Posted on 08/17/2008 4:23:55 AM PDT by gusopol3
The Republican Party that Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan (re)built has not been designed to reach out to a group on the basis of identity, but on the basis of a given group’s ideas and values. By the party’s very definition — its basic principles — this precludes reaching out to groups which have race, ethnicity, and/or gender as their sole criterion for coalescing as a political entity. So when some observers wonder what the Republican Party is going to “do for” the “black community,” most Republicans will have a certain look of puzzlement on our faces, as if someone just asked why we don’t offer attachable wings so that our prospective party members can fly.
Many black Americans cannot shake the notion that a political party is supposed to provide quid pro quo. That the Republican Party won’t do anything for them besides get off their backs, get other citizens off their backs, and get out of their way so they can pursue happiness just isn’t good enough. But where did the idea come from?
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Marketing.
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Nope. It is called pandering.
Because the dems have sold their constituents the idea that democrat policies would help them if only those evil Republicans would not get in the way.
The reality is that democrat policies hurt those they pretend to help.
So, mostly it IS marketing - with tax dollars no less - that they have convinced the poor and minorities that only THEY have given them "free stuff".
my personal observation is that they do a great deal for each other and for whites as well, and this is based on a charitable attitude that somehow goes missing when larger issues are considered. It seems like their political thinking is victim of a very successful propaganda effort, that this piece explores. Why remember that Barry Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act 40 + years ago, but forget the racial politics that the Democrats pursued for decades that made the Civil Rights act seem so necessary ?
It was planned...
“...while on a trip with two governors, Johnson reportedly made the following comment in explaining why the civil rights bill was so important to him. He said it was simple: ? I’ll have them niggers voting Democratic for two
hundred years.”
The rest is history.
I really think “marketing” is a good description but needs a modifier like “snake oil,” “scare tactics,” “coercive ,” whatever.
that’s the thread that sent me searching as well as this little bit of tortured leftist history from the link at the Arizona thread this A.M.
“When Goldwater ran against the 1964 Civil Rights Act during his failed presidential campaign that year, and when Republicans successfully used racial appeals as an electoral strategy for decades after that, black voters left the Republican Party, never to return.”
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/17/signs-regions-emerging-power-found-arizona/
Republicans offer a hand up.
Democrats offer a hand out.
You figure it out.
Ignorance... gullibility, herd mentality and a general preference for socialist policy.
From this one...
Quotes, Sayings, and Aphorisms by Theodore Roosevelt
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
“Why is the Black Vote in the Democrats’ Pocket?”
The Stockholm Effect
amen
I’ve said it on other threads and I’ll repost it here: It was the Republican Party that abolished slavery in this country.
That, in itself, ought to tell the black community that it is Republicans who embrace their values as persons.
a good way of summarizing her conclusion; a big element is depriving of news from the outside, like the historical blackout she describes.
Here is his website: ATLA-World Ministries
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