#Southern strategy

[allhailthe70shousewife]

The GOP has big plans for your future. Are you going to let them do this to you?

Vote for Kamala Harris. Vote True Blue Democrat down ballot.

[padawan-historian]

electing a brown skinned cop who uses imperial feminism to reinforce American exceptionalism all while she backs the same colonial projects and state funded violence that allows for the re-criminalization of poverty, the erasure of civil rights, and the expansion prison industrial complex is not a win.

there are a multitude of ways and workings to disrupt, divest, and dismantle the master’s house. kamala winning this election doesn’t fix this lovecraft country. kamala winning this election means a return to our communities to manifest direct action, collective liberation, and radical abolition that upRoots fascism, imperialism, and white supremacy from our gardens.

[rejectingrepublicans]

Republicans stopped being the party of Lincoln in the ‘60s when they aligned themselves with all the racists as part of their Southern Strategy. They also greedily gobbled up all the racist Dixiecrats that were expelled from the Democratic Party.

[seileach67]

WATCH: Right-Wing Megadonor Brags How Brutal Trump Is To Palestinians Antisemitism and Islamophobia both have roots in white supremacy. We must firmly reject both, as well as all other forms of discrimination and bigotry. 

[isaacsapphire]

Relocated some music from my childhood on spotify so it’s time to reevaluate it. Interesting the history posited in the last song, especially in light of the political situation in the US in the era shortly before making the history of the Civil War a sort of live issue.

[allhailthe70shousewife]

If you are eligible to vote in the US and are still unsure if you will be voting or you are undecided about who to vote for then I think you need to see this:

Because if Trump wins none of us may ever get to vote again. Christo-fascism is not a joke. The threat is very real.

Vote against Republicans. Vote True Blue Democrat down ballot. The GOP are desperate and dangerous. Your future is at stake.

[boricuacherry-blog]

The title track from the 1990 album Atwater recorded with B.B King and others on Curb Records [Red Hot & Blue] earned Atwater a nomination for a Grammy in 1991.

way you look at it, race is coming on the backburner.

He explained how Republicans could appeal to the racist white voter with this messaging, without sounding racist themselves. This coded language could win them the votes he felt they desperately needed.

Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis supported a felon furlough program originally begun in 1972, under Republican Governor Francis Sargent. In 1976, the Massachusetts legislature passed a measure to ban furloughs for first-degree murderers, but Governor Dukakis vetoed the bill. Soon afterward, Willie Horton, who was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder for stabbing a boy to death during a robbery, was released on weekend furlough, during which he kidnapped a young couple, tortured the man and repeatedly raped the woman. Horton then became the centerpiece of Atwater's ad campaign against Dukakis.

In a February 1991 article for Life, Atwater wrote:

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The 1980s were about acquiring - acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

In the article Atwater apologized to Michael Dukakis for the "naked cruelty" of the 1988 presidential election campaign.

[allhailthe70shousewife]

VOTE AGAINST TRUMP

VOTE AGAINST REPUBLICANS

VOTE AGAINST FASCISM

VOTE AGAINST NEONAZIS

🌊🌊🌊VOTE BLUE 🌊🌊🌊

Gop flat out admitting they don’t want young people to vote, tho.

They are even acknowledging she isn’t telling anyone how to vote.

Just telling them to vote makes her bad.

[stimpunks]

Stories and Myth: Building a Progressive Storytelling Ecosystem

The pro-democracy movement needs to build its own funnel, now. It cannot and should not be a mirror image of the right’s funnel. It should be grounded in truth, not lies, and generosity, not closedness. But it needs to be a total media ecology that can meet people at any level of annoyance, curiosity, irritation, gripe, doubt, with any question — and move them toward a more humane and magnanimous…

[cherryblossomshadow]

The assumption that pride should exist at all makes them think that they're immune to conservative logic

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My generation is dumb about sex. We're dumb about drugs. We're dumb about theft. We moralize literally everything. We're so dumb about stranger danger that we never learned how to community organize

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They managed to invent a generation that hates capitalism but fully buys into individualism and who is supportive of queer people and way less monogamous than previous generations but who still buys into the base assumptions of the nuclear family and thinks sex is evil

here's my hot take about my generation and people younger than me (I'm 22 years old)

The reason current teenagers and people in their really early 20s are conservative on accident and have such shitty takes on the internet is because our generation was much more sheltered than previous generations and because we were raised to be ok with orwellian servailence and that is 100% the fault of our parents, Reagan Era kidnapping panics, and the rise of technology all coming together to prevent us from doing the sketchy shit that sends parents into panic mode but which is also completely fundemental to childhood development. If your parents had even a crumb of money to their name and even a shred of free time they started tracking your phone as soon as it was possible to. I did not experience this because my parents are actively trying to live like it's the 1990s and still have not gotten cell phones of their own, and did not let me have one until I was 18 years old and it was no longer their choice, but literally over half of my friends in middle and high school had their phones tracked by their parents at some point or other, and we would occasionally find this out, not because their parents told them, but when we were trying to do the aforementioned sketchy shit and their parent's car would pull up. And I would, like a reasonable person after finding this out, encourage my friends to just leave their phones at home, and their response would be "What if I get kidnapped" or "My parents are just trying to keep me safe"

This in my estimation has lead to a combination of kids being terminally online because they do have internet access and are better at deleting search history than their parents think they are, but don't have the freedom to go out and do shit without their parents' knowledge or consent, so they have the most privacy from the people who control their lives while they're on the internet, and kids not having the real world experiences they should have, not knowing how to connect with other people irl, not feeling comfortable leaving the house because of the horror story lies their parents told them to make them ok with the surveillance they were inflicting on their kids. Kids these days are growing up in the fucking panopticon when they should be out in the woods playing with knives or stealing cigarettes from their older sibling and going out to an empty parking lot to smoke them or whatever and that shit is sticking with them into adulthood. Things that were "tee hee we could get in trouble isn't this so fun and daring" in the 1990s and 2000s have become in the 2010s and 2020s things that are "If I do that without texting my parents some sort of lie to excuse where my location is my parent's car will pull up and I will get grounded for the next two weeks."

Like even when I was 19 I had a 16 year old friend who would volunteer their time at a food shelf and that's how we knew each other. We would talk about dungeons and dragons together, and the game store was 4 blocks from the food shelf. One day we left the food shelf earlier than they had told their parents they would and they got punished for that. We were literally just going to look at dungeons and dragons miniatures and dice, which was self evident if you could see where we started and how far we walked and where too. I have to assume that this isn't uncommon. It's wrong, but it's not uncommon.

[allhailthe70shousewife]

This is satisfying.

[heavenbarnes]

i’ve never actually been convinced that donald trump particularly cares about any of these inflammatory topics, he just figured out conservatives were really easy to manipulate and did just that to secure himself power