GOP Sen. Tom Cotton calls slavery "a necessary evil"

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(clicky)GOP sen. tom cotton calls slavery "a necessary evil"

"As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as [Abraham] Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction."

what a bunch of cheap circular sophistry! IOW, pure unadulterated BS with a capital B!

So is personal integrity not a factor anymore to join the GOP? I get older people are stuck in their ways but how do young college educated conservatives reconcile these lunatic ideas?

I am curious when I see younger GOP supporters explaining why they are conservative its always for economic and constitutional reasons (usual small government + freedom of speech + right to preserve guns/constitutional rights stuff).

I don't get the other stuff....but if you dare debate them they become aggressive.

There are signs we are reaching a crossroad in social evolution. This type of speech is very provincial and parochial and harks back to an old way of thinking that has no place in a modern world.

Like COVID-19 we have no idea what percentage of the population think like this?

if it were up to the [working majority of] people, there'd still be slavery today. those same sanctimonious hypocrites would be the first to embrace the arrival of the antichrist and do his bidding while simultaneously screeching to re-crucify christ should he have the temerity to accomplish his second coming. a critical mass of sociopathy has corroded our culture to the breaking point.

Like Louie Gohmert, as mentioned in the other thread, Rotten Cotton (as Misslizard calls him) has based his career on saying batshit crazy crap.

Are Democrats and moderate Republicans totally unelectable in the South?

It would seem that way for now

thoughtful people have long wondered, "what's the matter with kansas?" IOW, what is it about the bible belt that causes it to self-sabotage itself?

Ahh yes the bible belt. Somehow the bubble they live in will persist and when they go to heaven where god will only let the riteous and pious enter, apparently attending lynchings is a good christian sport.

a lot of the young people joining the GOP come from the home-schooled, christian evangelical upper-middle class/affluent crowd who live in bubbles and know nothing of the real world outside of that.

the kind who have children, send them to public college (if they're allowed, or haven't bought an acceptance into a private school) and then whine about "liberal indoctrination" as if, for some reason, professors have such an agenda and it's not just their little darlings interacting with a diverse group if people for the first time, and finally realizing than the BS their parents force-fed them for their whole upbringing was exactly that.

it does happen...

but outside of that, being a moral-less, greedy, sociopathic son of a b!tch, who steps on others to advance, is basically required to succeed in the work (slave) culture america has constructed, so it's only a natural consequence that the last men standing after this brutal process reach public office and enact law. and it comes out in what they do.
talking about both parties BTW.

american psychos.

caring for others is not rewarded here.

rotten cotton is one of those silver-spoon types.

Sigh

Last edited by Romofan on 27 Jul 2020, 8:03 pm, edited 4 times in total.

Ironically, Kansas has improved somewhat after Brownback left the governorship.

that is something to be thankful for. but the perpetrators retired to their private compounds, unmolested by any justice.

Can you tell me where in the quote you referred to that HE is calling slavery "a necessary evil"?

I can see where he is referring to the founding fathers having made that statement, but at no point does it appear to show he personally believes it.


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/fact-check-no-tom-cotton-did-not-say-he-believes-slavery-is-a-necessary-evil

the washington examiner is fascist-defending bird cage liner IMHO. i pay them no heed. and questioning the "competence" of readers who correctly see that rotten cotton has a racist streak, because he brought up the f@cking quote in the first place [IOW a racist dog whistle], is the equivalent of sayin' "who ya gonna believe- me or your lyin' eyes?"

Have you tried taking an objective look at the facts, instead of jumping in with attacks on a person that ignore the words and context used?

I still can't see where he personally claimed that he believed it was a "necessary evil", as stated by you, and I note that you were not able to present any evidence of such as well, only insinuations of what you want him to have meant, and insults aimed a a person who you seem intent on intentionally mis-representing the words of.