Who is truly deplorable?

LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson

I am writing this column now before its subject gets swept under the rug with all the other Clinton detritus. It’s important, and it underscores what I have been saying about the hard Left for years.

The following quote exposes the Left’s exploitation of race, but it also clarifies liberals’ scorn for all who don‘t think as they do.

If you have been paying attention to Hillary Clinton’s shenanigans, then this is old news, but the message is still hanging in the air, reeking of liberal contempt for folks not robotically within the liberal camp.

On September 9, at a ritzy LGBT gala in New York, Clinton let the cat out of the bag. Here’s what she said as quoted from NBC News:

“To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the ’basket of deplorables.’ Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.”

If you have been waiting for the real Hillary Clinton to emerge, I can tell you she has finally arrived. This time she wasn’t protected by a sheltering Big Media, a politicized Justice Department, or the long line of apologists attached to the hem of her pantsuit.

Let’s analyze those 28 words so their ramifications are clear to all.

When Clinton says, “To just be grossly generalistic” in describing Trump supporters, she is violating what is supposed to be fundamental to political correctness; that is, not judging a whole, large group on the behavior or words of a few. Being ’grossly general’ is the attitude attached to prejudice and stereotyping.

Clinton revealed her own stark prejudices. She is being judgmental, a name caller and a bit of a bully, all liberal sins. Suddenly, the shine on a pristine liberal paragon is dulled.

Clearly, the ’basket of deplorables’ remark is an insult, and intended to be so, but it is more than a firecracker tossed into the midst of a crowd she was trying to gin up; it is a revelation. The message is those not buying Leftist propaganda are narrow minded, suspicious, and ignorant.

If you are a Trump supporter, then surely you are a racist. Isn’t that what Clinton said?

One can’t be a conservative without being a racist? What an indictment of Americans by a smug, pompous elitist.

I know a lot of people, Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative, Christian and non-Christian, but I don’t know any racists. I’m not sure I’ve even met a racist, nor do I want to.

Where is all this racism we keep hearing about from the Left? Shouldn’t they be offering some proof, something concrete, something visible, instead of “gross(ly) generalizations.”

If you are a Trump supporter, then being racist isn’t enough. Right-wingers must be sexist too according to Hillary, who, apparently, has some peculiar awareness concerning the gender downtrodden that no one else has.

Now, everyone knows if Clinton is elected president, she will be paid the same salary as Barack Obama. No gang of sexists will attempt to pay Hillary less than her male predecessors because of her gender.

Note to Hillary: Men don’t sit around plotting how to suppress the rights and opportunities for women. This isn’t 1900. Only your party is stuck in the past.

And, yes, the group Hillary has targeted for disdain is men, particularly white men, whom the Left sees as the root of all evil. That’s clear, isn’t it?

And when men are targeted unfairly for political attacks, isn’t that a form of sexism?

Of course Trump supporters, according to Clinton, are homophobic, but that’s not enough either. They must also Islamaphobic and xenophobic. In other words, if you think your country’s borders should be protected, you are scared of foreigners, not protective of national rights or supportive of existing laws, many of which aren‘t vigorously enforced by our own government.

Said Hillary in the same speech: “Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but they are not America….They are just desperate for change….”

Well, at least she got one thing right. We are desperate for change from the politically correct, morally bankrupt, financially irresponsible, name-calling, judgmental, reckless, and America-despising Left, of which Hillary Clinton is a part.

If Donald Trump must be the agent of that change, then so be it. I would rather take my chances with a person dedicated to his country than with one whose brand of bigotry emerges only before audiences where she feels politically safe and justified.