RE: Are the far right Christians here in the U.S. just upset they're losing power
June 1, 2016 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2016 at 3:44 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 1, 2016 at 3:27 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(June 1, 2016 at 3:14 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Trying to equate the Republican and Democrats of the late 1800's to what each party represents in the mid to late 1900's and this century, is disingenuous, at best.
It is a historical fact that the more Republicans voted for the 1964 civil rights act that Democrats. That's 1964, my friend.
That is due to the Democrats still being the party of the South.
The complete switch was not completed until Reagan.
George Wallace was Governor of Alabama as Democrat.
1964: Lyndon Johnson essentially divorces the longest marriage the democratic party had: the one with southern whites. By making Civil Rights part of the Democratic platform, the republicans lose basically all of what's left of their black constituencies - which had been a significant part of their remaining progressive vote in northern urban areas. The democrats start to hemorrhage southern whites rapidly - you see George Wallace run for president in 1968."
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
