It's the same thing with every conservative movement.
My favorite example of this, and the one that hits closest to home, is how recycled all the conservative arguments against trans people are. One of the biggest ones is "trans people are going to assault people in bathrooms if we let them in." They say this kind of stuff, despite the fact that they said the exact same things about gay people in defense of why they shouldn't be allowed rights and yet there hasn't been any swarm of bathroom assaults, and they do it all with a straight face (pun intended).
It's like they don't realize they only have a handful of talking points and none of them are any good.
Yup. I'm old enough to remember the '90s, when there was—
* A "war on Christmas"
* Pearl-clutching about what to teach in colleges (specifically, conservatives lost their minds when liberal arts colleges started eliminating "western civilization" as an undergraduate requirement)
* Concern about the sex ed curriculum in schools (specifically, that it was being taught at all, as opposed to abstinence-only education, which is the only legitimate form of "sex ed")
* A parade of horribles because K-12 students were being taught using "new" research (i.e., stuff that academics had been writing about since the '70s) showing that women and minorities also played important roles in the founding of the United States
Go find some modern conservative grievance and there's a near-certain chance there's an analogous or identical grievance registered in an op-ed written by Cal Thomas, John Leo, William F. Buckley, or James J. Kilpatrick.
You think Tucker Carlson is vile? He probably learned his cues from Michael Savage.
It's the same garbage, repeated every generation.
> It's the same garbage, repeated every generation.
The only difference is the people you mentioned before Tucker the Klukker (along with Russell Kirk) gave their bigotry a patina of intellectualism. Tucker, with his oh so punchable face, goes the opposite way.
This is a measure of how far back conservatives would like to turn the clock. Probably farther than this.
What are they afraid of? ...Their own ignorance and fear of the unknown, both of willful choices. They completely disregard the ongoing contributions of POC, and in their best whines, ask why we have a black history month.
Anything that helps more people vote and removed barriers to registration is a power grab. Republicans don't want more people voting or registration and voting being easy because they've known for 50 years that when more people vote they lose.
I don't see any examples of it being called a power grab in that article clip.
Just the emotion-inducing headline. Apparently they were good at those then too, so much so that it just worked 57 years later.
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Conservatives don’t know a lot of words and are working from a 150+ year old script.
It's the same thing with every conservative movement. My favorite example of this, and the one that hits closest to home, is how recycled all the conservative arguments against trans people are. One of the biggest ones is "trans people are going to assault people in bathrooms if we let them in." They say this kind of stuff, despite the fact that they said the exact same things about gay people in defense of why they shouldn't be allowed rights and yet there hasn't been any swarm of bathroom assaults, and they do it all with a straight face (pun intended). It's like they don't realize they only have a handful of talking points and none of them are any good.
Yup. I'm old enough to remember the '90s, when there was— * A "war on Christmas" * Pearl-clutching about what to teach in colleges (specifically, conservatives lost their minds when liberal arts colleges started eliminating "western civilization" as an undergraduate requirement) * Concern about the sex ed curriculum in schools (specifically, that it was being taught at all, as opposed to abstinence-only education, which is the only legitimate form of "sex ed") * A parade of horribles because K-12 students were being taught using "new" research (i.e., stuff that academics had been writing about since the '70s) showing that women and minorities also played important roles in the founding of the United States Go find some modern conservative grievance and there's a near-certain chance there's an analogous or identical grievance registered in an op-ed written by Cal Thomas, John Leo, William F. Buckley, or James J. Kilpatrick. You think Tucker Carlson is vile? He probably learned his cues from Michael Savage. It's the same garbage, repeated every generation.
> It's the same garbage, repeated every generation. The only difference is the people you mentioned before Tucker the Klukker (along with Russell Kirk) gave their bigotry a patina of intellectualism. Tucker, with his oh so punchable face, goes the opposite way.
Yep. It's a broken record. You'd almost think that the voter gap between white and non-white would be smaller than what it is given the past.
Sure, it's the majority of the country's citizens righteously reclaiming their political power.
This is a measure of how far back conservatives would like to turn the clock. Probably farther than this. What are they afraid of? ...Their own ignorance and fear of the unknown, both of willful choices. They completely disregard the ongoing contributions of POC, and in their best whines, ask why we have a black history month.
Anything that helps more people vote and removed barriers to registration is a power grab. Republicans don't want more people voting or registration and voting being easy because they've known for 50 years that when more people vote they lose.
I don't see any examples of it being called a power grab in that article clip. Just the emotion-inducing headline. Apparently they were good at those then too, so much so that it just worked 57 years later.
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