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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (750242)10/29/2013 7:16:47 PM
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Hi bentway; Re: "To pretend that Republicans didn't immediately welcome all the southern racists into their party with open arms, legislative efforts and lots of dog whistles when then (D)'s decided to drop racism in the 1960's is disingenuous."

I didn't pretend anything of the sort. You're confusing "conservative" with "racist" because you're basically an ill-educated bigot. In politics, "conservative" is a statement about how people feel about money. (See the literature as I've linked above.) "Racist" is a statement about how people feel about race. That's why this nation has had (and still has) racist conservatives, racist liberals, tolerant conservatives, and tolerant liberals.

And any political party is happy to get votes however it can. To deny this is disingenuous.

The Democratic party didn't push the southern democrats into Republican arms out of a policy of love. They did it to satisfy special interest groups. And to some extent it worked. Now they get 90% of the black vote where once the Republicans got those votes.

The Democrats cannot achieve permanent status as a majority party because special interests cannot make a majority party. Once you're over 50% you can't win votes so easily by handing out slices of the pie because you end up stealing pie from yourself. If everybody is special, then nobody is.

Already the Democrats have pushed white blue collar workers (once solidly Democratic) into the Republican party. This Obamacare thing will alienate more working class people as it is their insurance rates that are being raised and their policies that are being cancelled. As the Republican party continues to recruit more and more minority politicians, those voting blocks will split. What's been missing from the Republican party is "Reagan conservatives". These will resonate well with swing voters who have recently swung towards Obama. Especially as the liberals show themselves to be stunningly incompetent.

-- Carl
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