black Lives Matter, civil rights legislation, relief for Black farmers, COVID vaccine distribution, social programs, Muslims on airplanes, Black people in voting booths, investigating far-right extremism, bail reform, ending the war on drugs, equity in financial institutions, college debt, judicial reform, white women calling the police...
In fact, here’s an easier exercise. Aside from Trump’s First Step Act that was created by progressives organizations, name one issue supported by the Republican Party that is also supported by the majority of Black people.
Don’t worry, I’ll wait.
In the 2020 election, 55 percent of white voters voted for Donald Trump. According to Pew’s verified voter survey, the GOP didn’t come close to winning a majority in any other racial or ethnic demographic. Yet, the space occupied by the Republican Party is still the most valuable commodity in American politics.
White people generally support expanding healthcare, regulating guns, police reform, the right to choose, fair elections and taxing corporations. But the white people’s party doesn’t have to actually enact a political or economic agenda. Their stance on social issues means nothing. They have even convinced their base that the actual number of votes don’t matter. The GOP has seized upon one incontrovertible truth: White people aren’t cheering for white people...
They’re just rooting against everybody else.
DISCUSSION
In talking with my wife last week about this very same topic, I had pointed out to her that for the first time in my life I am actually in fear of what the future of this country will look like. While I always have had a healthy fear of what may happen to me, my wife or one of my kids being pulled over by some racist cop who’s having a bad day, now I am concerned that some dumbass hillbilly with an irrational number of bullets for his military grade assault rifle will be the right one that kicks off the “race war” that these inbred ignorant ass fuckers have been creaming in their pants about for the past decade or so. SCOTUS will more than likely be removing any restrictions to gun ownership in the next few months to a year. The GOP refuse to put any brakes or limitations on what they will or will not do in the service of a known liar - even if that includes literally CHANGING the outcomes of election results they don’t like. I won’t even discuss the absolutely malicious decision to keep the ignorant masses choosing to stay unvaccinated (while their overlords are completely vaccinated) for the singular purpose of making the Biden administration look as incompetent as the previous one in the handling of COVID - when they absolutely know that THEIR PEOPLE are the primary ones now dying from it.
The conclusion we came to? We out. Within the next 2 years we are tying up loose ends, paying off our home here int he states and purchasing property out of the country. While I will have my home to return to here every few months, I cannot be subjected to these mindless evil creatures any longer. I’m tired of being tired of the police abusing our rights, micro aggressions by un-duly deputized white people on one in a Walmart parking lot, politicians telling me that we don’t matter by their inaction, shitty health care and fucked up incomplete education taught by a burnt out population of the disillusioned.
When I was growing up, America was fucked up but at least we had the...idea that we were attempting to be better than our past. That somehow we could pull together as a majority for the greater good of the masses. That idealistic shit has gone up like a puff of smoke. The thugs now control the steering wheel of our ship covered in gasoline heading straight to hell and they aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they don’t give a fuck about anyone - white, Black or otherwise unless they have the cash to make them listen. It was my illusion. Why would I think a country founded by criminals, rapists, murderers and enslavers would ever amount to anything but a cesspool of evil?