“Nullification” in today's context reminds me more of OJ's trial than of politics. The word we use against zerOcare is *repeal*. It has nothing at all to do with skin color.
There were no songs to anyone except Jesus at the rally. No one even joined hands, outside of some couples who were holding hands and some parents holding their children's hands. I didn't even see any frowns or down turned lips. I saw dozens of black pastors on the podium. I saw white and black pastors, side by side, even embracing.
Matthew and his crowd need to realize this is 2010. The protected classes of today are not white. They are not American citizens. They certainly are not entrepreneurs or taxpayers. His nightmare was a calm sun-drenched rededication of individual faith and quiet patriotism.
“Nullification” in today's context reminds me more of OJ's trial than of politics. The word we use against zerOcare is *repeal*. It has nothing at all to do with skin color.
Like you, I am older than Mathews and remember the early/mid 60's. To my knowledge, I never heard the words "interposition" and "nullification" associated with the civil rights movement.
May I add that, if anybody was, it was bound to be Democrats?
So often, when I read Mathews' words, I wonder "What the hell is he talking about?" This is another one of those times...
Chrissy is using codespeak.
He's exercising his right, as a Massachusetts Righteous Person, to bullyrag Southerners in particular and smear conservatives in general by "bracketing" [propagandist's term of art] them with known perverse entities like the Ku Klux Klan and the segregationists.
There is nothing about the Constitutionalists who are talking "nullification"/"secession"/"interposition" today, that makes them socially and politically identical with the segregationists of 80 years ago, but he's seizing on those terms, which were last widely used in the 1830's and 1860's, to yoke the Constitutionalists to the Confederacy, slavery, segregationism, and racism -- the holy exacta of liberal demagogy.
This has been a major meme of the reactionary liberal counterattack on conservatism since the 1994 congressional elections, when Bill Clinton and his MSM allies began to try to smear conservatives "for serious real". The use of the "Confederate flag [pseudo-] issue" and a host of Southern hate-puppet icons (beer-swilling good old boys driving drunk with shotguns in their trucks, that kind of thing) has always been an attempt by the Clintonistas and their allies to drive a wedge between Midwestern, "battleground State" conservatives and mostly-Southern social conservatives. It's about "busting the box" -- the Finkelstein box that describes the conservative strength of what liberals like to call "flyover country", a.k.a. "the sticks".
I’m wondering what Chris Matthews would do if someone invited him to come to a rally and see for himself what happens? He’s so prejudiced; but I wonder if he would show up?
Maybe a black person who goes to “Tea Party” rallies regularly and is friendly to the cause, could invite him (or dare him)to attend one. He could see that there are a number of non-whites who are gladly involved, and fondly received there! Maybe he would get a different point of view, who knows?
“Matthew and his crowd need to realize this is 2010. The protected classes of today are not white. They are not American citizens. They certainly are not entrepreneurs or taxpayers. His nightmare was a calm sun-drenched rededication of individual faith and quiet patriotism. “
Well said! Bravo!
Chris Matthews was born on December 18, 1945...age 64.