"If you can't be better than a nigger, who can you be better than?" I never heard this line from anyone except my friend, who told me it was spoken in the movie: Mississippi Burning. I never saw the movie, but I bring this up because more than once I have suggested that emotional thinking based on fear and greed is the only explanation for women, poor whites, and members of the working-class, especially since 1998 to vote for Republican candidates. Much of that is true, of course. Right wing conservative political and religious pundits understand the emotional power of... Read more →