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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat I will say if Roy Moore wins tomorrow:
Fifty some years ago, when I was much younger, Alabama had a reputation
It was a rough scofflaw countryside of unreconstructed Confederates, still angry that Greatgranpaw lost the civil war, a place whose governor promised to defy federal law and said a few funerals would end the civil rights movement, a land where uniformed police attacked nonviolent protestors, where Klansmen dynamited churches and "good folk" protected violent ones in a great conspiracy of silence
With the passage of time, the dreadful wounds of that era became scars for many people. But now we have learned, clearly, decisively, that unreconstructed Confederates still hold Alabama, with the old carefully-cultivated grievance -- Greatgreatgranpaw's defeat -- still festering and newer (also carefully-cultivated) grievances, such as the fact that the federal government finally prosecuted some church-bombers
Of course, these miraculously never-healing wounds are dressed with more socially-acceptable bandages, the most common being the same claims of Christian piety which once masked the cruelties of slavery and later unleashed cross-burning lynch mobs as the guardians of white Christian civilization. Behind the loud protestations of Christian mission from Alabamians who despise the federal government and want to undo the amendments that the Party of Lincoln bequeathed unto us in the 1860s, there hide the familiar Confederate ghosts, daily picking the scabby sores of their haunted descendants, determined never to forgive nor forget the demythologizing of Greatgreatgranpaw and Greatgranpaw and the church bombers
It is all of one piece, of course: contempt for the rights of blacks, contempt for the rights of women, contempt for the rights of little girls. Lack of personal discipline and restraint naturally spreads. But in this case, we must note with some regret, the GOP has for many decades been cultivating such contempts in hopes of electoral gain: contempt for the poor, contempt for the migrant, an ever-growing list of people to despise
This is a time of crisis. We have survived hard times in the past and we can survive this one, but there will be a cost to us all
samnsara
(17,622 posts)...will be all over them for a looooooong time..
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)This is more than just Alabama
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,625 posts)I am proud to K&R.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)It should no longer be considered a respectable political party, but a despicable virus of all things evil and ugly that needs to be eradicated before it contaminates the entire planet.
lastlib
(23,238 posts)a fabulously wealthy mover on Wall Street. Now, all these years later, I want to go into demolition work. I want to be the guy who pushes the plunger to set off the detonation to demolish Repuglikan headquarters--with the last two surviving repuglikans inside!
I want the ringside seat to the total destruction of the Repuglikan party. And then I want to drive the bulldozer that pushes the wreckage into the grave.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,294 posts)Democrats win! Moore elected to Senate.
lastlib
(23,238 posts)meow2u3
(24,764 posts)lostnfound
(16,179 posts)If Doug Jones gets elected, senate dems better treat him and his state very well. The first cut is the deepest, if they do it once it might be easier next time.
PatrickforO
(14,576 posts)Hate is like an acid that eats away at the social, moral and economic fabric of this nation.
Sometimes, I feel like I'm in a world that has already moved on; a world that will never be the same, never even have a chance at reaching its potential for good. Wading through a noisome swamp of hate, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, and racism.
Yeah, we'll survive, I guess. But what will we awaken to Wednesday morning?
sheshe2
(83,773 posts)Thank you, s4p.