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It is just another step to split up the Democratic Coalition. Each step, Gay Marriage, Immigration, Civil Rights etc are all attempts to split off Democratic Voters from Voting Democratic. The GOP knows you do NOT win or lose an election on just one issue, it is many issues that decide a campaign. Each by themselves do not win or lose the Campaign, but together they work to win the election.
I was reviewing the Scopes Monkey Trial the the surprising thing is that all of the important parties in the actual trial were Democrats. Bryan, Darrow, the head of the ACLU litigation team, and even H.L. Mencken. It was held in a Republican county in the mid-South. I had to ask my self why all the Democrats, then it dawned on me, Democrats talk about Policy, discuss policy, understand policy and that the only way to get a good policy is to discuss it in the open. Republican only worry about POWER and how to get it. This is why all of the progressive movements in this Country's history has come from the Democrats or third parties that eventually merged with the Democrats (The nearest exception to this rule is Theodore Roosevelt, but in many ways he was trying to head off the progressive push that had began in the 1880s and would finally be made the law when the New Deal was implemented in the 1930s). Thus even TR was NOT the progressive he is often made out to be (Going with the Country more than leading it).
My point here is simple, the purpose of this legislature is NOT to stop immigration (Corporate American WANTS immigration to keep wages low) but to divide the Democratic Party so that the GOP can cheat enough to retain power.
As to the Scoops Monkey trial, If the above does not sound like your understanding of the Scoops Monkey trial, you are NOT alone. Most people perception of the Trial is based on the Play "Inherit the Wind", NOT the actual Trial. The problem is the Play, was an attack on McCarthyism (i.e. forbidding all dissent) NOT the issue in the actual trial which was WHO Decides what should be taught in the Public Schools. The Authors of the Play decided to use Scoops as a means to make they point, but to do so they had to rewrite whole sections of the debate and even the Examination of Byran by Darrow (Huge parts were kept, but often edited to switch the point of the statement made OR rewritten to further the message of the play). Bryan was the most attacked man of his time, the GOP hated him for they feared him (Even Mencken in his obituary of Bryan, who he hated, acknowledged that Bryan won the election of 1896 but the GOP stole the election from Bryan). Such Attacks have been the standard Republicans have done to ALL Democrats that they fear may defeat them in an Election, FDR, Truman, JFK, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, and now Hillary and Dean. The play was influenced by these attacks on Bryan and in many ways counted on them when they wrote the play (i.e. Bryan had been dead over 30 years, but people would still remember some of the attacks on him, thus making it easier to make him the villain in the play). The Authors knew enough about the real trial to declare that they play had nothing to do with it, but just a means to make an message. This made the play a good attack on McCarthyism (and the GOP) but a lousy piece of history.
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