He claimed that was when "families were strong and stayed together".
By which we can only assume he meant white families, because of course black families were routinely torn apart by slave owners selling husbands, wives, and children to different owners.
I know that Roy Moore was being an absolute fucking racist ass hat, and this point is completely moot, but white families weren't more united then either. Maybe in Alabama, but not across the entire south. Regions and families in Tennessee and West Virginia were split between the Union and the Confederacy.
So in short, his myth is bullshit on multiple levels.
Yeah this "families were strong back in the day" is a hilarious little fiction that's used as justification for all kinds of dumbass viewpoints. A co-worker of mine tried to argue that black people in America were better off before civil rights bc there were fewer single parent households and it took me a solid 5 minutes to pick up my jaw off the floor before telling him to shut the fuck up.
I've heard this line a number of times. It's been a thing (some) conservatives say for...awhile. And they do t understand how evil it is/they sound, I guess. It really is disgusting.
Back when the good people of Alabama all had hook worm, stayed home on the farm out of a labor necessity and hanged any random the local vigilante squad could capture? Those good old days?
Why the fuck does anyone try to evoke this crap and what kind of slack-jawed yokel believes it?
Well... See the red counties in this map? Those are the places where the majority of people looked at Roy Moore and said "yes, I want that man to represent me in the US Senate".
I’m pretty sure what he really meant was “Back in the good old days your wife couldn’t leave you no matter what, so you were free to treat her like property. Plus, you could molest however many children you wanted, and if they were black, no one would care!”
He is also blowing a dog whistle. In the white supremacist community there is a meme that black people were better off as skates because as skates at least their family unit was kept together (which isn't even true)
That is a recent (since 70s) trend that conservatives blame on the rise of welfare (mother's are sure there children won't starve) and the drug epidemic (fathers are not around).
I would assume that he meant the United States as a whole has progressed enough as a whole to not reinstate any blatant and egregious violations of civil rights like slavery or banning POC and Women's rights as a whole; however, I'm sure his slimy little pedophilic rat brain was conjuring up all kinds of little loopholes to bar people he didn't like from voting or giving himself special privileges
no he really, really didn't mean that. In context he actually means what he's saying, that america was better before the minorities started getting all uppity.
He's also said 'the government started creating new rights in 1965 and now we've got a problem'
In context he meant that he thinks the federal government shouldn't be dealing with the things that they deal with in the amendments after 10. Its clear though from his other statements that he thinks America was better when slavery was still a thing
states rights is and always be a dogwhistle. They're pro-states rights when a state does something they like, federalist when a state does something they don't like.
They'd make abortion federally illegal if they could.
Also, right now this very second, they're trying to pass a concealed carry reciprocity bill- i.e using the federal government to override the laws of the individual states. It's not inherently a bad idea, I'd love for my CPL to be valid nationwide, but it's most definitely against everything these clowns profess to hold dear.
I believe he had specific complaints about the 14th amendment changing how representatives are elected and that one clause of it has been construed by the Supreme Court to give more power to the federal government in various areas. Something like that. He didn’t say anything specific about amendments 13 or 15 but definitely agreed with the blanket statement that we’d be better off without everything after 10. To be clear, he himself did not make the “everything after 10” statement, it was made by the host of a podcast he was the guest on, but he expressed agreement with that statement
The 14th Amendment changed so much about American law, to the extent that I think there are some legitimate complaints you can make about it. For example, (and this is just one example) it basically allows the Supreme Court to decide what "liberty" is, which is really awesome power that the framers might not have ever imagined (and that's where things like the right to abortion, the right to marry, the right to refuse medical treatment, etc. come from.) You hear those arguments in the legal community all the time. "That's too much power. They're Judges; not an ancient council of wise elders!" etc. But a blanket statement, saying 17 Amendments should be done away with, is really extreme. I think even Scalia would say that's insane.
Source: I'm taking my Constitutional Law final in 4 hours.
He was expecting them to elect him anyway because they're "stupid" and would laugh and laugh and feel justified in his position. Kind of like some other officials, I'm sure, who think the people are dumb and exist o my to be used.
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u/ChickenInASuit Dec 13 '17 edited Dec 13 '17
He's a racist, misogynist dinosaur?