The reasoning was if you weren’t paying so much interest to banks, you could pay more in taxes.

Liberals do so think of themselves as the highest evolution of man. They think they are better than anyone else and treat all non-fellow travellers with contempt. The only “liberals” they disavow are Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mugabe because they massively killed people, but only a grudging disavowal.

Also I find it funny that one of the greatest times of change, was not brought on by a democrat, but by the first republican President. The more I learn about the Republican party, the more I realize that this is the instrument for change, for the better, in this country. – Lorica

In 1954 the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., declaring separate facilities by race to be unconstitutional. Blacks in the South used legal suits, mass sit-ins, and boycotts to hasten desegregation. A march on Washington by over 200,000 in 1963 dramatized the movement to end Jim Crow. Southern whites often responded with violence, and federal troops were needed to preserve order and protect blacks, notably at Little Rock, Ark. (1957), Oxford, Miss. (1962), and Selma, Ala. (1965). The Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 finally ended the legal sanctions to Jim Crow.

These Acts force the Southern States to Follow the US Constitution and the States to over see that Private Businesses were and are obeying the law of the United States.

It’s a tried and true approach liberals often use in arguments, thinking they are clever, in order to derail any discussion or focus on the real issues. Common practice when you have no facts or connection to reality, it’s intellectually lazy and dishonest, and you tend to practice it a lot around here. And I suspect everyone sees thru your little attempts at obsfucation.

The civil rights act was explicitly going beyond the constitution and limiting private discrimination too. That woolworth’s lunch counter? That wasnt constiutional.

For one thing it wasn’t “Liberalizing” it was reaffirming rights granted to everyone under our Constitution it was the Federal Government forcing States to do away with the “Jim Crow Laws”. The Jim Crow Laws in the Southern States was an “in your face thing” to the Federal Government after the Civil War. After WW2 there was a movement to end the Jim Crow Laws it was in the 50’s that the Supreme Court ruled that the Univ. of Texas must admit a black. You have no idea what Conservatism is, the people that wanted to keep the Jim Crow Laws they were prejudges or racists they were not and have no resemblance to Conservatives. Read a little history Andrew you might be enlightened.

again? people are asking about it and i’m addressing it. But its not nitpicking — sowell used it as an example, he wasn’t nitpicking — and he’s wrong.

“And gee, if all those Democrats turned Republican, how does that account for Robert “KKK” Byrd?”

Some of them turned towards civil rights. But I don’t think we still have democrats against civil rights. They either left the party or shaped up.

And gee, if all those Democrats turned Republican, how does that account for Robert “KKK” Byrd?

Of course not. Some people were for progress, for liberalizing. And some people were for conserving the old ways. Conservatism. And party makeups of today don’t really match that.

Sowell is trying to make a point about liberalism by talking about democrats in the 60’s. Loads of democrats in the 60’s were definately not liberal. Loads of them wanted to conserve the old ways.

“And its those democrats that don’t vote democrat anymore.”

Hey Andrew that’s because most of those Democrats are dead now, Oh but I forgot they can still vote Democrat.