>The KKK flourished when local and state government turned a blind eye. Local and state governments weren't turning a blind eye back then, they were turning a

>The KKK flourished when local and state government turned a blind eye. Local and state governments weren't turning a blind eye back then, they were turning a hooded one. >The NRA of the 1960s is not the NRA of today. I'd agree with you there, while they were just as politically insidious, it seems that back then they had some kind of remaining tether to reality.