Victor Davis Hanson Comparison of US Now and the Soviet Union Then

At least Biden is NOT in a wheelchair... He can still fake like he can walk around on his own.

 

Bullshit

 

it’s best put your brain in gear before putting your mouth (of fingers) in motion. That was both schools. Please try again later.

 

Simmer down. Was just humor from the way you wrote the sentence

 

I could see some arguments against busing, it is wasteful in terms of fuel and time. But obviously the freakshows out there protesting integration during civil rights weren’t doing so because of fuel waste.

Obviously the way “separate but equal” worked was a joke, and arguably still the issue now wherever there is a school on “the other side of the tracks” that gets neglected compared to a nice school near a ritzy neighborhood. That scenario should never exist anywhere public dollars are involved, it’s basically back to separate but unequal. I don’t think school choice solves this either, because the “choices” in a lot of cases end up being poor.

 

Wrong. It was a Dem controlled congress. You can, however, laud the northern pubs who voted for the act, helping to achieve what was then a 2/3 vote.

U.S. Senate: Landmark Legislation: The Civil Rights Act of 1964.

 

RINO’s!

 

Yep, conservative southern Democrats voted against it for the most part but it passed because enough progressive northern Republicans voted for it.

Obviously different times

 

So you had no opposition to desegregation before or when it was happening? Just want to get you on record here before I go pull the receipts.

 

Claims pub congress, criticizes another poster for not knowing history.

Doubles down on pub congress claim.

Claims other poster is lazy for "not knowing the makeup of the congress in 1964." Let's check the facts . . .

At the time, a two-thirds vote, or sixty-seven senators, was required to invoke cloture and cut off debate in the Senate. Since southern Democrats opposed the legislation, votes from a substantial number of senators in the Republican minority would be needed to end the filibuster.
U.S. Senate: Landmark Legislation: The Civil Rights Act of 1964.

 

I just think it’s hilarious that apparently none of our resident social “conservatives” were conservative on any of the issues where conservatism was abhorrently wrong in the last 60 years. Which is basically all of them.

 

It was a fact. The price at the pump did peak at $5.09 in June 2022, it was $3.59 when I posted around 10 days ago. It's dropped to $3.49 since then.
By the way, this was the average price per gallon at the pump nationally in 2022.

 

Correct but you’re too biased to appreciate it.
Sad.

 

Also fact: The Republican Party chose to nominate one of those no votes on the Civil Rights Act for President in 1964. Thus, the process of the shifting position on racial issue begins in earnest. Possibly the most visible supporter of that "no" on civil rights voter? Ronald Reagan.

 

cool stories and thanks for sharing. But your personal experience aside I still maintain that CONSERVATIVES fought against desegregation while PROGRESSIVES fought for it. Do you disagree with this overall sentiment?

 

Washington High is the white kid school now which is funny. PHS needed the IB program infused into it to keep it from closing due to terrible testing scores. When I went to IB @ PHS I was in a clear minority as a white person.

 

The overwhelming majority of Republicans did vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Today's Republican Party is much more like the Southern Democrats/Dixiecrats than it is like the Republican Party of the 1960s. In fact a number of Southern Democrats have become Republicans among them the late Strom Thurmond who ran for president on the Dixiecrat ticket in 1948 in protest of the civil rights plank in the platform of the Democratic Party that year. Jesse Helms and Jeff Sessions were originally Southern Democrats who became Republicans. The John Lewis Voting Rights Act passed the House in 2021 and was blocked by Republicans in the Senate. The reality is that the overwhelming majority of 1960s Republicans would be called RINOs and would be excommunicated from the party by today's MAGA Republicans.

 

LOL @ETGator just hitting me with the “disagree.” Care to explain yourself? Are you really trying to argue conservatives were not opposed to desegregation? Lol. At least make an attempt to operate in reality.