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OK, so the full blown crazies who live in compounds in the midwest and shoot at FBI agents probably don't vote or belong to any particular party, but you are the one who is being naive if you think the good old boy southern redneck klan member isn't deeply involved in republican politics. When you think republican, think David Duke.

Maybe, just maybe not every republican is a member of the klan, but every member of the klan who does vote, votes republican. Don't confuse crazy skinheads from the pacific northwest with good old fashioned crackers from the south. They are a different species.




Utter hogwash. And you're smarter than this. Is David Duke still a registered Repub? I'm asking, because I don't know. I seriously doubt that anyone, outside of the leftist lunatic fringe, thinks David Duke when they think GOP. Anymore than people think Al Sharpton when they think Democrat. It's easy to paint your opponent with a ridiculous brush, but it's a bit harder to debate the real issues. That goes for both sides.

"Maybe not every Republican is a member of the Klan". Total strawman, and you know it. Maybe not every Dem is a pedo, but every pedo votes. One statement is as stupid as the other.

This is the reason that I don't argue politics anymore. No one wants to talk about the real problems we face. Obama's birth certificate, the Tea Parties, who lives next door to Palin, whether the guy from BP goes yaghting (jondra...I'm too high and lazy and watching Sleepy Hollow to give a fuck about spelling), whether Biden is a foole or not. Whether DeMint wears a fucking point hood or not. Who needs to think or research or even have a bloody clue to throw that kind of shit around? It's easy. And lazy.

Now, as to racist whackjobs in my Great Northwest vs. racist whackjobs in the South, sure, I suppose you're probably right. Racism is still pretty institutional, going in every direction. The sorry fact is that no matter where you go, folks are going to hate each other for a variety of stupid ass reasons. Not everyone of course, but enough. But we're still talking members of the Klan. And I really think you don't know about modern Klan ideology and dogma. Garden variety, "I hates niggers cuz my Daddy hated niggers" peckerwoods vote (for the most part). But as a group, your hardcore, card carrying, white sheet wearing, cross burning Klan guys are simply a different breed from your standard issue bigots. Their boogeymen aren't very different than the fears of the ones we have up here. This isn't the 60's. They all read the same websites and post to the same forums. They all hate and distrust both parties. No matter what.

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