Sandy Clark, CGCS said: Larry, for historical purposes it should be noted that the so-called tolerant left were the politicians that fought hardest against integration. At the time, southern democrats had far more KKK members than the republicans. It took heavy republican voting to get LBJ's integration efforts through congress. Good old Robert Byrd and Al Gore's dad and others fought against equality tooth and nail! It is funny that you hear about a couple of the old long gone republicans being racists early in their careers but Bryd was always held in high esteem when he supposedly rejected segregation. The press and the democrat party is always the first to play the race card when in fact, the republicans offer equal opportunity to succeed. Remember, Lincoln was a republican.
As my buddy D=Mc2 pointed out to me once, his parents used to be Democrats (may have been grandparents) but ya political parties do change. From what I read, (and that may say more about what I read than what is necessarily the case)it looks to me that the conservatives are the ones who lack tolerance of others with an opposing view, be it race related or women's reproductive rights.
Hey, I don't live down there so I can only go by what I read, that is how it looks. To be honest I'm not overly impressed with Obama. His leadership skills don't seem to come close to his campaigning skills. Leadership is a lot more than making things happen. Leadership is about making a nation feel good about itself and I don't see that has happened
Like, it seems that the only way to power down there these days is to have the money, not the ideas. That to me is the biggest shame. Instead of running these high cost, most money wins, republican primaries (or whatever you call them)why don't they just say, we are holding our convention on such and such a date at this town. People say they are going to run for leader and you have a vote after seeing them speak. Last man standing gets the job.
That is how our parties elect a leader and we end up with normal humans who may be accountants or plumbers or farmers as leaders. The kind of money it takes in your system means you have eliminated just about all except the outrageously wealthy.... and their perspective may be completely out of whack with who they govern
I've wondered way off topic, so to some it up, to me it "looks" like democrats are more tolerant than republicans