Re: Politics OT-Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:32:41 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

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Back in the 80's, my mother (a knee-jerk Republican: mention "Kennedy"
and her right knee would jerk and she'd say "Chappaquiddick") confided
in me that the only reason FDR served four terms was because the Dems
had /suspended the two term limit/ so he could do so. The reality, of
course, is that the two-term limit came later, mostly to prevent a
recurrence of a four-term Presidency.
 
As I've said before about the Republican Party: the rot runs deep,
very deep indeed.

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I think I have covered that.
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But the Democratic Party was racist until Kennedy Time.
He was the only president I ever bothered to gaze upon in
San Diego not long before I got kicked out and he got murdered.
My friends in Sacramento were absolutely destroyed by the
assassination but I was too intent on surviving with a UD. And
so once more I was out of step with the mood of the time. I
am really good at that.

The Southern Democrats ("Dixiecrats") were. How badly that tinged the
rest of the party I have no idea. Of course, pretty much everyone
(well, all WASPs, anyway) was racist then: the main difference was how
explicitly and fervently and violently they showed it.

In another newsgroup, a poster noted that he had never heard any
racist references or talk growing up. It was only when he had his
grandmother visit in a State that /actually had African-Americans in
it/ that he realized that she was, indeed, racist. He had never
noticed it because there had been no African-Americans around when he
was growing up to practice it on.

Ford was in San Francisco and I did not get up to catch
a look at him because it was 5 blocks away. I thought of what I
would see and it would be mostly the backs of other proles and
police which sights I could see without crowding ever day of
the week.

--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"