Posted on 01/03/2020 1:54:26 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
So: applying our advanced powers of critical theory, we can attribute all the good things Republicans back then to the Democrats, and blame all the bad things Democrats did on the Republicans.
This is meant to prove that the Democrats are always right and are the party of Light, while the Republicans are always wrong and are the party of Darkness.
Democrats say this with a straight face and claim to think that it is sophisticated.
Because they’re idiots?
excellent article.
“Hillary’s America” (on Netflix) covers this in even more detail.
Silly, there’s no delegated power for Congress to require non State actors to obey federal civil rights ... Goldwater still honored the Constitution unlike every so-called “progressive”.
The Court has been in abeyance since FDR’s era.
Do you think they were just motivated by the milk of human kindness and Christian morality?
There is a much bigger story going on here than most people realize, and i'm still putting pieces of it together with each passing month.
What happened almost immediately after the passage of the 24th amendment?
And the power to levy a tax on not complying with a federal rule (it has no delegated power to make) is found where?
Oh, and how do you feel about illegal aliens?
The “Democrat Party” didn’t sound right to the dems,, so about 3 years ago they changed it to democratic.
I suppose they were trying to bond with “democratic republic”. No one calls ours a “democrat republic” form of gubmint..
....but I don’t delve into the democrat’s thinking process....very dangerous.
In 1968-72 the Vietnam war, communism, the new left were the issue.
The South tends to be pro-military, anti-communist. 1968 Wallace was anti-communist and pro-old school Democrat segregationist.
Nixon was anti-communist and pro-integration.
In 1972 there was no Wallace. It was all war. Segregation was no longer the issue of the day. Nixon got all the votes nationwide except for 1 state. In some ways, Nixon was like Trump. Nobody liked Nixon. He was hated by many. Yet they voted for him, the lesser of two evils.
(I voted for John Hosper)
My former B-I-L, Liberal Democrat to his core ALWAYS used the word Dixiecrats and blamed Nixon for the Republican Southern Strategy which got him Elected in 1968.
My former B-I-L is a bitter Old man who sees Conservative / Republican Bigots under every rock.
If you read Goldwater's book "Conscience of a Conservative", he laid out every reason he opposed the Civil Rights Bill.
His fears were well founded.
He was concerned about what would become affirmative action, quotas, set-asides, the Fed Gov becoming massive and unaccountable, etc.
He also correctly disliked the erosion of State's rights.
He personally was all in favor of MLKs vision of people being judged by their character, not skin color.
He didn't have a racist bone in his body.
The book is amazing if you've never read it.
He correctly predicted the poop storm of racial politics that ended up happening.
And that we are still suffering from, 50-60 years later.
Yeah, I'm kind of tired of the Southern Strategy canard about Nixon.
1968 was a strange year in politics.
If anyone had a Southern Strategy, it was George Wallace.
It was basically his whole campaign.
Split the votes.
Nixon barely made it in 1968.
But Nixon pretty much ran the table in 1972.
And why don't democrats whine about Bill Clinton in 1992?
He did well in Southern states, but again it was a three-way race.
I don’t know if you know this from reading or were around at the time but it’s Great having some folks on the board that experienced things real time.
Their description and opinion on events is incredibly insightful and helpful.
I was born i ‘68 and I describe the Reagan era to my nephews and nieces in a way that reading about him probably can’t.
It’s a great thing.
“And the power to levy a tax on not complying with a federal rule (it has no delegated power to make) is found where?”
The New Deal supreme court virtually abdicated any constitutional limits on the taxing power. Here’s a Wikipedia quote on the subject.
“Shortly after Butler, in Helvering v. Davis,[27] the Supreme Court interpreted the clause even more expansively, disavowing almost entirely any role for judicial review of Congressional spending policies, thereby conferring upon Congress a plenary power to impose taxes and to spend money for the general welfare subject almost entirely to Congress’s own discretion.”
It was even better because I was in the Jimmuh Carter Army. Equipment worn out, understrength units, underfunded. Much of the public still treated us like crap. The Reagan Administration and its military and foreign policies were such a breath of fresh air. I cheered when he demanded they "tear down this wall!" As a Cold War veteran I can't describe the feeling when the damn thing actually came down!
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