[richw]

Before

Lydon Johnson killed Kennedy and stole the White House the country was pretty much a white guy affair. We dickered about a few percentage points of taxes and Union vs owners but generally we knew good from bad. It was easy to come together on any major issues and there was no point in real back stabbing.

Johnson wanted to be the NEW ROOSEVELT so he set upon the war on prosperity, Vietnam, civil rights, EPA, OSHA etc. The result of this was to polarize the electorate into to evenly divided camps. With a 50 to 50 split then racial, ghey, Hispanic etc. all could be that critical point or 2 that put you over the top. To me only civil rights made sense the rest was a giant bureaucratic nightmare designed to destroy our industrial base and security.

So now we are left with any small group capable of throwing an election. The children suffer from the NEA the people suffer from CSEA unions.

SO we are stuck with this level of BS until somebody does something where Joe Six Pack white guy clearly sees what way to go. If somebody looses by 5% then these minorities will be insignificant and no longer patronized.


Note Nixon a repu. did sign these things into law in 1970 and civil rights were boiling by the end of the 50's