Poke a progressive and what you’ll get is a lot of feel-good mumbo-jumbo. It’s what we saw congressional Democrats do yesterday morning as they kneeled in Emancipation Hall for nearly nine minutes, draped in the cultural appropriation they so often decry, bowing to the anti-police mob:

https://twitter.com/mzee26/status/1270159357301403648?s=20

Pander scarves. How cute.

I had to say something about the American politicians shameless and ignorantly using the Kente fabric as a prop in their virtue signaling.

*I’m usually more mild mannered than this so please forgive me, I’m upset. pic.twitter.com/aZMjgsHujS

— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) June 8, 2020

The chosen venue couldn’t have been more ironic given the party’s long and documented history of racism and slavery, and standing in opposition to every civil rights movement in our nation’s history, including the women’s vote.

They’re just hoping that none of us know it.

So, given their racist and sexist history, it’s no surprise that they’ve embraced the movement spawned by the America-hating fringe that has successfully hijacked their party: defunding the police. And, of course, while at the same time being pro-gun control.

And it couldn’t be more emblematic of the racist and sexist roots of the Democratic Party, because it is women and people of color who will primarily experience the disastrous ramifications of the party’s latest catastrophic idea.

Exhibit A is the answer a CNN guest offered when asked about the response to an active shooter, a situation the left says it’s concerned with (gun control will remedy that, doncha know). Their answer is…we have no answer.

And it’s the same answer they’ll give when asked if people of color—whose lives are routinely snuffed out during an average weekend in Chicago—will be further victimized by those who will run rampant when there’s no one left to stop them.

And it’s the same answer women will hear when they ask who they’ll call if their lives are threatened, or when the inevitable rise in rapes and other violent crime happens…we have no answer; your “white privilege” deems you unworthy of protection. No, really:

CAMEROTA: "What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?"

BENDER: "Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege." pic.twitter.com/WhubQ9yJIf

— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) June 8, 2020

Gotcha. Equal victimization for all. Did I mention this is part of what the left means by “social justice”?

The Democratic party would like us all to believe that the biggest threat to our lives is the police. They’d like us all to forget that it is they who’ve dominated, for decades, the political landscape of most large cities across America. And they’d like us to forget it is they who’ve put into place policies—coupled with abortion clinics and failing public schools—that have decimated the lives of people of color in an effort to keep them voting blue. And should they successfully eradicate police departments so desperately needed in areas where their polices have wrought misery, and unchecked crime, to so many—particularly in areas where Democrats have also erased their citizens’ right to self-defense by making it virtually impossible to legally own a firearm—what residents of cities like Minneapolis, New York City, and Los Angeles will face is nightmarish to imagine by comparison.

Can you say Sharia Law, coupled with Antifa, and Black Lives Matter-types “community policing” your streets? Because that’s who women and people of color will find “policing” them in liberal-run cities across America at the behest of the multi-tentacled DNC. Do what we say, or face our wrath. That message has never been more clear than in the past months where people simply demanding their jobs be returned are hauled off to jail, while violent insurrection is rewarded with celebrity bail money.

The left doesn’t care about women. We’ve seen that in the way Joe Biden’s been shielded from credible rape allegations, and the dismissal of his on-camera molestation of little girls. They covered for Clinton; they covered for Weinstein; they covered for Epstein. And, in the cities Democrats dominate, it is women who’ll be left further defenseless in the face of threats that are sure to increase thanks to yet another destructive Democratic Party policy.

And, other than election season, they certainly don’t believe black lives matter. All one needs do is take a look at the intentional shuttering of businesses and other employment that—pre-Scamdemic—had successfully pulled so many peoples of color and other once-neglected communities out of poverty and into the dignity of work. Couple that with the Democrats’ silence on recent riot-related deaths…

Those killed amid the rioting over the black man’s death have been disproportionately black. Businesses owned and frequented by blacks have been wiped out in the looting and destruction, and a memorial to black Civil War soldiers has been defaced.”

…and destruction—wrought by the DNC’s terrorist offshoots—of black and other minority-owned businesses and communities in the past days, and it’s clear that what they care about is votes.

There’s a reason that blue states have dragged their feet on re-opening their economies. There’s a reason the liberal-dominated media has, for months, fear-mongered about coronavirus. There’s a reason that—just at the most-opportune moment—coordinated “protests” simultaneously sprang up in cities all across America. And there’s a reason why the Democratic Party’s terrorist arm has been allowed by their blue-state comrades to launch a full-scale civil war on America, the death toll—including innocent women and people of color—acceptable collateral damage in their quest to regain power. How? To scare women and people of color into voting Democrat as violent crime increases, their white knight being a senile old man who has a record of, at best, creepy behavior toward women, and a long history of shaming free-thinking blacks and commiserating with senate segregationists, a man who’d be nothing but a puppet for the radical fringe of his party. Remember: he’s the same guy who says things like this, and gets a free pass from the usual suspects.

Anyone who cares to can see what all of this is about: the November election and the votes of women, as well as people of color who’ve been drifting away from the Democratic Party for some time now.

So to my fellow ladies, my fellow Americans of all hues, and those who care about us: the Democratic Party believes we’re all stupid; let’s not let them exploit us any longer. And let’s not allow them to implement yet another anti-black and anti-woman police policy that promises to wreak further havoc on already-vulnerable communities, and raze the very future of our country.

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