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Naturally you'd drink Zinn's kool-aid.
When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring?
The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone's miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I'll never read the whole thing, and not because it's a left-wing screed full of slimy distortions about the evils of the United States (though that doesn't help). It's that it's boring.
Stone and co-author Peter Kuznick call their book "The Untold History of the United States," except, again, it isn't. This story has been told countless times before. As the Daily Beast's Michael Moynihan notes in a devastating review, Stone...
George Wallace is the perfect example.
Ever hear of Hubert Humphrey, Madame Clueless? Or have you read the writings of prominent conservatives such as William Buckley or James Kilpatrick in defense of racial segregation? And why is it that Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan both opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Voting Rights Act? BTW, Goldwater swept the deep south in the 1964 election, while losing every other state except Arizona.
The republicans who supported the civil rights acts of the 1960s were mostly moderates and liberals -- not conservatives.
You are proudly and shamelessly clueless. The Democrat party was the party of slavery, Bull Conner, the KKK, and Jim Crow laws. Democrats fought passionately against rights for blacks - forcing America into a Civil War - and they continued opposing civil rights right up through the 60's - it took Republicans to end slavery, fight Jim Crow laws, oppose Bull Conner, and neutralize the KKK.
Democrats are just as racist as they've always been - they're just more subtle about it now.