Nixon's 'southern strategy' and a liberal big lie | Human Events

Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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One of historical facts Democrats shove down the memory hole is their shameful legacy on race.

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    Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago
    Trying to blame the New Left for the crimes of the Old Left again, are we? Aren't we forgetting about the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s? When the New Left (which is now the current Left) was formed, it formed in direct opposition the policies of the Old Left.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left
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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Watergate was not why Nixon was reviled. He was in Democratic cross hairs from the moment he went after liberal darling Alger Hiss as a communist, which Soviet documents reveal he was. Nixon's HUAC cross-examination of Hiss was brilliant, and he was far less reckless, far more circumspect, and consequently far more effective than McCarthy, the name Democrats scream every time anyone mentions the now undeniable Communist penetration of our government in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 2 months ago
    It is the greatest lie that D's are/were the champions of racial equality. Even today their policies do more to maintain the slavery of poverty just as surely as it ever was before the civil war. But as Mr. Buchanan correctly points out, R's will not get credit for what they did, and particularly Nixon will not. There seems to be no more reviled R president than Nixon, not for any policies but for a stupid penny-ante break-in.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 2 months ago
    An excellent article find and possibly a good read. I disagree with Mr. Bucchanan on many issues but I have often wondered at the duplicity of pushing welfare on poor blacks at the same time doing the good 'ol southern boy thing in the south. And of course the Democratic Party would want to deflect the truth. After all, we can all rally behind hating Nixon.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 2 months ago
    Not only has the Democrats' shameful legacy on race been rewritten to make it look not so bad, but the Republicans' legacy (particularly Nixon's) has been written to tar and feather Republicans as racists when the number of such racists has been quite small. Moreover, the racists who were Republicans were reviled by the Party itself.

    But history is written by the victors.
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