Subject: Re: TOP SECRET//NOFORN
Interesting. I say the same thing in reverse: The democrats have embraced socialism, racialist rhetoric that is designed to divide the country, are incompetent at governing, and endorse disastrous policies that Do. Not. Work. and in fact fail every time they try

I think if you look, you'll find that some Dems have embraced that a blend of socialism and democratic regulated capitalism is the best for the happiness of the people and look to the Nordic countries as examples of success. Like 1pg I was conservative. I remember sitting in a conference on Japanese internment during WW2. I knew about the internment of our Japanese, but didn't know we let Peru and other Latin American countries ship their Japanese to our internment camps. And after the war, Peru didn't want them, so they were shipped to Japan, where they were not wanted and abuse by the Japanese. That was about the time I began shifting away from Conservativism.

Dems don't have the equivalent of RINO, which is rhetoric designed to divide. Look at the country now, is it failing? If you are honest, it isn't - far from it. And when someone says "endorse disastrous policies that Do. Not. Work. and in fact fail every time they try" they are just engaging in divisive meaningless rhetoric. And I see intelligent commentary that addresses all your complaints and it never phases you in the slightest.

When I first got to the Philippines I was honest with my friends about the USA, that we have a racist core that is not small and it's just below the surface most of the time. It gets votes, so it's pandered to. I kept going back to these two quotes to illustrate.

You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger''that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.' 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'Nigger, nigger.' Lee Atwater 1981


'If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.'
― Lyndon B. Johnson