Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 02, 2010

Clark. I believe you refer to the totally “wrong”?

They’re on to us, guys. Warm up the black helicopters.

“Duke” Day… I’m thinking, I’m thinking…

Clark, in the 60’s the far right was represented by entities such as the Ku Klux Klan, whose members were largely Democrats. Some of those Klan leaders (or “Exalted Cyclops”) were elected to public office, where they voted against every black nomination to the Supreme Court (including Justice Marshall) and filibustered to block progressive human rights legislation.

Uh oh, mightaswellbe is indulging in that well known liberal vice known as “facts”. Hide the children.

@ mightaswellbe, that’s how I remember it too, and I was old enough that I think I remember it correctly.

mighaswellbe is right

they were called “Dixiecrats” back then and they bore no resemblance to the Dems of the rest of the country at all.

I’m really old enough to remember

The “solid south” was solidly Democrat and solidly segregationist from the end of reconstruction through about 1948, (Remember, Lincoln was a Republican) then the right wing tried splitting off the first time as the Dixiecrats, They came back to the party weaker, and by ‘61 they were able to sucessfully run a Catholic for president. That wouldn’t have happened 12 years earlier. I think the event that sealed the Dems fate as being the liberal/civil rights party was the Chicago National Convention in 68, where all he!! broke loose.

fb/Chris: You are referring to Dixiecrats who are no Republicans. times change, parties change, evil hearts remain the same. And they left because the dems voted in JFK (an evil catholic) and one of their own passed civil rights laws.

rick: it doesn’t matter. You wouldn’t remember what happened afterward anyway.

Richard: USSR is now our “ally” and we are owned by China. And Saudi Arabia. Please keep up. :-)

Wesleyan’s president must be plotzing. At least, I hope so. What a humorless jerk! I thought a key ingredient in intelligence is humor, even whimsy.

I guess the president of Wesleyan is one of those life-is-real-life-is-earnest types who always lead their constituents off the deep end.

I presume “Duke Day” is bring your own needle?

It’s funny to read all of these comments from so many two-dimensional or even one-dimensional thinkers and juxtapose it with the storyline they seem to be trying to keep up with.

Yawl a funny bunch!

legacyshooter, even one dimension is better than none. You may not agree with what others have said, but you yourself said nothing at all.

Radfish, are you suggesting that RNC Chairman Michael Steele has trouble with white males?

Michael Steele works well for whites, they do not even require that he grow a beard.

One of the fun things about surviving into my 80’s has been watching how History re-writes itself every decade! And how everybody reacts as if every change is Final – and/or destructive.

May you, too, live in interesting times, with a well-kicked bucket.

@Nemesys; legacyshooter did say something - he pointed out that everyone was so busy arguing they stopped bothering to follow the story in the strip.

U think anybody would have noticed, if not been told?

RinaFarina … with this crowd they’ve mostly ignored the fact that it is a COMIC strip, too

Which is half the fun in itself.. giggle giggle.

Good Old Boys at work and play.

All that’s missing is the Mighty Mouse music.

Legacyshooter needs to patrol the forum a little more often. Some of us need his MC jolt. He reminds me of that DI therapist from “Mamby Pamby Land”

… ooops, now I’m doing it.

Too bad that the “pinko. commie, liberals” weren’t the targets.

“Ze-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”?

Reminds me of Horace Rumpole (Rumpole of the Bailey). Love that show…

He had a lovely wife named “She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed”.

^”Ze…” of course, the -other- reference to (shall we just say it? VOLDEMORT!) from the Harry Potter ouvre… which if my poor command of any of the Romance languages serves, adds up to ‘Full of Death’. Appropriate in the current sequence!