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WHAT THE REAGAN SNOBS DID ABOUT POPULISM | 2016-03-24

You now have a clear example of how snobs handle things from the AFP's instantly handing its campaign over to Taylor without consulting me.

Eyeslevel and Laura looked up an old article in National Review that attacked me as advocating "Country and Western Marxism." They saw those thousands of real working people who paid for their own buses from South Boston and Louisville to march against busing, and the thousands of fundamentalist Christians who were protesting dirty textbooks as "Marxists!"

Bill Rusher and I finally won our basic fight to get Reagan to "appeal" to what were called "Wallace Democrats" or "Marxists."

As of Election Day 1980 they were suddenly the deciding factor, the "Reagan Democrats."

An appeal to that base, working people, seemed inevitable.

But the snobs avoided dealing with working people using the example of the leftists they worshipped.

I always put the Black "vote" in quotes because when it counts, Black people don't vote. Blacks and other minorities are owned outright by their owners. Coat and tie leftists do not have to speak to Blacks. They talk to Black "leaders".

As I said, everybody knows this. The 2010 United States Senate primary can be explained no other way. Even after I explained this, one BUGS commenter said we should get a copy of the list they hand out.

I had to explain, AGAIN, that anyone who produced that list would be ignored and ruined.

I repeat: Everybody KNOWS how minority "votes" are handled.

When they finally had to admit they needed the dirty old working people's vote, Reagan types used their leftist heroes' method of avoiding dealing with working people.

The GOP went to people who owned a bloc of working class vote.

As with Blacks, they went to the preachers.

So instead of a populist appeal, conservatives went to the TV preachers. Instead of working Americans, they went to the preachers and instead of an anti-busing appeal, they had The Religious Right.

This is a very important history that no one knows.

But it is critical.

Today the vote I wanted Reagan to go after is the rebellious Trump voter.

He is not to be put off by screaming "ABORTION" or some other non-issue.

The Trump electorate is the one conservatives avoided after 1980.

COMMENTS (3)

#1 Simmons | 2016-03-25 07:13

It was me who wanted a physical specimen of the voting list, sorry to send you off into a spin there

So ignore me Bob.

To the rest I say if we could produce that physical specimen we can undermine the womanish gossipy type politics that have dominated since Bob learned to shave.

We have the new media that is like the bugs in the movie "Tremors."

As Trump's personal politics show we are probably an election cycle away from people paying the old dinosaur media to "ruin" them.

#2 Bob | 2016-03-25 09:59

Repetition is what I do, so here goes:

For the third time, a "physical specimen" is easy to get and if you bring it in, you and it will be ignored.

Please read the article. This stops all relevant comments.

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#3 -Gar5- | 2016-03-26 05:26

I remember Bob saying about how Semmelweisse went insane because those Hungarian doctors refused to wash their hands because it was embarrassing to their "superior intellects" and education.

You can see this is exactly the same mentality that the respectables have. They would take their private planes to a fancy dinner, rather than take a public bus to a mud filled village and meet and greet the uneducated plebs who would be giving them votes.

So basically the political system is a bunch of snobs fighting over what kind of "-cracy" should rule. The only thing they all agree on is that it should not be a DEMO-cracy. Because the majority is not "educated" and therefore their opinions are worthless.