The Ugly Racism of the Right Will Be Their Undoing

Watching the GOP morph into the National Association for the Advancement of White People should give us all hope, not despair.

With every passing day it gets harder to think of this sudden dialing-up of whiny hate speech as sheer coincidence. Instead, it's beginning to look inevitable -- so much so that maybe the real question is, What is it about health care that brings out the latent racism in the GOP? Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 4, 2009

Hoping for racism to completely take over the repugnican party so they remain a minority overlooks the possibility that they may get enough money together to advertize and elect their candidates anyway, again. A higher hope would be to reduce all racism, and put out of business those media outlets that foster racism.

The Obama people are always talking about how they don’t want the perfect to become the enemy of the good, and that often seems to suggest that they have no notion of ... More »

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by Randy Morrow - Aug. 5, 2009

Not all Republicans are racist, but if you are a racist these days, you’re probably a Republican. After all, the Medicare bill passed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 ... More »

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