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SaveitforQueenDoppelpoppolus
JackingMeHoff
As the saying goes, not all Republicans are racist Nazis but all racist Nazis are Republican.
TheoApollo
I wish it went into taxation beliefs... I.E. Southern states were against taxation against the upper class, and how that has wormed its
TheoApollo
way back into American politics with billionaires and such. Great post though!
asmallcat
My god look how many dumb fucks voted for Reagan.
DickeyBirdie
The Venn diagram of "dumb fucks" and "voted for Reagan" is one circle.
ErshinMN
As a Minnesotan, it makes me happy to see us as the only holdout against Reagan. Fuck that guy.
JasterMereel11
I live outside the cities and the amount of folks saying we were going red last elections was laughable.
TheRealArclight
brianingram
Democracy ain't a spectator sport: www.runforsomething.net
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
Bookmarked. Thanks.
jalondon628
Thanks, @op. This was informative.
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
Welcome.
AntiProtonBoy
blaghart
It forgot one critical part: The Dems didn't shift. The GOP moved from their left to their right. The DNC is still right wing and always was
McPuffinStuff
RockKickass
I usually ask them if they think the klan voted for Obama
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Spruill1
The part that makes them an idiot is parroting a sound bite they don't understand - not that they might have other prevailing interests
luciferousthefallen0
Minnesota is the most consistently blue of any state here.
ChuckKarma
Dems had a remnant of quasi racist whites. O44 came & they jumped. Look at every southern legislature. Before 2010 they were split or Dem.
ChuckKarma
I'm not making any moral evaluations. It's greatly sad. I'm just saying technically what happened.
SalmonMax
This was excellent, thank you for breaking it down like that. This moment, Reagan's presidency, is pivotal in understanding current politics
AccountCreatedToUpvoteDogs
Nixon ran on a platform of guaranteed minimum income, and now we can't even get the GOP to raise the minimum wage in 10+ years
Maboroshi1994
nixon was part of a kind of political consensus that started with the new deal. reagan spent his presidency tearing it down.
Maboroshi1994
(2) the same happened in the UK, atlee created a progressive consensus with a large social safety net in the 40's, thatcher tore it down
somtin
Reagan won with the Republicans intentionally holding the release of hostages from Iran to give him the win. It all began to unravel then.
msd3k
Well Repubs had also recently invented the "Two Santas" ideology that they still employ today. The coup has been going for a while...
somtin
Someone has been reading Thom Hartmann.
BioGoji1989
Ronald Reagan is currently in Hell waiting for Heaven to trickle down to him.
komododave
Ronald Reagan? The actor??
MonsoonGibby
The Trump administration made me understand how 1955 Doc Brown could find the idea of President Ronald Reagan so inconceivable.
bloodtaker3
Last republican I voted for. Sorry
Gosuamakenatek
I love when dipshits say the dems are the racists cause they started the klan 180 years ago. Motherfucker, what side are the klan on TODAY?
minipancho94
if you havent read 1984 yet, do so. they've got the whole "double think" concept mastered.
Gosuamakenatek
Shockingly enough, I've asked them that about a hundred times and not ONCE have they answered me. Weird...
Bobeez
All the racist Dems fled to the Repubs in the 60s when Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act
stsword
I disagree with the term fled. The GOP lured them into the van with promises of candy.
Bobeez
Haha nice
tirohtar
Exactly. The Dems fairly successfully purged themselves of the worst of their base. Unfortunately the Reps were happy to take them in...
ImgurPlz
"But DeMoCrAtS fOuNdEd ThE KKK!"
neschamp
Strom thurman
archon325
follow up by asking "Who are the KKK voting for now?"
NewToTheEnterwbs
My go to is, "what flag did the slavers fly for a moment? Who flew that flag? Who still flies that flag? Ok let's ban the flag. They nope it
stsword
You could also ask them which party freaked out when it was decided to replace the Dem Pres Jackson w/ Harriet Tubman.
unclesporky
I don't get the idea that republicans are inbred smoothbrain morons but also playing a devastatingly crafty and intelligent long game.
DivaythFyr
It's not crafty nor intelligent, it's a plan they've shouted from rooftops for decades with huge downsides we're seeing in today's GOP.
unclesporky
If everyone including opponents knows the plan, don't you have to be dumber than them to find yourself unable to counter it?
HootSloot
There is a sort of funny phenomenon where people are unwilling to listen when someone tells them exactly who they are and what they plan to
HootSloot
do. It's painfully common to write off very clear extreme statements as hyperbole or ignore them all together.
HootSloot
When Mitch McConnell says he intends to block any democratic legislation or appointments he means it but the Dems and a lot of the media
hardytardigrade
You don't understand how a shrewd leader can manipulate ignorance and fear? There are many examples of that in history.
cadesama
The vast majority of all voters are not smoothbraon morons. Everyone votes their interests or values, even when it seems like they don't.
cadesama
I vote my values and sometimes that makes it seem against my own interest. Higher taxes for me because I value public works.
unclesporky
Like, politically smart but dumb in all other ways? Does that even make sense?
Youhavinagiraffe
You're conflating Republican strategists with the Republican voter base. It also wasn't really a long game in the sense that they...
Youhavinagiraffe
...always knew how it would work out. They take every opportunity for power as it comes and use power to get more power while Democrats...
Youhavinagiraffe
...and progressives either spend their power to achieve policy ideas or fail to do anything because they shy away from using power
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
This doesn't explain anything. It's just maps of who won what election where
Jamestime
Someone can explain advanced calculus perfectly but if you don't understand basic arithmetic then it might appear to be a poor explanation.
McPuffinStuff
Reading is hard.
N0tDave
Well, they starved the education system in America, this clown is their desired result
CaptCrobar
You have to read not just look at the pictures.
Wolvenlight
And, you know, 2 or so paragraph of explanation accompanying each map. (That said it could have delved deeper. Especially into Wallace.)
Decitron
If you do a bit of reading, you'd see that the repubs adopted racist talking points & slowly flipped the racist solid south to their party..
Decitron
as Dems started supporting civil rights legislation, codifying and solidifying the current party dynamics.
daromander
Also some southern Democrats flipped republican due to civil rights