Reply #7: That's true [View All]

[sandnsea]

Of course 40 years ago, I think they focused on "reefer madness" and those dope smoking nigras in the ghettos; and we lost in '52, '56, '68 and '72, which is important to remember. In fact, after the Civil War the southern Democrats became irrelevant and Democrts lost every election except Wilson and Cleveland. Until FDR. Which maybe wasn't a bad thing, the Democratic convention in 1922, I think, was called the Klanbake by the press. The north used to vote Republican, Protestants, industry and banking; along with some Teddy-type progressives. That seems to have flipped but we lost the solid south and didn't pick up the western populist, progressive. Maybe because we don't respect that western sense of independence enough; live and let live could work to our advantage socially too. Working Republicans are just convinced that if their boss has what he/she needs, they'll have a job and that's all that matters. I think we have to run a very well-crafted "socialized business costs" campaign. Go after subsidized corporations that use taxpayer money unfairly and have unfair business advantages over small business too. We have to have small business and family farmers and ranchers. That's how Bryant brought life back to the party, although he never won on it either. That are wait for another complete collapse of our economy, that always seems to do the trick. :eyes: Dumbass Republicans.