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Initech

(100,063 posts)
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 01:16 AM Nov 2017

Forget The Southern Strategy. It Was A Total Failure. We Need A Blue Revolution.

40 years of Reagan and Nixon's Southern Strategy of "god, guns and gays" failed. You know what that's got us? Nowhere. In fact, less than nowhere. It's given us a generation of young, isolated Hitler worshiping Nazis. It's given us Infowars, Rush Limbaugh, white supremacy and Pepe The Frog. It gave us President Donald Fucking Trump, who's become a global embarrassment. It gave us the Koch Bros, who financed the Heritage Foundation, who have spent decades and billions getting people to vote against their best interests to give more money to people who already have more than half the world does. It gave us infinite war for profit that's draining the natinal treasury. Last night proved that we must take back what is rightfully ours. It's going to be a long, uphill battle, and it is going to get ugly. But we must do what needs to be done and kick their racist asses to the curb. The time is now, tomorrow will be too late!

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Forget The Southern Strategy. It Was A Total Failure. We Need A Blue Revolution. (Original Post) Initech Nov 2017 OP
If I might politely disagree.... Glamrock Nov 2017 #1

Glamrock

(11,794 posts)
1. If I might politely disagree....
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 01:31 AM
Nov 2017

It was a booming success. For those that used it anyway. Electoral wins nationally, state houses and governorships, lower taxes, weaker unions, less regulation, profitable wars..... Granted failure for the nation, but these people could give two fucks less. It's about their own bottom line, and in that regard, they've been extremely successful.

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