Sooo…what do Progressives and White Supremacists have in common?

(P.S. Although, I will bash white supremacists on every occasion that I get, this is not a “bash progressives” post, so, to all my progressive friends; please keep reading.)

Progressives and white supremacists have the same thing in common as every other HUMAN BEING…basic needs: food, water, shelter, and security (i.e. Maslow Hierarchy). And they know we need MONEY to support those basic needs.

Before I explain why that’s important and the purpose of this post, let me back up a little bit and tell you what I read last night….

Ok, so I was under my alias, in a white supremacist chat room (what? I know I’m not the only person keeping watch and trolling bigots on the web, wink!). Anyway, I was in the white supremacist chat room, and I saw a thread titled something like, “Why Racists Should Support #AndrewYang, the 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate” (that’s not the exact title and they probably didn’t use the word “racist” but that’s how I read it).

Of course, seeing a thread on a white supremacist message board about racists supporting #AndrewYang for president, made me concerned. Why? Because I’M A WOKE BLACK WOMAN AND I’M SUPPORTING ANDREW YANG FOR PRESIDENT TOO :0. I was confused about how a group of racists and I could be supporting the same candidate, so I started reading the comments.

I needed to make sure that these racists didn’t know something about #AndrewYang’s platform or his associations or his personal beliefs that I didn’t know. I needed to make sure that I wasn’t being bamboozled into being the 2020’s Omarosa, Diamond & Silk, or any other dumb-ass “Blacks for #Trump” who helped usher in a president who supported white supremacy and racist beliefs. I had to get to the bottom of it. Why ARE racists supporting the same #AndrewYang THAT I AM SUPPORTING???

After reading racist diatribe after racist diatribe about the merits of the “rice-burner”, “global Zionist”, “Hey, he is not white but at least he’s Asian”, “Universal Basic Income (UBI) means that white women can stay home and have more white babies”…blah, blah, blah, I realized that these white supremacists weren’t supporting #AndrewYang because they believed that he was a racist like them. Nope…In fact, many of them despaired at the fact that, unlike #Trump, he seemed sincere and that he didn’t seem to be, according to them, a “self-hating Asian” or “black-hating Asian.” (P.S. Racists are funny…they think everyone suffers from the same mental illness as they do. They also think everyone wants to be them…as if…ewww!)

I realized that these white supremacists are supporting #AndrewYang because like me, and all of my progressive friends who are supporting #AndrewYang, they see the writing on the wall!! And the writing says that #AndrewYang is right when he says that the development of technology in the form of digitalization, robotics and automation is reshaping our future labor market and many of us will be left out in the cold and jobless.

Even though white supremacists romanticize #MAGA with the return of mining and factory jobs and the reclaiming of jobs “stolen by illegal immigrant”, they know that’s just a fantasy and that #Trump is full of Sugar-Honey-Ice-Tea! They know that the age of automation is here, AI is getting better and better. They know that companies only care about the bottom-line and that in the near future, technology will make most blue-collar workers and many white-collar workers obsolete. They also know that, while statistically whites are better off financially than black and brown people, there are more white people living below the poverty line and more poor working-class white people in the United States.

That brings me back to why I’m writing this post. I’m writing this post to illustrate why I believe that #AndrewYang can win!!

#AndrewYang has done something with his platform that I haven’t seen done in politics in my voting lifetime. With his UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME plan to give every American $1000 per month (The Freedom Dividend), #AndrewYang has proposed a platform that hones in on the intersection of interests common to not only every American, but, to all humans…the ability for us to provide basic needs to ourselves and our families. With his Freedom Dividend Plan, #AndrewYang has cut through all of the things that divide us and focuses in on the one thing that unites us…our survival instinct and our basic need for MONEY.

In 2015, Bernie Sanders was the transformative candidate who inspired many of us. The status quo democrats said that Bernie’s platform was unrealistic and those of us who supported him were either crazy, un-American or anarchists. While the status quo won the battle for the democratic nominee, #Trump ultimately won the war.

Fast forward to 2019, #Andrew Yang is today’s transformative candidate. His platform motivates and inspires not just progressives, but white supremacists, and many others who have retreated into various “-isms” due to scarcity, or, who have been turned off by the corrupt political process. In 2020 we have another war to save America from #Trump and the Plutocrats, let’s not make the same mistakes, let’s pick a candidate who can inspire and unite voters from across all demographics. Let’s pick a candidate who can beat Trump, move us forward, and, most of all, help people. Heck…let’s just pick a candidate who can win. IMO that candidate is Andrew Yang.

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