re: #31 webevintage

It is crazy time 24/7.

So far this is my favorite story today:
GOP House Candidate On Civil Rights: ‘We Need To Get Our Federal Government Out Of The Way’

[Link: thinkprogress.org…]

2 years ago no one would even have thought to say something like that.
Local control from civil rights…it leaves me speechless.

That’s the modern GOP’s agenda — to rewind all the social progress of the last 100 years, and return to some idealized hyper-religious version of America that never existed.

The entire point of the civil rights movement was that states and local governments should NOT be able to determine these things for themselves, because there are some states that will choose (and DID choose) to violate the civil rights of minority groups. That was the pro-segregation rallying cry of George Wallace: “state’s rights.”

And now the GOP is trying to bring back these bad old days of racial discrimination. This is why I seriously doubt I will ever vote for a Republican again.