Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-31-2020, 12:30 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: *** The myth of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ - Dinesh D'Souza

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/402...n-strategy

My first instinct was to type LOL.  You really shouldn’t try to defend yourself from an accusation of ideological bias by quoting an opinion piece from The Hill.  However, I already made the point that typing LOL isn’t an adequate response.

Republicans, the original Black Republicans, were tightly linked to the abolitionists.  Just prior to the Civil War, during it, and shortly after during the Reconstruction period they were admirable is seeking basic voting and human rights for the blacks.  The blacks showed a loyalty as a result, and were generally loyal.

This changed with Jim Crow.  From this time until the civil rights movement, neither major party was very loyal to the minorities.

They to a great degree remained loyal to their sections of the country.  Democrats were strong in the south, Republicans in the north.  An exception was machine politics in the major manufacturing centers of the north, for example Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall in New York.  If you worked for the immigrants from Europe, you could get their votes.

But both parties had progressive and conservative wings.  The Civil War loyalties were deemed more important than the difference between progressive and conservative.

FDR began to change this.  He began a Democratic and progressive dominance which lasted through LBJ.  However, race was not an issue yet for the Democrats.  FDR’s depression and World War II policies may have been progressive, but the blacks remained under Jim Crow.

The shift came with JFK, MLK and LBJ.  The Democrats eventually embraced the civil rights movement, and picked up the black vote.  LBJ’s civil rights legislation and war on poverty capped the buying of the black vote.  That made the Democrats truly progressive in all respects.

The movement of the Republicans to become more conservative was a response that seems inevitable in hindsight.  They always were the party of the Robber Barons, of the elites.  They became the party of the racists as well.  Oh, for a long time they were subtle about it, if you could consider Reagan’s welfare queen myth subtle.  If they dismantled the war on poverty, if they sought small government, if they cut taxes, if they often fought affirmative action, they would invent noble and pure motivations that didn’t much fool people.

Well, they didn’t fool most people.  They seem to have fooled you.

Trump abandoned the subtle.  Partially in response to the first black president, he brought things out in the open again.  The KKK and Neo Nazi resurfaced.  The Republicans became more openly what they always had been.

And you missed it.

I now better understand why you became a social pariah in Massachusetts.  I also see the basic concept behind Generational Dynamics.  If you live in a fantasy world, it is not difficult to predict your fantasies.  If you deliberately blind yourself to realities, the false reality becomes true to itself.