Rachel Maddow- GOPs southern strategy rises again

[Sky Masterson]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN2gvD_jPCY (part two)

[spicegal]

1. This was a good story. The GOP strategy is to go after the

white vote, by inciting fear about every minority group out there. Seriously, what minority demographic have they not attacked. They've gone after African Americans, latinos, muslims, and gays, not to mention women, although they aren't a minority. I'm sure there are others, but those others must be thinking they'll be next. The question is, will Americans jump on the fear based bigotry band wagon or will many ultimately be offended by it. Will these minorities be offended enough to VOTE. Let's hope so.

[Sky Masterson]

2. Exactly!

And they will.
The Republicans are screwing up royally by taking this route.
I'll bet anything that we lose less than 4 senate seats and keep the house.
They placed a shitty bet with this strategy and they wont recover from it for many decades.
All because they are sore f'n losers. :eyes:

[Courtesy Flush]

5. The white vote ain't what it used to be.

I'm a white Southerner, and I know more and more people who refuse to vote for these types of people. As Americans get settled into this whole 21st-century thing, Republicans will have to come up with a new strategy.

[geckosfeet]

3. wish I could multi rec - she summarizes/illustrates our national desensitization

to ignorant racist assholes, to the point, where they are considered viable political candidates.

[AlbertCat]

4. But it's not just racism

It's anti-intellectualism (like Bush).

They hate science as much as Latinos. And that is not only bad for the country like racism, it's friggin' dangerous. That could literally kill us. And it seeps into the Left Wing too (although not so much in candidates) with vaccine-ophobes and the like (I agree these kinds of things need to be heavily scrutinized and an eye kept on them, but sometimes it's just uninformed scare tactics), but at least we're not claiming Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

How do Conservatives expect the USA to remain in the "1st world" and be some kind of leader with such a rejection of science and art? I suppose they think god will look out for everyone. It worked well during the Dark Ages!

[Sky Masterson]

6. It is that as well

Mixed with manipulation.
They supply angry people with a faux villain while in truth they are the villains.