Politics

[Killingtime]

What an idiot. As an "academic" he would know the two parties started their flip from liberal to conservative during the Kennedy administration. Nixon is usually regarded as the last liberal Republican (sort of). Our present strictly partisan nonsense is actually a fairly recent phenomenon ... unfortunately. Carson should stick to brain surgery and leave historical analysis to historians ... or at least to those who are less inclined to distort the facts to fit political agendas.

But he is right in the civil rights act. Historically you can look it up (southern democrats were the majority of the opposition to the bill) and republicans like Dickerson are one of the main reasons it got past.

 

[fourfive8]

I see OH, aka Perfesser Victimology, is at it again.

 

[tinktink12]

 

[Ray B]

The political perspective of the "South" need look no further than Mr & Mrs George Wallace.

 

[skydiver386]

America, just by shear volume of its economy is shoved down every other countries throat, as you are the largest exporter of culture in the world.

Ask yourself why our economy dwarfs most others? The economy of most U.S. States dwarfs the economies of most large countries. It's because our system is better, but most don't take this lesson away from what they learn about America.

So yes, every other nation does have a un-healthy fixation on all things USA. Also, American decisions tend to have impacts felt across the globe, especially elections so it’s not hard to understand why locals in other countries would be paying attention.

Every nation and it's decisions impacts the rest of the World, not just the U.S. If Iran, prior to the present conflict decided it wanted to close the Straight of Hormuz, would this have an impact on Worldwide oil prices? We all know it would. Rather than fixing their own Government or economy, or using their influence against rogue states, many around the World fixate on U.S. influence.

Point being, rather than whine about what the U.S. is doing, it would be healthier to pay attention to the effects your own Government has around the world.

You guys took over the world in the 20th century, not physically, but economically and all eyes remain on you.

I wouldn't say we took over, so much as a huge portion of rebuilding after WW2 was dumped in our lap.

And for what it’s worth, Americans aren’t really that well know for being informed, or caring about, what goes on outside their border.

Perhaps 50% are ignorant, the other 50% are very well informed. As for the rest of the World, I've found the obsession with the U.S. limits their knowledge of every other country. Setting aside what they learned in 3-5 grade geography class, most people around the World are ignorant of everything except their own country and the U.S. Don't believe me, then ask anyone who is the President or Prime Minister in Azerbaijan, Paraguay, Mexico, or Vietnam?

Do you think most around the world from 19 to 90 could tell you who this person was?

Or this person?

Or this person?

Or this person?

Or this person?

Or the relationship of the first person to the last person?

No, the average human being around the world, even if they have an advanced University Degree couldn't tell you who these people are, but I'll bet they can tell you who the last 5 U. S. Presidents were!

We we lucky to have many well travelled, well informed members here.

Rest assured though, there will come a time when the world will stop caring, be it in 50 or 500 years, all empires have an expiration date.

I'd appreciate it if most around the world extracted their cranium from the US's rectum, and not only learned about history, but how they might reform their own Government, instead of whining that the U.S. doesn't do this or that, and I'd appreciate it if they did it sooner rather than later.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Sir that’s not completely accurate. Voting record in the southern states show a slow and steady trend of switching to republican going back to Hoovers time in the 20’s. The democrat party was definitely still dominate but the trend was consistently moving towards republican.

Hoover election was all about religion. Al Smith was Catholic and the Bible Belt Protestant South could not abide that no matter what party affiliation. The fear was Catholic immigrants would control the election and then the Pope would control the President.

"Protestant activists insisted that Catholicism represented an alien culture and medieval mentality, claiming that Catholicism was incompatible with American democracy and institutions."

Ridiculous for sure but no less ridiculous than immigrants eating their dogs, etc. Racism is far from dead in 21st century US politics! Catholics also supposedly leaned more towards segregation. Hoover was known to be a strong Protestant (Quaker) but he simply avoided the race and religion issues during his campaign. At one point a rumor was circulated by a Southern editor that Hoover had danced with a black woman at the GOP convention. "Hoover's campaign quickly denied the 'untruthful and ignoble assertion'".

Anyway, it would seem the issue of religion during the 1928 election amounted to a unique anomaly rather than the beginning of a trend. The Southern conservative block could cross party boundaries but it took a peculiar racist bias to push them in that direction. Once Al Smith and the Catholic threat was gone, things could return to what they were. Well, they could have if the stock market hadn't crashed and the Midwest's topsoil hadn't blown away. Then USS Arizona was sunk.

 

[Aaron N]

Ask yourself why our economy dwarfs most others? The economy of most U.S. States dwarfs the economies of most large countries. It's because our system is better, but most don't take this lesson away from what they learn about America.

Every nation and it's decisions impacts the rest of the World, not just the U.S. If Iran, prior to the present conflict decided it wanted to close the Straight of Hormuz, would this have an impact on Worldwide oil prices? We all know it would. Rather than fixing their own Government or economy, or using their influence against rogue states, many around the World fixate on U.S. influence.

Point being, rather than whine about what the U.S. is doing, it would be healthier to pay attention to the effects your own Government has around the world.


I wouldn't say we took over, so much as a huge portion of rebuilding after WW2 was dumped in our lap.

Perhaps 50% are ignorant, the other 50% are very well informed. As for the rest of the World, I've found the obsession with the U.S. limits their knowledge of every other country. Setting aside what they learned in 3-5 grade geography class, most people around the World are ignorant of everything except their own country and the U.S. Don't believe me, then ask anyone who is the President or Prime Minister in Azerbaijan, Paraguay, Mexico, or Vietnam?

Do you think most around the world from 19 to 90 could tell you who this person was?
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Or the relationship of the first person to the last person?

No, the average human being around the world, even if they have an advanced University Degree couldn't tell you who these people are, but I'll bet they can tell you who the last 5 U. S. Presidents were!

I'd appreciate it if most around the world extracted their cranium from the US's rectum, and not only learned about history, but how they might reform their own Government, instead of whining that the U.S. doesn't do this or that, and I'd appreciate it if they did it sooner rather than later.

You posed a question, and I gave you the answer without being critical of the United States.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

But he is right in the civil rights act. Historically you can look it up (southern democrats were the majority of the opposition to the bill) and republicans like Dickerson are one of the main reasons it got past.

Correct. And that was within the "flip" era I cited. I presume you mean Everett Dirksen?

 

[Brent in Az]

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Tucson has been turning into a mini L.A
Saturday I saw 2 homeless people having sex right next to a side street. I'm not certain, but I think it was 2 dudes.
It's nauseating to see what this city is becoming.