I want to make a disclaimer that at one time I was an RFK Jr supporter. I liked his position on cryptocurrencies. If I’m to be 100% honest, I still do. There was absolutely no way I would’ve ever voted for Biden or Never Trump instead of him. However, I’ve been around a long time. I’ve seen alot. Even in cryptocurrency, I’ve been a fan since 2017, which is 7 years longer than Trump has been so I think it’s fair to say I have a broader view than his pockets and advisors can pass along to him.
You see, cryptocurrency is decentralized, meaning it has no loyalty to government. I suppose alot of crypto supporters will be wanting to produce some evidence of Elizabeth Warren and Gary Gensler and tell me I’m dead wrong while ignoring Democrats like Wiley Nickel of North Carolina who approach cryptocurrency as bi-partisan. You see, inherently, cryptocurrency isn’t political. Maybe somewhat Libertarian, but certainly not Democrat or Republican. Being someone from Mr. Nickel’s state, I remember politics well of Jesse Helms, a pandering bigot. This year, the Republican party nominated guess what? A pandering racist. ‘Oh, but he’s the candidate of crypto and then the other candidate of crypto (RFK Jr endorsed him). For many years, cryptocurrency has been alot about the “crypto bros” who alienate women and then who can forget the scandals about the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs with images of Apes that seemed somewhat racist on a certain level as well. The founders insisted the NFT’s were not intended to be racist. This year, cryptocurrency advocates in the political arena have been asking alot about what a candidate can do for them.
I argue that even if Kamala doesn’t lift one finger for cryptocurrency, she will do more than Trump’s support for cryptocurrency ever could. You see, I want to break from that past of both misogynistic crypto bros and the racism in NFT’s and not reinforce it with someone as racist as Trump. Republicans said his birtherism against Obama wasn’t over the top since he wasn’t actually running against him. However, this time he is doubling down on his racism against Kamala by complaining that all of the votes made in Democratic primaries were for Joe Biden. Yet, she’s never had a jury find her guilty of any crime unlike Trump. Mr. Trump took a page from Jesse Helms‘ 1980’s and 1990’s playbook by spreading lies about Haitian’s eating people’s dogs. But, wait there’s more. Trump had the audacity to challenge Kamala Harris’ race as well. He said she once wasn’t black, then she became black. Hmm, he’s talking about the person who headlined an event at the Essence fest in 2023 that featured a meet and greet. She’s the same person who attended Howard University ( a prestigious HBCU). But on a basic level, most people don’t go around saying, I’m Curtis and I’m white, or I’m Kamala and I’m black or something like that. So, he’s obviously trying to discredit her again to the racists in the Republican party.
I know there are some Republicans who will say “All you ever talk about is racism”. To these people I say remove the racism from your policies and politics and I will mention this less. I feel personally obligated to mention these forms of racism in politics because if I don’t add my name to this list, then who is going to be the one setting these toxic individuals straight?
When I think of how looney Trump is it made me wonder what kind of cryptocurrency would each of the candidates be? I think Trump might do well if he were a meme coin like “Eaten Dogecoin”. Maybe there would be a small percentage of people who would become very rich from that coin but zero utility for the ecosystem because after all he just has “Concepts of a plan” as he said himself. Kamala on the other hand would be a utility coin. One that provides an important function to the ecosystem like Bitcoin or Ethereum. The wealth would be distributed fairly equally among those participating in the ecosystem. Personally, I’m more of a utility coin person, and I don’t aspire to associate with the racists, misogynists and Xenophobes like Donald
Despite some of the recent moves to extremists like Trump, cryptocurrency hasn’t been some forum for racists. NFT’s have been embraced by many musicians and artists as an additional revenue stream as digital streaming platforms take large shares of the profits from musicians. And musical taste is certainly another thing I have in common with Kamala Harris. The Vice President has visited several record stores and given props in interviews to Bootsy Collins, the amazing P-Funk, James Brown and solo bass player who is certainly no stranger to NFT‘s. Check out Bootsy Collins in the upcoming Musicians for Kamala concert coming this Tueseday for your chance to see him along with many other music icons performing.
Cryptocurrency is a growing block of the electorate. Many folks have made the statement that they’re “one issue voters” and some people believe since Trump spoke at the Bitcoin conference that he has their back or something. To these folks who can’t see the pander, they should be thinking hard about how a true champion of a cause would ache for another debate against their rival when their “ONE ISSUE” wasn’t mentioned in the first debate. Instead, Trump runs from a debate he failed in. He doesn’t say, ‘Oh, wait I want to discuss crypto and it wasn’t brought up in the last debate’. To those folks, you gotta know you’re getting played by a pandering racist who doesn’t truly care about you. He just wants you to like him long enough to vote for him and then he will dispose of your interests again because he will be “timing the market”.
