re: #185 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I think the point of no return moment for them nationally is nominating Goldwater in ‘64. CRA-64 was the most important civil rights legislation and they nominated an opponent of that but there were other things before that such as Ike turning a blind eye to McCarthy(I like Ike but that’s a stain), the America First movement and its anti semitism regarding FDR and WWII, and the little known but since you brought up the 20’s Hoover’s response as Commerce Secretary to the Great Flood (I’ve seen al ot of AFrican-American historians say that along with Eleanor Roosevelt’s support for Civil Rights that they mark as the turning point for many black voters).

Yeah, the civil rights era was definitely an important turning point. But my point is that a normal political party responsive in a normal way to real issues faced by its voters wouldn’t have gone for shit like the Southern strategy to begin with.

It all makes a lot more sense if we assume that even back in the 50s the GOP was essentially the corrupt enterprise it is today, with its establishment power players having no goal other than tax cuts for the rich and looking for ways to dishonestly find votes for that agenda by any means possible.

From that depraved point of view, appealing to resentful racists for their votes was a no-brainer.