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Posted by Nilet on Fri Oct 24 08:22:41 2014, in response to Re: Waves of young Israelis find a home in the former Nazi capital, posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Oct 24 07:58:26 2014. Consider the Republican party's "southern strategy."Yes— court the massive power base of racists in the South. Not the handful of thugs spraying graffiti and committing the occasional violent crime; racism was so entrenched with such majority support that lynchings were treated as local festivals. It's not even remotely comparable to modern France. It emerged after Republicans and northern Democrats passed civil rights legislation in the mid 1960's. The of Lincoln saw an opportunity to gain power even though it meant repudiating the principles on which it was founded. That anyone had to fight for civil rights legislation proves that racism was a mainstream position, and not limited to the discontented and disenfranchised and washed up. Today they have become the champions of the "discontented, disenfranchised and washed up," what we used to call "white trash." Are you kidding me? I'm not sure what country you're looking at, but here in the US, the Republicans are the champions of privileged and powerful people who think the oppressed are oppressing them by not submitting to oppression— rich people who think it's so burdensome that they have to occasionally offer pocket change to the people who actually earned the fortunes they sit on; white people who think black people are oppressing them by demanding not to be shot in cold blood, men who complain that women are depriving them of their "right" to have sex without consent, and so forth. America's discontented, disenfranchised, and washed up tend to be the people who were screwed over by conservative/Republican policies, and the vast majority of them aren't white. There's an economic crisis in Europe that is similar to that in the 1930's. Hardly. Europe is better off than America and America is better off than anyone was in the 1930s. A decade's worth of job entrants will have a lower living standard than their parents. But a better standard of living than my parents (or at least most people of their generation) and definitely a better standard of living than me. Comparing the economic malaise of today to the Weimar Republic is absurd. |
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