MATLOCK!!!

Well, for once, Broder is actually right about something -- but wrong in not extrapolating it into a reason he should think about the complete surrender of all to the notion of bi-partisanship.

The GOP are prisoners of Southern Conservatives, and they have surrendered to them in a way the Democratic Party never did while they held them hostage in the 40s and 50s.

While then, the Yellow Dogs prevented social progress, at least they weren't surrendered to.

Now, the GOP has surrendered to them and allows them to run the Party.

Which leads to this question.

Is there any group that has been more responsible for holding back progress, who has ever been more consistently wrong about everything the last sixty years than Southern Conservatives?

Hell, the whole history of the Republic has seen this bunch of southern-fried right-wing fucks consistently wrong and consistently holding the rest of the nation back. Being defeated, and then starting ALL OVER AGAIN with being fucking wrong about something else. WRONG. ABOUT. EVERY. FUCKING. THING. From holding back the economic development of the early nation, to slavery, to the Civil War, to Jim Crow, to Segregation, to the minimum wage, to maximum hours, to workplace safety, to workers compensation, to food safety, to child labor, to isolationism, to the FDIC, to Social Security, to Red Baiting, to anti-intellectualism, to workplace discrimination, to State's Rights, to the Voting Rights Act, to religious fundementalism, to loving guns more than life itself, to anti-Catholicism, to anti-Semitism, to the War on Terror, to birth control, to not taxing while spending, to homophobia, to making the rubble bounce on brown people, to supporting torture, to police abuse, to outlawing the precious and blessed blowjob between consenting adults, generation after generation, they've been the assholes of the nation.


Fuck the South indeed.