America First is code for "my right to hate"

The Republican Party's America First "Anglo Saxon" platform is code for "my right to hate". 

We live in a nation that is 70% white, and is based in the idea that "All men are created equal". We've known in the past that this is an ideal and certainly not prompted in it's entirety by even the individuals that composed the idea.

But that's the thing. Ideals, while not reality until they are, are goals held out to understand where we need to be. In this case, we need to acknowledge that this ideal comes with the idea of diversity built in. It does not say "All white men are created equal". It ignores race. It ignores sex (although even that took a long time for us to acknowledge). It ignores sexual preference, gender identity, age, religion or any other differentiator under the sun.

So it's sad that we see yet again, a "Conservative" (in quotes because real conservatives, who value our constitutional ideals, don't shrug off the meaning) are pushing an idea that the white man is being attacked by foreigners, by other races and religions, merely by their existing in this country. A country that already sees our minorities underprivileged and dying at much higher rates, imprisoned at hire rates, impoverished and under the thumb of the white majority.

Look - I'm a white male. I have come to terms with the privilege I have and understand that I don't have the same struggles as others with different color skin, a different sex, a different orientation or religion. Yes, I still have struggles (every human does) but I can understand that mine are not rooted in someone equal trying to be understood that way by a society that doesn't.

This "America first caucus" is a fear driven narrative, counting on the idea that Americans are not self aware. It will speak of white people being "canceled" by narratives of diversity. It will speak of "religion" being under attack by not allowing prayer in schools, it will speak of "equality" already being achieved and simultaneously try to play minorities out as leeches and criminals, as inferior and present equal opportunity initiatives as "reverse discrimination". It will push the false narrative that opportunity for others takes away opportunity from "us".

It is another example of a hate narrative and a very old set of arguments for keeping others under the thumb. And it needs to be stopped. It needs to be exposed. And these people need to be seen for the evil they are. And they are.

They are the Joseph McCarthy's, Nazi's, KKK's of the world. They are wrong. The last administration was evil and tiring - the propaganda and hate. This is an attempt to extend that mission.

Our great opportunity as privileged society is to get where we are going by helping others get where they are going, understanding our success as a country is based on the success of all of our people, not the "majority".

We have to do better. Their message will resonate with some, perhaps even many. We need to tear away the propaganda and expose the devil that drives the narrative. We need to elect representatives that value everyone. We need to teach our children to value their fellow humans. We need to continue to fight.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/gop-s-new-america-first-caucus-follows-some-blatantly-white-n1264361?icid=msd_topgrid