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AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts)
Sun Sep 21, 2014, 09:49 PM Sep 2014

Right Wingers are among the Laziest Americans...

They want no regulations so that they can easily game the markets and cut corners on production to make easy money (rather than make better products / services, follow regulations, and through fair commerce practices including paying their workers fairly.) They pay off lawmakers to write in tax codes that favor them, so they pay as little taxes as possible, rather than to work more. They also use Government (like Halliburton) to give them contracts for easy money. Many of their minions are right wingers because they are too lazy to understand the world so they need Religion to tell them how to think. They are too lazy to try to understand complicated issues, and would rather embrace simplistic, antagonistic feeling (blaming the victim, egging on minorities) than reasoning (which takes hard mental work for them!)

Remember some of the original Right Wingers: Plantation owners, which left their black slaves to do most of the work.

Remember this the next time they go on berating the unemployed, poor, and homeless Americans for being lazy.

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treestar

(82,383 posts)
1. Good point
Sun Sep 21, 2014, 09:55 PM
Sep 2014

They live in a simplistic world, where it is easy to find a job, too. Or, it was easy for them.

 

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)
2. Most plantation owners were democrats
Sun Sep 21, 2014, 10:53 PM
Sep 2014

Look at election results from the 1860 and earlier. Lincoln didnt win a single southern state. Jefferson Davis was a high ranking democrat. Look at how judges in Dredd Scott ruled etc.

alp227

(31,959 posts)
7. Uhh...no. The OP used the term "right wingers" not "Republicans".
Sun Sep 21, 2014, 11:16 PM
Sep 2014

Do you not think slavery was a position by the conservatives of the day? In the 19th century, Republicans took progressive positions, Democrats the conservative positions.

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
8. Nixon's Republican Southern Strategy changed all that.
Sun Sep 21, 2014, 11:24 PM
Sep 2014

Wikipedia:

In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3][4][5]

Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.

The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater[6][7] in the late 1960s.[8] The strategy was successful in winning South Carolina, a formerly Confederate state, for Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election, but he won in only one other state, Arizona, his home state. The Southern Strategy yielded five formerly Confederate states in Richard Nixon's successful 1968 campaign for the presidency. It contributed to the electoral realignment of some Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began attempting to appeal to black voters again, though with little success.[8]

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,481 posts)
11. Where did you read Republican? Southern Democrats where the right wingers of their time. It
Sun Sep 21, 2014, 11:33 PM
Sep 2014

helps to understand what one is reading before replying.

_Liann_

(377 posts)
15. Some GOP Strategist thinks divide to conquer...
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 05:48 AM
Sep 2014

...150 year old divisions makes good arguments today.

The SLAVERS may have been democrats, but democrats were national, not just Southern. Being a slavery era democrat did not equal always being a SLAVER. This divide to conquer meme is circulating widely and often by #KochFellows and their ilk. The wedge they are driving is to pry votes of blacks away from democrats by using faulty flawed historical analysis.

THEN, as today, the SLAVERS were white supremacists, as are the RE-SLAVERY Tea Party Confederates. Blacks are not just inferior, unworthy of voting, but unworthy of freedom, unworthy even of life, according to the core beliefs of the deepest felt beliefs of the RE-SLAVERS.

Knowing the unpopularity of their core beliefs they hide their operating principles behind "patriotism" and jingoism. Naturally the blacks are not going to join RE-SLAVERS, but the goal is only to peel them off of voting for anybody so that they are helpless prey with no vested defenders.

The KKK was created by in a prepared milieu generated by the recently dissolved KNOW-NOTHING PARTY which failed at the election ballots. Know Nothings were totally racist in the same way, had cell structures like KKK locals, and kept secrets from the world. The only thing that KKK had new to add was the robes and the wacky hierarchy names.

A secret society can infiltrate any political party it wants, and disgruntled defeated rebels invaded the Southern Dixiecrats. Hated Reconstruction with carpetbaggers and black office holders cemented for the next century hatred for Republicans, party of Lincoln.

Ironically, the KKK was funded into existence by Northern Yankee Tom Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who started buying up postwar railroads throughout the South to build a united empire of railroads. The KKK got the local contracts for railroad construction and Scott got labor peace enforced by his hooded friends.

So the situation is more tangled than can be argued in 140 characters on Twitter. #KochFellow spammers, who operate in stealth mode, drop bombs about how dems ARE NOW STILL the home of White Racist Persecute rs of the Black Race. The object is a concerted effort over all media and forums, to sow distrust of democrats by blacks.

LBJ was successful of using the national sympathy for JFK's death to pass Civil Rights & Voting Rights which received a lot of Northern Republican support as well as some Northern Democrats.

The KKK-crats or Dixiecrats were not amused, and switched parties to Republican in the South when Richard Nixon exploited the Southern Strategy of inciting southern race hate and jettisoning blacks from the party. Since most people are not deeply read in history, blacks included, most of the details are forgotten in the general public by now, and you can't get the story told in a Tweet. As seen in Mississippi, the black vote can swing an election if it comes out or sits out an election.

If you want to mobilize as many Blue votes as possible you need to hone your messages down to stiletto points. This wedge is coming up often. Yes, Martin Luther King was Republican, but he would not be now. A lot changed since the 1960s, when Dixiecrat KKKs killed voter registering Freedom Riders and bombed little girls in church. The KKK wears militia camo instead of hoods mostly now, but the unmistakable White Supremacy of the Tea-Klux-Klan leaves no doubt they would re-institute Slavery first chance that they get. You can map the oppression: Romney Red Vote States = Voter Suppression Laws = Right to Work States = Single Party Rule Red States = Refuse Medicaid Expansion.

The party affiliation is not the central point: the Liberal v Conservative is better indicator. Liberals liberated the slaves, Conservatives whipped the slaves. It was WHITE SUPREMACY RACISTS, not democrats, that made the KKK. There are still White Supremacy racists, commonly also flying the nazi flag as often as the rebel slavery flag. ONLY RED STATES run by Republicans pass laws creating SLAVER-FLAG license plates that SLAVERS put on their cars and trucks.

RufusTFirefly

(8,812 posts)
13. Most people have a limited scope when it comes to history
Sun Sep 21, 2014, 11:53 PM
Sep 2014
William Jennings Bryan was a Democrat and a Populist, but he was also a Fundamentalist. Bryan was on the wrong end of the famous Scope Monkey Trial.

Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, and numerous other segregationist Southern politicians, began their careers as Democrats.

In 1934, the NAACP's Walter White found a couple of Senate co-sponsors for an anti-lynching bill. Despite urgings from both his wife (which was not surprising) and his mother (which was), Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt refused to publicly endorse it for fear of alienating the Democratic "solid South," which was segregationist.

Beginning in 1934, the leader of the Senate's so-called "Merchants of Death" Committee, an investigation as to whether industrialists forced the U.S. into World War I in order to vastly increase their profits, was North Dakota Senator Gerald Nye, a Republican.

Fiorello LaGuardia, one of the most progressive mayors that New York City has ever known, was a New Deal supporter and a Republican.

Up until the mid-1970s, there was such a thing as a Liberal Republican.


Make no mistake: I have been a Democrat my whole life, but to believe the viewpoints of our parties are static over time is to ignore history.

RufusTFirefly

(8,812 posts)
9. Not lazier than the Dude, I hope.
Sun Sep 21, 2014, 11:28 PM
Sep 2014
And even if he's a lazy man - and the Dude was most certainly that. Quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide. But sometimes there's a man, sometimes, there's a man. Aw. I lost my train of thought here. But... aw, hell. I've done introduced him enough.


Dirty Socialist

(3,248 posts)
10. My Guess Is
Sun Sep 21, 2014, 11:32 PM
Sep 2014

One reason conservative talk radio gets comparatively big ratings is because right wingers are in their offices listening to the radio while liberals are out on the floor working.

Dirty Socialist

(3,248 posts)
16. I Substitute Taught at A High School And
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 06:11 AM
Sep 2014

They had a TV right outside the principle's office that was always showing Fux News.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,009 posts)
18. Easiest job in the universe - Right Wing Pundit
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 09:07 PM
Sep 2014

Your only problem is competition from the wanna-be Rush clones. Just stick to the talking points, use ideology as a substitute for thinking, get paid to flatter billionaires. They have the money, why pander to anybody else?

Write a crappy book - plagiarize as much as you need to because original thought is not just unnecessary, it's discouraged. And who cares if nobody really buys or reads it? You get a guaranteed best seller from all those bulk think-tank book club buys.

You can also be a total hypocrite when it comes to your personal life. No matter how bad the scandal becomes, you can re-boot your love of Jeezus and be forgiven.

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