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In reply to the discussion: Morning Joe, Chris Matthews Was Right About Racist Reince Priebus [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)I've been trying to figure out how this machine works all of my life.
I always try to figure how Spider-Man became Spider-Man.
What're the origins of a phenomenon?
I wonder since I was a child how this Republican/Conservative way took over the national agenda so completely & thoroughly.
How the Democrat became weak or compromised in the face of them.
I had bits & pieces but could never gel them together.
I figured more of it out once I read a book in 2000 called Don't Know Much About History.
This is when I REALLY understood how the political parties were formed.
When I was a kid I had a school book from my mother called The Presidents of the United States.
It had illustrations in it but gave rundowns of all the Presidents up to Jimmy Carter (book was published before Reagan got in) & showed all the political parties.
My grandmother told me that the Republicans were bad & I could see this for myself outside of her viewpoint.
So I used to go down my Presidents book & look at the political parties to see who were the good guys (the Democrats) & who were the bad guys (the Republicans).
Then I saw names like Democratic-Republican, Federalist, & Whig. I didn't know what to make of them & I didn't know what to make of Abraham Lincoln being a Republican. So I called them inbetween & Lincoln a good Republican.
Simplistic & childish.
When I read that book in 2000 I AT LAST understood the real reason behind the political parties & the shifts they made over history.
Being here at Democratic Underground helped flesh out my views even further.
The entire country is based on rich guys using the superiority complexes of their poorer counterparts to protect their wealthy status.
Racism is a tool used to entrench Classism.
As long as those Whites are fighting all the non-Whites, they'll never fight us.
Make it even more intense by having different non-Whites fight amongst each other & even within themselves while the racist Whites fight 'em all at the same time.
As soon as we can get Blacks to stop fighting Blacks, Latinos from fighting Latinos, Asians from fighting Asians, every other non-White group from fighting within their group/fighting other groups & Whites to stop fighting all of the above, then the REAL fight of the Haves & Have-Nots will begin.
The political parties were built off the Issue of the Black People & that's why the parties shift significantly whenever a Black causes change in the countrydirectly or indirectly. The Blacks were the first scapegoat & best scapegoat. Others have been, are being, & will be used, but nothing beats the Black as the ultimate go-to choice.
That's why Obama needs to win this 2nd term.
It's like the stake in a heart of a vampire.
We're gonna drive it a little deeper inside that vampire's heart of bigotry.
This racist order that still influences the country.
The Southern Strategy is MUCH older than 1968.
John Lucas