<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Spike, I was living in the metropolis of Cheneyville. LA. pop. 700 or so when an election for U. S. Representative was being held in that parish. I am sure you know of Huey Long. Russell Long served in the U S Senate for quite some time. Anyhow, Earl (then governor of LA, for the third time,having walked out of the state mental hospital saying he owned it) came through our town on a flatbed truck, handing out hams and buckets of lard. A country band played. Sadly, I was such a snob at the time, I did not want to see a drunken man in his wifebeater undershirt make a fool of himself, and us. My sister went and told me about it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">My uncle was to have run against him, but in the middle of the campaign came down with stress backaches which put him in the hospital, and heralded the stress backaches I would have in grad school.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Earl's house was a part of his image. On the outside it was pure country low class. On the inside it had all the modern conveniences. Earl won easily, but died of a heart attack before he could serve. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Who said "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage." Hoover was and was not said to have said it, but it was the way things were done in the South in the 30s through the 50s. I wonder what percentage of the Blacks' votes were bought. I am guessing very high. There is talk of campaign irregularities nowadays, but they couldn't hold a candle to those in the past.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 2:44 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_2999238310817632068WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">but somehow, with the impetus of the NCAA, the legislature voted to change it. Do we think that another vote of the people would have gone any differently this time? HA!! ROFL<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">This was certainly not the best way to gain minority rights, but it worked. Shame on us - NCAA running our state - indeed! bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">BillW, sports run many states, not just Mississippi. Granted the southern take their sports seriously than most, but the important part is that minority rights won. In this case the 1/3 minority who voted for the flag change had twice as much influence in the state as the majority in the state. Well, that’s the beauty of democracy: the voters will be selecting a new state legislature in a few months. The USA is a republic, but the states are democracies.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">In the meantime, I see a reason to be very optimistic. Consider how life was as recently as a century ago. Economics dominated every aspect of life, including (perhaps especially) politics. This guy managed to win an election by promising… chickens. He’s offering chickens: <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/great-depression-and-herbert-hoover/chicken" target="_blank">https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/great-depression-and-herbert-hoover/chicken</a><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Do you suppose chickens would steer an election today? I think not. Now society is generally prosperous, with the result being that we look to entertainers and sports figures to influence our government. At one time, politics was dominated by necessity. Now it is highly influenced by sports and entertainers. technology and science have enabled our politics to be dominated by playtime and leisure.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Voters were hungry in the olden days. Most days are the olden days. In most of humanity’s history, most people were hungry. We are the lucky ones to be living in the new days.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Life is good.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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