Plus Ça Change
"We are a movement of the plain people, very weak in the matter of culture, intellectual support, and trained leadership. We are demanding, and we expect to win, a return of power into the hands of the everyday, not highly cultured, not overly intellectualized, but entirely unspoiled and not de-Americanized, average citizen of the old stock ... " - Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans, (1881 - 1966) in a statement issued by him in 1926 in his role as the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.I found the quote in a 1973 issue of Commentary, in a brutal excavation of the cultural roots of the Watergate scandal. The same magazine, now run by a dauphin of the neocon nepotism-tree, now celebrates the very things it once had the decency to oppose.
Imagine. We are shocked, simply shocked.
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