- 16 Mar 2012 19:17
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I saw this in Rolling Stone and thought I'd share...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/bl ... s-20120316
"Are right-wingers scarier now than in the past? They certainly seem stranger and fiercer. I'd argue, however, that they’ve been this crazy for a long time. Over the last sixty years or so, I see far more continuities than discontinuities in what the rightward twenty or thirty percent of Americans believe about the world. The crazy things they believed and wanted were obscured by their lack of power, but they were always there – if you knew where to look. What's changed is that loony conservatives are now the Republican mainstream, the dominant force in the GOP."
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The LBJ/Barry Goldwater election was a turning point for American politics; as a Republican Goldwater should have been pro-civil-rights for blacks, but as a flaky "libertarian" he came out against it. Meanwhile, LBJ, as a southern Democrat should have been against civil rights for blacks. Ever since that election (1964) everything flipped, the south flipped from solidly Democratic to solidly Republican, and the north flipped from Republican to Democratic.
http://www.270towin.com/historical-pres ... elections/
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/bl ... s-20120316
"Are right-wingers scarier now than in the past? They certainly seem stranger and fiercer. I'd argue, however, that they’ve been this crazy for a long time. Over the last sixty years or so, I see far more continuities than discontinuities in what the rightward twenty or thirty percent of Americans believe about the world. The crazy things they believed and wanted were obscured by their lack of power, but they were always there – if you knew where to look. What's changed is that loony conservatives are now the Republican mainstream, the dominant force in the GOP."
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The LBJ/Barry Goldwater election was a turning point for American politics; as a Republican Goldwater should have been pro-civil-rights for blacks, but as a flaky "libertarian" he came out against it. Meanwhile, LBJ, as a southern Democrat should have been against civil rights for blacks. Ever since that election (1964) everything flipped, the south flipped from solidly Democratic to solidly Republican, and the north flipped from Republican to Democratic.
http://www.270towin.com/historical-pres ... elections/
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