Re: Trump will be the next JFK
Posted by:
Quintus Fabius
()
Date: March 09, 2016 11:21PM
Hussein is a muslim name Wrote:
> Oh my how it must hurt to be a lib. More
No, it's really quite pleasant. We don't have to attend the Daily Hate, and live under the heavy cloud of fear. We're never angry at, just bemused by, the loyal opposition.
> historical voting facts.
> Fact: In the 1950s, President Eisenhower, a
> Republican, integrated the US military and
> promoted civil rights for minorities. Eisenhower
President Harry S. Truman, a Democrat, signed the executive order that desegregated the U.S. military in July, 1948.
> pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1957. One
> of Eisenhower's primary political opponents on
> civil rights prior to 1957 was none other than
> Lyndon Johnson, then the Democratic Senate
> Majority Leader. LBJ had voted the straight
> segregationist line until he changed his position
> and supported the 1957 Act.
Your knowledge and understanding of these events is shallow. Many politicians were trying to do what was right, acknowledge the growing political influence of blacks, and seek cover from their racist constitutents at the same time. In the end, "horse trading" was as much the tradition of Congress then as gridlock is today.
>
> Fact: The historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 was
> supported by a higher percentage of Republicans
> than Democrats in both houses of Congress. In the
> House, 80 percent of the Republicans and 63
> percent of the Democrats voted in favor. In the
> Senate, 82 percent of the Republicans and 69
> percent of the Democrats voted for it.
Your numbers are essentially correct, but what you are failing to take into account was who those Republicans and Democrats actually were. I don't have the time nor inclination to explain this in depth, but you should consider that many (since you like numbers, you can look up the percentages) of the "liberal" Republicans voting in favor were what was once called "Northeastern Republicans" or a "Lindsay Republicans" -- fiscally conservative, socially liberal, basically isolationist in foreign affairs. Lindsay Republicans lost their home in the Goldwater dominated GOP of the 1960s and became Democrats.
Democrats, on the other hand, were a mishmash of policies and politicians, from the liberal northern branch to the racist southern part. Their disunity and infighting by the beginning of the 20th century was so severe that American humorist and political observer Will Rogers once quipped in the 1920s, "I am not a member of any organized party. I am a Democrat." They were, for the most part, held together by a populist streak.
Democrats schismed as well in the 1960s, with the southern contingent splitting off into first the "silent majority" and then the Reagan democrats. This can largely be attributed to the success of the George Wallace/Richard Nixon "Southern Strategy" -- Wallace, who was surprisingly liberal on matters other than race, created it, Nixon usurped it; and every Republican candidate since has continued to use it. The Southern Strategy is built on white fear of an imagined loss of status and social position to "the other".
>
> Fact: Contrary to popular misconception, the
> parties never "switched" on racism. The Democrats
> just switched from overt racism to a subversive
> strategy of getting blacks as dependent as
> possible on government to secure their votes. At
> the same time, they began a cynical smear campaign
> to label anyone who opposes their devious strategy
> as greedy racists.
Well, that strategy of getting blacks "hooked" on government handouts doesn't seem to work all that well. States such as Mississippi, Arkansas, and West Virginia all have much higher rates of whites on government assistence than blacks, but it doesn't appear to incline them more towards the Democratic party.
In truth, the Democrats didn't "switch" on racism. They sloughed off the racist elements in their membership, which, sadly, meant the south.
What was left of the GOP after Goldwater, the so called "country club" (1%) Republicans scooped up the disaffected south with glee and formed a new power base; which is unraveling now after 40 years.
>
> Now swallow that pill chump.
Your concluding remark baffles me, everytime I hear or read one of your types claiming that Democrats have a "cynical smear campaign to label anyone who opposes their devious strategy as greedy racists."
Why should this bother you? It's not a crime to be a racist, only to act out of racial anomosity. Are you that conflicted, or is your sense of victimization that complete?