I guess I need to post this again. People seem to think that when Right Wingers did something yesterday, that they must have changed their minds since then. Let me explain what is wrong with that thinking.
A) The definition of 'conservative' according to dictionary.com.
conservative
[ kuh n-sur-vuh-tiv ] adjective: disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
A) The definition of 'conservative' according to dictionary.com.
conservative
[ kuh n-sur-vuh-tiv ] adjective: disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
They are afraid of change, even after being confronted with evidence contrary to their beliefs.
B) We, as liberal people don't understand this, because if we receive new verifiable information, then we change our beliefs. This makes conservatives angry because we change continually and just when they think they have defined a good load of insults (libs, libtards, and proof of liberals being lunatics) we change and then they are still arguing about a moot point.
C) Lots of liberal people have never heard of 1. the Southern strategy or 2. dog whistle political language. So we don't realize the extent of the problem. We can't imagine anyone still believing WRONG THINKING for more than it takes to read the civil rights laws.
D) We wish, as liberals to see the good in people so we look right past faults hoping people will change, despite decades of WRONG THINKING on their part.
News Trolls like Ann Coulter try to tell us that they Southern Strategy is a myth, even though the guy who invented it, Lee Atwater, apologized for using in, on his death bed.
The Southern Strategy > Per Wikipedia:
In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater (Who Hillary Clinton learned politics from, she was a Goldwater Girl.) developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party rather than the Republican Party. It also helped to push the Republican Party much more to the right.
The "Southern Strategy" refers primarily to "top down" narratives of the political realignment of the South which suggest that Republican leaders consciously appealed to many white Southerners' racial grievances in order to gain their support. This top-down narrative of the Southern Strategy is generally believed to be the primary force that transformed Southern politics following the civil rights era. This view has been questioned by historians such as Matthew Lassiter, Kevin M. Kruse and Joseph Crespino, who have presented an alternative, "bottom up" narrative, which Lassiter has called the "suburban strategy". This narrative recognizes the centrality of racial backlash to the political realignment of the South, but suggests that this backlash took the form of a defense of de facto segregation in the suburbs rather than overt resistance to racial integration and that the story of this backlash is a national rather than a strictly Southern one.
The perception that the Republican Party had served as the "vehicle of white supremacy in the South", particularly during the Goldwater campaign and the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972, made it difficult for the Republican Party to win back the support of black voters in the South in later years. (Like the Republican party players like Donald Trump actually pay some black people to help them do.) In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and ignoring the black vote.
C) Lots of liberal people have never heard of 1. the Southern strategy or 2. dog whistle political language. So we don't realize the extent of the problem. We can't imagine anyone still believing WRONG THINKING for more than it takes to read the civil rights laws.
D) We wish, as liberals to see the good in people so we look right past faults hoping people will change, despite decades of WRONG THINKING on their part.
News Trolls like Ann Coulter try to tell us that they Southern Strategy is a myth, even though the guy who invented it, Lee Atwater, apologized for using in, on his death bed.
The Southern Strategy > Per Wikipedia:
In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater (Who Hillary Clinton learned politics from, she was a Goldwater Girl.) developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party rather than the Republican Party. It also helped to push the Republican Party much more to the right.
The "Southern Strategy" refers primarily to "top down" narratives of the political realignment of the South which suggest that Republican leaders consciously appealed to many white Southerners' racial grievances in order to gain their support. This top-down narrative of the Southern Strategy is generally believed to be the primary force that transformed Southern politics following the civil rights era. This view has been questioned by historians such as Matthew Lassiter, Kevin M. Kruse and Joseph Crespino, who have presented an alternative, "bottom up" narrative, which Lassiter has called the "suburban strategy". This narrative recognizes the centrality of racial backlash to the political realignment of the South, but suggests that this backlash took the form of a defense of de facto segregation in the suburbs rather than overt resistance to racial integration and that the story of this backlash is a national rather than a strictly Southern one.
The perception that the Republican Party had served as the "vehicle of white supremacy in the South", particularly during the Goldwater campaign and the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972, made it difficult for the Republican Party to win back the support of black voters in the South in later years. (Like the Republican party players like Donald Trump actually pay some black people to help them do.) In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and ignoring the black vote.
Now, instead of apologizing, they simply suppress the black vote anyway they can and they got Supreme Court judges to remove key aspects of the Voting Rights Act so they could continue to do so.
The Southern Strategy is also a part of the Usage of Dog Whistle Politics in America. Dog Whistle Politics was first developed by Rupert Murdoch's father, Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch, in Australia. He did, as his son Rupert still does, use coded language to influence elections and to signal racism and a call to arms by politicians.
Usage of Dog Whistle Politics In America:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#United_States
Conservative:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/conservative?s=t
The Southern Strategy is also a part of the Usage of Dog Whistle Politics in America. Dog Whistle Politics was first developed by Rupert Murdoch's father, Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch, in Australia. He did, as his son Rupert still does, use coded language to influence elections and to signal racism and a call to arms by politicians.
Usage of Dog Whistle Politics In America:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#United_States
Conservative:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/conservative?s=t
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