I,still don't get the sensitivity to the word "democrat" that the democrats have....if I were them I would have changed the name a long time ago because they were the party of slavery, the ku klux klan, lynching free blacks, and Jim crow, literacy tests and poll taxes as well as church bombings....
and yet....they are only upset about the word "democrat"
Funny....
I'm not a Democrat (which is a proper name and therefore capitalized) but I am literate. "Democrat" is a noun, "democratic" an adjective. That this distinction sails over your head tells me a lot.
And your history is pretty much fucked anyway. The KKK was not a political organization. And slavery existed long before either political party.
Again, git chew a edumacation.
but the political party that fought a civil war to keep slavery was the democrat party...the party that wanted to have slavery in the new states was the democrat party, the political party that wanted to restart the slave trade with Africa was the democrat party, the party that started the klan was the democrat party, theparty that lynched republicans and freed slaves was the democrat party, the party that kept blacks from voting using poll taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation was the democrat party....
And yet they kept the name...proudly...says a lot about them doesn't it?
Wrong as wrong can be. Political parties don't fight wars. The Union consisted of both Democrats and Republicans; in the South the RP (which was all of six years old at the start of the war) for all intents and purposes didn't even exist.
I did this yesterday but -- pop quiz: in the Presidential election of 1860, the Republican candidate was Lincoln and the Democrat (noun) was Stephen Douglas. Which one won the South?
Duh.
The slave trade started way before any party (or the country) was formed; the KKK was formed by six Confederate soldier veterans (Christmas Day 1865; I have their names if you want them) and was defunct by 1880; it was then reconstructed by a guy in Georgia named William Simmons (1915) and this iteration was the one that started the burning crosses thing, the expansion of hatred to Jews, Catholics, communists and loose women, and the first time it organized at all to run for office (where they ran Republicans in the midwest, the west and California). But neither Simmons nor the six Confederate vets had any known political affiliations. It was essentially a social police group made of hyperconservative assholes.
I can tell you're getting your history from licking the feet of Lush Rimjob ---- which I already knew from your malaprop "democrat party" [sic]. Dead giveaway.
When I said you should get chew a edumacation I didn't mean I was going to give you one for free. Get off your mental posterior and learn some history.
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