1. Most people? so what percentage are on it for not "a short period"?
1b your disagreement with republican economic policy has nothing to do with whether or not reagan was race baiting as you falsely claimed. off topic.
Welfare Statistics Statistic Brain
80% of welfare recipiant are on welfare for 5 years or less. 63% are on for less than 2 years.
The race-baiting image of the "Welfare Queen" is meant to appeal to racist images that have little reflection in reality.
2. what? do you imagine that event organizers do historical background checks with 200 mile radius checks for any negative events that might hurt some pc hacks feelings?
Reagan specifically picked that location because he knew exactly what it meant to the people he was trying to motivate.
3. he vetoed a bill that led to a murderer raping and assaulting people for hours. criticizing that is completely reasonable. that you can defend it does not mean that the criticism was not valid nor that it was racist. that dukakis changed it after people got hurt, does not change his early actions.
He didn't "criticize it'> He distorted the issue by telling outright lies and creating a dishonest image of who "Willie" Horton was. (Hint. He never called himself "Willie".)
1. so 20% are on for longer than 5 years at a time? i admit that i am surprised that it is not larger. is that the number that was true then, or is that now after decades of reform?
and the simple fact that the problem
might have been less than thought at the time, does not prove racism, it could simply mean the issue looked worse at the time, relevant to what people raised in the 30s were expecting to see.
you are arguing against the policy that was being advocated. but that does not prove racism, just that those people saw the problem as larger than you think.
1b and you know that because you know the gop is racist. and you know the gop is racist because they have all these policies that are racist. and you know that the policies are racist, and that the stated reasons for the policies are lies, because you know the gop is racist. and then whenever a new issue or policy arises, you listen for the hidden code words, and dog whistle phrases that you know are there. and when you find them, it is further evidence that the gop is racist and their policies are racist. so that when a republican says that he is concerned about welfare, you know that he really means blacks.
a closed circular loop in a closed mind.
2. who told you that? sounds like complete bullshit to me. the gop has been pro-civil rights, (looking at their stated policies and enacted policies since their beginning, not interpreting code words and/or dog whistles,) since their beginning.
3. you seem to be conflating the idea of a possibly unfairly spun attack ad with racism. which is it?
a woman was raped because dukakis vetoed that bill. her husbanded was assaulted and tied up while the woman he loved was repeatedly violated. it went on for hours.
and you are upset that the gop might have used a form of the murder/rapist/thug's name that cast him in a poor light? that they didn't show him the respect of getting his first name right?
that's is what upsets you?