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Voter Suppression and Why The Republicans Love It So Much?

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This is a real conference for real alphas who love america. You won’t see any socialist anti gun ***** cucks anti trump RINOs at this convention. Hells yah
 
Um the dude was a christian preacher. I doubt he was "godless". I doubt his "nazi" proclivities, despite nazis not being around for another 30 years, had anything to do with godlessness. You are a spin-master I will give you that.
It was a Roman salute like the Nazi's instituted, and I never said the guy who wrote the original pledge was godless. Not all communists are godless, but our cold war adversaries prided themselves in being godless communists and the inclusion was a dig at them. No spin needed. It is all history. Pick your source because they should all tell the same story. Nothing I've written is in any way controversial.
 
Some days I wish I would just stop giving a damn….I’d love to believe I’m worried over nothing. Would my daily life look much different under a “tyranny of the minority”? Much would be unchanged, but seeing things the way these historians see it is so very depressing. And worrisome. I can’t see into the future, but unless this Congress can legislate voting rights reform, I think maybe we just have to get through a fascist phase the hard way. By living under it for a spell….


“This is real, this is serious and it’s frightening,” said Brian Clardy, a Murray State University history professor. “We must build a democratic resistance that amounts to a counter-fascist coup — In short, we must all become ‘antifa,’ or antifascists,” said John Hennen, a Morehead State University history professor emeritus”.


 
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I’d love to believe I’m worried over nothing.
I have good news. You're worried over nothing. The true authoritarians, the Progressives, are losing sway. Last week Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called for Biden to usurp the power of the Legislative Branch to enact Build Back Better via executive order. She received push-back from both sides as she should have. We are not an authoritarian country. We are not authoritarian on the political right or the political left. We are not a tyranny of the minority or a tyranny of the majority. We are a Constitutional Republic with enshrined individual rights that seem almost impossible to amend.

As far as the history professors used to cobble together that scare-piece, they are both CRT nuts. When they say we're headed toward fascism and white supremacy, a proper translation for what they're actually saying is that we're not headed toward Marxism, which to them is a bad thing. For sane Democrats it isn't white supremacy that is the worry. There was a poll out recently that showed the GOP now has support in the Hispanic community equal to Democrats, and the level of GOP support is continuing to rise.


Nutty professors are free to spout their theories because we do live in a great country, but if you are worried the nut jobs are able to see the future then I think you're worried over nothing. They are bubble-dwelling crazies who see the thing they want to see.
 
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Democrats moving to red states should be temporarily barred from voting.

Seems almost daily, right wingers are coming up with ways to treat their political opponents as second rate citizens. This guy believes that only land owning people should be able to vote.



Democrats may not be perfect. But they’re not looking to disenfranchise millions of voters, overthrow elections, and install authoritarians into office. This is so ****ed up rhetoric.
 
I have good news. You're worried over nothing. The true authoritarians, the Progressives, are losing sway. Last week Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called for Biden to usurp the power of the Legislative Branch to enact Build Back Better via executive order. She received push-back from both sides as she should have. We are not an authoritarian country. We are not authoritarian on the political right or the political left. We are not a tyranny of the minority or a tyranny of the majority. We are a Constitutional Republic with enshrined individual rights that seem almost impossible to amend.

As far as the history professors used to cobble together that scare-piece, they are both CRT nuts. When they say we're headed toward fascism and white supremacy, a proper translation for what they're actually saying is that we're not headed toward Marxism, which to them is a bad thing. For sane Democrats it isn't white supremacy that is the worry. There was a poll out recently that showed the GOP now has support in the Hispanic community equal to Democrats, and the level of GOP support is continuing to rise.


Nutty professors are free to spout their theories because we do live in a great country, but if you are worried the nut jobs are able to see the future then I think you're worried over nothing. They are bubble-dwelling crazies who see the thing they want to see.
Weren’t you the guy who just the other day claimed that the author of the pledge of allegiance was a communist?
 
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How would a civil war even work out these days? Even the bluest states have bubbles of red MAGA areas and Vice versa. Would salt lake and park city unify and become its own state? Do these civil war LARPers imagine bloody streets dividing 7200 S where the southern end of the valley does battle with the northern end?

And what’s the civil war even over? At least the previous one was over slavery, a pretty important issue. What would this current one be over? Trump winning in 2020? Covid vaccines? Spray tanning?

How would this civil war resolve itself? And why would America be better off?

Lastly, why do Republicans think that their authoritarians will win and always have power? What I mean is, let’s say that their coup had worked in 2020. Why couldn’t democrats stage one in 2024? 2028? 2032 and install their own liberal dictator? Blue areas certainly have the population, wealth, and economic power to wage a pretty nasty war. Would conservatives like Dictator AOC for the next 40 years?

They seem to fantasize putting liberals, women, minorities, and scientists into the gulags. Yet… what’s stopping liberals from one day doing the same? Stuffing pastors, corrupt business people, and ruralists into the wood chippers?

Why do Republicans believe they’re the only ones with the “courage” and guns to overthrow a democracy? History has proven that politics can sway back and forth.

Which is why I prefer moderation and democracy. Let’s stick to following the rules rather than overturning elections and encouraging civil wars. Once the rules are overturned, all bets are off and you don’t know what the consequences might be. Afghanistan in the 1970s had a coup. It was over relatively quickly. But it opened a Pandora’s box of subsequent coups, invasions, civil wars, and death. they haven’t had a steady government since.

Let’s stick with our form of government and reform problems to resolve issues. The overheated rhetoric and civil war fetishizing we get daily from the right gets us no where.
 
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The true authoritarians, the Progressives, are losing sway.
Nobody whines better than conservatives. You find authoritarians all across the political compass, including among the Libertarians (e.g., Rand Paul).

When they say we're headed toward fascism and white supremacy, a proper translation for what they're actually saying is that we're not headed toward Marxism, which to them is a bad thing.
When other people offer a "proper translation" of your posts, do you typically think they are reliable in their translations?
They are bubble-dwelling crazies who see the thing they want to see.
Anti-intellectual to the core.
 
As far as the history professors used to cobble together that scare-piece, they are both CRT nuts.
The is the profile and publication list of Dr. Brian Clardy. Please point out the materials that about CRT.

 
MTG, Crawthorn, and Boebert get a lot of ink for fetishizing about civil wars. But has anyone seen them propose anything that would better the lives of their constituents? Have they proposed anything to aid in jobs? What about health care?
 
The is the profile and publication list of Dr. Brian Clardy. Please point out the materials that about CRT.

Sure. It isn't hard to find as he is quite outspoken.
To better understand what CRT is and why it had become such a hotbed topic, the [Mayfield-Graves County NAACP] sought the assistance of Dr. Brian Clardy, who Dobyns said is an “expert in the field and has studied it for years.”
 
Weren’t you the guy who just the other day claimed that the author of the pledge of allegiance was a communist?
I am the person, but all I'm doing is repeating literally all historians who've written about Francis Bellamy. If you look him up the first two things you will learn about him is that he was #1) a minister and #2) a socialist. Feel free to check whatever source you'd like as they all hit those same two points.

I am also the one who does not use 'Progressive' as a synonym for 'Liberal' or 'Left-Wing'. The Progressive Era consisted of two Republicans and one Democrat.
 
I have good news. You're worried over nothing. The true authoritarians, the Progressives, are losing sway. Last week Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called for Biden to usurp the power of the Legislative Branch to enact Build Back Better via executive order. She received push-back from both sides as she should have. We are not an authoritarian country. We are not authoritarian on the political right or the political left. We are not a tyranny of the minority or a tyranny of the majority. We are a Constitutional Republic with enshrined individual rights that seem almost impossible to amend.

As far as the history professors used to cobble together that scare-piece, they are both CRT nuts. When they say we're headed toward fascism and white supremacy, a proper translation for what they're actually saying is that we're not headed toward Marxism, which to them is a bad thing. For sane Democrats it isn't white supremacy that is the worry. There was a poll out recently that showed the GOP now has support in the Hispanic community equal to Democrats, and the level of GOP support is continuing to rise.


Nutty professors are free to spout their theories because we do live in a great country, but if you are worried the nut jobs are able to see the future then I think you're worried over nothing. They are bubble-dwelling crazies who see the thing they want to see.
I don’t buy your take. Fact is, I’ve been concerned with what those history professors are concerned with since the day in 2015 when Donald Trump descended the escalator in Trump Tower, announced he was a candidate for the GOP, and then gave the base he was aiming for permission to treat illegal immigrants from south of our border as “the other”. That was him announcing, in so many words, “how’s about a little fascism, folks. Let’s have ourselves a good time”. I was a history professor once upon a time. Not for many years, it was not my last career move, but just enough training and years in to recognize what was happening while it was happening, when Trump showed up.

There was an article in The Atlantic, I think last week. Something to the effect that both Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, have an exaggerated idea of how bad/dangerous the other side actually is. That would be a good thing, since each side does seem to now regard the other as the #1 enemy of America, and its future direction.

But, as much as I want dialog, I can’t help but see what the GOP is trying to accomplish at the state level as something an enemy would do, so I find myself in a tough place right now. The old historian in me recognized Trump from the get—go, and I reject your take. I’m pretty much on the same page as those professors. I can’t simply erase all those years I spent studying history. By gum, something actually rubbed off, I guess. It surprised me that the old social scientist in me came roaring back to life, the very day Trump came down that escalator. But, it happened, and I can’t just erase my background, I am closer in agreement to those history professors, and nowhere near your own position.

Never sleepwalk through that portion of History that is your’s to live.
 
I am the person, but all I'm doing is repeating literally all historians who've written about Francis Bellamy. If you look him up the first two things you will learn about him is that he was #1) a minister and #2) a socialist. Feel free to check whatever source you'd like as they all hit those same two points.

I am also the one who does not use 'Progressive' as a synonym for 'Liberal' or 'Left-Wing'. The Progressive Era consisted of two Republicans and one Democrat.
You keep writing nonsense that is riddled with spin, half truths, and sometimes just outright lies. When others point this out, instead of acknowledging it and correcting it, you continue to push on and post more nonsense. You don’t have any credibility. Furthermore, you accuse others of ignoring facts. You’re merely projecting onto others that which you do everyday.
 
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That's Karenga's understanding of Jesus, and it's not uncommon among evangelicals I talked to or read.
OK, so almost all Christiians have caved intellectually to equate Jesus with Jehovah, too.

Despite Jesus' emphasis that his teachings/doctrines were not his own.
 
I am the person, but all I'm doing is repeating literally all historians who've written about Francis Bellamy. If you look him up the first two things you will learn about him is that he was #1) a minister and #2) a socialist. Feel free to check whatever source you'd like as they all hit those same two points.

I am also the one who does not use 'Progressive' as a synonym for 'Liberal' or 'Left-Wing'. The Progressive Era consisted of two Republicans and one Democrat.
Offhand, I think your analysis here might be correct. I'd guess you are talking about Teddy Roosevelt. So 1880-1917 or so. I'll take a lookat it. So "Progressive" is easily claimed,but hardly the reality of politicsgenerally. Today's crew in the government are simple Fascists who lie so much they believe their own lies. While working for the big bucks.
 
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