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George Will: Quisling for Racists
As if it wasn't obvious before, here's a quote from one of his recent columns:
A candidate can succeed in giving an aggrieved minority a voice—e.g., George Wallace, speaking for people furious about the '60s tumults. A candidate can highlight an issue [I guess that would be blatant racist hatred, in Wallace's case], as Ross Perot did with the deficit in 1992. A candidate can advertise an entire agenda that the two major parties are slow to consider, as Socialist candidate Norman Thomas did several times [pfft: that doesn't even rise to the level of "sop"]. But the winner-take-all policy by which 48 states allocate electoral votes buttresses the two major parties. (Maine and Nebraska give an electoral vote to the winner of each of their congressional districts, and the two votes for their senators to the winner of the statewide popular vote, but neither state has ever had a divided allocation.) In 1992, Perot won 18.9 percent of the popular vote—and no electoral votes. In 1924, Wisconsin Sen. Robert La Follette, the Progressive Party's candidate, won almost 5 million votes (16.6 percent) but carried only Wisconsin.
In 1948, however, South Carolina's Gov. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' candidate, won only 2.4 percent of the vote but carried four Southern states with 38 electoral votes. The most spectacular popular participation in presidential politics outside the two-party framework got Wallace on all 50 states' ballots in 1968, [woohoo! Doesn't that just make you proud to be 'Merican?] when impediments to ballot access were much more onerous than they are today. In California, he had to get 66,000 signatures—not a daunting number, but he had to get them in 1967, and every person had to fill out a two-page legal-size form. In Ohio, he had to get the absurd total of 433,000—in just 10 weeks. In November he won only 12.9 percent of the vote, but carried five Southern states with 45 electoral votes. [I'm tearing up, just thinking about it! Poor George Wallace: thank everything that's holy that his illegitimate quadroon love child didn't make it to the light of day back then!]
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Ahh, those were the days....George Wallace and the "silent majority" of the "Southern Strategy", makin' the world safe for poor white folks! Strom Thurmond! the world would have been so much better if he'd won the 48 election, eh Trent?
It's just amazing that this kind of racial baiting is still being tolerated in our society--much less by someone styled as a "mainstream" "journalist": it's way past time to recognize what the South really meant by "states rights" and what the "Stars and Bars" mean today. Nothing less than what the Swastika meant and continues to mean to present day Europeans and Germans in particular. Is history written by the "winners"? If so, then who really won the American Civil War? While it should be a source of undying shame, it has unfortunately become the rallying cry of unrepentant racists, who find common cause with their conservative power broker kin: useful idiots who assist with the conversion of our society into a Banana Republic, and their own subjugation to serfdom.
Thanks alot, NASCAR fans!
