American Apartheid

The two party system in America is evolving into a kind of apartheid. Democrats are the new black underclass, the people it's okay to despise and disenfranchise. Republicans come at their spite and drive for domination from different places but, certainly, the old, southern racists and the anti-commies were in the market for new antagonists. 

These groups were at least partly defined in opposition to supposedly inarguably inferior peoples. Neither group has a stable sense of identity without animosity and fear. They need enmity. Demonizing Democrats conveniently captured most black people and those who saw the world in a less polarized, Manichean way. Polarization is an American speciality.

Self-righteousness is as well. There are black hats and white hats, good and bad people and not much in-between. We are good, by God, ultimately independently even of how we behave, which is my definition of racism. Democrats are becoming the bad guys--a fully, systematically shafted political underclass in the new, American apartheid.