I am specifically talking about U.S. history.
Reading these threads over the past 16 years in these forums, liberals keep on saying over and over the same ignorant propaganda.
Its like have they ever even bothered to read a history book?
Examples:
1. High taxes and Unions in the 1950~1980
Why do they ignore WWII , the world was in ruins, the only standing country to produce was The U.S.A.
Why do they ignore the lack of regulations? Lack of government agency's like the EPA that was started by Nixion? Why they ignore the lack of Quality control..any one with a few bucks could start a company in a garage and build an empire?
Why do they ignore the fact no one paid those high taxes?
Why do they ignore the fact the world caught up?
Why do they ignore the fact no one wants to work for private Unions?
2. Why do democrats ignore their own history? What is the big deal?
How many democrats know that following the Civil War, 23 blacks -- 13 of them ex-slaves -- were elected to Congress, all as Republicans?
The first black Democrat was not elected to Congress until 1935, from the state of Illinois. The first black congressional Democrat from a Southern state was not elected until 1973.
How many democrats know, in 1854, passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This overturned the Missouri Compromise and allowed for the importation of slaves into the territories. Disgusted with the passage of this Act, free-soilers and anti-slavery members of the Whig and Democratic parties founded the Republican Party -- not just to stop the spread of slavery, but to eventually abolish it.
How many democrats know that blacks founded the Texas Republican Party?
On July 4, 1867, in Houston, Texas, 150 blacks and 20 whites formed the party. No, not the Black Texas Republican Party, they founded the Texas Republican Party. Blacks across Southern states also founded the Republican parties in their states.
How many democrats know Fugitive slave laws?
In 1850, Democrats passed the Fugitive Slave Law. If merely accused of being a slave, even if the person enjoyed freedom all of his or her life (as approximately 11 percent of blacks did just before the Civil War), the person lost the right to representation by an attorney, the right to trial by jury, and the right to habeas corpus.
How many democrats know Emancipation?
Republican President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War. In 1865, the 13th Amendment emancipating the slaves was passed with 100 percent of Republicans (88 of 88 in the House, 30 of 30 in the Senate) voting for it. Only 23 percent of Democrats (16 of 66 in the House, 3 of 8 in the Senate) voted for it.
How many democrats know Civil rights laws?
In 1868, the 14th Amendment was passed giving the newly emancipated blacks full civil rights and federal guarantee of those rights, superseding any state laws. Every single voting Republican (128 of 134 -- with 6 not voting -- in the House, and 30 of 32 -- with 2 not voting -- in the Senate) voted for the 14th Amendment. Not a single Democrat (zero of 36 in the House, zero of 6 in the Senate) voted for it.
How many democrats knowRight to vote?
When Southern states balked at implementing the 14th Amendment, Congress came back and passed the 15th Amendment in 1870, guaranteeing blacks the right to vote. Every single Republican voted for it, with every Democrat voting against it.
Ku Klux Klan? In 1872 congressional investigations, Democrats admitted beginning the Klan as an effort to stop the spread of the Republican Party and to re-establish Democratic control in Southern states. As PBS' "American Experience" notes, "In outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats formed organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power. The most prominent of these, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tenn., in 1865." Blacks, who were all Republican at that time, became the primary targets of violence.
Jim Crow laws? Between 1870 and 1875, the Republican Congress passed many pro-black civil rights laws. But in 1876, Democrats took control of the House, and no further race-based civil rights laws passed until 1957. In 1892, Democrats gained control of the House, the Senate and the White House, and repealed all the Republican-passed civil rights laws. That enabled the Southern Democrats to pass the Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy tests, and so on, in their individual states.
Civil rights in the '60s? Only 64 percent of Democrats in Congress voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act (153 for, 91 against in the House; and 46 for, 21 against in the Senate). But 80 percent of Republicans (136 for, 35 against in the House; and 27 for, 6 against in the Senate) voted for the 1964 Act.
Again I say..
Why are democrats so anti education?
Why?
How many ill-educated Right-wing nutjobs know that the Democratic and Republican parties switched roles? How many know why? Or when? How many actually care about impartial truth..and nuanced views of history? How many think that spin and shouting deliberate obfuscations will somehow justify their pin-head points of view?
Democrats and Republicans Switched Platforms - Fact or Myth?
I could easily debunk 90% of what you have posted..but it would be a colossal waste of time..since I'm sure you know the truth..you just choose to ignore it in favor of spin...good luck with that. No one outside of your echo chamber is buying it.
Lol you couldn't debunk shit, don't try your KKK democrat revisionist history on me snow flake..
No one switched fucking party's except 3 .... For example Al gores dad remained a life long Democrat
You dumb-ass--do you not know that the historical facts I'm telling you have been the accepted truth for 50+ years..it is your bs that is 'revisionist' by definition..as you are proposing an alternate 'truth' not accepted previously. But you are just proving your errant stupidity to all that have have a brain.
Agree... It's interesting seeing the OP in one statement talk about how slow the Democratic party was to step away from their Southern Conservatism, then in another post point out democrat mayors in a city, apparently not understanding the history of how long they had stepped away from that. Literally trying to include black democrats who were friends of MLK Jr (He was actually with MLK Jr's wife when the news he had passed came through). They stood in opposition to that exact thing she was saying they stood for based on historical facts.
Or how she brings up the civil rights bills of the 1960's when yes, Democrats dominated the southern conservative movement in the south, but the Republicans there also voted 100% against those civil rights bills, and those bills had been brought up by the new liberal branch of the Democrats. Then ignore the later civil rights bills afterwards where Republicans at a national level took a stance against civil rights (Goldwater and the Southern Strategy, Nixon, Reagan, Bush). Like somehow civil rights ended even though actual written history says otherwise.
One could say Republicans make up 100% of the Presidential veto attempts of Civil right bills (3 of them), and since Andrew Johnson failed a veto attempt on a comprehensive civil rights bill in reconstruction, no other comprehensive civil rights bill was made until JFK and LBJ introduced theirs.
In fact, in the post-reconstruction era (during reconstruction you had the initial 3, on attempted veto by Andrew Johnson), most of the comprehensive civil rights bills have been led by a Democrat:
1957 was led by Eisenhower
Celler a NY democrat drafted the civil rights bills of 1960, 1964 and 1968 (LBJ and Kennedy were largely involved).
1987 and 1990 were both by Ted Kennedy.
The 1991 civil rights bill by Danforth.
Or one could say that it isn't so much a party thing, but the opposition to civil rights has always come from the southern conservative side of the US under any party name, be that anti-federalist, Democrat Republican, Democrat, Southern Democrat, Conservative Democrat, Dixiecrat, or Republican which would be a fact based assessment.
Like LBJ said when getting his civil rights bill passed “It is an important gain, but I think we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come”
And in the Civil rights Restoration act of 1987, Democrats were 99% in favor of it, and Republicans were at about a 50% split for and against it, and a Republican President attempted to veto it.
And the 1990 civil rights bill had almost a complete flip and was vetoed by a Republican president.
And the 1991 civil rights bill, of the 43 nay votes, 38 of them came from Republicans.
And the interesting thing for those interested in actual written history, is in both parties the same excuses were used in their opposition. Saying it wasn't that they were against Civil Rights, but rather forcing civil rights expands the power of the Government too far, it takes away freedoms from people, it attacks religious liberty for those religions who don't believe in those civil rights, it is just a ploy to garner the black/minority/women/handicapped vote, etc.
So it makes you wonder when seeing the actual facts straight from voting records, speeches by the leading politicians for and against those laws, why someone like the OP would want to be so anti-education? Why can't they pick up a history book and learn history, and not just the little section that they like?