In 2024, the polls favored Kamala Harris. Donald Trump won the election with a comfortable margin.
The pollsters asked questions. The voters responded and their responses were recorded. MAGA had poisoned the political atmosphere with racist or bigoted propaganda, Us versus Them. Ordinary voters were persuaded by them but did not want to be thought of as being racist. So, the answers could not and did not reflect the true sentiment and intention of the responders.
The Democrats should not allow themselves to be in a celebrating mood just because the polls show the approval rating of the president is low and therefore Republicans would lose the House and the Senate come November. In a street interview by a news show, a white woman, formerly a MAGA voter, said that she was not very happy with high mortgage rate and rent, high price of groceries and gas, and the war and would not support the Republicans. She added that her husband would continue to support the president and the Republicans. In how many white Republican households, the wives will defy their husbands at the voting booth and vote Democrats? Only if they had never listened to Tammy Wynette’s Stand By Your Man.
The MAGA’s propaganda may have been so entrenched that it can’t be dislodged immediately and easily. But the bad economy, tariffs, and the war may change their dark view tainted with racism of our society and help bring back Republicans to mainstream thinking and open their eyes to the rapid deterioration of American influence in the world, especially among its previously loyal allies and friends.
AI has helped MAGA tremendously in their plotting and scheming. But reality indicates that our power, military or otherwise, has its limits in dealing with our enemies or unexpected circumstances. The plotting to preserve white supremacy is destructively divisive making us weak and has no justification morally, biologically, ethnically, evolutionarily, or anthropologically. It should disappear for the sake of a strong healthy and productive humane society, and to preserve our American way of life – not the billionaires’ way of life.
Ironically, the advance of AI should convince the most diehard racists that there
is no ranking of races.
JOHN P. LE PHONG
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