News Martin Luther King: Democrat or Republican?

[ramsey2879]

The traditional purpose of government is to take money from the poor and give it to the rich. Not much as changed.

I am more optimistic because I have seen a lot of changes in my time, and since I trust in the humanity of all of the peoples of this world. As long as we maintain a system that does not punish a non-comformist and allows for disagreement to be discussed without fear of retribution, a more just and peaceful society is sure to follow. We Americans must see to it that both the conformist and non-conformist views alike are each available to those who have reached an age of maturity. Only if we see to this, and thankfully it is not a hard task in our society, and only if all people are careful to scrutinize both the conformist and non-conformist view alike, will we grow wiser and stronger and be at peace. I do not think much of the the statement by OrbitalPower that the Black Republican 'white' paper was nothing but a bunch of BS. As much as he disagreed with it, there were surely valid points in it, and I am shocked that a person would look at the document with such tunnel vision, given his apparent knowlege.

 

[athanatos]

well said Ramsey,
From personal experience as a cab driver in the 80's, the socialism and welfare absolutley destroyed my city. Nominally I worked for a cab company, but practically I worked for the Gov.
The whole economy flowed with the welfare checks. That first Friday the checks came in, and it was boom time to about a week and a half, I believe the welfare regs said you couldn't get the check and own a car, so cab drivers benefited, as did the liquor stores, and especially the drug dealers. Welfare was like squirting gas on a smoldering fire, those gov dollars would flare up the flames for a week or so, the rest of the month was survival mode and laying low till the next months checks arrived, over half the city houses are now gone, literally burned down,
welfare was a cancer and had the exact opposite effect of what was touted. But it did wonders for getting folk to vote Dem, it was buying votes pure and simple, but anyone who could see what the effects of it were, could not possibly care about the folk who were on the receiving end, it engendered in them a stupor of dependence. Thats why I say liberalism is a disease, politics is a career for most pols, who are best at self promotion and always look out for number 1 first. Now, last 30 years conservative policies for the most part have prevailed, and what a difference. No riff raff hanging around the party stores, kids allowed to walk the streets to school, people taking pride in keeping houses neat, and lots of black folk in Lowe's cause they now own houses and rentals, that wasn't the case in 1980,
and wouldn't have been the case if the Reps hadn't reformed the welfare system.
Sooo, simply can't believe people want to go back to it, but it appears that's right where
BO is headed, aided by the liberal media, can't believe people swallowed it...

 

[mathwonk]

now there's an extreme case of rose colored glasses for the results of the last 8 years.

 

[jreelawg]

Sooo, simply can't believe people want to go back to it, but it appears that's right where
BO is headed, aided by the liberal media, can't believe people swallowed it...

How would you have felt if people instead swallowed the red pill and voted McCain Palin. How believable would that have been.

Would you rather vote in a party that gives a blank 700 billion dollar check to scammers, a party that has spent more than any in history, a party that gets votes by appealing to fear and superstition, a party that pretends to be good on defense but is rather run by Elite draft dodgers who make corporate slaves out of our solders?

We would have run the risk of heading down the path of book and witch burning had Palin been forced to step in, not to mention the fact that she would have ended up being a blind face for the same people running the Bush admin.

How, about the stuff that the hard right media sells? How about FOX news, owned by the biggest Media conglomerate in the world complaining about the mainstream media. "Duhh, you are the mainstream media. To sell what the Rep. ticket was offering required a very uninformed audience.