Are Republicans racist???

[DeistPaladin]

Also the KKK historically has a democratic group ...

You are too smart to be making a statement that ignorant. I really can't believe you would pretend to be oblivious to the history of The Southern Strategy and the time in which the Democrats and Republicans changes sides on the issue of civil rights.

If you are being honest, you should be aware there was a massive electoral re-alignment during the 60's when the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act was passed in 64 and 65 respectively. Nixon successfully used The Southern Strategy to win over Dixiecrats and convert them to Republicans. Democrats, meanwhile, also changed sides and championed civil rights of minorities.

The GOP WAS the part of Lincoln, past tense emphasized. It stopped being the Party of Lincoln during the 60s. To try to make an argument that appeals to history is at best ignorant and at worst dishonest.

Yes, the Republican Party really is soaking in racism. It was hidden before 2008 but since the election of Obama, it's all come bubbling to the surface, producing a stink so pungent that it astounds me that so many people either can't or pretend not to smell it.

Consider:

• Never before in our nation's history has any president been heckled during a SOTU address by a sitting member of Congress, a Congressman who wasn't either arrested or pressured to resign but instead hailed as a hero.
  
• Never before in our nation's history has any president been forced to not only address a crackpot conspiracy theory but comply with it's demands by producing his birth certificate to try to (unsuccessfully) put it to rest.
  
• Never before in our nation's history has a non-scandal like Benghazi survived seven Congressional investigations proving absolutely nothing only to have that faux-scandal be continuously circulated and brought up as a possible impeachment pretext.
  
• Never before in our nation's history has every bill and procedure in the Senate been filibustered as a deliberate effort to gum up the works to sabotage the country while and because a certain president was in office.
  
• Never before in our nation's history has such a record low number of bills been passed by the House of Representatives, also in a deliberate attempt to sabotage the country.
  
• Never before in our nation's history has the Congress used the shutdown so casually as a political sabotage tactic. We're about to shut down again. It's become part of life now.
  

"No, it's not racism. It's because of Obama's radical policies!" the Republicans protest.

Bullshit.

Clinton raised taxes. Obama cut taxes.
Clinton proposed socialized medicine. Obama proposed a modest reform based on the free market exchanges and mild regulations.
W Bush lied us into a war. Obama may have lied about some people being able to keep their health care plan.
We have recent presidents who have been further to the left or done things far more destructive to the country and not faced this level of disrespect and sabotage.

There is absolutely nothing in Obama's center-right, heavily compromised and corporate-friendly governance that should drive the right wing in this country so insane that they are willing to sabotage the country just to oppose him.

If such mild governance is enough to drive the GOP so crazy, they need to do their own mental health a favor and get out of politics until they can develop some stronger emotional coping skills.