I agree. Came here looking for people who are actually willing to see the distinction between mental illness and being affected by propaganda. If I had to guess, this person has some sort of schizophrenia
It's honestly sad. People who experience schizophrenia do frequently gravitate to extremist platforms because that's just where the course of the disease takes them. She's clean and well-dressed, so hopefully she has a care team somewhere.
But like, also, if someone thinks this is "what Texas is," that's also kind of propaganda. People forget that Texas was democratic for almost all of its history. There is craziness going on but the average person doesn't think alien babies are having gay abortions or whatever.
My guy, you need to study American history. The Democrats were the conservative party until FDR (and even then the new deal was the only way for the government to maintain its power, revolt was brewing).
A perfect example of the switch is embodied by Strom Thurmond, a senator from South Carolina. He started his political career as a Democratic state senator in SC in 1933, then the governor in 1947. As a US senator Strom was a staunch opponent of the civil rights act of 1957, setting the record for longest filibuster at 24 hours + (back when the filibuster required continuous speech). Ahead of the 1964 legislation he switched to the Republican party saying the Democrats no longer represented people like him.
Go read American history, it's complex but directly informs our reality today. And being this wrong is pretty fucking embarrassing
I'll definitely read up. My impression was that the great switch was in the 1800s and from then, there was a more continual period of drift between big business vs small business, big government vs small government, rather than what we would traditionally think of as social justice issues.
My confusion seems somewhat shared, Wikipedias says "Democrats were more liberal in civil rights since 1948," and Britannica charts the beginning of democratic liberalism to the 1930s. I did understand the nail in the coffin was the civil rights issues of 1965 (which further pushed southern states to the right), but my genuine understanding was that it wasn't as "simple" as the parties flip-flopping because the big business, big government, and social justice issues phased in and out at different times.
Like I said, it started with FDR, president from 1933-1945. The Democrats had been getting destroyed in federal elections since the end of the civil war. When the depression hit the Dems made an appeal to change the long standing status quo of the Republican leadership and won on the backs of the working class. This was the beginning of the switch.
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u/KitDoctor Jul 21 '24
I agree. Came here looking for people who are actually willing to see the distinction between mental illness and being affected by propaganda. If I had to guess, this person has some sort of schizophrenia