Reply #65: I don't get cable . . [View All]

[msmcghee]

. . but last nite on NPR I watched as Sharpton and Edwards viciously attacked Dean for his statement about trying to attract voters in the south who typically have confederate flag stickers on their trucks.

The reality is that poor white male southerners are one of the main reasons the pukes have a lock on the south. It's their southern strategy from 1968 - that just keeps on keeping on - working better for them each year.

There are almost no unions in the south. If you are a white laborer or have any low paying job - then it's easy enough to appeal to your racism and fear. That's what the pukes do - and that's why they vote for them - and that's why they have those flag decals on their pickups.

Dean was saying that he understood why they were doing it - i.e. that they were acting out against the fear that the pukes had been baiting them with for 30 years. He was saying that he knew that many (most) of them were really not bad people after all - and that if we open an honest dialogue with them rather than attack them for their decals - they might discover that we aren't such bad folks either - and that maybe they will realize that we represent their needs better than the pukes - who have just used them to turn Americans against each other in the south for the last 30 years.

To whatever level Dean is successful at this - those decals will not be quite so popular in the future. They will slowly come down as people realize that they are hateful and because they no longer enjoy so much sticking them in the faces of us liberals - who are actually on their side in many respects.

It's too bad people can take this honest, creative approach to leadership - that actually tries to unite people rather than feed their hatreds - that actually could result in one or two southern states going for a dem candidate in the next election - and turn it into so much demagoguery for political ends - sounds like another party I know of.

Their southern strategy was really far more brilliant than they realized at the time.