Gen zed rant8/12/2023 So, when I registered to vote, I chose another party. But some of the things he got done were not in the best interests of liberty for all, equality, or justice. When I came to South Dakota the most prominent Republican was Gov. The GOP drifted over to become the party of Jim Crow. And except for a two-year interlude with a fumbling tea-bagger, it has remained in Democratic hands. But the district which had voted Republican for its congress person for decades, voted for the Democrat. After a gerrymander of his district, he lost in a primary to a more conservative candidate from downstate, after a gerry-manner changed the boundaries. However, he torqued off some downstate bigots, who clung to segregationist values, because while serving on the House Judiciary Committee, he voted to impeach Nixon. After graduating from Moline High School, he went to Grinnell College, and then to Northwestern University law school. House after serving in the state legislature. A neighborhood playmate, Tom Railsback, a Lincoln Republican, served eight terms in the U.S. My second reason was literally a neighborhood one. The debate was about who advanced liberty, equality, and justice. There was little concern about what was liberal and what was conservative. Republicans under the leadership of President Eisenhower laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Acts of 19. The first was that during the civil rights movement, the Democrats were snarled up internally with the southern segregationists. ![]() (Some wing nuts will shout that we are a republic, not a democracy, unable to grasp that a republic is a form of democracy.) When I moved from Illinois to South Dakota in 1979, I was a registered Republican, a Lincoln Republican. There is much confusion about where the two major political parties stand currently in the development of our democracy. She’s been on record too often shoving South Dakotans (even Republican legislators!) of all ages and genders under the bus to lift her sagging, dead-on-arrival presidential prospects off the ground.Ĭonsidering the uselessness of the current state Democrat Party, the best move they can make right now is to get the hell out of the way and let that new generation of ticked-off activists control their own destinies. There’s no need to provide the litany of stupid and wrong policies that are the hallmark of deadbeat governor Kristi Noem. When those Greatest Generation voters died off, so did a base that could elect a statewide Democrat officeholder. That Greatest Generation of Americans were the ones who fueled the surge of Democrat Party victories in the 60s and 70s, and a two-party system in Pierre that survived until the later 90s. The last time so many people found themselves assaulted by GOP policies shoving America in harms way was in the 20s and 30s when Republican presidents and congressmen rammed the American economy into the Great Depression. ![]() That shift will come to South Dakota when enough people discover they’re the targets of GOP atrocities and not the beneficiaries. If the party isn’t in the same foxhole with Trump, they are in compliance to let Trump grab their presidential nomination and return to wrecking American institutions that protect our citizens’ safety and opportunities for growth and survival. There seems to be a recent and dramatic shift across the nation in states considered red or leaning red to reject the Republican Party’s platform of removing fundamental rights from wide swaths of the American electorate, law enforcement and institutions, and declaring total war on the rule of law, protection from climate disasters and American democracy.
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