TIL when Republicans in Congress sponsored legislation making lynching a federal crime, Democrats filibustered the bill and defeated it.

Southern strategy claim debunked: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/04/the-southern-strategy-debunked-again.php

This article doesn't debunk it at all, it provides obscure statistics from the 50s but doesn't actually disprove the southern strategy. It's easy to disprove on paper but southern strategy is more of a mind set for the GOP and it always has.

37.6% of food stamps were being allotted to White non-Hispanics. African Americans were allotted 23.6% of SNAP benefits.

Well according to pew research 15% of whites will have been on food stamps at some point in their lives. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/12/the-politics-and-demographics-of-food-stamp-recipients/

Conservatives are opposed to a huge government constantly getting bigger, taxing more, and making regulations endlessly. We view power as a zero sum game. Power is finite and with every right or freedom the government takes over, the less rights and power the people have to decide their own destinies.

If conservatives are so opposed to big government and government spending than how do you explain the massive defence spending, wasteful procurement process, over inflated security/intelligence system, ridiculous tax cuts to big corporations and the fact that conservatives have not left the Oval Office with a balanced budget in decades. Regulations are necessary when industry is irresponsible and can't police themselves especially in places like Texas where deregulation has attracted dirty industry. Texas leads the country in industrial accidents. If conservatives had their way then the environment would be trashed but because the GOP are science deniers they aren't bothered by any of it.

We want smaller government not no government. Liberals always play this false all or nothing claim. We feel that economic opportunities are far better for all people than endless government subsidy slavery.

There needs to be a balance with subsidies but republicans seem like poor people should just stop being lazy and pull themselves up, some people are lazy but most just don't have the opportunity that others have and it's shitty that they get lumped in with the lazy.

This comes down to political philosophy. I follow the beliefs of the founding fathers, classical liberals but not Leftist Liberals. I view today's Liberal progressive Left as being a static, rigid path to classical socialism... nothing more.

The liberal left is conflated by the right to looking like socialists and macarthyism from the 50s still leaves a bad taste in people's mouth where they equate socialism to communism which its not. Their is massive social inequality in the US which is a result of conservative fiscal policy. A touch of socialism can bring that inequality back to manageable levels. It's easy to see the left for its most extreme examples as well is its easy to see the right as fascist based on its furthest right example.

As a Conservative I believe that America offers a different path towards raising all members of society economically, politically, socially, personally. Socialism is diametrically opposed to my political, economic, and personal goals. Socialism has been a disaster for every society that has tried it historically. There is a reason for that failure. Please consider why it has failed in the past....

You need to study some history man. Europe has thrived under social democracy so has canada. I'm sure you can find negative points to any of these countries but a book can be written about the problems with the US stemming from conservative policy.

I believe that the Tea Party movement is a response to a black man in the Oval Office and conservative appeasement of these whack jobs has done a serious disservice to the right. I used to consider myself a centrist until people like Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin hijacked the gop and all the Anti-scientific and pro-religious sentiments were amplified and became central to the party. I find it archaic that these principals are defended by the right but I still don't judge the whole side based on its worst cases.

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