Big surprise, a republican opposes the Civil Rights Act

[Enrique]

Everyone claims to be in favor of it now. Was everyone in favor of it at the time?

Of course not, it was a huge fight and a violent one. People murdered people and committed acts of terror to prevent it.

We got the Act because one side won, and another lost. What happened to the side that lost, did they just disappear? No, they just started pretending they were on the winning side. They started saying "I would have marched with Martin Luther King."

[onpatrol98]

1. Libertarian

I think that strange little fellow is a Libertarian looking for a political party home to get elected. Looks like he found the right one.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Then why is he against gay marriage?

I think the strange little fellow is a standard white supremacist, just like his father.

[onpatrol98]

3. Strange being the key word

"The Difference Between Rand Paul's Libertarianism and Traditional Segregationism"

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"Paul, like his father, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, is often described as a libertarian. But a more apt description is "Goldwater conservative.
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A "libertarian"—who usually votes Democratic—believes that it is the proper role of the federal government to protect these individual freedoms from intrusions by the states. That, in their view, is the ultimate libertarian principle: protecting the minority from the majority.

But a conservative libertarian—who tends to vote Republican—believes that states themselves have rights too. And so do business owners, even including the right to discriminate.
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http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/05/20/the-difference-between-rand-paul-s-libertarianism-and-traditional-segregationism.aspx

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Of course, the fact that he's a bit strange is really all I ever needed to know. Neither he nor his father would have been in danger of getting my vote.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. The Democrats lost the entire American South over civil rights. The Dixiecrats

became Republicans because they opposed civil rights. To this very day, the Republicans have adopted a "Southern Strategy" to exploit racial tensions and create fear in white southerners--and whites in general. There was a reason for the Welfare Queen and Willie Horton. Many of these same Republicans are around today like Trent Lott and John McCain who opposed federal civil rights legislation.

And now they act as if we are stupid when they assert "states rights" and we accuse them of being racists? They feign outrage when we accuse them of bigotry because THEY--not us--say stupid shit like they don't support the central tenants of the civil rights laws.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. You wrote...

"We got the Act because one side won, and another lost. What happened to the side that lost, did they just disappear?"

No. They became Southern Republicans. And though many of them now claim to be in favor of civil rights, every once in awhile, the truth of how they really feel seeps through. "States rights," "limited government" amounts to coded language used to disguise their racists feelings. Ronald Reagan gave whites permission to be racists because he made them feel as if minorities were somehow taking something away from them.

The fights over the economic stimulus, health care reform. If we listened closely, what did we constantly hear from the other side? We heard the word "entitlement". We heard that argument that people were getting stuff for free. We heard that the wealthy would be forced to pay higher taxes so that the poor could receive "government handouts".

Who was responsible for the housing crisis? Fannie, Freddie. According to the Right/Republicans, the government was giving free homes to poor blacks and Hispanics who couldn't afford to pay; who were not qualified to own a home.

That's what we heard over and over again.

It's just the 'new and improved' Southern Strategy couched in this "limited government," "Obama is a communist" rhetoric.

These same people called Martin Luther King, Jr. a "communist," "socialist," "fascist".