their defining characteristic AND when Newt Gingrich gained power he put all that on STEROIDS.

All he and they needed was about 40-50 million people who were not mature or very educated to buy into the Latino man down the street washing cars as the enemy, not Exxon or the Koch Bros. Or the Guatemalan woman at Days Inn cleaning rooms for $3 an hour, she is the enemy.

for the Cluckers and Klanners to peddle racism to the Media six ways to Sunday. When the Voting Rights Legislation was moving through the Congress,never once did I hear him Chastise his fellow Southern Congressman or Senators for their Racial Verbiage at the time . Yes,later he did acknowledge the fact he should have stood up against the Rethugs and called them out for whom they were.

As you say,Newt and Leningrad Lindsey put this on Roid's big time.

what he does if he doesnt do that.

voting rights act was Senator Humphrey. And yes the times were very different. We did not have 24/7 Murdoch Media stirring the Pot of National Debate.

After Civil Rights passed, most southern Dems switched to the Repub party, where their racism was more welcome.



Racism runs deep here in the good old USA.

And he also said years later,I knew we would possible Loose the Senate and the House for five Election Cycles or more,but,it had to be done.

I'll be damned if I'm going to repeat what I've posted on DU hundreds of times.

But let me put this clear as possible.

Today's Republicans are the enemies of Democracy.

They don't care about your retirement, your well-being, your job security, your standard of living, your children, your health, your minimum wage, your retirement, -- or even whether you and yours live of die. THEY DON'T GIVE A SHIT. We are nothing to them except labor, unless they can find it cheaper, elsewhere.

Do you get it? Do you understand what Republicans are? Some of them are too ignorant or uncaring enough to understand it themselves. But does that matter when what they are doing is fucking up our lives?

If you are unable to do anything else to affect your life, remember this. Don't ever, ever vote for a Republican for anything. Some of them don't know it, but most of them do. Their mission in life is to, at a minimum, fuck you, and at a maximum, to destroy you.

The reason I have been calling them out for DECADES is based on my personal experience.

But two years ago HERE I was called out for calling rump a traitor...I had to be EDUCATED as to what that word meant and that I was wrong he wasnt that...

They have been selling out and screwing the Nation since the great so called Contract with America and the Newt crowd took over. As Ike said in his farewell address,beware of the Military Industrial Complex and a few Rich Men from Texas bringing false promises.

reality I feel we are actually moving in the right direction. There are more accepting people of each other alive today than in the past. Glass half full.