daveman
Diamond Member
Oh, so we get to just make up shit? Cool.He wasn't a conservative, that's inarguable.
Well, no. IN 1952, people realized Conservatism didn't work. That was the point. And when Barry "Deep Down You Know He's Nuts" Goldwater tried to run on "Conservatism" (i.e. Fuck poor people to give more money to the rich) people outright rejected it. He lost 44 States. He'd have lost 49 if there weren't five inbred southern states still mad at LBJ for ending Jim Crow.
Then the "Conservative" movement realized that you could get the working class to swallow the rat poison of "Conservatism" by wrapping it in the juicy bacon of racism, homophobia, misogyny, and xenophobia. That's when you have some poor dumb white trash in West Virginia voting for Republicans because he done der doesn't want dem darkies getting them no Socialized medicine... but he'll still happily sign up for his Medicaid.