Because the obvious needs a lot more allies than it seemingly has: voter fraud is the ULTIMATE voter suppression. Millions of people had their votes revoked in the middle of the night between November 3rd and 4th.
What people like Maxine Waters are doing in using their rhetorical tricks is imply that anything less than a Democrat victory—one obtained by any means necessary and. certsinly including planned and pervasive fraud—disenfranchises blacks.
And the latent claim behind THAT is that black power can ONLY come through Democrat politicians. She is more or less literally saying “I am the Way, the Justice, and the Enfranchisement. No power shall come to any black but through me. If you oppose me you oppose all those who are helpless without me, and that makes you a racist.”
Suffice it to say that with “friends” like that the KKK has nothing to add, particularly given how many blacks murder one another each year in the status quo Maxine Waters is perpetuating.
Without attempting an exact symbolic match it feels to me like the sick relationship the Democrats have built over the years with the black community is in emotional tone similar to that in Pink Floyds song Mother.
There are all sorts of latent anxieties in the black community. But the men try to be tough, and the women seem to try and find strong men. What is needed in my view is less talking ABOUT the black community, less doing to and for them, and more understanding and listening and learning.
And the worst thing that could happen to Maxine Waters—from her particularly brutally selfish perseprctive— would be fair elections and a black community steadily growing in knowledge from good schools, and prosperity from a robust economy.