The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127796 Message #2861419
Posted By: Bobert
10-Mar-10 - 06:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Rightie Supremes in a Pickle???
Subject: RE: BS: Rightie Supremes in a Pickle???
Yeah, what Carol said... They got these things called, ahhhhhhh, history books where you can learn lots of stuff about the evolution of today's political parties...
If ya' find the right one that isn't into mythology it will even talk about the Dixiecrats, which BTW evolved into todays Republican Party... Some will talk about the Civil Rights Movement and somw will actaully quote Lyndon Johnson in saying that in the Dems getting behind the Civil Rights Act that they would suffer in the South for decades... He got that right unless, of course, it turns into centuries...
This stuff is all fairly well documented in lots of real history books... Og course there are plenty of mythology/history books with Netgroes comin' to help out the colonists in 1619... They got the date right but they gloss over the fact that these folks were kidnapped from their families and brought against their will to do work for people who thiught that people could be, ahhhhhh, owned... Yeah, plenty of mythology out there... I actually took a class in the 60's entitled "History of the South" which was taught by Dr. Rogers, the head of VCU's history department... It was filled with mythology... Like they say, garbage in, garbage out... It takes more than learning up the company fight song to understand the entire story as it really was and is... If yer not willing to question the comapny fight song then yer never ever going to have the facts that are required to make informed decisions or form informed opinions...