The anti-Trump hysteria has now reached dangerous proportions, with the riot in Charlottesville sparking mob violence throughout the country.  The mobs now are intent on tearing down any statue or monument that they consider “racist.”  The left-wing media is feeding into this frenzy, as just another good way to damage the President.  However, this is not just fun and games anymore.  We have reached the point where a clear and present danger to the United States of America now exists.  Consider this column a 911 call, because our way of life is in jeopardy.  Here’s what happened in Charlottesville.  A group of repugnant, throw-back white supremecists went to court and got a permit to hold a march.  The white supremecists are prone to violence, and they are despicable.  Then, a group of equally despicable left-wing extremists, known as Antifa, showed up to counter-protest.  Antifa  (anti-fascist)  is, according to the New Jersey Department of Homeland Security, a violent terrorist organization composed of anarchists.  Alan Dershowitz, no right-winger he, describes Antifa as “a radical, anti-American, anti-free market, communist, hard, hard left censorial organization.  Antifa labels whatever it disagrees with as “hate speech,” which it says is not free speech, which justifies them to commit violence against “right-wing” groups. (Of course they fail to understand that the Nazi’s were not “right-wing,” they were Socialists)  Anyhow, the Antifa counter-protesters went to Charlottesville to start a fight, and they did just that.  President Trump made the mistake of recognizing the indisputable fact that the riot was the fault of both groups of violent extremists.  The media immediately denounced him, because they denounce anything he says.  I get that they hate him, and want to see him defeated, but this time it’s a step too far.  The recognition that both sides were at fault wasn’t a vote of support for white supremecists, it was a recognition that white supremecists and anarchists are equally dangerous.  Simply put, the fact that the white supremecists are wrong, does not make the Antifa violence against them right.  The President isn’t choosing white supremecists over Antifa, he’s simply pointing out that both groups are dangerous for America.  Be honest, would you want either of these groups to run America?  I hope not.

The problem is that the media’s obsession with destroying Trump has led it, and many feckless legislators, to lend support to the violent anarchists.  Now emboldened, they have embarked on a crusade to destroy any monuments they consider “racist.”  Contrary to their propaganda, they do not mean well.  It started with Confederate monuments, then it was Andrew Jackson.  In Houston, the Young Communist League wants to remove a Confederate monument, because it says the Confederacy represented treason against the United States. (Isn’t it funny that an organization that advocates the overthrow of the U.S. government suddenly opposes treason?)  On August 14, a member of the far-left communist Workers World Party toppled a Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina. (Noticing a trend here?)  She is a member of an extreme leftist group that supports the totalitarian regime in North Korea and wants to abolish capitalism.  Think she’s really just upset about the Civil War?  That led President Trump to say, “This week it’s Robert E. Lee.  I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down.  I wonder is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?  You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?”  It doesn’t stop, and it didn’t take a week.  Two days later, a Chicago minister called for the removal of George Washington’s statue from Washington Park, because of his “ties to slavery.”  That same day, vandals defaced the Jefferson Memorial.  Pulling down statues is not a new idea.  It happened in ancient Rome.  It’s very common.  In 1776, American patriots took down a statue of King George III, and melted it down to make musket balls.  The Nazi’s tore down cultural monuments; the communists tore down national monuments in Eastern Europe; the Iraqis tore down Saddam Hussein’s statue; and the Taliban destroys ancient monuments of other religions.  The point is that statue and monument destruction does not happen in a stable and secure environment.  Statue destruction is the hallmark of revolutionary change; it is an activity which ordinarily follows the liberation of, or the subjugation of a people.  And that is why the recent statue destruction hysteria is a clear and present danger to the survival of the United States of America as we know it.  On one level, destroying monuments destroys the past, it destroys our history, not all of which is pleasant.  Take away the uncomfortable parts of our history, and we can’t learn from our mistakes.  Don’t teach history in school, erase historical monuments, and we are left in the hands of ignoramuses wearing black hoods, many of whom don’t even know why they are causing destruction.  For instance, on August 17, they set a statue of Abraham Lincoln on fire.  Why?  Well, it was a statue, wasn’t it?  On a more dangerous level, the condemnation of Washington and Jefferson is just part of the anarchist Antifa plan.  Washington, Jefferson and Madison owned slaves, therefore, the Revolution is tainted, the Declaration of Independence is tainted, and the U.S. Constitution is tainted; in fact, it’s invalid.  Antifa may consider itself an opponent of fascism, but it is really no more than the other side of the white supremecist coin.  The extreme leftist groups and fascists are opponents, but they share one principle.  Both groups that clashed in Charlottesville favor complete government control, at the expense of individual freedoms.  In their world, there is no free enterprise, no free speech, no right to assemble, or to worship, and all dissent results in imprisonment or death.  By politicizing the Charlottesville riot, the whores who inhabit both Parties in Congress are playing into the hands of dangerous extremists on both sides.  A choice between winding up in a concentration camp run by white-hooded bastards, or a camp run by black-hooded bastards, is no choice at all.  The destruction of the supreme law of the land is a prospect to be feared.  I think it was best said in A Man For All Seasons.  “If you cut down all the laws to get at the Devil, when the Devil turns round on you, where will you hide, all the laws being flat?”  And you media whores who are giving aid and comfort to the anarchists represents a final stroke of supreme ignorance.  Cut down the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to oppose Trump, and how long will you keep a free press and your multi-million dollar salaries?  Your right to print and broadcast your tripe comes from that same document written by those nasty slave holders.  It’s just a small step from removing statues to this –

German poet Heinrich Heine warned,“Where books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.”  But maybe the Antifa bastards will be more forgiving.  See you in the reeducation camp guys.

No, I’m not going to bore you with tales of the Plantagenets warring with the House of Valois in the 14th and 15th Centuries.  This offering is all about North Korea.  Many remember the partition of Korea after WWII, and the Korean War, but the problems go back much longer than that.  The point is that the current situation with North Korea’s threats to unleash nuclear weapons, which led to President Trump’s warning that North Korea had “best not make any threats against the United States,” or else “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” is nothing new.  It is just the latest salvo in a series of battles that go back more than 100 years.  In 1907, Korea became a protectorate of Japan.  The Japanese formally annexed Korea in 1910, brutally subjugating and enslaving the Korean people.  When Koreans protested for independence in 1919, 7,000 were killed.  Violent demonstrations continued in the 1920’s.  The 1930’s brought Japanese military rule.  The Japanese attempted to eradicate Korea as a nation by abolishing Korean culture.  The Japanese government made worship at Japanese Shinto shrines compulsory.  Perhaps adopting the policies of John Dewey, they radically modified school curricula to eliminate teaching in the Korean language and history.  The practice of Korean culture in any way became illegal.  The Left is working on that here.  At the end of WWII, after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and with the war won, Russia (there go those sneaky Russians again) declared war on Japan.  Russian tanks entered Korea on August 9.  That led to the partition of Korea at the 38th parallel, for the sole purpose of having Japanese troops north of that line surrender to the Russians and those south of the parallel surrender to U.S. forces.  As in Europe, the Soviet Union agreed to, then refused to follow, the UN mandate for democratic elections nation wide.  In 1948, the Soviets installed a communist dictatorship in the north, run by its puppet,  Kim Il-sung.  That Kim attacked the South on June 25, 1950, supplied by and supervised by the Soviets.  The NK’s had almost succeeded in driving the South Korean and U.S. forces into the sea at Pusan, before General MacArthur pulled off his landing at Inchon, after which U.S. forces drove the North Koreans all the way to the Chinese border on the Yalu river.  At that point, the Chinese attacked with 600,000 troops, and the fighting ended in a stalemate back near the 38th parallel.  I say the fighting ended because the Korean War never ended, officially. After the armistice, South Korea transformed itself into a prosperous, democratic industrialized nation.  The North, dedicated to a communist police state, starved.  Kim Il-sung died in 1994, and was succeeded his son, Kim Jong-il, who presided over a large-scale famine that left some 900,000 people dead, and a generation of children suffering from the long term effects of malnutrition.  The latest “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong Un, has continued North Korea’s great expenditures on its military, while the people continue to sit in the dark and starve. (Let’s hear it for communism!).  Since 1953, North Korea has engaged in constant border incidents, trying to provoke a military clash with the South, which is why the U.S. has had to station thousands of troops on the border for over 60 years.  With more than half the North Korean population suffering from malnutrition, the constant threats and provocations from North Korea might seem irrational.  However, it is the privation of the North Korean people which makes the seemingly crazy threats of the North at least explainable.  The explanation goes like this – the North fear the South Koreans, and need to try to intimidate the South.  The North threatens the U.S. in order to appear strong to its starving population; in order to stay in control.  Sounds crazy, sure, but it has worked.  The North Koreans seized the U.S. ship Pueblo in the 1960’s, and held the crew and ship for 11 months, without being wiped out by the U.S.  They have shot down U.S. spy planes, and have killed Americans along the DMZ, without being destroyed.  So now, the North Korean nuclear threats are just the next step in the provocation game, the idea being that, if the U.S. tolerated the non-nuclear threats, the nuclear threats will make North Korea appear even more important on the world stage.  Playing with nuclear fire is a dangerous game, however.  Kim’s threat to fire missiles at Guam prompted the Trump warnings.  The latest news seems to indicate that the North Koreans have backed off their threat to fire on Guam.  Possibly, Kim has been counseled by the Chinese, who have reminded Kim that he’s not dealing with Obama anymore.  Possibly cooler heads in the North Korean military have decided that they aren’t ready to deal with a President who might actually strike back.

I’ve often said that politics is only good for two things, rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies.  Il Duce Obama was an adherent to at least part of this doctrine, as he exhorted Hispanic voters to go to the polls to “punish your enemies,” i.e., Republicans who dared to suggest that the immigration laws really should be enforced.  I believe that this doctrine was at the heart of John McCain’s vote against a partial, limited, and probably hollow amendment of the fraud named the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.  McCain was set up to be the hero, a role that he relishes.  Suffering from a brain tumor (which might explain a lot), he rode in from the West, despite his affliction, so that he might vote on the healthcare proposal before the Senate.  McCain cast the deciding vote on a procedural issue; whether to permit debate of the question in the Senate.  Now, as an aside, I have to wonder why this vote was necessary in the first place.  If the U.S. Senate really is the world’s greatest deliberative body, as it advertises itself, then should it really need a vote to decide whether it might be a good idea to actually talk about legislation that affects 1/6 of the U.S. economy?  I mean, this is one mess that even they can’t blame on the Russians.  As a further aside, if any of the 48 Democrats in the Senate really had the best interests of the American people in mind, then shouldn’t some of them at least have voted  to permit a discussion of this problem?  But I digress.  McCain’s preliminary vote even drew praise from President Trump, who rarely has had good things to say about the Senator.  John McCain was here to vote, even though he was gravely ill.  McCain would save the Republicans’ bacon, and permit them to at least pretend that whatever they passed proved that they weren’t completely inept, right?  Wrong!  Because, even though he got reelected last November on a pledge to repeal Obamacare, which he said “is failing Arizonans,” and even though he told voters he was “leading the fight to stop Obamacare,” he immediately turned around and voted against the so-called “skinny repeal” of Il Duce Care.  Last February, McCain even introduced a bill to “fully” repeal ObamaCare and replace it with a “free-market approach that strengthens the quality and accessibility of care.”  I guess he didn’t mean it.  Two pretend Republicans from Alaska and Maine also voted “No,” so McCain was the deciding vote that kept Obamacare alive.  Yes, Mr. President, that knife in your back bears the fingerprints of one John Sidney McCain.  And in retrospect, that shouldn’t have been surprising.  Two dynamics are at work here.  The first is the doctrine mentioned above, politics is good for punishing one’s enemies.  Let’s face it, there never has been any love lost between Donald Trump and John McCain.  Trump insulted McCain during the campaign, and McCain insulted Trump.  The difference is that Trump insulted a lot of people in both Parties, then moved on and forgot it.  In August 2016, Ted Cruz and Trump looked ready for a steel cage death match after Trump insulted Cruz’s wife and father.  I’m not suggesting that they’ve become buddies, but they now are working together trying to get things done.  Politics/strange bedfellows, etc.  But John McCain didn’t forget.  Call it revenge, call it spite, call it brain tumor, who knows?  Whatever it is, it has been clear that Republican John McCain has dedicated himself to the destruction of a Republican President.  McCain’s attitude is, in part, motivated by immigration policy.  McCain, the leader of the Gang of Eight don’t forget, doesn’t want to enforce the laws or secure the border.  People who support such things are “crazy” according to the Senator.  He said so.  McCain was particularly rankled by a Trump campaign rally in Arizona.  Why?  It might hurt McCain’s reelection.  “This performance with our friend (Trump) out in Phoenix is very hurtful to me,” McCain said. “Because what he did was he fired up the crazies.”  Damn those crazies who expect the law to be enforced.  We don’t need no stinkin’ green cards!  Does this mean McCain doesn’t care about the tens of thousands of illegal aliens streaming across our southern border.  No.  It bothers him because it might encourage voters to be conservative.  He said so.  “People who otherwise might be more centrist are angry about this border situation.”  Yeah, Senator, maybe they’re angry about the rapes, robberies and killings being committed by these illegals.  You know, that “situation.”  But McCain wasn’t done.  After the election, he compared Trump’s attacks on the media with the conduct of dictators.  He went to Europe in February to undermine the President’s position with our NATO allies.  He announced that Il Duce Obama was a better steward of U.S. foreign policy, which is confusing.  McCain never met a Russian he didn’t want to attack, but President “Lead from Behind” was better?  That’s either real hate or brain damage talking.  It’s real hate, otherwise, why would McCain send an aide to Europe last December to get a copy of the phony Fusion GPS/KGB Trump blackmail dossier, then personally deliver it to James Comey?  First of all, he could have saved the plane fare, and gotten a copy of the dossier from Hillary.  Her people already paid for it, and decided it was too phony for even them to use against Trump.  Then again, what to make of the fact that McCain and Comey were the only two people who actually believed the B.S. in the KGB disinformation dossier?  If it’s not real hatred, then Comey may need an MRI too.   The second dynamic at play here goes far beyond John McCain.  Call it the revenge of the swamp creatures.  A President who is an outsider to both Parties who promises to fire 20% of the federal workforce is like showing a vampire the cross.  Embedded employees are apt to leak damaging things.  Look at what’s happening.  Politicians are likely to try to show the outsider who’s boss.  A properly motivated Congress can control any Executive.  Justice Scalia told me that.  If it gets the Congress to work together for the betterment of the people, that would be a good thing.  But that’s not happening.  Instead, Congress has slowed the approval process for Trump nominees to the point where, at this rate, it will take 11 years to fill all the jobs.  Meanwhile holdover swamp creatures stay behind and leak.  To quote a President Trump tweet, “Sad.”

As I previously mentioned, many years ago, I worked for a trucking company.  On that job, I had an opportunity to interact with a number of Teamsters, from whom I was treated to the wisdom of true philosophers, unburdened by the shackles of higher (and sometimes even elementary) education.  I’m not mocking these men, for many of them imparted to me valuable insights which have served me well over the years.  Not all their insights were of positive, of course.  Working nights while I was in college and law school, I often read a book at lunch time, which invariably provoked the same question from junior philosopher Joe Palmer, “Is that a dirty book?”  It wasn’t.  Senior philosopher “Lefty’s” contributions were more useful.  Expounding on the subject of taking care not to cast one’s coworkers in an unflattering light, he proclaimed, “When you work with Lefty you work slow.  Nobody kills fuckin’ Lefty!”  Which was good advice, because should a casual employee such as myself make one of the oldtimers look bad by moving too fast, and should the youngster fail to heed the warning, “What, are you trying to kill this job?,” the problem might be corrected by the “accidental” dropping of a heavy steel plate on the offender’s foot (“Sorry kid, it slipped”), which would ensure that the offender  slowed to the prescribed pace.  The philosopher king of Branch Motors Express, however was the union shop steward, aptly named, “Spike.”  Now, as shop steward, Spike earned top pay, including overtime, but he was not expected to, nor did I ever see him do any actual work.  He was there to handle any union grievances the men might have, holding court in the locker room, ensconced in a chair next to the coffee urn.  I was sitting at the foot of Spike’s throne one night in the distant past, when I gained from him a bit of wisdom, the truth of which has time and time again been proven.  Commenting on the latest controversy on the job, Spike uttered words I never have forgotten, “Everything here is under the hat.” In Teamster patois, “under the hat” meant something was crooked, or the fix was in.  The best example I can think of is from Godfather II.  The young Vito Corleone delivers pay off money to the old gangster, who covers the money with his hat.  He’s covering up wrongdoing.  Hence, a crooked deal is “under the hat.”  Since that time, it repeatedly has occurred to me that the bulk of our society is under the hat.  That means that those who wield the levers of power, the establishment if you will, are crooked.  The fix, most assuredly, is in.  I live in New Jersey, a State which always has been under the hat.  There are three ways to get ahead in New Jersey; inherit wealth, know somebody, or pay somebody.  If you look at the list of legislators and judges in New Jersey, then do some historical research, you will find the same names for people in positions of authority as far back as you look.  Take my Congressman, for example.  Rodney Frelinghuysen is a fine representative, who has served in the House for 17 years.  His father was in the House of Representatives for 22 years.  His relatives include 4 U.S. Senators.  His great-great grandfather was New Jersey Attorney General, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, and President of Rutgers University.  His great-great uncle Theodore was a Senator and a vice-presidential candidate.  His distant ancestor Frederick was a Revolutionary War soldier, and one of the framers of the first New Jersey State Constitution.  When you have towns and streets named after you, you’ve been around a long time.  The federal government is equally under the hat.  The 50 States continually send the landed gentry to Washington to populate both Parties.  And they never leave.  Over 95% of them get reelected, so the only way to get rid of them is via death or conviction.  These are the Swamp Things that Trump is trying to flush down the drain.  They won’t go quietly, and these days, the entrenched politicians in Washington have abandoned even the pretense that they are public servants; that we voters are the bosses, and they’re only working for us. Clearly, they’re not.  Indeed, they have made it clear that elections don’t even matter anymore, so there’s no need to listen to mere voters.  And nowhere is this more evident than in the Republican Party.  When Democrats controlled the presidency and both Houses of Congress, Republicans said there was nothing they could do.  When they took over the House of Representatives, they made the same excuse.  The House talked a good game, voting 54 times to repeal Obamacare.  With both the House and the Senate, Republicans were powerless due to Obama’s threatened veto.  Now, with a Republican President, House and Senate, guess what?  They’re still powerless to undo the progressive agenda.  The Senate filibuster rule prevents us from a complete repeal, you see.  Well, how about 50 votes to get something, no matter how minor changed?  Sorry, we can’t even muster 50 votes to pass some sham bill that pretends to make changes.  The U.S. Senate is the greatest deliberative body in the world, my ass.  This wouldn’t be so bad if the Senators at least were honest about their positions.  I mean, Bernie Sanders may be nuts, but he tells you what he believes.  Not Republicans.  Linda Murkowski comes from Alaska, which is a State under a heavy woolen hat.  Her father Frank was U.S. Senator, left the Senate, and became Governor, just in time to appoint Linda to the Senate.  When she ran for election in 2010, she lost the Republican primary to conservative Joe Miller, but Alaska is under such a tight fitting hat that she ran as a write-in candidate and won the election, or so her relatives reported when they counted the votes.  In 2015 she voted to repeal Obamacare.  In 2016, she promised its full repeal.   When her vote counted last week, with a President itching to sign a repeal, she voted “No.”  Liar!  John McCain had a hard campaign in 2016.  He won only because he vowed to repeal Obamacare.  Last week he cast the vote that kept it alive.  Liar! (More about him next week).  These politicians lie with impunity because they long ago recognized that Spike was right.  Everything is under the hat.

A reading of the new book Dangerous, by Milo Yiannopoulos, reinforced my long held belief that the notion that conservatism today is the province only of angry old white men is but another leftist lie, designed to shame anyone who might have even a fleeting thought that strays from leftist orthodoxy.  I certainly qualify as an angry old white man.  Knowing that Milo, a young, conservative, Jewish gay man shares my disdain for the Left, and is even more eager than I am to make liberals hear things that make them uncomfortable, warmed my heart.   In truth, leftists suffer from a mental disorder which leaves them with delusions of rectitude, that is, the certainty that whatever they believe, no matter how loony and out of touch with reality, is right and good, and that any dissenting opinion is wrong and evil.  Thus afflicted, the leftist must stifle all dissent, and punish all non-believers as heretics.  Sounds a lot like radical Islamic  fundamentalism, doesn’t it?  Maybe that’s why the Left preaches for unconditional tolerance of radical Muslims, the most intolerant group on the face of the Earth, even when they commit unspeakable violence.  Birds of a feather, I guess.  Leftists like to call conservatives fascists.  It’s not their fault.  Their sickness prevents them from recognizing themselves as the true fascists.  A fascist is one who supports a dictatorial central government that seeks to control people’s lives.  Benito Mussolini defined the three principles of fascism: “everything in the State; nothing outside the State; and nothing against the State.”  Does that sound to you more like Ted Cruz or Chuck Schumer?  Mussolini would have made a great California Democrat.  Too bad he had all that trouble in Italy.  Leftists are delusional, you see.  That’s why they can can endorse the use of violence to prevent conservatives from speaking on college campuses, and then have the Washington Post blame their own repressive conduct on Donald Trump.  The Devil made them do it?  That’s why a Republican proposal that will increase Medicaid spending is denounced as a drastic cut that will kill millions.  That’s why Leftists can side with Black Lives Matter, and declare the relatively rare police shootings of black suspects a “genocide,” while ignoring the murders of the thousands upon thousands of black men, women and children killed by black criminals.  So, who’s to blame when black men (some 6% of the population) commit 50% of all murders in America?  The police, who else.  As I said, it’s a sickness.  Anyhow, I thought that since Milo Yiannopoulos is doing his part to convince millenials that conservatives are not the evildoers portrayed by the Left, I should do what little I can do to see that the truth gets out.  That’s why I decided to use this space to combat one of the most fervently believed falsehoods of the Left; the myth of white privilege.  According to a professor at the University of Massachusetts, “White privilege is a set of advantages and/or immunities that white people benefit from on a daily basis beyond those common to all others.  White privilege can exist without white people’s conscious knowledge of its presence and it helps to maintain the racial hierarchy in this country.  The biggest problem with white privilege is the invisibility it maintains to those who benefit from it most.  The inability to recognize that many of the advantages whites hold are a direct result of the disadvantages of other people, contributes to the unwillingness of white people, even those who are not overtly racist, to recognize their part in maintaining and benefiting from white supremacy.”  Is that insidious, or what?  We have this privilege, these advantages that we don’t even realize we have, and we have them only at the expense of non-white people, making us white supremacists.  Uh huh.  Let me share with you my experience with the white privilege which has made me what I am today.  Neither of my grandfathers even made it to high school; not even close.  They worked all their lives to support their families.  I was the first member of my family to go to college.  Even though I clearly was white, the government provided no college fund for me.  My parents did their best, but they didn’t have much money for college, so I had the privilege of working at minimum wage (no, not $15 an hour, $1.20 an hour) cleaning in a movie theater.  Then I worked for a trucking company.  Being white, I had the distinct privilege of going to school all day, then loading and unloading trucks all night.  I got to spend my summer “vacations” in a metal box that had sat in the blazing sun all day. (Ever see Bridge on the River Kwai?)  Winter was a veritable ice carnival of white privilege, working outside in below zero temperatures.  You really haven’t lived until you’ve inhaled the exhaust fumes of 50 diesel engines being cranked to life simultaneously on a cold winter morning.  It’s a shame me and my fellow white supremacists didn’t have the foresight of a college professor, to give us the rare ability to realize just how privileged we were.  Don’t get me wrong,  I’m not complaining.  That job was one of the most valuable experiences of my life.  Everybody should have the opportunity to do some back-breaking physical labor in their youth.  It convinced me that staying in school was the better option.  It got even better.  After graduation, my wife and I paid school loans for the next 10 years.  She was privileged too.  Maybe “intellectuals” should have some understanding of how “the working class” lives before they presume to speak for them.  Minorities remain economically disadvantaged, to be sure.  But remember, it was those privileged white supremacists who created the War on Poverty.  And it was those privileged white devils who funded it to the tune of some $22 trillion. (You didn’t think all that money came out of Oprah’s taxes, did you?).  If it didn’t solve the problem, and inadvertently destroyed most two-parent black families, well, I guess that’s what you get when you rely on the government.  Bottom line – white privilege is invisible to me for good reason; it doesn’t exist.  Conservatives don’t oppose offering a helping hand to any group that needs one.  We’re just tired of being told we got ahead at the expense of the groups whose helping hands we provide.