Uhhh I'm afraid "do you think they were closet Republicans" isn't an argument. We have no information that they had any political affiliation at all. Go find some, and we'll go from there. But I've already researched this shit. Not everybody in the world has a political affiliation.
And Forrest wasn't a founder. He was sought out as a figurehead to give the organization "legitimacy". And he disbanded it less that two years later specifically because they were out of hand, although they ignored the order and continued ad hoc.
All of which I've posted before and is again a matter of historical record.
Dipshit.
Yes...let's just forget that he was the first grand wizard of the kkk and he was a democrat...of course that has nothing to do with the rest of the racism of the democrat party...so let's try to whitewash that out of history...asshole....
He was not a founder. He was a name that they tried to use for legitimacy based on his war record. And he disavowed the association, even denying later that he had ever been part of it.
Look, I get that you wish this all would have happened so that your thread wouldn't be a crock. But the fact remains, if you want certain things to have happened in the 1860s, you have to actually DO them in the 1860s. You don't get to rewrite history 150 years later because you signed up with an internet message board. Reality doesn't work that way,
Rewriting history is what the democrats have done to hide their racist past...that is why when we talk slavery, they never mention the democrat party, when they bitched about the confederate battle flag they blamed Republicans when it was a democrat flag placed on top of the capital by a democrat Governor Fritz Hollings......
Number one, the state legislature put it there, not the governor; number two, it's not a "Democrat flag" -- political parties don't have flags. It was a
battle flag originally.
telling the truth about the history the democrats have changed to hide their racist, slave owning past is not rewriting history...it is simply telling the truth........and you guys hate that....because it shows that you still belong to the racist democrat party...the party of slavery, kkk, jim crow, lynching, blocking the school house doors, both ways, poll taxes, literacy tests and all the vile racism the democrats created to keep power.....
You're all over the map trying to cover up and smokescreen the original false premise, which was the idea that the KKK was formed by a political party --- it was not, neither the original one, nor the 1915 revival, nor the short-lived 1948 revival (Samuel Green -- also no known political affiliation). The Klan rarely dabbled in politics at all, and when it did, in the 1920s, it was getting more Republicans than Democrats elected in Indiana and Colorado and the west. It was by its own view a moral police force, not a political party. It was the American Taliban of its time.
Racism has no political party --- and the transparent attempts by dishonest demagogues like Whittle Bill here, simultaneously floating the turd-idea that the DP or the RP of 1860 are exactly the same institutions that they are now (which is absolute shit-maru) in order to make the first turd float, are naught but self-serving dishonest hacks looking for YouTube hits. The racism we know in the Americas was invented centuries before by European slave traders ---- LONG before there were any political parties here, LONG before there was a country here --- to rationalize the taking of human cargo from one continent to another.
That was necessary because the blowback from the Church and individuals within it all the way back to Bartholomé de las Casas, openly questioned the morality thereof. Therefore the pseudoscientific bullshit that these Africans were "not really people" had to be invented so that slavery could flourish, so that the slave traders, and buyers, could
make money, which was ultimately what it was all about.
Democrats didn't invent that; Republicans didn't invent that; politicians didn't invent that. It's way older than any of them.
That's exactly why racism existed, and still exists, in the North as well as the South. It was a meme, used as an advertising tool to sell a product, which was slavery. And as a meme it's
cultural. Not "political".