Question For Clarence Paige: Does A Dis-unified Republican Party Or A Unified Democratic Party Mean A "Prosperous Black Community"?

Clarence Paige: Black voters' Obama blues

Most certainly the best thing going for the Progressive is that he always has some poor people in existence to run on behalf of.

Per their "selling the future" meme - these, the "Least Of These" are always inclined to look past the last election cycle in which they were compelled to invest their ballots into the same scheme which is now before them, asking for another disbursement.  As such Clarence Paige warns that the consequences of a disenchanged Black progressive voter base is a Republican victory.

It is only in comparison to today's Republican Party, divided between its old-school establishment and its tea party zealots, that today's Democrats look unified.

In fact, as President Barack Obama prepares to face whomever the Grand Old Party nominates from its generous array of 2012 candidates, he needs to watch his back. A familiar faction is dragging down his approval ratings: disgruntled liberals.

For example, the Senate's only self-identified socialist, independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont, went so far in recent days as to suggest, "It would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition" to nudge him back into focusing on his base before the general election.

That's bold. Yet, significantly, Sanders was not offering himself to be that opposition. That's probably wise. Any serious candidate who runs against Obama in Democratic primaries runs the risk not only of losing but also dividing the party and increasing the chance of a Republican victory.

Notice how Paige and other progressives always do a slight of hand.   The Black community should be more focused on preventing a Republican from taking office and thus triggering their angst than we are to focus upon the "favorable people" that we helped into office and yet we still grieve over our conditions.

The telltale signs of the fused Black Community consciousness into the American Political domain is that we are promoted as a loyal base of Democratic voters - opposing the Republicans more than any of those who chose to write about our community cause bothers to talk about the fundamentals that we seek.

The Black community is always sold upon the METHODOLOGY and VEHICLE for our uplift (Progressivism and voting for the Democratic Party).
Where is there evidence of discipline within the Black press by which our Permanent Interests are protected by those who look past the methodology and vehicles (the "Tools" if you will) and instead consider the absolute progress (or retrogression) that we have made by following the prevailing course of action?

Add Clarence Paige to the long list of progressive journalists who chose to place the question of jobs creation at the feet of the President Of The United States.   In truth - the Black community is at the end of a macro-cycle by which the promised benefits that we were to receive as a result of our investments in the present power structure was to have brought forth jobs, education and justice.