Posted on 07/14/2017 2:05:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
Between 1950 & ‘70, were the majority of Republicans and Democrats pro-life, anti-illegal alien, and anti-gay marriage?
The abortion issue wasn’t even an issue until the 1960s and didn’t snowball until the 1970s. Even Ted Kennedy was a pro-lifer in the 1970s, until it was more lucrative and trendy to go against church teachings.
President Eisenhower cracked down on illegals in the 1950s with “Operation Wetback.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
Even the famous Chicano activist Cesar Chavez, no right-winger, stridently opposed illegal immigrants and immigration.
As for “gay marriage”, that wasn’t even a concept until the 1990s. If you had gone back to the 1950s or ‘60s to bring it up, people would’ve looked at you like you were from Mars. What’s so absurd about it is that gays who were looking to be “liberated” from social and cultural norms in the ‘60s, would’ve equally felt then it was a ludicrous concept. The whole point was living a libertine lifestyle, whether they wanted to hook up endlessly or just to live with one other and be left alone either way. Trying to normalize it, force it down the throats of straights, or equate it with the God-defined definition of marriage simply defies the imagination.
“Half of Detroit has southern roots “
25 years ago I met an old black woman in a rural area of NC I was exploring and struck up a conversation.
She had recently moved back to the old family homestead after spending 40+ years in Detroit. She and her husband moved there in the late 40’s along with most of their other siblings. Several of them retired back to the old family land in NC and had many kids and grandkids still living in Detroit.
When my dad was pastoring a church in Pontiac half of the church members were southern imports including the assistant pastor.
I thought that, during most of the 1900’s, Republicans and Democrats were socially conservative. I guess that, between 1970 & ‘85, Democrats became more liberal.
It wasn’t even an issue of “Conservative” vs. “Liberal”, it was just simply the norms of living in a Judeo-Christian society. You always had some libertines and whatnot and social issues relating to alcohol (and to a lesser extent, narcotics), but there were societal norms and basic expectations that flowed from biblical standards applied to everyone.
Let us not forget that the left itself, at least those that were enemies of America (the Soviet Union), knew that the only way to substantially defeat America was by undermining all of those long-understood and accepted moral and ethical standards. Undermine the family unit, promote anti-family agendas (socially libertine), drive a wedge any way possible, and you collapse the whole society in a generation. In almost every instance, the left has been behind the reduction of and removal of these basic moral standards. The removal of Christianity/prayer from the schools, the issue of birth control/abortion, easy divorce, illegitimacy, welfare state policies that remove the father from the home. All of these things and more.
We may have outspent the Soviets/Evil Empire into bankruptcy, but there were enough adherents to the leftist agenda that supported or sympathized with Communism in key positions in America, in politics, in education, in media and pop culture that were “turning up the heat” over the decades, that even after the Soviet collapse, they helped to push our own country to the brink of a civil war.
The funny thing is, the Soviets themselves generally enforced a “social Conservative” agenda in their own society (albeit it ran counter to a libertine agenda many on the left have promoted), because they did not want to collapse their own system by embracing modernist “Western values” that they had helped construct to destroy America.
RE Rizzo:
He was truly a great guy. Philly’s Own...
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