tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181616371521138814.post1118788333067979487..comments2023-11-02T06:41:43.199-07:00Comments on Nexus of Thought: The Democrat Party - Support for SlaveryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5181616371521138814.post-37481671726371523352012-10-10T21:37:54.267-07:002012-10-10T21:37:54.267-07:00A little history. Exactly. Just a little, but defi...A little history. Exactly. Just a little, but definitely not all of it. Or even most of it. But that’s the point, right? This is just another revisionist look at history from some right wing nutjob, who isn’t interested in truth. Kudos for pointing out that Democrats once supported slavery and that Republican, Abe Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves. Furthermore that it was Democratic Party supporters/members who founded the Ku Klux Klan. By itself and in the light you’ve provided, that might look really bad, except that it happened a very long time ago and a lot has changed. And if that’s your party’s last great accomplishment, I might not make too big a deal out of that. But I’ll humor your assertion..<br /><br />What you fail to mention is that prior to the Civil War, the Democratic Party was the more conservative party while Republicans were the more liberal party. The Civil War was a pivotal moment in the history of our political parties, well the two major ones, for it was then that Lincoln took his liberal party and in the process of preserving the Union, he re-built the party on a conservative platform.<br /><br />That change didn’t happen overnight, as many of the ultra-right wing Democrats in the South refused to join forces with the party that took away their slaves and forced them back into the USA, even though their ideologies were remarkably similar in terms of economics and foreign policy. The difference was the religious fanatacism of the southern conservatives in the Democratic Party, aka Dixiecrats. Even still, there were many liberal Republicans, particularly in the Northeast well into the 20th century, even as Democrats were growing more and more liberal everywhere but the South.<br /><br />For the next century after the Civil War, there was much division in ideology within both major parties, which were more influenced by the local subcultures of the areas they represent than by a national agenda. As a result, there were significantly more examples of “crossing the aisle” than what we see today. It wasn’t until Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 that the ideology of each party was more clearly defined and unified on a national level. The old Southern Democrats who had clung to the party to the bitter end, were so disillusioned by LBJ betraying what they thought their party stood for by signing the CRA, they began jumping ship and becoming Republicans.<br /><br />What’s even better than your deliberate attempt at revising history is that regardless of who freed the slaves, who founded the KKK, who opposed Civil Rights, Women’s Suffrage, or anything else you want to blame on the Democrats of today, is how the Republican Party today, right now would wipe all of that out in the stroke of a pen given the opportunity<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152109209680471&set=a.10150229529575471.461044.435917560470Sean Neoconneryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00041544589330947696noreply@blogger.com