Ehrlichman quote to piss you off

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The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

John Ehrlichman, in a 1994 interview with Dan Baum, later of Harper’s Magazine. At the time of the interview, he was writing a book on drug policy.

Wendy P. 

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13 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people

Today republicans have changed those enemies to the pro-personal-rights left and immigrants.  By associating LGBT and black causes with pedophilia and crime, and by associating immigrants with crime and lost American jobs, they can attack both without coming out and saying "we are against gay people" or "we hate immigrants."  But their supporters hear their dog whistles and watch them carefully to make sure they are working to hurt those people.

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13 minutes ago, billvon said:

Today republicans have changed those enemies to the pro-personal-rights left and immigrants.  By associating LGBT and black causes with pedophilia and crime, and by associating immigrants with crime and lost American jobs, they can attack both without coming out and saying "we are against gay people" or "we hate immigrants."  But their supporters hear their dog whistles and watch them carefully to make sure they are working to hurt those people.

Hi Wendy & Bill,

You can change a few words, but it is still the same old script.

Nothing new here, folks.

Jerry Baumchen