Let us not forget: it was the Democrat Party that once supported the formation of the KKK, pushed Jim Crow laws, and defended slavery
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m not getting this one, would you like to explain what it’s about?
Not really. Duck duck go it.
A moment of silence for the chapel.
Trump, Trump, Jill Stein (David Duke doesnt like Israel)
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”.
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.
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.
Minorities can still be racist. It’s not just white people who are racists.
They conveniently deny that fact
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.
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about
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 swapped names?
More “they swapped ideals” a long time ago.
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
Okay, but millions and millions of blacks, Asians, Latinos, Mexicans… etc… are republicans… are they racist?