The racist image sort of came with Nixon's Southern Strategy and with Ronald Regan's indifference towards black people and continued with anti-crime agendas (Willie Horton) in the late 80's.
Then it started again a decade ago with the war against illegal immigration and then all the silly claims over Obama being Muslim or the antichrist.

Prior to FDR, there was no doubt the democrats were as Racist as the GOP. Imo Woodrow Wilson was one of the most racist Presidents in recent times.

Frankly I think Eisenhower was not racist, really started moving on civil rights on the late 50's. Bush jr is actually far more tolerant of illegal immigrantion then most people in his party and even most Americans I would reckon.

Said what? "The Racist history of the Republican Party"? Reading the title of a thread pushed you more to the left?

it's bleedingly obvious that you didn't watch the video.

I don't think there is any evidence to demonstrate that, or any reason why that would be true ...

While the general point of what Kasz said is true I believe the age he said that children become "damaged goods" is still very young; from my understanding interest in adopting children starts to decline at about 2 years old, but they do not really hit an age where it difficult/impossible to get adopted until they hit school age. It may not be nice to say but a lot of the fears about adopting older children are not unfounded.

A few years back I read an article discussing a paper from  Jonathan Klick (University of Pennsylvania Law School) and Thomas Stratmann (George Mason University) that indicated that toughly laws relating to abortion results in less high-risk sexual behaviour resulting in lower pregnancy rates and lower incidents of STDs. The laws that were the base of the study involved requiring children to get the consent of their parents before having an abortion so it wasn't an outright ban, and yet there were significant changes in people's behaviours.

I could be wrong, but I suspect that if abortions were illegal most girls would be extremely careful about taking their birth-control pills and few men would be having pre-marital sex without a condom; essentially, people would behave as is suggested in many sexual education programs to prevent preganancy and STDs.

How about another party instead of these shit parties? Oh wait, we have a shitty two party system...

But if they combined into one party called the Shit Party, then we'd have room for another party.

That is thinking outside the box and that would be one shitty ass party.  The USA political system is a joke and it is pretty obvious why no one votes.  The reason is because both parties suck and almost all the politicians are douche bags, lairs, pawns of lobbyist, etc...  I honestly don't even think most Americans would care if Congress just fell off the side of the flat Earth map considering no one believe they are doing a good job.  It would be funny if it wasn't so fucking sad.  To see everyone pissed off at government and politicians yet they vote for the same fuckers again and again.  I can see better disses and arguments from kids than most people arguing over politics in the USA.  Just one big name calling fight.  Pointless and fucking annoying after looking at it the past 10+ years.  I only voted once in this dare I say pathetic nation and I see no point in ever voting again until at least a multi-party system is put into place.   Two party system fucking sucks and it can suck my left nut.  Anyone that supports or likes the two party system is an idiot.  We have plenty of those in the USA.

To see everyone pissed off at government and politicians yet they vote for the same fuckers again and again.

Oh, come on. Voters are plenty pissed off, and it shows. Why, in the 2010 elections only 85% of incumbents won reelection instead of the usual 90+%. It was a veritable bloodbath!

I miss Joe the Plumber.

Fact is Democrats = Republicans.

There is no such thing as 2 parties in the USA

Its like me founding company "A" that some people love and some hate. And for the people that hate my company "A" i go and make another company called "B" that those "A" haters will love. So i have total control of the everything and have support of all people. And noone has a clue I actually own both companies.

US politics is as simple as wrestling. ARCH NEMESIS FIGHTING EACH OTHER IN FRONT OF THE CAM. BUT BEHIND THE SCENES THEY ARE 1 HUGE BUNCH OF FRIENDS AND ACTORS.

If democrats mess up people will elect the republicans to clean up the mess but if they also mess up democrats will be re-elected.
If democrats mess up again republicans will be elected again ......... and over and over and over again.

It's ping pong with 1 team providing both players and as long as there is no real independent party nothing will change.

Perhaps SOME people would be more careful if abortions were illegal. Although I don't think many people consider abortions until they get pregnant. It should be considered women would definitely find more dangerous methods to get rid of the fetus as well if abortion was illegal.

Its a double edge blade. There would be terrible consequences if you get rid of abortion.