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The Dangerous Strands Of US Political Culture (View from the Left)
Popular Resistance ^ | December 24, 2015 | Joey B. King

Posted on 12/27/2015 4:32:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Starting with the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, I began noticing something. That year, people like Rush Limbaugh screamed from the airwaves, “This is the most important election of our lifetime!” In every election since then, both sides have repeated this same mantra. You’d think the electorate would have figured this fear-mongering out by now, but they haven’t.

In this article, I make a different argument. Instead of it being the most important election of our lifetime, I think this is the most dangerous election since 1968. Why do I say that?

In the 1968 election, the country was split over the Vietnam War. There was a big hubbub at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Internationally, the Soviets put down a rebellion in Prague and there was political unrest in Mexico. Generally, it was a time of world upheaval. Nixon won, and the war in Vietnam continued.

To win, Richard Nixon implemented the “Southern Strategy.” He figured out that an electoral majority of southerners were pissed-off enough about the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act to switch parties from the Democratic “Solid South” to the Party of Lincoln. They’ve been there ever since.....

(Excerpt) Read more at popularresistance.org ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: gop; joeybking; popularresistance; south

1 posted on 12/27/2015 4:32:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The left is dangerous, immoral, and tyrannical.


2 posted on 12/27/2015 4:34:11 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

3 posted on 12/27/2015 4:40:10 PM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
" What happens when this radicalized minority loses in November 2016? It is anyone’s guess. My prediction is massive civil unrest, much of which will be violent. A large percentage of conservatives will come to the conclusion that they are the “real” Americans and will take up arms in the form of right-wing terrorism."

Pure projection from a jihad supporter.

4 posted on 12/27/2015 5:06:32 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ooooooo Southern Strategy!!!1111eLeBintY!!! DRINK
5 posted on 12/27/2015 5:14:59 PM PST by 98ZJ USMC
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

and Joey is their messanger.


6 posted on 12/27/2015 5:18:00 PM PST by GilesB
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rush Limbaugh has never screamed. Never!

It is evident. Joey B. King has never listened to Rush and is completely ignorant of Rush or his program.

My conclusion: Joey B. King is an idiot and I learned this from the second sentence.

7 posted on 12/27/2015 5:20:14 PM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Since ordinary Americans -- the people the radical demagogues call "right wingers" and "tea-baggers" -- are the only targets of political violence and violent political imagery, b***s***.

8 posted on 12/27/2015 5:36:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let me be the first to say, as a vegetarian pacifist who opposes violence in all forms, I hope I am wrong.

Pacifist are the parasites of freedom.

9 posted on 12/27/2015 5:41:56 PM PST by BBell
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To: 98ZJ USMC
Ooooooo Southern Strategy!!!1111eLeBintY!!! DRINK

Dems always bring up the so-called "Southern Strategy" as if Nixon tricked Southerners into voting for him.

The fact is patriotic Southerners had had it with the growing drift of Dems into raging leftists. In 1972 there was no way patriotic Southerners were going to vote for George McGovern who represented a party that had tilted leftwards almost completely off its axis.

In short, the tale of the evil "Southern Strategy" is a complete fraud. There's no way conservative Southerners were going to support an increasingly leftist Dem party. Dems are still confounded by that simple reality.

10 posted on 12/27/2015 5:55:00 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There was a big hubbub at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.

It was more than a hubbub, it was a street riot, between the traditional democrats, and the Hard Line Leftists.

The Hard Liners won that battle, where it counted, on the Convention Floor, and the Dem Party took a hard Left turn. It's never really strayed from that hard line left course since then

11 posted on 12/27/2015 6:37:00 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.))
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To: Libloather

Wow! Excellent examples.


12 posted on 12/27/2015 7:42:06 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: driftless2

“There’s no way conservative Southerners were going to support an increasingly leftist Dem party.”

This is true, but it made no difference. The Marxocrats have owned this country ever since FDR waltzed onto the American scene over 70 years ago. Even when the Republicans had some level of control of the legislative process the initiatives and programs that were implemented were under the total purview of the Marxocrats. Even the recent Republican victories have been for naught. There is no pretense anymore about the Republicans forcing the leviathan government to return to its constitutional limits. We now live under a completely tyrannical regime that has bipartisan support. The statist, collectivist Uniparty reigns.


13 posted on 12/27/2015 8:02:22 PM PST by DrPretorius
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Old hippies never die they just fade away”.

Joey B. King - please - fade fade fade away.... It's NOT 1968...

14 posted on 12/28/2015 7:08:25 AM PST by GOPJ (Trump's instincts are as formidable as his courage,he sees the nation bleeding out..DWest)
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