The Comedy Goldmine

[Sol]

Massachusetts currently has an African-American man and a Native American woman.  South Carolina has an African-American and a homosexual.

[Sol]

Being a noob here, I have to ask: what does that map of France mean?

Sorry.

[Sol]

Oh.

[Sol]

The episode with Zecora the zebra teaches tolerance and that not everyone who looks "strange" is a threat to you. He should see that one.

[Sol]

I heard these Bone Brains had a very close vote on another subject recently. They voted to start wearing shoes. It passed by one vote. They are making progress.

[Sol]

very ff, donte lt brown ones gangbangers bused from chicago to tako ever poll. cruz-ffalin '16

[Sol]

That's TX we are talking about ...

Abbott could throw a couple of kids into the Gulf of Mexico and he'd still win.

Interesting theory. Abbott is partially paralyzed.

That's the only thing making it an unlikely scenario?

[Sol]

That map was put together by Dave's Great-Great Grandfather Jebediah Obediah Liep.  Back then, the Atlas was 10 cents an issue and besides maps the Atlas had pulp Western stories like "Gunfight at Precinct 303" and the popular but controversial slice of life series by BushIndianTerritory.

[Sol]

Now could the Republicans someday attract significant numbers of those who identify strongly with a non-white racial background?  Perhaps, but only if they stop ignoring the racists among them, and the GOP simply is unwilling to do so at present.

My father, who is 25% Mexican certainly doesn't believe that Republicans hate Mexicans; he is a Republican.  My grandmother, who is 50% Mexican doesn't believe that Republicans hate Mexicans; her affiliation with the Democratic party is due to welfare and union issues, not racism by some Republicans.

Given your own politics I would have been surprised that racial or ethnic issues were a significant political factor for anyone in your immediate family.

Still, such factors clearly are at play in the GOP.  The only reason for the whole birther fracas was racism, and since not a single GOP officeholder who advocated that racist theory has been kicked out of a GOP caucus or even censured by the party with loss of campaign support or the like, it is quite safe to say that while the GOP as a party does not advocate racism, it certainly tolerates and takes no meaningful steps today to eliminate it from its midst.

The whole birther thing was not racist its just racial although I think the whole birther thing is a crazy issue. I never heard of a GOP Politician say Obama is from another country that's a first hearing of that for me. 

Okay that settles it guys.  The birther thing was not at all racist and was just some racial matter.   No big deal, we can all go home now.

[Sol]

Oakvale's posts in this thread:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=184113.msg0#new

[Sol]

Context:

They seem like the kind of cartoon a terrible person would put in their signature

[Sol]

Yuck. It was the home of all those awful Forty-eighters and it's disgusting scent of socialism reaks in the nostrils of our great capitalist nation.

I didn't know political views had a scent to them.

'fcourse they do! libertarianism, for example, smells of mountain dew and sadness.

[Sol]

First they came for the racists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a racist.
Then they came for the homophobes, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a homophobe.
Then they came for the pro-lifers, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't pro-life.
Then they came for the marijuana opponents, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't Adam C. FitzGerald.
Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to speak for me.

[Sol]

Still none, though technically 2 if you count any rare time I attend church (teeny amount of red wine) or a trip a few years back where I legally had a small cup of champagne around New Years (didn't taste that good), but I plan to continue to #SayNo even on and after November 4th, 2015.