Ted Cruz's dad: “The Average Black Does Not” Understand The Minimum Wage Is Bad

[Indy Texas]

Someone get this man a parody twitter account.

@sh**tTedCruzsDadSays

[Indy Texas]

“And then I said, ‘Did you know that every member of the Ku Klux Klan were Democrats from the South?’ ‘Oh I didn’t know that.’ You know, they need to be educated.”

So does he.  The KKK wasn't just in the South and when it did leave the confines of the solidly Democratic South in the 1920s, it was just as warmly welcomed by Republicans as Democrats.  Indeed, it in the North, it likely was more Republican than Democrats, especially amongst people whose grandparents had been nativist Know-Nothings.

Didn't the KKK's base in states like Indiana/Ohio mainly consist of Prohibitionist anti-Catholic Republicans?

[Indy Texas]

It figures that many of them-even poor ones- will internalize the "pursue your own economic self-interest" ideology

If you think pursuit of self-interest or mutually-beneficial voluntary contract are ideology, you've sacrificed your brain at the altar of partisanship.

Communism/socialism are inventions. Market-based economic theory is a discovery.

Someone who makes $7.25 an hour wanting to legally obligate their employer to pay them $10+ an hour instead sounds pretty self-interested to me.

[Indy Texas]

I will say that 60+ plus years of blacks' support for the Democratic Party hasn't done terribly much to improve their wellbeing- it's not like the Civil Rights Movement was some DNC operation, and the Civil Rights Acts received more support from Congressional Republicans than it did from Congressional Democrats.

The Democrats who voted against the CRA aren't Democrats anymore. A lot of the Republicans who voted for it would not win a Republican primary today. My mother's uncle was as much of a Taft Republican as they come but he voted for the Civil Rights Act and likely wouldn't be able to win a Republican primary if he were alive today.

Name something a post-Eisenhower Republican president has done that specifically benefited the black community. Name something that Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush or Bush did to make the black community as a whole better off.