The South were pro slavery , the today republicans want to take away civil rights.
The Democratic Party's economic policies have been nothing but 'Pro-Economic Slavery', designed to keep Americans addicted / reliant on tax-payer-funded handouts just to survive and continuing to vote for Democrats who vowed to keep the 'freebies' coming.
Democrats continued their mantra, over and over, telling Americans that where they were was the best they could ever hope for, while engaging in class warfare to keep Americans pointing fingers, blaming each other, divided. During this time the Democrats tried to drive into people's heads that the government / Democrats could solve all of their problems, meet all their needs, give them anything they want.
As the saying, I believe from Thomas Jefferson, goes,
'A government that can give you anything you want is powerful enough to TAKE everything you have!'
At the same time Democratic Party was telling Americans it could give them anything they wanted, Obama was telling them that the decline of / in America was inevitable and irreversible. He declared US factory jobs had left the country and gone overseas. He told Americans they were never coming back, that THIS was the 'new norm'. (Laughable, snowflakes attempt to convince us that this defeatist economic policy is what initiated the success Trump has delivered.) President Obama was RIGHT about one thing, though: Loss of jobs, loss of manufacturing jobs, the decline of the US / the US economy WAS the 'New Norm'
....BY DESIGN in the Democrats'
'Economic Slavery' Economic Policy.
Obama was telling Americans 'IT CAN'T BE DONE - This is 'the New Norm'. He wanted to keep the American Lower / Middle Class on the Democratic Party / Obama 'Economic Slavery Plantation'.
Trump declared, 'WATCH ME! WE Can Make America Great Again'....and did.'

Lowest Unemployment In Decades
Lowest Womens' Unemployment rate in Decades
Lowest Minority Unemployment Rate EVER
Most Americans Working At One Time EER
Factories / Manufacturing Jobs Back in The US
Higher Wages, Raises, Bonuses
Highest Stock Market Numbers
Highest Consumer Confidence
Record Number of Americans OFF Of Unemployment, Welfare, Food Stamps
....and ignorant, butt-hurt, reality-denying, trump-hating snowflakes still claim he has done nothing and attempt to give Barak
'The Jobs Aren't Coming Back' Obama credit for this economy.
The Democrats prosper when Americans suffer and are forced to rely on THEM. As President, the 1st BLACK President, Barry did next to NOTHING for blacks / minorities before turning their attention to opening the borders and bringing in millions of illegal Latinos to supplant blacks as the #1 / top Democrat-dependent minority future voters.
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