The Three American Political Parties

Most people think America is a two party political system but it’s not.

It is and always has been a three party system.

Before continuing, let me stress that by “party” I’m not referring to formal incorporated entities.

Rather I’m talking about realpolitik, not politics.

Politics are just the window dressing.  The names and players may change, occasionally they may swap uniforms and field positions, but the teams remain constant.

One party in America is the party of the common citizen, the workers, the consumers.  Its primary interest and the source of its power is in seeing that the average citizen is taken care of as best as possible.

Sometimes this means leaving those citizens alone, sometimes it means stopping bad things from happening to them, sometimes it means to herd them like cats towards a goal that ultimately benefits them.

The second party is the business party, and as one might guess, they’re frequently (but not always) at odds with the common citizen party.

Basically, they want the country run in such a way that businesses do well.  Many times they recognize the need for certain common sense regulations, or to make vital concessions to the common citizens in order to keep things running smoothly, but their primary focus is on seeing business do business and make money.

Not an evil proposition in and of itself.

Politics, after all, is the art of the possible, and as our country proved many, many times in the past, it’s possible for these two parties to find workable compromises.

We may never find compromises that please both sides equally, but we can find compromises that enable the country to keep functioning stably. 

The third party, however, is the white supremacist party.

Too often they’re confused as part of one party or the other, and often they belie their own raison d’etre by pointing to token minority members and saying, “See?  We’re not racist!”

Oh, yes, you are.  Just because some fall for the lie doesn’t mean it’s true.

The third party might not always have been strictly authoritarian, but they certainly never wanted anyone to gain serious input into American politics except through them.

But they exist solely to make sure white people never slip from their apex perch on the pyramid of power. They can be courteous and polite, and in some instances even oddly generous, but only so far as everyone acknowledges the real power resides only with them.

They occasionally go by other names than “white supremacist” but as Jesus said, “By their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew 7:20 KJV).

Anything other than “liberty and justice for all” is white supremacy.

Period.

Full stop.

In the 19th and early art of the 20th century the white supremacist party aligned closely with the Democratic Party, so closely as to appear inseparable from it.

The white supremacist party claimed to be Democrats, and Democrats -- however reluctantly in some cases -- accepted them as in the party, not merely allied with it.

History has a way of happening, however, and by the 1920s the Democratic leadership realized the future of America was urban, not rural, and that meant a multi-ethnic society.

The white supremacist party dominated many rural areas, driving out Native Americans, subjugating through law and terror African-Americans / Mexican-Americans / Asian-Americans / non-Calvinist Americans.

(Yes, religious bigotry used to play a much larger part in white supremacist identity politics -- go ask the Italians and the Irish and the Eastern Europeans -- but as white supremacist numbers shrank, so did their objections to Catholics and Jews and Mormons and non-religious people.  The hardest core still hates anyone outside their own perverted theology, but most of them accept believers of any sort so long as they’re for keeping white people on top.)

While the business party never held any particular love for any but their own, for the most part they’re consistent in their desire to protect wealth, regardless of who possesses it.

By the 1930s and 40s, however, they found their influence waning with the majority of Americans due the Great Depression that impacted most Americans (which they caused) and the New Deal that benefited most Americans (which they opposed).

The white racist party felt angsty towards the common citizen party and briefly for a few years split off on their own, calling themselves the Dixiecrats.

When this didn’t work, they returned to the Democratic ranks -- grumbling all the way -- because they still hated the party of Lincoln for winning the Civil War.

The business party saw an opportunity to bolster their fading power, and so actively recruited the white supremacist party in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The white supremacists felt too proud to blatantly jump ship, but they were willing to rally around George Wallace and the American Independent Party to siphon off enough votes that would have otherwise gone to Hubert Humphrey in 1968 to enable Nixon to win.

The business party welcomed the white supremacists in, first calling them ”the silent majority” then later the Tea Party* and now MAGAs.

And while some call them “Trump chumps” because they think Trump rallied them, I think it’s more likely they summoned Trump into being.

Trump, after all, ran unsuccessfully for the Reform Party presidential nomination in 2000 before quitting, teased about running for the Republication nomination in 2011 before dropping out rather than face Barack Obama, and finally ran in 2016.

The majority of his support came from white supremacists -- not necessarily rabid hate-mongering racists, just white people afraid of losing what tiny status they think their skin color entitles them to -- and he (or rather his election team) won the 2016 by skillfully “threading the electoral college needle” and winning the electoral vote despite losing the popular vote by 2,868,686 ballots, garnering only 46.1% of all ballots cast vs. Clinton’s 48.2%.

In 2016 he lost re-election by 7,052,770 popular votes, a decisive 51.3% to 46.9% landslide in Biden’s favor.

From 2016 to the present, Trump consistently lies about his election chances and results, claiming numbers and majorities that simply are not there.

Yet his base -- the white supremacist base -- parrot these claims.

They have to.

They can’t not support these lies.

To admit defeat means admitting they are not supreme.

From 1796 to the present (Washington, our first president, was elected and re-elected unanimously), the three parties in various forms and guises have jockeyed for position.

At first the white supremacist party could demand tribute from the other two parties, but once they destroyed their claims of legitimacy with the Civil War, they became the ally that support first one, then the other political party in America.

Now, however, the time has come to squeeze the white pus out of this festering boil on the ass cheeks of America.

The party of the common citizens and the part of business need to work together to push white supremacy as a political ideology out of the American public sphere once and for all.

© Buzz Dixon

*  Originally they were called the Tea Bag Party in an attempt to make them sound like a hip modern update of the old Boston Tea Party protestors, but thanks to Google everybody soon discovered what “tea bagging” meant in the gay community and got a good horselaugh out of their cluelessness.