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The Republican White Paper 0

Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that the Republican Party as it presently exists looks not to the future, but to the past:

On issue after issue — gay rights, contraception, labor rights — the goal seems to be to return the nation to the supposed tranquility of its Beaver Cleaver years, before Martin Luther King had his dream, before Betty Friedan wrote her book, before Rock Hudson was gay, before everything changed.

In short the days, when old white men were in control (or at least thought they were in control) and no one else mattered or, for that matter, was considered to exist.

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