Inverse racism and the war on whites are just some of the claims from the right when they try desperately to not understand just what it is they are doing wrong, Charles makes some fine observations.
After the civil rights act of 1964
The racial divisiveness became part of the party plan in the 1970s with the “Southern Strategy,” when Richard Nixon’s political strategist Kevin Phillips told The New York Times Magazine: “The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans.”
The consequences of the Nixon inspired War On Drugs
After more than 40 million drug arrests and $1 trillion spent, what do we have to show for it? For one, an obscene, bloated mass-incarceration system. According to the Sentencing Project, “The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in the nation’s prisons or jails — a 500 percent increase over the past thirty years.”
Then the racist mocking inspired by Ronald Reagan:
The racial divisiveness was further accelerated in the 1976 presidential campaign, when Ronald Reagan continually invoked the specter of a lecherous welfare-abusing woman from Chicago — the “Welfare Queen,” the media dubbed her —
Have a read of the article as I do not want to breach fair use, the racially motivated attacks have continued unabated; reaching its pinnacle with the Birther movement.
The Southern Strategy is the fundamental building block of the Republican thinking, no matter how often the words are juggled to try and hide the basic tenants behind its rationale.
No matter how much they spin it they are not victims to their own policy they are its drivers. They are the ones that have constantly driven the racial divide for their own gain, now that that policy is threatening to sink them they are whining ever more loudly.
To add to their self inflicted misery they have continually insulted other religions, women, gays and the poor, something was bound to give in their hate filled road. You can only use fear and divisiveness for so long before the results come back and haunt you. Perhaps, just perhaps this is a sign that you should fundamentally change rather than keep on digging an ever deeper hole to bury yourselves in?
1:59 AM PT: Just a thought:
Are the wedge issues finally backfiring?