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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt least 25-30% of the country is racist or swings that direction, and it is
reflected in those polls where 25% still believe President Obama is not an American, and is Muslim.
That represents a hell of a lot of people, and the person who occupies the WH is one of them.
Bradshaw3
(7,538 posts)raging moderate
(4,314 posts)During the Civil War, abolitionists and their friends knew that some northerners were slavery sympathizers. These people were called copperheads, and I believe they had a custom of sporting a penny with the face (not Lincoln's face at that point) as a sign to each other. Freedom-loving northerners called them copperheads with an intentional double-entendre reference to the poisonous snakes called copperheads.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Most polls show that a majority of Republican partisans believe in the same things the neo-nazis do.
Therefore, the Republican Party is a Nazi Party.
djsunyc
(169 posts)and these racists have no real idea what racism actually is.
and the scary thing is that alot of the "younger generation" of racists are basically recruited the same way isis soldiers are. cults target the weak minded and the impressionable.
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)I'm thinking closer to sixty percent swing that way.
BannonsLiver
(16,539 posts)How many fascists did Hitler have? Not that many. Not even close. And look at all the trouble for the world he was able to cause.