Read this, then ask yourself: Isn't it amazing the riots haven't started yet?

[Ikonoklast]

146. Those were the members of "The Greatest Generation." They wanted to go back to "how things were."

Racism played a huge part of that among working class Democrats, many of them union members, who remembered when their workplaces were not integrated, their trades were not integrated, their kid's schools were not integrated.

Many of these people were second-generation Americans, and were still quite racist in their views.

I saw it first-hand, I heard fellow union members whine that things aren't like they were thirty years ago, "those people" are taking "our jobs", crap like that. You couldn't convince them that it was all a charade and that Reagan would be the worst thing to happen to working people since the Robber Barons.


Instead of seeing Reagan as the threat to their livelihood as a corporate tool and an anti-Labor crusader, they saw him as a father figure who was going to change things back to how they were before women and minorities started to get an equal chance at a good paying job.