"Saturday Night Live" Stopped Being Funny When. . .

Donald Trump

America has to decide whether racism is a legitimate political platform or an ugly moral failing.  If the former, then Saturday Night Live (SNL) has done the right thing by inviting Donald Trump to be a guest on the show.  But if the latter is the case, then SNL should not only disinvite this presidential candidate embraced by a disintegrating GOP, but also apologize to the American public for this moral lapse.

There is nothing funny about a white billionaire who believes the President of the United States is a Muslim imposter.  Nor is it humorous to have a presidential candidate strutting around the country, calling Mexican immigrants rapists and murderers.  To try to make this man funny is to make his hateful views an acceptable twist in mainstream political discourse.   

The United States has a "dixiecrat" problem, which is a sordid, lingering consequence of slavery.  It is a solid bloc of Southerners who call themselves conservatives and even evangelical Christians.  But they are in fact bigots, who switched political allegiances from Democratic to Republican, enraged with civil rights legislation, and hoping to bolster Richard Nixon's presidential campaign.   Under the awning of the Tea Party they are destroying the Republican Party, and have already incapacitated the GOP-controlled House of Representatives. Dixiecrats don't accept democracy, when the outcome of elections is an African-American president.  Their members of Congress, from gerrymandered districts, made it clear that they would rather tear the nation apart than allow the black man in the White House to succeed.  

The Dixiecrat's two presidential candidates are Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson, who vie with one another to make the most incendiary quips for the sake of generating free media attention.  Dr. Carson is a retired black neurosurgeon, whose God-complex has put him on a pedestal so high that even lunatic-fringe pronouncements are taken by his supporters as wisdom.  The irony of course is that while denouncing President Obama as a psychopath and other blacks as losers, this man's only claim to fame as a popular choice of Dixiecrats is the color of his skin. His self-hatred is a delicious feast for white racists, because they believe their support of him will shield them from being attacked as racists. Good luck on that one.

Neither of these men is funny.  

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