Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Racism and Cruelty Drive GOP Health Care Agenda | Robert Scheer

Racism and Cruelty Drive GOP Health Care Agenda | Robert Scheer

Before he was disgraced into resigning his presidency over the Watergate burglary scandal, Richard Nixon had successfully engineered an even more odious plot known as his Southern Strategy. The trick was devilishly simple: Appeal to the persistent racist inclination of Southern whites by abandoning the Republican Party's historic association with civil rights and demonizing the black victims of the South's history of segregation...

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