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They like to conveniently forget that the parties had a flip. So yes, while the democrats IN NAME pushed all that abhorrent ideals, those democrats are the Republicans today.
Who cares about any of that.
Just ask who do the KKK vote for now
Obama? Harris? Clinton? Biden?
Reminder that the Irish and the kkk are mortal enemies.
Ask around notre dame.
A moment of silence for the chapel.
I'm not getting this one, would you like to explain what it's about?
Not really. Duck duck go it.
Trump, Trump, Jill Stein (David Duke doesnt like Israel)
Amy is correct. Therefore, we should take down all the monuments to the Confederates that those Democrats put up.
I wonder if this could actually happen. Some of those local ballot measures are deliberately written in a confusing manner anyway. If someone managed to get "remove all democrat-placed statues prior to 1960" on a ballot in a red area I bet it'd pass.
And as I like to say, we used to prescribe cigarettes for asthma. The times will change.
Ive only ever met one modern Republican who has explicitly aknowlaged it. When he asked me "do you like any famous Republicans" I responded "Lincoln wasnt too bad and John Brown was amazing". He immediately responded "uhhh the Republicans used to be woke, the Democrats used to be the party of freedom".
That was such a disingenuous comment. Literally relying on the peoples lack of history knowledge to distort the truth. It's fucking doublespeak.
Don't lie to my face and tell me I like it.
During the last election, billboards had signs up in my area saying exactly that: Republicans ended slavery blah blah blah. They just bank on the wide populace to not know the history of the parties.
Wish more people realized this. They actually still think they are the party of Lincoln.
We think that because the Republican party has been made up of minorities for years now. I find it funny how you call Republicans racist, when a large majority of us are minorities ourselves.
Having a tiny percentage of voters not being white Christians doesn't mean the Republican party is "made up of" minorities.
We call Republicans racist because they are. This administration has gone out of its way to erase any traces of history that even mentions people of another race.
For example, there's only one reason to delete any references to the windtalkers, who played a pivotal role in the war, from federal WW2 sources. That's racism.
Minorities can still be racist. It's not just white people who are racists.
The alr right shows have claimed to debunk that myth and that the Dems are the true racists. It's like gas lighting for the centrists/right-wing.
They conveniently deny that fact
Well, Newsweek is out as news. They should have followed up with factual history about how these parties switched. (Where are the whigs in all this?????)
America always being 2 party, in my own hindsight, should have been suspect. The world is not binary.
Not that I had control of when or where I was born.
America has always been two-party (that's the inevitable game-theory result of how our elections are designed), but it hasn't always been the same two parties. When the Whigs were a thing, the Republican Party didn't exist yet.
They also realigned three or four times without changing names.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States
While that is the pop culture explanation it isn't quite right. In order for the parties to have flipped. The rural xenophobic bigots would have had to go to the Republican party. And the Republicans fascists would have had to have gone to the Democratic party.
The KKK and the bigots switched. The parties didn't really. The true irony being the KKK and Southern bigots were the huge influence on European fascists. But in the United States they were technically opposed simply because they had traditionally been in different political parties. But civil rights legislation brought about a realignment. Our ignorant xenophobic bigots and our fascist suddenly found themselves Brothers in Arms.
The party's polarized along the xenophobia and bigotry lines. But they didn't really switch.
Only one party is enacting fascism here and it's not the Democrats. Such delusion.
I didn't say otherwise. I literally implied that the xenophobic bigots and the fascists all joined together in the Republican Party. You need to work on reading comprehension I think.
That did happen
This did not. So where did you say the opposite of what this means?
Yes the whole point of that statement was pointing out that the latter didn't happen. It was a rhetorical statement. The framing before that statement made it quite obvious. Stating that in order for the parties to have switched. The fascists would have to leave the Republican party. Which anyone who is informed knows did not happen. You are agreeing with me while attacking me.
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about
They swapped names?
More "they swapped ideals" a long time ago.
Okay, but millions and millions of blacks, Asians, Latinos, Mexicans... etc... are republicans... are they racist?
Ignorant and have been lied to. Rememeber the 30,000 confirmed lies in his first term? Also many many minorities have already come out saying they regret their vote.