MistyTiger wrote:I never said all Republicans are sickos. I have some fave Republicans...Colin Powell, Chuck Hagel, John McCain...off the top of my head.
Is there a reason you picked war mongers off the top of your head? And why isn't Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney on your list?
Politics_Observer wrote:I think most republicans are white supremacists.
Are you speaking of office holders, or do you really think you know all Republicans?
Politics_Observer wrote:I judge people and organizations on action and not words.
Yes, but you just said the Republicans don't do anything, so they are pretty harmless as a force for white supremacy, it would stand to reason.
Red_Army wrote:lol, god forbid we provoke "sweeping generalizations" about Democrats. I can't imagine what it would be like if a huge swath of republicans described them all as godless communist pedophiles.
The Republicans did have a few pedophiles in their ranks. Dennis Hastert apparently liked playing with high school boys. Mark Foley sent sexually explicit text messages to a few teenage boys. I'm guessing these stories don't get a lot of airplay, because of the homosexual nature of their lawbreaking. However, it seems odd that the Democrats actually want to use something of dubious value to try to score political points against Gaetz with what seems like an anti-Trump motivated smear. Due to the timing of the allegations, I'm deeply skeptical of the story.
Politics_Observer wrote:Well the republican party today has it's roots in the white segregationists from the South.
No. It doesn't. Almost all white segregationists from the South remained with the Democrats. Most people old enough for segregation are too old for politics today. Mitch McConnell is getting too old for politics and he's married to an Asian woman. That's not exactly the picture of white supremacy. Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm is married to an Asian woman too. Former Maine Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who served under Obama, is married to a black woman. Former Utah Rep, Mia Love, is married to a white man. Rayla Campbell has a white husband, and gets slammed by people like Ayana Pressley all the time.
Politics_Observer wrote:The white segregationists from the South didn't like the signing of the Civil Rights Act and thus left the democratic party.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was written by Everett Dirksen, a Republican. It was voted overwhelmingly by the Republican party--as they authored it--and with some Northern Liberal Democrats.
Politics_Observer wrote:Eventually, they found a new home in the republican party as part of Nixon's southern strategy to get elected and that meant appealing to racism to help get himself elected so he could win the votes of many southern whites and other racist whites.
That's nonsense. Nixon won in 1968, because the Democrats were busy rioting, protesting the Vietnam war, assassinating each other, and making a hash of their own presidential convention. The Dixiecrats split the Democrat vote in the Deep South, who voted for Wallace not Nixon. You know there is such a thing as Google. You can rely on primary sources for your information, and it makes you far more credible if you do than if you read drivel like the 1619 Project.
Politics_Observer wrote:See, the United States was founded on white supremacy.
No. It was founded by whites, for whites--for themselves and their posterity.
Politics_Observer wrote:It is codified in our constitution with the past protection of race based slavery.
It was a federation founded in part for defense against attack by the British Empire. What's codified into our constitution is that the slave trade had an official end date, and that slaves could only be counted as 3/5ths of a person so that it would limit Southern representation in Congress.
Politics_Observer wrote:The laws and rules and the way the system operates is to ensure that the real power privilege stays in the hands of wealthy whites.
It just that it stays in the hands of the wealthy. Race has nothing to do with it at this point.
Politics_Observer wrote:A big reason for the economic prowess of the Untied States has it's roots in race based slavery from which whites have benefited tremendously from.
The overwhelming majority of whites did not own slaves, as they were barely above slaves themselves. As such, they did not benefit from slavery.
Politics_Observer wrote:Heck even Reagan used racism to get votes like with the racist sterotype of the "Welfare Queen."
The term "welfare queen" doesn't use any racial terminology. It refers to policies that paid women more money per child if they had children out of wedlock. Biden is apparently entertaining this policy. Such policies destroyed black families.
Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote about this as early as 1965:
The Negro Family: The Case for National ActionThe Republicans are basically just Whigs today. That's why they're so uninspiring.
"We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
-- Joe Biden