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The Parties switching is a myth. Only handful changed sides. Way to rewrite history. Well sourced: https://soapboxie.com/us-politics/Debunking-the-Myth-GOP-and
by 551199 10y ago
The Parties switching is a myth. Only handful changed sides. Way to rewrite history.
Well sourced: https://soapboxie.com/us-politics/Debunking-the-Myth-GOP-and-Democrats-Switched-Positions-on-Race https://soapboxie.com/us-politics/Debunking-the-Myth-GOP-and...
Dinesh D'Souza The Switch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJCVVbDlYhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJCVVbDlYhQ
You shouldn't downvote just because it doesn't fit your narrative.
- woofyman 10y agoIt's not well sourced. Your sources are from Republican partisans.
- splitrocket 10y agoPerhaps the former chairman of the Republican party can inform you of exactly what the Republican party stands for: https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-inf...
- CalChris 10y agoThat would be convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza, author of such timeless classics as Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me about Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party. Didn't he get fired from King's College for cheating on his wife?
- Karunamon 10y agoAnd this would be a textbook example of an ad hominem fallacy.
- kelukelugames 10y agoNo, he got paid to speak about the importance of family and the evils of gay marriage.
- Karunamon 10y agoAnd this has what to do with the correctness or incorrectness of his analysis?
- jungturk 10y agoBeing able to practice what one preaches is a useful heuristic on how authentically one holds that position.
- Karunamon 10y ago..which is still a poor proxy for correctness or incorrectness.
- kelukelugames 10y agok, but the people who fired him for it disagree
- woofyman 10y agoHe makes a living being a partisan Republican. That means he can't be impartial.
- CalChris 10y agoUm, no. An ad hominem argument would be if I were attacking 551199's character which I'm not. Instead, 551199 cited D'Souza as a reliable source and I attacked D'Souza's character. See the difference? Good. I am however, impeaching D'Souza's credibility as a source.
- mjmsmith 10y agoOn the other hand, the fact that a blowhard troll like Dinesh D'Souza passes for an intellectual in the modern Republican party is more evidence that they're definitely not elitists.
- padseeker 10y agoThis whole Dinesh D'Souza tangent is a distraction to avoid talking about the issue at hand. I think its safe to say that one the guiding principles of the modern Republican party is that less government regulation is better for everyone. So why is the party that always advocates for less regulation and more competition REGULATING the energy market and RESTRICTING competition? Maybe because they aren't really for less regulation and more competition. Maybe they are about protecting the status quo? Squaring the less regulation/more competition principles against this Wyoming law, or the anti-Tesla legislation in conservative states seems to indicate that these "principles" are an idealogical front to justify at least what some people want - Protecting their interests.
- _andromeda_ 10y ago>You shouldn't downvote just because it doesn't fit your narrative. Get used to it. Folks on HN often downvote anything that's counter-liberal. I post my Austrian views a lot and I get downvoted a lot. Voted you up BTW.