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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow long until the first spontaneous Ku Klux Klan meeting breaks out at the GOP debate tonight?
I give it five minutes before the pointy hoods and sheets come out.
Don
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)emilyg
(22,742 posts)NAO
(3,425 posts)When Newt embraced his racist derogatory comments about black people and food stamps, and at the same time put a black moderator "in his place" on MLK day...and then gets a huge standing ovation, that's a pretty good indicator.
Who knew Nixon's "Southern Strategy" aka Reagan's "Welfare Queen narrative" would work so well?
With Ron Paul the Racist on the stage as a Presidential Candidate, along with Newt whistling to the racists with his rhetoric, there doesn't need to be a formal meeting of the KKK; It's implied, always. And they know exactly what they're doing and the media never calls them on it. It's shameful, a disgrace to the nation.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Misspelled signs, pointed hats goes together so well. The GOP was willing to do anything to win and now they have the grand prize, the Teaparty. Hope they enjoy.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)...in the early part of the 20th Century.
Does the phrase "David Duke ran as a repig" ring any bells?
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)I hope you don't forget the lessons of history. If you haven't watched Ken Burns' 3-part documentary on Prohibition, you should.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)Funny you bring up the Red Herring of a TV series on Prohibition. After Duke won a seat in the House, one of his pet issues was drug testing for welfare recipients.
Guess what policy is actively talked about & taken seriously by repigs these days?
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)He's held in high regard only by a radical fringe. I'm sure that most Republicans regard him as an embarrassment and find many of his opinions repugnant just as most of us do.
Anyone who is eligible to vote can join either party, and unless unqualified can run for any partisan office.
My comment about the Prohibition series is not a red herring at all if you pay attention to the role that KKK influence played in support for the Volstead Act. At one time a large segment of one party saw nothing wrong with being a Klansman. Its influence fell off after the 1920s, but didn't go away completely even into the 1960s.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)> I'm sure that most Republicans regard him as an embarrassment and find many of his opinions repugnant just as most of us do.
Going by the evidence of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of repigs who openly display KKK-like symbols & verbiage at the fact of Obama being president, your idea can only be a fact if you maintain a strict definition of "most" as ">50.000001%". Since "influence on a party" doesn't need ">50.000001%" participation, my original point stands.
> My comment about the Prohibition series is not a red herring at all if you pay attention to the role that KKK influence played in support for the Volstead Act.
You're kidding, right? The prohibitionist movement started in America in the 1830s, and gained steam steadily for decades. On one hand you dismiss the influence of Duke (and other KKK members who weren't as prominent) on the GOP, and then trumpet some connection (your Red Herring) that has little historical evidence.
Keep trying!
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)to the radical fringe, of course.
kctim
(3,575 posts)the Klan would have more than the estimated 5,000 members.
Ter
(4,281 posts)In 1991 when Duke ran against the Democrat, even then-President George HW Bush said vote for the Democrat, as did the entire establishment.
Remember, a much more violent Klan member, Tom Metzger, ran and won the nomination as a Democrat around 1982. It's neither Party's fault.
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)EFerrari
(163,986 posts)symbol of the Alaska Independence (white separatist) Party.
pampango
(24,692 posts)If 300-plus black political activists held a convention in the Deep South, and the invited speakers were black, it would inevitably, and correctly, be referred to as a black political event.
So I'm going to call the Tea Party convention I just covered in Myrtle Beach, S.C., what it was: a white political event.
... in a state that's 30 per cent black, there wasn't a single black face at the event. Or any young faces that I could see. That sort of homogeneity at least partly explains why the Tea Party is running out of steam in this heterogeneous nation.
Recent polls suggest that Americans' opinion of the hardline conservative movement has soured as they've learned more about it. Except in South Carolina.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/18/f-rfa-macdonald.html
The CBC is commenting on the SC tea party, but the tp crown seems to dominate the GOP debates.