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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The colored man looms large in Communist plan to take over America"
Context is everything in politics just like in archaeology.
Birtherism is integral to Obamacare opposition.
This goes way back to the Birchers, 50s racism, and paranoid politics.
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byronius
(7,391 posts)Primate, primate, primate. We're still so primitive.
malaise
(268,713 posts)They'd accept Russian authoritarianism rather than abandon institutional racism.
mythology
(9,527 posts)There is an orange colored man who worked with Russia to try to alter the outcome of the election to provide favorable conditions for Russia. Sure Russia isn't communist, but they never really were.
oasis
(49,330 posts)I grew up hearing that slogan and seeing those bumper stickers. The John Birch Society and other Reichwingers were always racists to the core. They all had a KKK mentality, but wore three piece suits instead of hoods and robes.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Kochs, Mercers, Trumps, Princes and DeVos, et.al, are the current leaders of the paranoid Reich wingers, willing to collude with anyone to achieve their ends by any means.