That's right, folks.
Any political party that was associated with slavery should be dismantled tomorrow.
"Rep.
Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) introduced a House resolution Thursday calling on lawmakers to ban organizations or political groups that have historically supported the Confederacy or slavery in the U.S., a list he said includes the Democratic Party.
“A great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred. Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party’s loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isn’t so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan,” Gohmert
said in a statement."
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) introduced a House resolution Thursday calling on lawmakers to ban organizations or political groups that have historically supported the Confederacy or slave…
thehill.com
Once AGAIN the Confederacy had no political parties. It was not "supported" by Democrats. Fun fact: Lincoln's vice-president ....... was a Democrat. As for "ties to the Ku Klux Klan", Ed Jackson, Rice Means, George Luis Baker, Owen Brewster, D.C. Stephenson, Albert Johnston, Clarence Morley, Ben Paulen and David Duke find that faux pas hilarious.
It ain't surprising that this lunacy came from Louie Gohmert. That screwball's an embarrassment to Texas.
/——/ Yeah, right, you screwball.
Southern Democrats - Wikipedia
In the 19th century, Southern Democrats were whites in the South who believed in
Jacksonian democracy. In the 1850s they defended
slavery in the United States, and promoted its expansion into the West against northern
Free Soil opposition. The
United States presidential election of 1860formalized the split in the Democratic Party and brought about the
American Civil War. Stephen Douglas was the candidate for the Northern Democratic Party, and John C. Breckinridge represented the Southern Democratic Party, Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery was the Republican Party candidate.
**NONE** of this refutes or even addresses at all, anything I just laid out about the Confederacy not having political parties (there was no Confederacy in the 1850s), OR about the Klan.
/-----/ So you're saying the democRAT party disappeared during the Civil War and reemerged after the war ended?
Wow, did something actually sink in here?
Yep, Tennessee seceded in 1861. At that point it was no longer part of the United States. During the short term of the CSA, that country had no political parties. It was readmitted to this country in 1866. The Klan however was founded in `1865 --- outside the United States and outside of its political parties.
You don't have political parties in a place where you don't have political OFFICES. That's one reason I can challenge these yahoos to find any political party affiliation for the Klan founders I keep listing in detail. They can't. It doesn't exist.
As long as we're on the topic of political parties for the purpose of constructing elementary-school level Ass-ociation Fallacies, here's a cuppla fun facts:
In the last election before that secession and the CW that state (Tennessee) didn't vote for the Democrat Douglas or the Breakaway Democrat Breckinridge, nor did it vote for Lincoln, who hadn't been placed on the ballot by the six-year-old Republican Party. It voted for John Bell of the Constitutional Union Party, an offshoot of the Whigs, which advocated NOT spreading slavery and NOT seceding. Virginia voted for him too, even though VA would become the vital cog in the Confederacy, hosting its capital. And after that War the latter state was dominated not by Democrats but by the Readjuster Party, until the 20th century.
Yes Virginia, the 1860 election was a four-way race, which is why Lincoln only got 39% of the pop vote (that, and not being on the ballot in states that would become the Confederacy). The Democrat Douglas came in dead last, winning a total of one state (border state Missouri). After losing that election he went on a speaking tour around the South to dissuade them from the secession idea and when that failed, advised Lincoln on how to defeat them.
You see Sparkles, the idea of secession
anywhere not named South Carolina was highly controversial. Referenda were held amid passionate debate basically between the Haves and the Have Nots, the latter being enlisted (literally) to go fight a war for the former, which is why the latter despised the former. In East Tennessee, the future POTUS and Lincoln VP Andrew Johnson gave stirring oratory against the idea and the referendum failed there by 95% to 5. You remember Johnson --- the Democrat? Go ahead and build your Ass-ociation Fallacy around that. It'll be cute.
