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Just how do the Democrats handle the fact that the Democratic party was the party of racists, the KKK, and supported slavery all through the Civil War?
The Democratic Party used to represent the conservative South. The abolitionists were the liberals, who were represented by the Republican Party. Today, the conservatives are represented by the Republican Party, whereas the liberals are represented by the Democratic Party.
This is why the KKK went from sitting within the conservative Democratic Party to sitting within the conservative Republican Party. They remain conservative. This transition began in the 1890s. The one thing that is constant in American history is the liberal and conservative mindset. Throughout the twentieth century, up to the Civil Rights Marches, hardcore racists could be found in both parties (hence Byrd, Lyndon B. Johnson, etc.) But during the Civil Rights Marches, conservatives began shifting to the right, along with dick head Clansmen (can't explain Byrd). But racist as he was, Johnson, a Democrat, still championed the Civil Right's Act, the Voter's Rights Act, and his attempts to promote his Great Society. This was during another great transition in identity politics.
Thus, if you are Republican today, you would have most likely been a Democrat in the nineteenth century. It is odd that you can't see this. There's a reason Republicans and conservatives have chosen to preserve Confederate statues. Have you not heard their whining about preserving their culture? Equally odd is how conservatives today promote themselves as the Party of Lincoln, a president who defied the conservative south's demands to preserve slavery. Lincoln was a liberal of the times.
Promoting the label of a Party, while dodging what each represented in history, is a misrepresentation.
Are they going to slit their collective wrists or just shove it under the rug and hope no one brings it up.
They aren't the ones perverting history into a shallow partisan game. You brought it up, I corrected you as to its meaning. How are your wrists, conservative?
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