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for Paul Ryan says we have in our inner cities
his phrase we're dealing with quote a real culture problem
in those communities he says quote we have got this tailspin up culture in our
inner cities in particular up men not working injures generations a man not
even thinking about working
are learning the value in the culture of work so there's a real culture problem
here that has to be dealt with
now why would he talk like that back in nineteen
eighty one after lee atwater help run ronald reagan's campaign for president
lee atwater
was interviewed by Alexander llamastes
and the a recording that interview ended up in the hands of jimmy carter's
son James Earl Carter grandson your jeans are a car to the fourth
ands the nation magazine published
and what lee atwater said was
and I'm gonna tell you what he said number plate for you can actually hear
him say it
but it's a little hard to hear some other time gonna tell you first he says
you start out 1954 by saying any actually uses the N-word but N word and
word and word
and we've bleep so that you can you'll hear it is by 1968 you can't say
'n.-word that hurts you
it backfires CSA sup like I have forced busing states rights
and all that stuff and you getting so abstract now you talk it now
you're talking about cutting taxes and all these things
your talkin about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them
is blacks get hurt worse than whites we want to cut this
you know very Republicans who say it that way we want to cut this is much
more
abstract then even the bus in thing and a helluva lot more abstract than N word
and word
you didn't like the last him
okay you can just cut it before we get a blast to locate will just stop right
there
after is a helluva lot more abstract than here here's lee atwater
you start at $90 or less and
1968 he said that her bad
oj or well
stage last molested any you get a show at
right now you talking about cutting taxes
in Albany talk about Joey him these in the pop-up
okay black get her worse my in
shot consciously maybe I did see I'm saying
that it is being an abstract that code
that we we're doing well right from 11 yet
bottom honestly say setting up we want to cut back
we want that is more is much more abstract than
then the but then even the bus in thing and a helluva lot more abstract insane
and we're downward
this is lee atwater laying out the strategy 1981
Paul Ryan fulfilling the strategy right now here's another example back in
nineteen eighty
another guy who worked on ronald reagan's campaign ball where ik
who went on to cofounder the American Legislative Exchange Council Alec
helped was one other guys who helped pull together the heritage foundation
and several other these right-wing think tanks
worked on every republican presidential be campaign
right up to and including George W Bush eased is now deceased
but he was one of the EU was the guy who ran the direct-mail operation in
reagan's campaign in 1980 and back then direct mail was what the internet is
today
he he raised the money he made no
be made it possibly network for ronald reagan this is Paul rare ext
speaking to a group of Republican Christian
activists in a church basement in Dallas Texas
in nineteen eighty curious
how many more questions have what I call but Google syndrome
good government they walk
everybody cobo I don't want everybody to vote
elections are not won by a majority of people they never happened from the
beginning of our country
and they are not now as a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite
candidly go top
at the following popular goes down its
it's right there and to take this back to Paul Ryan
what is Scott Walker doing in Wisconsin right now
cutting early voting
on me and not just in Wisconsin you got you know some fifteen twenty states
where Republicans are aggressively
making it harder for people to vote
1980 has come to roost in 2014
these guys are planned from the exact same playbook they have been planned
from since nineteen
teen eighty and there you hear it
in there own words