(07-16-2019, 10:45 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(07-16-2019, 08:26 PM)B2hibry Wrote: Will you condemn the Democratic Party for their racist pillars, past and present? I mean, since we are separating from ideals and all.

Sure.

The Democratic party, up until the 1960s, was political home to racist segregationists who advanced repugnant policies designed to perpetuate oppression of African Americans and other minorities.  The Democrats who were so aligned, and the party that tolerated them were spectacularly wrong then.  Until that point, they were equally as repugnant as their Confederate predecessors.

However, there is an important distinction between the Confederacy and the Democratic party.

The Confederacy never repented for the evils they perpetuated.  For the entirety of its existence, the Confederacy fought AGAINST the freedom and equality of African Americans.  There is no indicia the Confederacy ever rescinded or renounced their beliefs of white supremacy, either rhetorically or in their actions.

However, the Democratic party evolved over time to become the party who fought for Civil rights for minorities, starting with the Kennedy administration and continuing with Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  Johnson predicted the Democratic party has lost the South for a generation with that signing.  Since then, there has been an ideological shift in the parties.  Segregationists who no longer felt the Democratic party represented their views defected to the Republican party over the next few years.  The South, which was traditionally solidly democratic, has now aligned itself with the Republican party.  Meanwhile, the Democratic party has cultivated many African American political figures over the years, including Former President Barack Obama.  The current Republican party, bearing little resemblance to the "Party of Lincoln" has done nothing of the sort.

The Democratic party evolving or switching is a fairy tale used by the party to keep minorities from seeing the truth. It's still a suppressive party only glossed over as helping...just enough.

1.) The pillars (past and present) of the Republican Party remain the same since the beginning and are published in the National Archives for all to read.
2.) Provide me a list of politicians who swapped parties. This should be easy if there were this mass party flip as some claim.
3.) FYI, the south was still overwhelmingly Democratically controlled until the early 1990s with most not shifting to a Republican legislature until early to mid-2000s.
4.) If LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a jumping-off point, why was MLK still fighting for civil rights and propping up the Republican Party as the party of equality up until his death in 1968? Let us also remember; it was a Republican Congress that authored and passed the Civil Rights Act.

FYI, the Republican Party has cultivated more prominent African American politicians than the Dem party. Just saying!

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