e's rights, nullification, secession, role of government, the decay of the social fabric, and many times compared the federal government and/or the president to a tyranny. And let's not forget region. Overwhelmingly the opposition to Civil Rights (and of course the Civil War) came from the former Confederacy. As a historian, I can easily make the connection from the Civil War, to the Civil Rights movement, to today's conservative reaction to HCR.All the arguments of the conservative past are eerily similar today. Again we see state's rights, nullification, secession, role of government, decay of society, all the way right down to region. Conservatives really haven't changed all that much.
One of the missing pieces linking current conservatives to the conservative shame of their past behavior, more specifically from 1948-1970, is the "disenfranchisement" that resulted in many "conservatives" bolting from the Democratic Party. Today we have the missing link. Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama provides us with the first Southern conservative Democrat to switch parties to the GOP officially completing the circle of history to what is no doubt the continuation of a right wing that has been on the wrong side of history throughout every monumental movement of this great nation. Welcome back to 1948.
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GOP Chairman
The Party that is entirely ruled by an extremist right wing that dates all the way back to supporting slave holding states claims it's mainstream America! Only in the Republican Fantasy World can something like that be true.
Steele also claims the newest Dixiecrat has nothing to do with politics but everything to do with "principles and values about what is right for America." Yes because a political party controlled by a false conservative movement that has concurrently been on the wrong side
of history is led by "principles and values." What principles and values could he possibly be talking about? Every day 123 people die without adequate access to health care, that's 45,000 people a year. What is principled or valued about trying to wipe out HCR with "death panels," "socialist takeovers," a "tyrant president," claiming state's right to nullify federal legislation, threatening to secede from the Union to block reform, arguing government has no role in ensuring health care, what values and principles can Republicans possibly be talking about???This press release should be posted on every billboard and teevee commercial in America demonstrating just how extreme and mentally inept the Republican Party truly is. Hang it right next to their circle jerking Tea Baggers and their Freedom Fighting chickenhawks. Make them own it!
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