(07-26-2018, 08:43 AM)FBT Wrote:

(07-26-2018, 08:17 AM)mikesez Wrote: You might not be wrong, but you should give examples.
Let me give two.
Obama came into office on the heels of Bush passing the bailouts with Republican support.  The Republcians had just passed a stimulus in 2005.  Suddenly, stimulus was bad.  Buying up banks to bail them out had been OK, but doing the same to GM and Chrysler was not.  Why? The only things that changed were party affiliation and skin color or the man in the White House.  
Personally, I think it was more about party affiliation, but, the people who say it was skin color are not without evidence.

I'm not wrong.

In the buildup to ObamaCare, democrats regularly accused republicans of being racists, stating that their only opposition to the legislation was due to the skin color of the president.  In fact, at one particular town hall, rich white democrat senator Jay Rockefeller accused republican senators of being a racist because of his opposition to the law precisely because the president was black.

Anyone opposed to Obama immigration policies that did little to improve border security while basically floating amnesty to illegals without question were regularly tagged as racists.  Still are to this day.

If you supported the travel ban for countries where terrorism is a cottage industry, you're labeled an Islamaphobe and a racist.  

If you didn't like the way Obama stoked the racial divides by actually picking sides in situations like Ferguson, you were a racist.

When the New Black Panthers blocked entry for whites to a polling location with threatening rhetoric while toting clubs, the Bush Justice Department opened an investigation that determined there was grounds for prosecution.  When Obama took office and Eric Holder became the attorney general, that case was tossed out, and anyone who challenged the motion was tagged as a racist.

The media and Obama lackeys regularly wielded the "R" card any time someone challenged "The One".  It's pretty well documented.

As far as Manson and his followers being right-winged radicals, thanks for the laugh.  As someone has already pointed out, suggesting anything of the sort is pretty much rewriting history, which is definitely a tactic of the progressive left, so bully for you.

The health care situation is just like the bailout situation and the stimulus situation. The individual mandate was dreamed up by the Heritage Foundation and supported by Newt Gingrich.  A lot of Republicans, maybe not a majority of them, but a lot of them, supported it up until the moment Democrats in Congress started moving the idea through committee.  Then suddenly Republican opposition to the idea becomes unanimous.  This obviously had nothing to do with the individual mandate itself.  If that was a good idea in 1994, it was still a good idea in 2009.  Something else changed. None of the Republicans ever gave us a frank explanantion about why they changed their minds. Again, I'd guess that it was just a craven partisan game Republicans decided to play, but, the "the President was now black and they were racist" explanation also lines up with what little evidence we have.

Immigration is inherently a racial issue.  Our government either has to let everyone in, or discriminate on the basis of race and national origin.  I don't want to let everyone in, and neither do you.  So we are both a little bit racist.  We both practice a little bit of discrimination on the basis of national origin.  Let's have a thicker skin about it.  People will call us out.  Take your lumps and move on.

I think you're exaggerating with the
voter intimidation example.  They didn't prevent anyone from entering.  They may have scared some people off with their words and their appearance, but they didn't block the door.  I also think they should have been prosecuted, but, the fact that they left when police asked them to leave makes it unlikely that a jury would have convicted them.

Tell me why you think I'm rewriting history regarding Manson and his followers.

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