Ted Cruz and wife harrassed

[Dill]

(10-01-2018, 02:59 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Rewriting history again?

The only thing the Right opposed is same sex marriage, everything else was opposed by the Left. I amazed you didn't throw in how it was the right who opposed freedom, lol.

I guess if you continue to say these lies, and you will because that's what the left does, the stupid in this country will believe it...eventually.

Yes, I'm calling you a liar Fred because that's what your post is, a big fat lie.

Oh, here comes the "Political Switch" after Civil Rights was passed...which is just another lie.

Very surprising claims here. You speak of "rewriting," but I wonder where you are getting your history.

Why would "the left," with its advocacy of equality, oppose the women's vote or equal rights for black Americans? Why would the right, with its advocacy of tradition, the status quo, and various forms of racial and gender inequality, support such rights? 

And what "political switch" are you referring to?  Perhaps the shift in party composition which occurred when the Democratic party came down hard on the side of civil rights for blacks in 1964-65?  Some conservatives (e.g., Ann Coulter) like to say "the Democrats supported segregation while we are the party of Lincoln" and such like.  (Dinesh D'Souza has even written a book linking the Democratic party to Nazis and Lincoln to Trump--The Big Lie--perhaps you have been reading that?)

But there was a time when the Democratic party was chock full of conservatives and the Republican party included many liberals.  Once you switch the terms from party labels to "liberals" or "conservatives"  or "left" and "right," the confusion disappears quickly. "Conservatives" have consistently opposed civil rights whenever they have been a matter of legislation. Since 1965, conservatives have concentrated themselves in the Republican party and kicked out the liberals. Over the last 20 years, the ultra-conservatives have even been pushing out traditional conservatives.  It is now the party of Trump--of border walls and Muslim bans and acceptance of misogyny in its leaders.

The question of who opposed what and when is an empirical question which can be answered by determining, for example, who marched with King in 1963 and who called him a Communist?  What were the stated beliefs of people who supported women's rights in 1919 and the beliefs of those who did not?  Was it "leftists" who said women were not intellectually equal to men, or that a woman's place was in the home?

I remember, back in the 50s and 60s, when fringe anti-communists like Billy James Hargis insisted that Nazis were really "leftists." That could work now,  given that contemporary Americans' sense of history is much weakened compared to the 50s and 60s. We live now in a post-truth era in which all one has to do is present "alternative facts" and people can chose the version of history which confirms their ideological leanings. LOL like all facts are equal, and so alternative facts of Regnery Press books are equal to whatever an international community of professional researchers (who cross-examine each other's work) has agreed on for decades.