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The Big Switch, Is The BIG Lie

Like a lot of Democrats he's (Bill Maher) relying on the big switch. That's the 
idea that the Democrats got racially enlightened and became the good guys, 
whereas the racists in the Democratic Party all became Republicans.

The big switch seems to be supported by the fact that blacks who used to vote 
Republican did switch over to the Democratic Party. Also Southern whites who 
used to uniformly vote Democratic, now vote Republican.

Then there's Senator Strom Thurmond, the racist Democrat who became a 
Republican. Even many Republicans today believe in the big switch.

But wait a minute. Blacks switched to the Democratic Party in the 1930s, based 
on the promises of the New Deal.

They didn't do it because of race.

Many reluctantly moved to the Democratic Party knowing they were joining the 
party of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. Southern whites moved over to the 
Republican Party much later during the 1970s through the 90's as the South 
became more prosperous.

Racism had declined dramatically in the South. So as the South became less 
racist it became more Republican.

So blacks and whites both switched parties for economic reasons. The proof of 
this is in Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston's book "The End of Southern 
Exceptionalism."

The authors provide data to show that the poorest most racist whites never 
switched. The ones that did switch were the non-racists who were attracted to 
the Republican Party's message of opportunity prosperity and upward mobility.

So what about Strom Thurmond? Was he typical?

How many racists in the Democratic Party leadership switched and became 
Republicans? Let's make a list and we'll see who switched.

We'll start with the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan.

Now let's add in the leaders of the various racist organizations... and  
Democratic congressmen and Democratic senators from 1860 all the way to 2000.

Let's throw in all the people who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

So there they are... all 1600 of them. 

Ready for the big switch?

We'll go from Democratic blue to Republican red. So here it is. Yes that's it.

Less than one percent.

THE BIG SWITCH IS A BIG LIE.

The Democrats didn't switch from being the bad guys to the good guys. They  
simply found a new and bigger scam.

In a Great Migration, millions of Southern blacks moved north to the cities. 
They were joined by millions of immigrants from all over the world so the 
Democrats got an idea: "Let's recreate the plantation but now do it in the 
inner city."

I'm not the first to call these neighborhoods plantations.

Here is Obama reading from his book Dreams From My Father:

"Seemed like we'd always be second-class citizens. Plantation politics. The man 
with the newspaper said. That's just what it was too a plantation. Black people 
in the worst jobs. The worst housing. Police brutality rampant. But when the 
so-called black Committeemen came around election time... We'd all line up and 
vote the straight Democratic ticket. Sell our souls for a Christmas turkey. 
White folks spitting in our faces and we'd reward them with a vote."

So what has Obama done to get rid of the Democratic plantation? Nothing. That's 
because he's running it.

The Democratic urban plantations were not just for blacks. They were also for 
other minorities and immigrants. When these groups arrived they found waiting 
for them a Democratic welcoming committee. 

- Hey, welcome to America.
- We're here to help you.
- No no? Speak English?
- All right let him know...

They helped them out found them a place to live... got them jobs. The immigrant 
plantations had their own names: Ghettos, slums, barrios.

- Welcome to America.

The Democratic Party built them put these vulnerable people in them and made 
sure no one left them.

But nothing's free right? In exchange they made sure these immigrants voted for 
them.

- You you! Let's go!

Gangs have bosses who control things. The Democrats figured out they could 
transfer this model to politics. They invented the big-city boss.

Democrat city bosses sought to control, not just government through patronage 
and payoffs and corruption, they also sought control of industry.

They wanted to control unions.

- I want you to get out there and get the votes out! That's what I want!

And once in power they looted the city treasury and used their power to shake 
down businesses.

- Gentlemen you wanted city contracts? Now I am the city. 

So really the whole operation was not for the people's benefit but for their 
benefit.
 
This is what makes them the original community organizers.

Big-city bosses were a local racket. The Democrats needed a pitch for why they 
should be running the whole country.

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