Fmr President & Senator Polnut
polnut
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« on: March 03, 2013, 06:41:43 PM » |
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What one feels or does personally, often, has little impact on what one is prepared to do to get elected. You want to tell yourself that the GOP has not become an expert in code-language to comfort their increasingly paranoid white base... go right ahead, you'll continue to be very very wrong.
If you don't think the 1968 Southern Strategy was not about appealing to 'traditional' Southerners who had felt abandoned by the Dems shift on Civil Rights since 1962... then your bubble clearly has some mighty-thick walls.
Gee... I wonder what might have happened before the 1964 election to cause this shift?
For example in Australia, the Liberal (conservative party) Party undid the hideous White Australia Policy and welcomed Vietnamese refugees... but now, their policy relies on using racial dog whistles... does that mean because their policy positions were once good... despite what they are now... that I should support a party because of their positions in THE PAST.
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