Mcleanhatch said:
LETS SEE,
1. extreme racism: does Robert Byrd ring a bell. last time i checked he WAS a far left Democrat.
He's also 87 fucking years old. This guy tried to filibuster the 1967 voting rights act. There is a large difference between pointing to one example (Robert Byrd) and looking at attitudes and ideas prevalent in sweeping and generalized ideology.
2. censorship: ya, you mean like what Kerry was trying to do to the Swifties by threatening Newspapers, TV Stations, and book publishers with lawsuits if they carried the ads or didnt cave in to their demands to stop with the book.
Gee willikers, those poor Swifty Wifties! There is a huge difference between censoring a conference, a music CD, or a movement, and attempting to censor a political ad with little or no retrospective value other than character assassination.
That's like saying, "We're cancelling the New York Times, because a liberal shut down Blues Clues." The substantiative value of musical, philosophic, and radical expression hugely outweighs a cheap little political ad designed to gain points for a candidate. This is comparing apples to oranges...or apples to a watermelon field.
3. anti-minority: like when almost All democrats in the 60's were against the civil rights movement and legislative bills
Once again, Democrats who later 1. became Republicans 2. re-sparked the Southern antifederalist, anti-government, anti-central schooling movement after the Civil Rights Act that now pervades the Republican party (less government is better, states rights over federal rights, private school over public school).
As is widely known, after the Civil Rights Act was passed, LBJ was extremely saddened. A journalist asked him why. His response, "We have just lost the South to the Republicans".
Hours after the Civil Rights Act was passed, private schools began to pop up all over the South, along with the notion that the government has no idea what is best for our children/country, and that the states should easily be able to overturn Washington. A version of this already existed in the Jim Crow laws...
which political party was against civil right movements in the 60's?????????? and which one voted for them????
And how many anti-civil rights Southern Democrats later became Republicans or left their post off to Republicans? The South has been Republican ever since 1964. You can see a
direct and
indisputable correlation between the Civil Rights Act and the rise of Republicans in the South. The reason more Democrats voted against the civil rights act was simple; Back then, the South was predominately Democrat, along with all the ideas that came with it.
Racist, Idiotic Southern Democrats are on the rise, though. Example: Zell Miller, Robert Byrd. Zell Miller, the man who Sean Hannity pimps all the time as proof of a "lost party", who consistently voted to keep Nelson Mandela in prison.
