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.
/----/ The slave owners were democRATs before, during, and after the CW. Deal with it.
NOBODY was a slave owner after the CW. Linear time, deal with that. There's number one.
Inasmuch as the only slave owners DURING the CW who had a political party were in the North where their state's abolishment had not come into full effect, they could have had any party (fun fact: the last POTUS to have been a slaveowner was Ulysses Grant). That's number two.
At *NO* time before during or after the CW, OR before we were a country, was it necessary to affiliate with any political party at all. It simply isn't part of slaveowning and never has been. That's number two and a half.
And for the over three hundred years that there was slavery on this continent before there was a Democratic Party, by definition ZERO of those slaveowneers were "Democrats" --- again, simple case of that entity not existing. That's number three. And I believe we've covered Before, During and After. But perhaps there's another demention in Flooby Dust Land where we haven't touched.
Prove ANY of that wrong.
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" NOBODY was a slave owner after the CW. Linear time, deal with that. "
I forgot I'm dealing with a public school-educated libtard moonbat and everything has to be spelled out for you. My bad.
An example: Bart Smith, was one of the slaveowners before, and during the CW. After the war, he was one of the old or former slave owners, but he would always be branded as such for the rest of his life. I can understand how you would be confused. Now a history lesson on how slavery continued after the end of the war:
Slavery in America didn’t end with the Emancipation Proclamation. It lived on---even after the Civil War had ended and the 13th Amendment had been put
listverse.com
The
13th Amendment didn’t make all forms of slavery illegal. It kept one exception. Slavery, it ruled, was still permitted “as a punishment for crime.”
All the Southern states had to do was find a reason to arrest their former slaves, and they could legally throw them right back on the plantation. So, Southern politicians set up a series of laws called the “
Black Codes” that let them arrest black people for almost anything.
In Mississippi, a black person could be arrested for anything from using obscene language to selling cotton after sunset. If he was as much as caught using a bad word, he could be charged, leased out as a slave laborer, and put to work in chain gangs and work camps on farms, mines, and quarries.
It happened a lot. By 1898, 73 percent of Alabama’s revenue came from leasing out convicts as slaves.
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