Teen/College Student trying to understand elections/politics. Help?!?

Richard Milhouse Nixon. Dick Nixon was the first president to launch a war on the counter-culture in America following the lead of far right conservatives such as William F. Buckley Jr. and his National Review.

It was Nixon's "war on drugs", and establishment of the DEA, that set in motion an assault on free-thinking liberals, with an Inquisitorial style of fascism aimed at hampering liberal insurgency and sedition. What this did was further criminalize Americans for their free choices. Its criminalization tactics were ambiguous, and made it simple to cast aspersions on any member of the subculture.

It established control of the far right, and helped to introduce the prominence of evangelic conservatism in America. With the rise of counter-culture influence from the hippie movement, in concert with dissension over the Vietnam war, this helped to stamp out liberal sedition and exert extreme right wing politics into the mainstream. As the republicans have pilloried their own for not being conservative enough, it has snowballed in a race to the right, with liberals chasing after republicans, moving more to the right, for fear of censure by the republican party, and in an attempt to appeal to mainstream America, which has become more conservative thanks to the likes of Richard M. Nixon.

In answer to the second part of your question, along with what I've just written, modern day Nixonian republicans have abandoned the classical liberal stance of inalienable rights, and instead have used race relations, and the demeaning of minorities to appeal to a broader southern base in the U.S. Basically, the republicans have stolen the southern democrats who were put off by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, galvanizing the base through division, racism, so-called patriotism, and cryptic nationalism. The nation of the U.S. is currently devolving deeper and deeper into the sewer of far right nationalism, while they glibly assert that African Americans, and minorities alike all have the same opportunities under the U.S. constitution, although in practice, this isn't always the case. They've marginalized minorities by watering down racist rhetoric, and condemning them with such quasi-racist epithets as "welfare queens" etc. That's all for now.

Well this sound like propaganda rather than actually factually based studies but anyway I'll play 1. Probably Reagen 2. Probably native americans and Japanese from ww2.

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