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Republicans are "afraid" of unknowns. People, places things. It seems to be wired in. They are not really racists, just they are "afraid." Probably goes back to ancient days. Who is that stranger? Do they carry a disease, will they take my wife, etc. Why take a chance?

While Democrats seem to welcome the unknown. Take that chance. Lets just take a leap. WTF, life is to experience it all. And then we die.

Seems that we are really not ready to live in urban areas yet, with all these foreign "tribes", amazed we all do.

Conservative friends: OMG that food is so spicy, how can you eat it?

Liberal friends: Give me more spice! Pile it on!

I'm an old WASP, pile on the spice, drop me off where I don't speak the language, can't figure out the food, toilet paper? What's that? Life is so short, I'm ready to just take any chance.

Mars? Sign me up, one way is better.

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Doesn't explain why Republicans freed the slaves and Democrats fought for 60 years to bring it back... but whatever floats your boat.

I wish you best of luck to your trip to Mars. Hope it is one way.

The republicans carry most of the south these days. I guess this means the confederacy was strongly pro-Lincoln? Presumably the whole civil war thing was fake news?

Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with him, it's pretty clear he's talking about the modern republican party. Ie the coalition that was formed as a backlash to the civil rights act.

If you disagree with him (and there are legit reasons to), then write your views opposed to him, don't try to misrepresent his view and argue against that instead.

The "backlash" was from former Democrats who were brainwashed for decades to hate the blacks who then decided to support the Republican party as a revenge because they felt betrayed by the Democratic Party when they switched their position on black people... not very different from some former Bernie supporters voting Trump.

If Republicans as a whole are now "afraid of blacks" because a small southern group joined it as a revenge then would you also say that now they are also afraid of capitalism because some Bernie supporters joined it?

The Republican party that freed the slaves is not the current Republican party.

The Democrat party that fought to restore slavery is not the current Democrat party.

That stuff happened a long, long time ago.

They are ideologically equivalent to their historical counterparts at their cores.

Yep. Just look at Fox News front page: only crime and scare mongering, everywhere, from politics to everyday life. People wired to be afraid of life and looking for a strong figure in politics end up being Republicans. These and the religilous.

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