I mean what I said, republicans.
Northerners. Southerners of both parties voted overwhelmingly against it. Southern Pride, don't you know...
THe claim was made that this is when the parties switched. THe voting record does not support that view.
The GOP gave the bill massive support at a higher rate than the dems did.
How many Southern Republicans voted for it?
How many Northern Democrats voted for it?
I think none and many.
So, ******* WHAT?
WHAT THE **** DO YOU THINK THAT PROVES?!
The GOP supported the bill overwhelmingly even more than the dems did.
Are you claim that supporting the voting rights bill
ATTRACTED racists to the GOP?
WTF are you even trying to say?
String words together without regard to what the **** they mean, is not a supporting argument.
The point is genius, politicians in the South (dem and repub) voted against the bill, politicians from the north (dem and repub) voted for the bill. The Republican Party of 2018 is definitely not the Republican party of 1964.
I've run into this before. A lib has a point, but refuses to say it clearly because on some level they realize that the moment they do that, it will be revealed to be silly.
Yes, Southerns voted against the bill.
And they lost.
The issue that motivated and organized the Southern Racist vote, ie segregation was lost.
The racists, during that time period were defeated and scattered.
Their agenda died. They ended up with no home. Both parties had turned against them.
They became moot.
You see the South after that,
decades later, turning Republican and assume that the South of the 1980s and 90s was the same South of 1960s.
But you don't support that, because you can't. Because it is not true.
If it WERE true, you would have seen the GOP agenda and polices embracing racist policies to pander to the racist bloc the dems had built and then betrayed.
But instead the national consensus on civil rights was unquestioned.
The nation is not nearly as racist as you think. THIS IS A GOOD THING. WHY ARE YOU FIGHTING AGAINST GOOD NEWS?
You political enemies are not MONSTERS, just people that have a different opinion on how to best serve the interests of the nation.
And when you call them assholes, (ie racists) based on logic with massive holes, you are the one being, not a nice person.
You really should stop doing that.
Assuming you WANT to have a positive self image.