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LoL..I gotta ask..do you just make this shit up,or what? Do you really believe that Manson had a political ideology..that could be described as either left or right? John Wilkes Booth?
Was a confederate sympathizer and a member of the 'Know Nothing' party
THE POLITICS OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH
"Booth's longest extant letter is entirely political in content. It echoes the libertarian rhetoric of opposition to the ''tyrant'' Lincoln, and it expresses racial fears that Lincoln's policies would keep America from being an all-white country. By assassinating the key figures in the Government, he hoped to bring about a revolution that would save the South at last and avert America's biracial future." In other words, an alt/right hero!
Every time I read one of you knuckleheads equating the Democrats of the 19th century with the Democrats of the 21st--I know I've found an idiot. In 1865, The Democrats were the Right wing..and the Republicans were the Left. If you do not know this, you are unqualified to have this discussion..if you do know this..and post otherwise, you are a deliberate liar..and unworthy of any serious consideration.
To debunk the rest of your shit:
MOSTLY FALSE
Shooter: John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was a member of the Know-Nothing Party. However, some of his motivations for assassinating Lincoln (Booth was opposed to freeing the slaves) aligned with the Democratic Party at the time:
Those ideological differences include increasing the power of the federal government and emancipating the slaves, both things Booth was vehemently against. He was angered that the government instituted an income tax and the military draft, and that the government occasionally suspended habeas corpus, a legal protection against unlawful imprisonment. All these things, Alford says, agitated Booth.
“But Booth brought to that agitation an extremism, the passion almost of a fanatic,” Alford says. “And it was very dangerous, as we find out.”
Although Booth’s motivations may have aligned with the Democratic party of 1865, they bear little resemblance to the party’s modern positions, which have changed dramatically over the past 152 years.
In 1881, a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States – who later died from the wound.
FALSE
Shooter: Charles J. Guiteau
Guiteau gave what The Atlantic calls an “incoherent speech to a small group of black voters in New York City” in support of presidential candidate James Garfield. Guiteau then claimed that the speech — which he had originally written in support of Ulysses S. Grant — was the reason for Garfield’s election victory. The new administration, from Guiteau’s perspective, owed him an ambassadorship. When he was denied his request, Guiteau set out for revenge:
After the election, Guiteau moved to Washington to collect his imagined prize. These were the days when any ordinary citizen could pay visits to officials. Guiteau roamed the halls of the State Department and White House, imploring anyone who would listen that he deserved a diplomatic post.
[…]
He didn’t get the diplomatic job. On one visit to the State Department, Secretary of State James Blaine barked at Guiteau, “Never bother me again about the Paris consulship as long as you live.”
The words stung, and set Guiteau off on a bizarre chain of logic, which would result in his demise. Blaine was a menace to the Republican Party. To get rid of Blaine, he reasoned, he had to kill the president. After all, it was Garfield’s fault that such a man served in the State Department. Guiteau heard these instructions from God himself. It wouldn’t be an assassination, but a divinely ordained “removal.” The plan was essentially motiveless, as the the death of the president wouldn’t stand to benefit Guiteau or any Republican. “In the president’s madness, he has wrecked the once Grand Old Republican Party; and for this, he dies,” Guiteau wrote in a letter of admission.
Guiteau was not a “left wing radical Democrat” — he was a supporter of the Republican Party.
In 1963, a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.
MOSTLY TRUE
Shooter: Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald was a Marxist and supported Fidel Castro and Cuba.
In 1959, Oswald travelled to Moscow in hopes of becoming a Soviet citizen. “I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker,” he wrote in his request for citizenship. “I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.”
However, Oswald’s inclusion on this list is odd in that there is no claim that he is a Democrat.
In 1975, a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States.
UNPROVEN
Shooters: Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore
Two women in one month attempted to shoot Gerald Ford in 1975: Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a member of the Manson family, and Sara Jane Moore, a member of radical leftist circles in California and an FBI informant. Both women appear to have had mental health issues. For her part, Fromme appears to have been trying to impress Charles Manson. Moore may have been caught between her loyalty to the FBI and to the leftist groups she was a part of, according to Atlas Oscura:
One interpretation of Moore’s assassination attempt is that she had made a choice between the two sides—she had decided to throw her lot in with the leftists and wanted to demonstrate her allegiance. In the days before she shot at Ford, Moore called up the San Francisco Police Department and told the officers there she was considering a “test” of the president’s security system. They took away her gun; she bought another one, and with that gun in her car, sped through downtown in the hopes, she later said, of being apprehended. While she stood waiting to fire her shot, she was thinking about whether she’d be on time to pick up her son.
Moore fired a shot, which a bystander deflected by grabbing her arm. Fromme was apprehended before she fired a shot. Although both women could rightly be described as radicals, we found no evidence to show that they were Democrats. It appears that Moore and Fromme earned their place on this list thanks to a March 2010 article published by the web site Red State which compiled a list in an attempt to show that “LEFTIST ARE THE HATERS AND ASSASSINS.”
In 1983, a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.
UNPROVEN
Shooter: John Hinckley Jr.
Another claim that seems to be supported only by speculation. John Hinckley Jr.’s assassination attempt in 1981 (not 1983 as suggested by this meme) was motivated not by politics, but by his desire to woo actress Jodie Foster. In fact, officials believe that before he shot Reagan, Hinckley stalked Jimmy Carter towards the end of his presidency.
Regardless, we contacted the History Colorado (Hinckley’s last place of residence was in the state), who told us:
We wouldn’t have voting records in our collection at all. If their affiliation happened to be mentioned in a newspaper article, we might have that, but as the relevant years for Hinckley aren’t digitized (nor do we have digital access for current Denver Post content), it would be extremely difficult to find.
We also contacted the Colorado State Archives, but they didn’t have a record of Hinckley’s purported political affiliation either.
Hinckley's Family were staunch Republicans and quite wealthy..some feel that this is what enabled Hinckley to obtain his successful insanity finding and his place at St. Elizabeth's, instead of long years in prison.
FACT CHECK: Is This List of Democrat Shooters Accurate?
