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Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

ruddiger posted:

My old neighborhood in Chicago is full of smart, learned people of the world.





The thing about Trump is that he's actually talking about the things that are affecting white working class people like outsourcing. If Trump weren't such a lovely candidate the GOP would be coasting into the white house this year.

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Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

Gianthogweed posted:

l. Back then Conservatism was still associated with big government and the monarchy, and many Republicans (who were the progressives of the 1800s) were very much in favor of expanding government power.

So it's the switch in the definition of the words "conservative" and "liberal" that has more to do with the party realignment during the progressive era of the 1890s-early 1900s (when the Democrat Party started to become more populist and started to replace the Republicans as the more progressive party). The realignment didn't complete, however, until 1968 with Nixon's infamous Southern Strategy.

If you go back that far you have to be explicit about which government they wanted power for. States rights was more than just a dog whistle at that point and the economic incentives for the north and south were set up very differently. So when northerners wanted federal roads and canals for instance, southerners wanted no part in it since their elites lives mostly on and around coastal waterways and didn't need them.

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

Moridin920 posted:

I'm still as radical socialist as I ever have been, but I think Prorat is right and I'm finding myself saying 'faux left bourgie bitch' a lot the last couple years.

I up around both libertarians and the revolutionary communist party. All hail Bob Avakian, pbuh.

I was turned off by both of their politics, but the communists had the better drugs.

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008


What's up with those Yankee accents on my Alabama local news?

Also lol at the end, the pastor would like it known that he ain't no snitch.

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008


Depending on who shared this it should be noted these aren't "our" troops



Ahh who am I kidding, he's white.

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