General Discussion

The "racism" of the eugenicists had nothing to do with black people, or any skin color really. It was aimed at people deemed inferior due to defective traits such as feeble mindedness, insanity, emotional problems and other character traits ascribed to what they would call "tribes" such as Jews and Gypsies.

I agree with you, cali, on your aversion to testing for the right to vote. I would rather my president be elected by a person with Downs Syndrome than a Republican If we could test for compassion, would we? And if we could, wouldn't it be more viable than intelligence (which can be so cruel).

Still, Sanger was part of a group in the early part of the last century that believed, like Hitler, that the human race could be improved through selective or careful breeding. After WWII, these people disappeared as if they'd never been here. But they live on in the selective rationing of life to the fittest -- health care, food, seeds... and eventually water.

Access to the voting booth is just the first in a long line of programs the GOP Elite have in store for "lesser humans" -- of all races.