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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2473 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Worthy Is the Lamb

Republicans love to point at Goldwater without acknowledging that he was a fucking racist whose platform was adamantly opposed to civil rights legislation and that what gained them the South was LBJ arguing that blacks are people, too.

I know some people (goobster) like to believe there was an era of principled Republican behavior but it's the exception, not the norm. Republicans have hated poor people since Harding.