Kalifornia VS Cansas: Or Why The Baggers Are Wrong About Everything

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

To this day, the GOP is heavily invested in Nixon's Southern Strategy (and Reagan's cynical courting of Evangelicals) which solidified the bubba vote (and which now comprises their base). From an electoral POV, they simply don't know how to split the sheets with the nativists and Bible-thumpers in their midst. Without this base, they'd basically be a party of wealthy industrialists and their suck-ups.

Precisely.

And this "investment" has paid off for them handsomely for better than 30 years.

But those chickens are now coming home to roost.

It's interesting how Republicans like to point out that is was mostly Democrats that were racists back in the day, and then go into complete denial when you confront them with the fact that they lured virtually every racist Southern Democrat over to their side with their Southern Strategy.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Precisely.

And this "investment" has paid off for them handsomely for better than 30 years.

But those chickens are now coming home to roost.

It's interesting how Republicans like to point out that is was mostly Democrats that were racists back in the day, and then go into complete denial when you confront them with the fact that they lured virtually every racist Southern Democrat over to their side with their Southern Strategy.

Not to mention they also roll out old Abe Lincoln's bones when confronted with it as some sort of defense. Sorry 'pubbies, Lincoln would be run out of the party on a split rail these days by the slobbering 'bagger caucus.

[Tom Joad]

Period.

End of story.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/25...same-old-ideas

Thirty-five years ago conservatives did produce a new argument - the claim that high taxes and generous benefits were producing such a drag on the economy that even lower-income Americans would be better off if we slashed all of that.

And they got most of what they wanted - much lower taxes on top incomes and an end to welfare as we knew it, though not to the big middle-class programs.

But growth failed to take off while inequality soared, so that the incomes of typical families grew much more slowly after the conservative revolution than before.

So much for that big idea.