White progressive analysis of politics is fundamentally broken.

[dionysus]

215. While society has enlightened itself, however slowly, over time and continues

to do, i fear that there are always going to be some who are successfull at exploiting key components of racism; humans are naturally biased or distrustful or fearful of those who are "different". Enlightened people recognize naturally occurring bias when they feel it, knowing that that it is a primitive defensive human instinct, and move past it (basically realizing, for example, that people are equal regardless of race).

Peddlers of racism nurture the natural biases in people, stoke them like a fire, and try to turn them into hate. One of Trumps real skills, as opposed to his fake business genius, is to stoke people's emotions and get em hatin'... this election makes me think being a business man all this time kept him from his true calling (that being a petty dictator... sad thing is i'm joking but it's actually true, sigh)

I guess we can never eliminate racism but we can sure go a hell of a lot further towards making it an obsolete concept...