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If someone says he votes for "America" why should we assume it's "White America" or "Multicultural America" unless we want to introduce a divide and fuel hate.

If someone says he votes for "America" why should we assume it's "White America" or "Multicultural America" unless we want to introduce a divide and fuel hate. In the 1970s and 1980s when someone said he "voted for America" that affirmation was taken at face value, no one asked "which America" and no one assumed that there is more than one American. I am not an American, so please correct me if I am wrong.

AtlasBarfed 2y ago
In the political sphere of America, It echoes back to the southern strategy all the way back to the civil war, slavery, and the fundamental racial divide. Staunchly racist Americans have alls existed as large key demographic for coalition building. I used to be in the '70s and '60s. It was in the Democratic party, simply because Republicans were the ones that invaded the South and the civil war. Around the time of the Nixon election, Republicans pivoted to the southern strategy to use the civil Rights act of of the Lyndon Johnson administration to turn racist Democrats into racist Republican voters. To do so such large shifts in voting allegiance requires substantial election/ linguistic /propagandistic engineering over decades. Trump is AMAZING at such linguistic engineering, amazingly while making no actual structural linguistic sense. It's abhorrent to smart people,but speaks right to the core of dumber voters. Rational voters are succumbed by other means ...
bbor 2y ago
I mean, there were literal white supremacists back then; not in a pejorative sense, but, like, in the “white people are genetically superior” sense. There were absolutely people voting for a non-Irish, Italian, catholic, Jewish, or god-forbid dark-skinned America, in direct contradiction to the state’s founding principles.
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  > in direct contradiction to the state’s founding principles "adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons." (I mean, I'm on the side of "all men are created equal, ... with certain unalienable Rights,... among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" but it's hard to deny that that other language is right there as well. Logical implication and noncontradiction do not seem to have been among the founders' strong suits.) Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMOL7GaPWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMOL7GaPWI

AtlasBarfed 2y ago

In the political sphere of America, It echoes back to the southern strategy all the way back to the civil war, slavery, and the fundamental racial divide. Staunchly racist Americans have alls existed as large key demographic for coalition building. I used to be in the '70s and '60s. It was in the Democratic party, simply because Republicans were the ones that invaded the South and the civil war. Around the time of the Nixon election, Republicans pivoted to the southern strategy to use the civil Rights act of of the Lyndon Johnson administration to turn racist Democrats into racist Republican voters. To do so such large shifts in voting allegiance requires substantial election/ linguistic /propagandistic engineering over decades. Trump is AMAZING at such linguistic engineering, amazingly while making no actual structural linguistic sense. It's abhorrent to smart people,but speaks right to the core of dumber voters. Rational voters are succumbed by other means ...

bbor 2y ago

I mean, there were literal white supremacists back then; not in a pejorative sense, but, like, in the “white people are genetically superior” sense. There were absolutely people voting for a non-Irish, Italian, catholic, Jewish, or god-forbid dark-skinned America, in direct contradiction to the state’s founding principles.

082349872349872 2y ago
> in direct contradiction to the state’s founding principles "adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons." (I mean, I'm on the side of "all men are created equal, ... with certain unalienable Rights,... among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" but it's hard to deny that that other language is right there as well. Logical implication and noncontradiction do not seem to have been among the founders' strong suits.) Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMOL7GaPWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMOL7GaPWI