You are either a fool or a liar....
I suspect both...…..
You suspect whatever you like. I know my history. Prove one iota of it wrong or STFU.
KKK's 1st targets were Republicans - WND - WND
First the user-generated "Answers.com" now it's on to Whirled Nuts Daily, home of that infamous idiot group Jerome Corsi and the Birthers. Just gets better and better.
You ain't gonna mix it up with me on this shit. I WILL bury you.
No you will not, you smug leftist shill ****.
I know exactly what they were about. They killed as many whites as blacks, too.
Here's a little Wiki for ya, **********! Keep running that cockholster, *****!
"The first Klan flourished in the
Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. It sought to overthrow the
Republican state governments in the South, especially by using violence against
African-American leaders. Each chapter was largely autonomous and highly secret as to membership and plans. Its numerous chapters across the South were suppressed around 1871, through
federal law enforcement. Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks and
conical hats, designed to be terrifying and to hide their identities.
[16][17]"
Lincoln pushed for emancipation, which freed the slaves...Lincoln was a republican...the confederates despised Lincoln and anyone else who were for the emancipation of slaves...
Republicans then went on to pursue the progressive policy of Re-construction...confederates were against reconstruction -- that felt it was too radical an idea to give freed blacks the same rights as whites -- the confederates felt they needed to "conserve" their way of life so they violently fought to end Re-construction -- that is when the Klan really kicked things up a notch....
From the period of the late 1890's to 2019; there were a lot of policies that were implemented --- but whenever I see these idiotic "only democrats are in the KKK" deflections, I notice those people never want to talk about the policy goals of the KKK and which current party holds those same policy goals...the KKK was violently against voting rights, violently against civil rights/gay rights, violently against womens rights....
PRECISELY, the original Republican Party was chock full of ex-Whigs, who believed in doing big things with government (which also led to a split about 20 years later on "how big") but the Reconstruction policies were part of that including the "forty acres and a mule" principle, the first Affirmative Action push. Defeated Confederates naturally resisted at some point what was felt as an invasion from the Union, not because they were (sometimes) affiliated with a political party but simply because they were
interlopers. These actions were already going on as soon as word got out that the Confederacy was lost and had zero to do with political parties. Posses would attack the freed slaves for having the temerity to walk into town seeking employment, and they did so spontaneously on the spur of the moment, or in organized groups* of which the Klan became one. But at the time of the Klan's founding that process hadn't even begun.
>> It would be a historical fallacy to assert that the Ku Klux Klan and its compatriots were organized to combat the Union League and to overthrow Radical Reconstruction. They came on the scene much too early to support such a view and they were, indeed, too much a reflection of the general character of Southern life to spawn them. Radical Reconstruction was, however, a powerful stimulus for such endeavors, and the struggle against it gave the Klan a respectability and dignity that it had not anticipated. The lawlessness of the Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers of 1865 became the holy crusde of the Klansmen of 1868. Within a matter of months it was being claimed that the "instinct of self-protection" prompted the organization of the Klan.---
Reconstruction After the Civil War: Second Edition (John Hope Franklin, Univ. of Chicago Press 1994) p. 153 <<
All of this doesn't even touch on the fallacy that this drooling tribalist attempt to equate Klan with political party, even if it worked, would be all for the aim of constructing a giant Composition Fallacy based on the premise that something called "Democrat" in 1865 equates to something called "Democrat" in 2019, as if political parties were some kind of static bloc that never evolved with the times and political winds, which is patently absurd.
Clearly the Klan's opposition to its region's black population and its opposition to change in general, as well as its later crusades against drunkenness, infidelity, debt deadbeats, failure to attend a Christian church, Jews, Catholics, labor unions and immigrants were all hyperconservative principles and that stayed far more constant than any political party ever could. A political party has to appease its changing base; a hate group does not. That's why when the Klan dabbled in supporting or opposing politicians in its peak in the 1920s, it would support or oppose a Democrat or a Republican (or a nonpartisan) depending on what would work in that time and place. For all the Klan's faults it at least understood how political parties work far better than a whole lot of tribalist USMB posters do.
As a right-wing extremist group the KKK were, especially the 20th century version, proto-fascists before fascism contrived the term. "Ku Klux Klan" was in a very real sense the English translation of "Kinder, Kirche Kuche". Even works out to the same acronym.
>> In the end, the Klan was important not for what it did but for what it signified. It accomplished little but, as Evans appreciated, it expressed the otherwise inarticulate rage and resentment of millions. At bottom its members' quarrel was with modernity. In particular, they objected to the rise of Catholics and Jews to positions of power and prominence; they feared that science would undermine the moral authority of the Bible; they worried that a "New Woman" would refuse to the submit to patriarchal authority; they worried that a "New Negro" would reject white supremacy. In matters trivial and profound they found themselves threatened with being passed by. The Klan captured perfectly, as did the Eugenics movement, their simultaneous sense of being entitled and endangered. << (source)
