Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "The Inconvenient Truth About the Republican Party | 5 Minute Video | PragerU" video.

  1. +DroppedTheBass "Girlie Gamer A quick Google search on the history of the "solid south" and the "southern strategy" would prove you wrong" Tried it and was not proven wrong. In order for the "switch" narrative to be true 2 things would have to have happened: 1. The Republican party or Republican candidates would have had to have adopted policies or rhetoric which appealed to white racists. 2. The Dixiecrats would have had to change parties to Republican. Not only can these assertions not be proven, they HAVE BEEN DISPROVEN. 1. Republican party platforms, candidates speeches, and legislative initiatives from the 1960s to the present are a matter of public record. Therefore it can be established that no appeal was made to white racists. 2. The names of the Dixiecrat politicians are known. There were over a hundred of them. Of all of those, only one changed parties. The rest remained Democrats till they died. The gradual change of the south from Democrat to Republican from 1950 to 2000 tracks demographically with the gradual southern rejection of racism in polling data. As racism went down, Republican identification went up. This "switch" slander falls apart everywhere it can be checked, and there is not one definitive fact that can be presented in support of it. If you were taught this in school, you were lied to in school.
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  2. We have to be careful using the word "progressive". Etymologically, it ought to mean being in favor of human progress, but it was first used by the Democrats in the Jim Crow days. It meant Socialism, Eugenics, and Jim Crow laws. Woodrow Wilson was a "progressive", on his watch the first film shown in the White House was the KKK promoting film "Birth of a Nation". He is credited with revitalizing the KKK as the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party. FDR was a progressive, he and Mussolini publicly admired one another, and he agreed to block anti-lynching federal legislation in exchange for southern congressmen's votes for the New Deal. Democrat support for eugenics has been swept under the historical rug since "nazis gave eugenics a bad name." It was all the rage in the first third of the 20th century, all "evolutionary" and "scientific". Margaret Sanger was a prominent eugenicist, who leaves as her legacy the organization she founded, Planned Parenthood.
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  3. Barry Goldwater was a staunch civil rights advocate and a member of the NAACP: https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/uncategorized/urban-legend-goldwater-against-civil-rights/
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  4. +Jay Ferguson " can be a 5 minute video detailing some flaws of the Republican Party." What a waste of resources that would be. Like carrying coal to Newcastle. The Republican Party gets ripped by the majority of TV and cable news outlets, movie and TV fiction, and an offsetting cadre of left wing Internet outlets. As Rush Limbaugh used to say of himself, Prager U doesn't have to give equal time, they ARE equal time. Prager U is more of a conservative than a Republican outlet, but the cause of truth is served well by defending Republicans against slander. One small unit can't cover the whole line of battle. Join the line where the line is thinnest.
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  5. At the time you were referring to "liberal" was the opposite of "progressive". " Liberal" meant promoting liberty, like libertarians. "Progressive" meant socialism, eugenics, and Jim Crow.
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  6. What profit? The money is in the opposite narrative!
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  7. The notion that Haiti and most African countries are shithole countries is not a racist notion, it a fact. Political correctness states that oppression isn't oppression if "brown folks" are doing the oppressiing. THAT is racism. The quote you ascribe to Roy Moore: 1. Supports strong families. 2. Rejects and opposes slavery. Nothing controversial here, unless we are supposed, through the magical decoder ring of political correctness, to "read between the lines" find a "dog whistle" or conduct some such transformational process on the words. David Duke calls himself a Republican. No Republican will have anything to do with him.
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  8. +Dan Williams "The things that the Republicans used to want are now the things that the Democrats want and the things Democrats used to want are now the things Republicans want." Name one. +The Almighty Jod "the Tea Party Movement which pulled the Republicans far enough to the right and up (authoritarianism)" The Tea Party is against authoritarianism, the left is for it. +travincal1 "The "ethnonationalists" of the world associate themselves with the political RIGHT." So when Joseph Stalin actually murders millions and associates himself with the LEFT, does that discredit YOU? +Micheal Manshiem "1800's Democrats conservatives are the TODAY'S Republicans conservatives. Republicans progressives (Party of Abraham Lincoln) are the TODAY'S Democrats progressives." Wow! So much equivocation in one sentence. To disentangle this Gordian logic knot we need to define some terms: 1. Conservative. Whether conservatism is good or bad depends on what one is trying to conserve. Today the term "conservative" is used for those who wish to conserve the enumerated freedoms of the Constitution and limited government. 2. Progressive. The term progressive began to be used politically in the early 20th century. Etymologically, it ought to mean being in favor of human progress, but it was first used by the Democrats in the Jim Crow days. It meant Socialism, Eugenics, and Jim Crow laws. Woodrow Wilson was a "progressive", on his watch the first film shown in the White House was the KKK promoting film "Birth of a Nation". He is credited with revitalizing the KKK as the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party. FDR was a progressive, he and Mussolini publicly admired one another, and he agreed to block anti-lynching federal legislation in exchange for southern congressmen's votes for the New Deal. Democrat support for eugenics has been swept under the historical rug since "nazis gave eugenics a bad name." It was all the rage in the first third of the 20th century, all "evolutionary" and "scientific". Margaret Sanger was a prominent eugenicist, who leaves as her legacy the organization she founded, Planned Parenthood. In this context "progressive" is understood as not an opposite to "conservative" but to what was then called "liberal" and is now called "libertarian" So modern Democrat policies can be understood as "progressive" in the historical sense. As such, they are the modern manifestation and continuation of historical Democrat authoritarian policies. Republican policies can be understood as more "libertarian", on the whole, than Democrat policies. The continued and unaltered theme is "freedom and equality under the law", a continuation of the policies of Lincoln. +Travis Himebaugh David Duke choosing to call himself Republican may be evidence that he believed in the "switch". It is not evidence that it is true.
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  9. Ah, no, we treat minorities the same as everybody else on those issues, too.
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