Coding

An excellent post by Digby (guesting at Jane's) on the language of the Republicans. Waste some of your boss' money this morning and take the time to read it. It ain't yer grandaddy's "nigger, nigger, nigger" anymore.

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"You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.

"And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me - because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'Nigger, nigger."'

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That's a quote from uber-Rethug Lee Atwater. Ladies and germs, it's time for everyone to realize the Republican Party does not have the best interests of the United States in mind. Their policy, has been since the Civil War, is to make rich, white folks the priveliged class at the expense of all others. It's not just a difference in point of view toward policy, it is a calculated process to bring the United States squarely and permanently under their control.