"Rand Paul: Majority Rule Gave Us Jim Crow, Japanese Internment"

[applegrove]

Rand Paul: Majority Rule Gave Us Jim Crow, Japanese Internment

The Huffington Post | By Luke Johnson

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/rand-paul-jim-crow_n_4617984.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

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On the Fox News show "On The Record", host Greta Van Susteren asked him about Obama. "He is quoted back in January 23rd, 2009, right when he became president first term. He said, 'I won, so I think on that one I trump you.' I mean, this is sort of -- this has always been the viewpoint he has communicated to Republicans on the Hill," she said.

Paul responded, "Well, you know, the danger to majority rule, to him sort of thinking, the majority voted for me now I'm the majority, I can do whatever I want and that there are no rules that restrain me -- that's what gave us Jim Crow. That's what gave us the internment of the Japanese -- that the majority said, 'you don't have individual rights and individual rights don't come from your creator and they are not guaranteed by the constitution.' Just whatever the majority wants."

He went on, "There is a real danger to that viewpoint. It's consistent with the progressive viewpoint. It's been going on for 100 years. Progressives believe in majority rule, not constitutional rule. They don't believe that rights are inherent to the individual. They think your rights are whatever the government says they are, whatever the majority says."

But Paul's comment that Jim Crow grew out of majority rule does not jibe with history. Blacks were absolute majorities in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina -- and made up more than 40 percent of the population in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Virginia -- during the 1880s, just after Jim Crow laws began. Presumably, if there was majority rule, then Jim Crow would not have been enacted.



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[JaneyVee]

1. And we all know that Japanese internment & Jim Crow are exactly like

Affordable access to healthcare and minimum wage hikes that lift families out of poverty.

[applegrove]

2. Is this tacit acknowledgement that the GOP is going to be in the minority in the near future?

[Coyotl]

3. Jim Crow rule happens when the majority is silenced.

[Cha]

4. Fuck Rand Paul and his little

minions..


Paul: jobless aid ‘weakens’ U.S

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/paul-jobless-aid-weakens-us

PS http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4348637

[OnyxCollie]

5. It was the capitalism behind the Majority Rule that brought those things.

[MannyGoldstein]

6. While Libertarianism gave us...

[MFrohike]

7. Oh Rand

Jim Crow did happen via majority rule, BUT it was a majority of remaining voters after widespread voter suppression and intimidation. It was done for the benefit of traditional elites, who were definitely not progressive in the modern sense of the word.

The internments were not done by majority rule. They were carried out via executive order, which Mr. Chia Pet Head should know are promulgated by the president alone, not a legislature. Mr. Constitution should spend time learning about it rather than bullshitting on TV.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. An absence of majority rule keeps us from single payer health care, gun control, legal pot...

... and IN Afghanistan.

[freshwest]

9. Sorry Rand, we ain't gonna go back to your plantation system now. We know where you're coming from:

Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110221654

Full transcript of video to Sheshe:

http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/137/transcript_137.pdf

The Pathology of Privilege Is what Rand Paul is arguing for. People can't be trusted if they aren't like him. He knows he is privileged by wealth stolen from the majority, despite the Randian deceit of the self-made made man who moves society. He wants to keep his privilege.

The only individual rights Rand wants are for the few. Teapots already got theirs by ripping off the majority. They want to hold onto all of it as the government was all righteous in their eyes when they got free land and grants and benefit.

That is what they mean by 'taking their country back.' Their stolen wealth. Now they want that country gone, because Obama knows the Constitution and the spirit of the Founders and true individual rights and is going to make that happen.

Equality means all get treated the same by government. This is a Libertarian bogeyman he is pushing here. That Democracy itself is Mob Rule. That there should be less of it and the Rulers, the aristorcrats and plutocrats are the only ones who are fit to rule.

Which means subjugating the majority, and making sure their individual rights are eliminated. It's up to us if we are going to let him do this.