It started with Nixon (I'm sure the seeds were already there). Until the Orange Blob, his presidency was the biggest political scandal we had. Add in the Evangelicals in the 70's, add a dash of Reagan and the Tea Party and this is what you get now. MAGA took decades to form into what they are today. The Tea Party started the stupid, sill…
It started with Nixon (I'm sure the seeds were already there). Until the Orange Blob, his presidency was the biggest political scandal we had. Add in the Evangelicals in the 70's, add a dash of Reagan and the Tea Party and this is what you get now. MAGA took decades to form into what they are today. The Tea Party started the stupid, silly stuff though. Wearing tea bags hanging from your cap. Really????? Trump gave the green light for the racists/bigots/misogynists to come from out of the woodwork. They were already there. It was just not socially acceptable to wear your KKK robe or wave your Nazi flag in public in years past. I moved to Indianapolis in 1976 from upstate NY where I grew up and was surprised at how southern it seemed (racial). I grew up in central Illinois until I was 12 and I don't remember that, but I was just a grade school kid too. We first lived in an apartment complex. I remember looking out the door one day and my neighbor across the parking lot had put up a huge NAZI flag on his patio. It covered almost the whole patio. I was shocked. It was taken down soon after that. I started working as a nurse there in 1981 and the blacks I worked with told me how they never would go to southern Indiana and didn't even like to go to the southside of Indy to go to the mall. That was my first real encounter with racism. This is a quote from the book "Grand Dragon". "The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere was it as large and politically powerful as in Indiana, where about 30 percent of the native-born white male population were Klansmen." So all of this just didn't start in the 70's.
The Tea Party was thinly veiled racism in action. Notice how they formed right after Barack Obama was elected. Their stated mission was to reduce spending. Yeah, right. Where the hell were they when W was wasting hundreds of $billions on the neocons' two Middle East quagmires? War profiteering was on ample display as contractors such as Brown and Root, now called KBR (which was derisively called "Burn and Loot" by protesters), had huge government contracts to build bases and supply our military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brown and Root was owned by Halliburton, whose CEO was Dick Cheney before he resigned to become VP. Bet he still had shares in Halliburton while in office.
The fucking Tea Baggers only wanted to troll and obstruct Obama. They had no principles and no legitimate concerns. Just a bunch of loud mouthed white people.
After Obama was elected president the first time I remember Mitch McConnell emphatically saying,” we will NOT work with this president.” Moscow Mitch has damaged our country like no other politician could.
Oh yeah, Moscow Mitch explicitly stated that their (repubes) #1 objective was to obstruct Obama. The prick actually said it. His legacy is the most obstructionist ever in congressional history. I hate that guy
The standard answer for why someone votes GOP is always how worried they are about the national debt. I say utter BS! Most of them don't even know what it is. A party of total hypocrites.
Jimmy Kimmel sent a correspondent to the Trump Coachella rally before the election. These red hat wearers were Californians, not your rural southerners. After expressing strong opinions on GDP, DEI, fracking, Critical Race Theory, wokeness, they were asked to define these terms and they could not. Fucking zombies parroting what they heard on Fox
The Koch machine funded the "Organic grass roots" organization known as "the tea party." It's hilarious because to "Teabag" someone, means to dangle your scrotum over their eyes. (presuming you have one)
Yes. I spent my last two years of high school in a town in between Indianapolis to the east and Danville IL to the west. The town had a weird mix of hateful racists and liberals. I returned for a 52 year reunion in 2022 (50 years postponed by covid) and we could take a tour of underground railroad sites in town. There were many Quaker settlers in town who assisted and hid formerly enslaved people, while there were other proslavery townspeople connected to the South who would readily return escapees to the South. Our tour ended at an AME church. When the church member completed her talk, I mentioned that about ten years earlier, there was one of those signs thanking a group for picking up trash along a road. The group being thanked was the KKK! I was confirm her comments about ongoing issues. She told me that when we finished high school in 1970, anyone running for office in town had to be approved by the KKK in order to get on the ballot! Interesting, none of my former classmates on the tour (all of us white) had ever noticed the sign! Some still live there. "How could you not see the sign!!" as I scanned our little group and looked them in the eye . Indiana seemed to collect folks from both directions. I did not name the town, as I expect any town in that area has a similar mix of people.
It started with Nixon (I'm sure the seeds were already there). Until the Orange Blob, his presidency was the biggest political scandal we had. Add in the Evangelicals in the 70's, add a dash of Reagan and the Tea Party and this is what you get now. MAGA took decades to form into what they are today. The Tea Party started the stupid, silly stuff though. Wearing tea bags hanging from your cap. Really????? Trump gave the green light for the racists/bigots/misogynists to come from out of the woodwork. They were already there. It was just not socially acceptable to wear your KKK robe or wave your Nazi flag in public in years past. I moved to Indianapolis in 1976 from upstate NY where I grew up and was surprised at how southern it seemed (racial). I grew up in central Illinois until I was 12 and I don't remember that, but I was just a grade school kid too. We first lived in an apartment complex. I remember looking out the door one day and my neighbor across the parking lot had put up a huge NAZI flag on his patio. It covered almost the whole patio. I was shocked. It was taken down soon after that. I started working as a nurse there in 1981 and the blacks I worked with told me how they never would go to southern Indiana and didn't even like to go to the southside of Indy to go to the mall. That was my first real encounter with racism. This is a quote from the book "Grand Dragon". "The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere was it as large and politically powerful as in Indiana, where about 30 percent of the native-born white male population were Klansmen." So all of this just didn't start in the 70's.
The Tea Party was thinly veiled racism in action. Notice how they formed right after Barack Obama was elected. Their stated mission was to reduce spending. Yeah, right. Where the hell were they when W was wasting hundreds of $billions on the neocons' two Middle East quagmires? War profiteering was on ample display as contractors such as Brown and Root, now called KBR (which was derisively called "Burn and Loot" by protesters), had huge government contracts to build bases and supply our military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brown and Root was owned by Halliburton, whose CEO was Dick Cheney before he resigned to become VP. Bet he still had shares in Halliburton while in office.
The fucking Tea Baggers only wanted to troll and obstruct Obama. They had no principles and no legitimate concerns. Just a bunch of loud mouthed white people.
After Obama was elected president the first time I remember Mitch McConnell emphatically saying,” we will NOT work with this president.” Moscow Mitch has damaged our country like no other politician could.
Oh yeah, Moscow Mitch explicitly stated that their (repubes) #1 objective was to obstruct Obama. The prick actually said it. His legacy is the most obstructionist ever in congressional history. I hate that guy
He's a total POS.
The standard answer for why someone votes GOP is always how worried they are about the national debt. I say utter BS! Most of them don't even know what it is. A party of total hypocrites.
Jimmy Kimmel sent a correspondent to the Trump Coachella rally before the election. These red hat wearers were Californians, not your rural southerners. After expressing strong opinions on GDP, DEI, fracking, Critical Race Theory, wokeness, they were asked to define these terms and they could not. Fucking zombies parroting what they heard on Fox
The Koch machine funded the "Organic grass roots" organization known as "the tea party." It's hilarious because to "Teabag" someone, means to dangle your scrotum over their eyes. (presuming you have one)
Yes. I spent my last two years of high school in a town in between Indianapolis to the east and Danville IL to the west. The town had a weird mix of hateful racists and liberals. I returned for a 52 year reunion in 2022 (50 years postponed by covid) and we could take a tour of underground railroad sites in town. There were many Quaker settlers in town who assisted and hid formerly enslaved people, while there were other proslavery townspeople connected to the South who would readily return escapees to the South. Our tour ended at an AME church. When the church member completed her talk, I mentioned that about ten years earlier, there was one of those signs thanking a group for picking up trash along a road. The group being thanked was the KKK! I was confirm her comments about ongoing issues. She told me that when we finished high school in 1970, anyone running for office in town had to be approved by the KKK in order to get on the ballot! Interesting, none of my former classmates on the tour (all of us white) had ever noticed the sign! Some still live there. "How could you not see the sign!!" as I scanned our little group and looked them in the eye . Indiana seemed to collect folks from both directions. I did not name the town, as I expect any town in that area has a similar mix of people.
Wow! I'm from Georgia and had no idea Indiana was like this in the 70s.
The KKK was very public in the South from it's inception to today. They still kill people at will and get away with it.
I saw the KKK in my hometown in rural NC. Very unnerving for a kid who had parents who were Holocaust victims. Horrifying for the black people too!
I left in 2005. It's much redder than when I lived there. We at one time had some Dem elected officials. Not any more.