Big Tent Quotes
Before that both parties had liberals and conservatives in profusion. Many of the Democatic Party positions were very conservative. Roosevelt wanted the party to become the liberal and left wing policy. He was able to make the party economically liberal, but the worst of America’s racists were all Democrats at the time and stayed with the Democratic Party led the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Bill of 1963. The Republican Party then created a home for the racist Southern Democrats, who left the Democratic Party in anger.
The Republican Party at the time had appealed to the wealthy, the racists, and the religious and cultural conservatives in a society where the demographics were changing . They were not attracting women, Hispanics, Blacks, organized labor, the secular, immigrants, the middle class, and the poor. In the past, the Republican party had championed all of these but with their 1964 “Southern Strategy of siding with Southern Democrats on the race issues, they and the religious right have narrowed the acceptable ideology of Republicans and they had abandoned much of their traditional constituency.
This is a very important quote for it shows the young, pragmatic, pluralistic, tolerant politician who ran for the Mayor of Istanbul. As he acquitted power he became an insular, ego maniac, intolerant, authoritarian, paranoid, and often irrational. But in his earlier years he was an outstanding leader and politician. In this quotation he instructed his campaign followers to not berate or physically assault those Muslims who drank alcohol in reseraunnts, but instead to salute them and bring them into the movement by being tolerant of all the various degrees of orthodoxy to islam. The the fundamentalist drinking alcohol is a serious sin, but doing so in a public place is a danger to the community norms and morality. He used to advocate a big tent.
