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Unworthy Schemers, Demographics, and Nothing New Under The Sun

If you listen to them closely enough, the unworthy schemers always will tell you it is all about them. We should believe them when they do.

Andrew Donaldson
7 min readApr 14, 2021
Modified image from photo by Bart Everson from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia C

There is nothing new under the sun, sayeth the preacher. Surely he must have been talking of politics and unworthy schemers, for it is doubly true then. Understanding such folks to be “ apostles of greed and racial arrogancies “ and the truth becomes even more self-evident.

Excuse me, should have said demographics; that’s the more socially lubricated word for sliding racial issues into the discourse at present.

A certain host on a certain show has once again got folks talking about demographics, specifically immigration demographics. The point by point is out there if you so wish to know it. Trying to discuss those comments point by point is, well, pointless, because the game he runs is to not say the very bad thing while intentionally saying it closely enough everyone knows what he means. The unworthy schemer does this so that he can react with righteous indignation the following evening how “they” blew up over him not sayings the thing he didn’t say that way on purpose, which is proved because he didn’t say the exact wording of the very bad thing. This has…

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Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

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