Right-wing racism on the rise

[decay]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/polit...7/29/beck/

There's a psychological term for this kind of unhinged behavior, and it's called "projection." These two racists are projecting their own racial feelings onto Obama. Increasingly, the ranks of the racially blinkered (and I include MSNBC's Pat Buchanan here) are playing victim, insisting Obama's modest moves -- appointing a Latina justice, using the Gates case to speak out against racial profiling -- are reversing the racial order wholesale, and putting white men on the bottom of the pile.

One look at Congress, the Supreme Court, Fortune 500 CEOs -- or conversely, at prison cells across America -- tells you how delusional the Beck-Limbaugh-Buchanan view is, but that doesn't make it irrelevant. It's likely to get worse, as persistent economic hardship plus a spike in right-wing racist rhetoric increases the appeal of scapegoat strategies.

[cbelt3]

I strongly agree with the Senator from Ohio. The anti Clinton approach of embracing the whackjobs from the South has taken my political party down the wrong road.. an 8 lane highway straight to hell. I think the only solution is a schism.

[Mac1337]

I guess by definition there can't be left-wing racism. It is just against the laws of nature.

[RgrF]

There are simply not enough cbelt type Republicans left to take the party back. The South threatened to take over and dominate Democrats, Democrats acquiesced to political pressure from that wing of their party for decades.

When, Missourian, Harry Truman upset the applecart by desegregating the Military the writing was on the wall. By 1963, a red neck Texan Democrat would predict "there goes the South forever".

He was right.

They morphed into your party and eventually came to own it, - lot, stock and barrel. By the time you realized that all those Northeast and Midwest old line Republicans had been branded with this RINO label and started to notice that for the most part Dems had moved right enough for many to merge with them.

The others are waiting out developments and more than willing to be called independents. How you re enroll these people will be interesting to see. Seems to me they're up for grabs and getting them back without jettisoning that Southern flank is probably not doable.

The Dixie Republicats no longer have a place at the table and it's past the time we all come forward and acknowledge that, then the blue dog Dems can become Repubs again.

[Mac1337]

The kind of Republicans you like have never won a national election. McCain was the latest example. This is what happens when you take advice(thanks Barbie) from Democrats how to win.

[JoeH]

Dakota wrote:
The kind of Republicans you like have never won a national election. McCain was the latest example. This is what happens when you take advice(thanks Barbie) from Democrats how to win.

What ignorance of history. Eisenhower, moderate Republican elected twice. Nixon outside his other problems, a moderate and elected to two terms. He may have taken advantage of the Southern Strategy, but it did not control him on domestic and foreign policy.

[Mac1337]

Eisenhower? Even I don't remember him. Can we talk "recent" history, like oh past 30 years?

[decay]

Dakota wrote:
I guess by definition there can't be left-wing racism. It is just against the laws of nature.

Well, I'm sure some liberals or leftists can still harbor racist feelings.

I work with a white guy, who's also gay & pretty left-leaning, who has some anti-black tendencies.

My link was about the rabid righties that the media seems to give too much airtime to.

[OWC Jamie]

How many republicans voted for the civil rights act and how many democrats voted against it ?

Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Colin Powell and many other republicans must have been aghast at :
"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent."
-Senator Joe Biden
Blacks and Hispanics are "too busy eating watermelons and tacos" to learn how to read and write." -- Mike Wallace
Hillary Clinton calling Paul Frey a J#% B$%tard must be untrue.
Cynthia McKinney's whole family seem to be proud anti-racist democrats.


We could sit here all day and make lists of statements and who is racist and who isn't.. Truth of the matter racism still exists in all parties.
Certainly less than ten years ago and less than 20 years ago.
Certainly better 10 years from now.

Anyone who thinks 'thier' party is less racist than any other is only fooling themselves.

[Silencio]

Dakota wrote:
The kind of Republicans you like have never won a national election. McCain was the latest example.

Of course, McCain ran his campaign well to the right of his normal tendencies and record and it didn't work out so well...