AM Joy had a young PR Latina ex-navy officer on to speak first in the name of all Puerto Ricans everywhere in the US and then for all Americans.
After a few minutes of full-on Katrina denunciations, in the name of Puerto Ricans on the island and everywhere, of Trump and his administration for a wholly inadequate response to Maria marked by incompetence, indifference, and racist malevolence, she went on to insist that Puerto Ricans all over America, and especially those leaving the island to escape the hurricane's aftermath, will all vote immediately wherever they find themselves.
And then she announced that all Americans everywhere know "we have a moral duty to rebuild Puerto Rico", and in a tone of righteous anger certain of victory she intoned we will demand that it be done.
She is only one of the many who over recent days and in days to come will speak for Puerto Ricans, minorities, and all Americans, urging fantastic expectations converted into proofs of racism and demands for action.
To motivate partisan loyalty and get out the vote, given the occasion, right wing media, the Republican Party, Trump personally, his administration, and his supporters in general give voice to the most revolting, outrageous, and stupid beliefs, absurd demands, and insane rage of the white rabble.
Similarly, to motivate partisan loyalty and get out the vote, given the occasion, left wing media, the Democratic Party, its leaders in person, their administrations when in office, and their supporters in general give voice to the most revolting, outrageous, and stupid beliefs, absurd demands, and insane rage of the nonwhite rabble.
It is part of how they do it that each side converts the propaganda of the other, of this type, into fodder for its own.
President Trump slams San Juan mayor, other Puerto Rico leaders: 'They want everything to be done for them'
They wind each other up, one could say.
And it works all the better if on the other side those giving voice are racially and ethnically appropriate for the role.
So we see pro-criminal race riots and natural disasters provide grist for both mills.
To some extent it is theater and cynical playacting.
But to a very real and perhaps greater extent it is wholly, frighteningly sincere.
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