Republican Economic Policy

[hadit]

The middle class is being impoverished by corporate leadership that imports cheap labor while exporting good jobs.

Translation - corporations are charging the lowest prices possible. Without that, the poor in this country couldn't afford many of the things they now take for granted.

 

[Friends]

Translation - corporations are charging the lowest prices possible. Without that, the poor in this country couldn't afford many of the things they now take for granted.

Actually American corporations are getting the largest profits possible, while firing capable employees, and holding the line on pay increases and benefits.

 

[Hector12]

Gallup, JULY 29, 2020

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. The legislation prohibited discrimination on the basis of race in public places and shepherded in the integration of schools and other public places, as well as making employment discrimination illegal.

Two months later, Gallup asked Americans if they "approve or disapprove of [the] civil rights law ... recently passed by Congress and signed by the president." While the majority -- nearly six in 10 -- expressed their approval for the law, nearly a third of Americans disapproved, with the remaining 10% undecided.

Gallup Vault: Americans Narrowly OK'd 1964 Civil Rights Law

Polling data at the time found a majority of Americans backing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but with differences by race and region.

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Many of the whites who supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 thought they were buying racial peace. When they got five years of black ghetto rioting, and more enduring increases in black social pathology instead, , they felt betrayed and began voting Republican.

 

[bendog]

Many of the whites who supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 thought they were buying racial peace. When they got five years of black ghetto rioting, and more enduring increases in black social pathology instead, , they felt betrayed and began voting Republican.

The civil rights acts only passed because Dirksen and the gop establishment voted for them. JFK and then LBJ didn't have the votes.