And they are growing exponentially worse.
The answer to the late Senator Kennedy's question is "never".
They will never stop.
Confederate political strategist Lee Atwater, 1981 (emphasis added):Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [the new Southern Strategy of Ronald Reagan] doesn’t have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he's campaigned on since 1964 and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster.
Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?
Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."
Confederate Senator Jim DeMint, 2011:"...a lot of businesses in South Carolina who can't get employees to come back to work because they're getting unemployment and they're getting food stamps..."
“We have to realize we have a lot of people gaming the system...”
Until they are destroyed, they will never stop.
Peace to you and yours on this Labor Day.
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Thanks god(s) for Ted Kennedy.
And you.
S
You know, the most disturbing aspect of it all is how 35-40% of the population actually agrees with the Republican (non)message.
I mean, you have to hand it to the Republicans - they know who their true benefactors are, and they work tirelessly for them.
But for US citizens who are near the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, you have to wonder what it is in their life that allows them to buy into the Republican message.
Ignorance? Racism? Branding?
The fact that the Republicans shouldn't garner more than 5-10% of the vote, and yet routinely come close to 50% shows you just how odd the US electorate really is. Considering they actually believe the Republicans care about them, I don't think that they can really ever change their minds.
And where does that leave us as a country and a society? Call me a pessimist or dramatic, but honestly, do you really think the US will exists 200 years from now, in the same geographical sense as it does today? I just can't imagine it.
I really do believe we're headed for a break-up, and at this point, you just have to hope that it's relatively peaceful.
To destroy them, Liberals must take control of the media. "THAT is the equation!" The poisonous conservative mess-age is blasting forth everywhere we go, and a lot of people believe what they're told. Especially if they're told the lie over & over & over. Gotta shut down Fox and sLimebagh and all the other corporate-owned "Media".
I think that, for the reddest of the rednecks, it is still the simple dog whistle of racism. They want to feel better than somebody. It doesn't matter if they're poor, up to their ears in debt, and can't find a job. They still like to think that they are better than the "welfare queens" and, if they stick a flag on their car, they're even patriotic. Why tax the rich? If they ever win that lottery, they could be rich too and then they wouldn't have to pay taxes either.
I've also been trying to warn anybody that'll listen about the evil motives of these traitorous, sociopathic bastards to since the Reagan coronation and when I read that article the other day, before you published your excellent post here, I felt an all too rare sense of vindication.
I've become more aware of the toll that enduring the seditious bullshit these rat fuckers perpetuate has taken on me over the long haul and I'm not liking it.
When I see all these deep red welfare queen states who send these tea bagging morans to congress that want to defund the social safety net and FEMA especially, get pounded mercilessly by tornados, hurricanes and now raging wildfires I revel in the schadenfreude, chucking at the comeuppance being dished out and I wonder "will these fucking idiots get it now?"
But I've seen no evidence that they do... yet. It just hasn't gotten bad enough apparently.
I believe in karma and I get this uneasy feeling when I feel this way about the misfortune of my fellow countrymen but I guess it's out of my hands and I should just pop some corn and enjoy the show. I do feel bad in a way for the sane liberals that also live there with these jackals and numbskulls... I don't know how they do it.
To n1ck:
"you have to wonder what it is in their life that allows them to buy into the Republican message.
Ignorance? Racism? Branding?"
It's Jesus. The USA was created by the Hand of God and White Christians in the name of Jesus. The health and prosperity gospel says that if you have health and money, it's because you are a good enough person for Jesus to bless you. Racism, sexism, and homophobia all find solace in the bosom of White Baptist Jesus.
The Republican party is following in the footsteps of the Evangelical movement, about 20 years behind. Reagan's 11th commandment is based on Christianity: never speak ill of another "true" Christian. A Christian can never question a Christian of authority. The message of Christianity is invariant and absolute. The value of the Evangelical crowd to the movement conservatism is that as soon as you take the messages of voter disenfranchisement, destruction of domestic government, and military imperialism, tack on a few Bible verses, and glue a plastic Jesus onto the headpiece, the whole thing becomes inviolate. Because "devout" has come to equal "unquestioning" and "obedient", a handful of plastic Jesuses can turn any pile of Randist, paranoid, oligarchical gibbering into an altar of Christianity.
Mike.K.
I never miss someone until they are gone. Ted!
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