Comments on: Discordant Democrats vs. Republican Dittoheads https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/discordant-democrats-vs-republican-dittoheads/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: besomyka https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/discordant-democrats-vs-republican-dittoheads/#comment-17175 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:27:06 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=875#comment-17175 In short? Racism. Seriously.

Google or Wiki “Southern Strategy”.

Until the middle of the last century, Republicans were the party of the North and were a mixed bag on the conservative/progressive scale. They started losing a bit and they made it the party’s policy to go after the southern white vote by appealing to their racist fears of the ‘other’.

Most of the racist Democrats in the south abandoned the party (good riddance!) and voted Republican. That also brought a lot of Evangelicals and tilted the party way right. That group that switched parties has slowly been gaining in power.

]]> By: lordshipmayhem https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/discordant-democrats-vs-republican-dittoheads/#comment-17174 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:25:05 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=875#comment-17174 The thing I find enormously puzzling about the Republican Party: this is the party that freed the slaves. This is the party that built the Panama Canal, using a colossal amount of public funds. This is the party that got the States out of Vietnam. It has been the traditional party of isolationism, especially between the World Wars. Yellowstone became the first National Park, and Mackinac the second, during Ulysses S. Grant’s Republican administration.

This is also the party that got us in to Iraq, that rails now against spending a single nickel on anything other than defence, that has decided that the environment is not a pressing concern. What happened?

]]> By: Trebuchet https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/discordant-democrats-vs-republican-dittoheads/#comment-17173 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:33:56 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=875#comment-17173

Lockstep = good. Diversity of opinion and open, rational dialog = bad.

Holy crap. Do people really think that?

Sadly, if you’re after total political power and don’t care how you get it, that’s what works. Too there aren’t a few Republicans with the balls to stand up to the TeaParty of God and get something done.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/discordant-democrats-vs-republican-dittoheads/#comment-17172 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:10:02 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=875#comment-17172 The Zombie Apocalypse has begun…the first ten people are your army….(etc, etc)…
…just a joke, but it is beginning to feel real… 🙁 or should I say ‘reel’?

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/30/discordant-democrats-vs-republican-dittoheads/#comment-17171 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:40:52 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=875#comment-17171

Lockstep = good. Diversity of opinion and open, rational dialog = bad.

Holy crap. Do people really think that?

Most people don’t actually think about things like that. Many others do think that way because they are poorly educated (in most states) by the US public school systems and they have no idea what critical thinking is all about. Unfortunately, the Constitution is wasted on the majority.

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