I have long argued that there are (now were) three political parties in America - the national progressive party, whatever its name; the national conservative party, whatever its name - which are (were) farily evenly matched; and the Southern party, a regional parasite that attaches itself to whichever of the national parties will allow it to engage in its "peculiar institutions" without bother, thus providing a "governing majority" nationally. The Southern party evolved from a strictly regional to the Southernist Party, representing "southernism" wherever found. After the Fount of All Evil Richard Nixon invited the Southernists into the GOP following the Democrat's "treason" over Civil Rights, the parasite decided it would control the host to avoid similar treason in the future. We all know what happens when a parasite tries to take over its host.
My standard response to that "it was Democrats..." noise, after I say "that was then and this is now," is to start even further back, by asking "who integrated the Federal civil service?" (FDR, a Democrat) and "who integrated the military?" (Harry Truman, a Democrat) then move on to the Civil Rights and Voting Acts.
The history of NATIONAL Democrats trying to make things a little freer and a little fairer by stages is nearly a century long ~ that the Southern wing opposed it all until they finally switched parties has ZERO to do with people in the Democratic Party TODAY.
Are there racists and misogynists to be found in any group of people? Sure! But the party platforms are to seek WILDLY different outcomes vis-Ã -vis equitable treatment in legal and civil life.
The pertinent closing question becomes: which party does an open and a avowed white supremacist vote for NOW? Who gets them excited that their "issues and concerns" are being heard and applied? Republicans, obvi.
I have long argued that there are (now were) three political parties in America - the national progressive party, whatever its name; the national conservative party, whatever its name - which are (were) farily evenly matched; and the Southern party, a regional parasite that attaches itself to whichever of the national parties will allow it to engage in its "peculiar institutions" without bother, thus providing a "governing majority" nationally. The Southern party evolved from a strictly regional to the Southernist Party, representing "southernism" wherever found. After the Fount of All Evil Richard Nixon invited the Southernists into the GOP following the Democrat's "treason" over Civil Rights, the parasite decided it would control the host to avoid similar treason in the future. We all know what happens when a parasite tries to take over its host.
That's a decent way of conceptualizing this ongoing mess!
The strongest evidence of this? We basically have a Dixiecrat as president.
My standard response to that "it was Democrats..." noise, after I say "that was then and this is now," is to start even further back, by asking "who integrated the Federal civil service?" (FDR, a Democrat) and "who integrated the military?" (Harry Truman, a Democrat) then move on to the Civil Rights and Voting Acts.
The history of NATIONAL Democrats trying to make things a little freer and a little fairer by stages is nearly a century long ~ that the Southern wing opposed it all until they finally switched parties has ZERO to do with people in the Democratic Party TODAY.
Are there racists and misogynists to be found in any group of people? Sure! But the party platforms are to seek WILDLY different outcomes vis-Ã -vis equitable treatment in legal and civil life.
The pertinent closing question becomes: which party does an open and a avowed white supremacist vote for NOW? Who gets them excited that their "issues and concerns" are being heard and applied? Republicans, obvi.