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Originally Posted by Ivorytickler
As the saying goes: If you're not a democrat when you're young you don't have a heart. If you're not a republican when you're older you don't have a brain.
A saying that makes no sense because the split is 60-37 on the young end in favor of Dems and 56-44 in favor of republicans on the older end.
Neither side has a 99%-1 edge.
The saying should read "if you think ideology is determined by age, then you have no brain".
Maybe because liberal democrats, especially urban liberal democrats, have spent the last decade+ attacking whites every chance they get, and claiming "white privilege" is the cause anytime a minority has any kind of problem and push "white guilt" as if people should be ashamed for their skin color. Also for southerners in particular liberal democrats have been attacking their history and culture incessantly, especially in the last few years. People in the south are proud of their heritage and liberals keep telling them they're racists and KKK members for it.
The average white southerner could barely feed himself before the New Deal. Many were nothing more than dirt farmers. Blacks had it even worse.
People can trash the New Deal all they want, but Americans reaffirmed it's validity 4 times by electing Roosevelt. There's nothing more to argue.
Nothing more than dirt farmers is one of the dumbest statements I have ever read on City-Data. Do you think a dirt farmer was at all concerned about a New Deal. My parents were share croppers until they bought a farm and after we got the farm, our lives changed dramatically. We didn't worry about rationing of food or quotas on much of anything. We were self sufficient. I pay $600 a year taxes to keep ten acres we own because I know if we get really hard times in the USA we could live off what we could grow on five acres of that land. And the other five acres has trees. If you don't know money grows on trees you haven't sold one lately.
Please don't lower dirt farmers to the level of those in town living paycheck to paycheck with nothing else to eat if the paycheck stops.
People can trash the New Deal all they want, but Americans reaffirmed it's validity 4 times by electing Roosevelt. There's nothing more to argue.
It's like when you let your friend who is down on his luck stay with you. The first few months it might be good, but after a few years and he has friends staying over as well, you begin to become disillusioned.
I don't know whether that poster is talking about it but my Democrat husband is mad as a wet hen over Obama calling it "a symbol of hate."
Well, it is. But I guess the truth hurts. Maybe your hubby wants to continue fighting the Civil War. You know, the whole fantasy about the South will rise again.
The largest bloc of supporters (and arguably, the strongest supporters) of the New Deal were working class white voters, who benefited tremendously from the economic policies of President Franklin Roosevelt - who was easily the most liberal President in American history, especially when judged in the context of his time.
However, by the late 1960s, many working and middle class white voters were defecting to the Republican Party, and by the 1980s, many more were voting for conservative Republicans like Ronald Reagan and his Congressional allies. Today, a considerable majority of white voters prefer Republicans; President Obama received only 39% of the white vote in 2012, despite winning reelection.
Nowhere could this transformation be seen more clearly than in the South, which since the 1960s, has gone from being the most Democratic region in the country to the most Republican one. What changed? Why are so many white voters - particularly Southern whites - no longer voting for liberal Democrats?
White Southerners voted for democrats, but back then democrats were not exactly "liberal" in the social sense. Ever heard of the dixiecrats?
Roosevelt was a disaster, he New Deal was a disaster (as the Sec. Treas later railed against the huge waste of spending. Roosevelt's policies turned a minor recession into a depression, kinda like Obama and his 12.5% unemployment.
Well, it is. But I guess the truth hurts. Maybe your hubby wants to continue fighting the Civil War. You know, the whole fantasy about the South will rise again.
No it isn't. It is actually a Christian symbol and educated people know that. Look it up! And the south doesn't need to rise again. We have always had class. That is something money cannot buy.
Yes it is disturbing that we had a classless family in the White House for more than 7 years. If he had any class he would realize our nations history and have some respect for it instead of championing criminals and troublemakers. I think the way he treats our law enforcement is criminal in itself. He causes their lives to be in jeopardy.
Our teachers all told us what a wonderful president Roosevelt was but looking back, I am not impressed. Nanny government makes weak people. Getting elected doesn't mean that the person elected is good for our country. When you teach people to depend on the government for their livelihood they lose their self respect and become parasites. And spend all you want to giving to other countries but that will not make real friends because you cannot buy real friends.
When I look back and see the flawed presidents this country has had it has to be a miracle our country is still standing. I know the left doesn't like this because I heard them boo God at their last convention but our country is still standing by the grace of God and no other reason.
Last edited by NCN; 05-28-2016 at 05:43 PM..
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