Vulgarity is a sure sign that one recognizes having lost the argument....and you certainly have.
Time and again, when folks realize that their political infatuations have been skewered, their language falls to the vulgar. It's one of those hard to hide psychological tells....your anger at the truth that you are unable to deny leaks out as vulgarity.
That is why I never have to do the same.
If you are scared of a bad word, you really have your fucking priorities wrong.
So let's stipulate, you weren't alive in 1968 and had no idea what the world was like that year.
I was. I remember race riots and assassinations and people like my parents voted for Nixon because they thought the world was coming to an end.
1. Your language reflects both your upbringing, and your level of articulation.
And, in your case, how little you know.
2. Which of the folks mentioned below weren't alive in 1968?
Let's check:
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The two biggest issues in the 1968 campaign were the Vietnam War…and the anti-war movement….
Nixon campaigned on
a strong anti-communist, law and order platform. While embracing the welfare state- Nixon was no conservative on domestic issues- he also railed against what he termed ‘the excesses of bleeding heart liberalism.’” "Death Of A Nation,” Dinesh D’Souza, p. 203
Fact?
“Tom Wicker, the progressive columnist for the
New York Times,
gave his appraisal of
Nixon’s desegregation efforts. “There’s no doubt about it—the Nixon administration accomplished more in 1970 to desegregate Southern school systems than had been done in the 16 previous years or probably since. There’s no doubt either that it was Richard Nixon personally who conceived, orchestrated and led the administration’s
desegregation effort . . . .That effort resulted in probably the outstanding domestic achievement of his administration.”
The Nixon Administration went even further,
putting into effect the nation’s first affirmative action program. Dubbed the Philadelphia Plan, it imposed racial goals and timetables on the building trade unions first in Philadelphia and then throughout the country. Basically, Nixon moved to kick in the closed union door and to
force racist Democratic unions to admit blacks.
The progressive legal scholar
Neal Devins admits that
Nixon’s Philadelphia Plan is “the genesis of affirmative action in government contracting and arguably all federal affirmative action programs.” The Switch That Never Happened: How the South Really Went GOP - American Greatness
Facts????
a. “Dubbed the Philadelphia Plan, it imposed racial goals …. Nixon moved to kick in the closed union door and to
force racist Democratic unions to admit blacks. “
The very opposite of the racism claims the Democrats put forth in that myth, “Southern Strategy.’
b. Compare that to
the racism of the godfather of the Democrat Party, Franklin Roosevelt: FDR didn’t like any minorities, and he worked to insure the benefit of racist white labor unions:
“FDR talked Congress into … imposing the nation’s first comprehensive minimum-wage law in 1938. The minimum-wage law prices many of the inexperienced, the young, the unskilled, and the disadvantaged out of the labor market. For example, the minimum-wage provisions passed as part of another act in 1933
threw an estimated 500,000 blacks out of work.” Great Myths of the Great Depression
Facts???????????
Here is the answer in microcosm:
because neither the Southern voter nor the GOP is racist:
a. 1966 Republican Bo Calloway ran against Democrat Lester Maddox, who “gained national attention for refusing to serve blacks in his popular cafeteria near the Georgia Tech campus. Newsmen tipped off about the confrontation reported how restaurant patrons and employees wielded ax handles while Mr. Maddox waved a pistol. …”
http://business.highbeam.com/435900...ddox-dies-87-segregationist-exgovernor-leaves
Maddox was endorsed by Democrat Jimmy Carter in the above governor’s race. When the race was too close to call, the Democrat state legislature gave it to Maddox.
b.1966- Republican Spiro Agnew ran against Democrat segregationists George Mahoney for governor of Maryland. Agnew enacted some of the first laws in the nation against race discrimination in public housing. “Agnew signed the state's first open-housing laws and succeeded in getting the repeal of an anti-
miscegenationlaw.”
Spiro Agnew - Wikipedia
c.1966- pro-integrationist Republican Winthrop Rockefeller won Arkansas, replacing Bill Clinton-pal Orval Faubus.
Not all Democrats were segregationists, but all segregationists were Democrats! And…there were enough of them to demand compliance from the rest of the party.
FACTS?????????????
In your face, booooyyyyyyeeeeeeee!!!!
