04-21-2021, 12:58 PM
(04-21-2021, 09:02 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-20-2021, 04:41 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: In your mind we are but in reality we're not the Confederates. I'm sure you could/can convince a clueless Democratic supporter or minority of anything these days. After all, the clueless are clueless and easy to convince. Hell, I bet you could even convince them that American Law enforcement is racist and even convince them that it's fascist and convince them that it's their enemy and convince to get ride of it too. Dude, we freed the slaves from their Democratic owners over a hundred years ago and the Democratic owners of today are still clinging to their slave ancestors today. Personally speaking, I don't care if the Democratic side has police or not or it's own army or not at this point and I don't really care what happens to it in the future either. There was a time when I considered voting Democratic but that was a long time ago and I no longer consider doing it these days which has been beneficial to the Republican party or GOP as we say.
FYI, the parties switched sides in the mid 1960s I was there when it happened. The old Dixiecrats became Republicans, and the GOP embraced them as brothers. It was the direct result of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and '68, and the Voting Rights Acts of 1965, all passed by reluctant Democrats and Republicans, but passed nonetheless.
It was a Southerner (LBJ) that lead the change, and predicted it would end the Democrats chances of being elected in the South for a generation. He was off by two generations, but the tide is finally turning. Ask African-Americans which party represents them, and 99% will pick the Democrats without missing a beat. The same is rapidly becoming true of whites as well. Who will be left for the GOP to rally to its cause?
Even at that, LBJ was from a Southern state, but from a part of the state (including Austin and San Antonio) that were never core Southern. Those two cities were more like Southern California at the time (different as Austin and San Antonio are, they are still so) than than like what I mock as "Kukluxistan" -- the true, pure Jim Crow South at the time. LBJ's Texas had few blacks, and Mexican-Americans were generally treated as white people if they had money to spend and spoke good English. LBJ was a Southwesterner and not a Southeasterner.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo defined Mexican-Americans as legally white. Texas had an anti-miscegenation statute, but Mexican-Americans were prohibited, like unambiguously white people, from marrying black people. "Whites only" signs would have been embarrassing in those parts of Texas with large numbers of Mexican-Americans.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.