After the Civil War, we got the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. The 13th eliminated slavery, the 15th gave black men the right to vote (well, sort of).
Things didn’t begin to change until after 1954 when the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, the case that held racial segregation unconstitutional.
Anyone watching that speech will think of the way Trump mocked a disabled reporter. It's here, if you missed it.
💠Deploying a national strategy based on science to combat Covid.
💠Creating fairness by bringing health care to all, raising the minimum wage, fairly compensating essential workers, eliminating racial injustice. . .
💠Reversing climate change. Preserving the natural environment.
💠Protecting voting rights. This was a big one, touched on by most of the speakers.
cnn.com/2020/08/19/pol…
Shorter version: Nobody owes you a democracy. If you want it, take responsibility and make it happen.
We’ve advanced far in the years since Brown v. Board. The problem is that there are people working hard against progress.
They feel that their “way of life” and something quintessentially American is being destroyed.
Reactionary politics is based on fear: There is an enemy destroying “our way of life.”
The message will be “Vote for Trump or the Democrats will destroy America as we know it.”
Key point: For them "America" is a 19th-century style patriarchy or all-white 1950s style suburbs.
For example, see: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
I'm not a political psychologist, so I use their word.
The Supreme Court holding us back began at least as early as Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
So Fox viewers who think return to the good old days means a return to a 1950s economy are sadly misled.