It’s hard to shake cultural history in cities and organizations. I was reminded of this yesterday when the Trump Sham Trial verdict was announced. It truly was crossing the Rubicon and ushered in a new era.
I don’t know if you follow Xi Van Fleet on Twitter but you should. She survived Mao’s cultural revolution in China and escaped. The Democrats are marching down the same path today in the US.
The Democrats subverted and corrupted our justice system, but demand we must respect whatever its decisions are. The Democrats subverted and corrupted our election systems, but demand that we must never question the results. Today’s Democratic Party is
Communist Party. And it is more deceptive than the CCP ever has been. Because it is still called a DEMOCRATIC Party and claims to defend our “DEMOCRACY”.
Let’s look at Democratic history, shall we? Allow me to take you down memory lane.
Aaron Burr was a Democrat. He killed his leading rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel. He helped Thomas Jefferson form the Democratic Party. If it is all about founders, Aaron Burr is a great one. That is if you like oppression.
The country moved along and the Democrats were far more organized than their opposition. The Republican Party of today wasn’t formed until the Whig Party finally crapped out and it became the party of Abraham Lincoln.
I know they don’t teach this sort of thing in history class, but it was the Democrats who supported slavery. Pre Civil War and Post Civil War, the Democrats passed all kinds of laws that kept people in shackles. Culturally, that is still true today. The unelected bureaucratic regulatory industrial complex is an arm of the Democratic Party in America.
John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated President Lincoln after the Civil War was a Democrat. Does it surprise you that the party of Aaron Burr would shoot someone?
America had one brief moment to realize the dreams of founders and people who came a lot later like Martin Luther King Jr post Civil War. Ulysses S. Grant, general of the US Army, was one of the first people to allow Blacks to fight. He supported them greatly and treated them like he would other men. Lincoln was going to reunify the country. Instead, he was assassinated.
In Lincoln’s place was a vice president who allowed Jim Crow to be institutionalized. Andrew Johnson might be the worst President in US history until Joe Biden. A thousand racist flowers bloomed under Johnson. All kinds of laws were passed and Jim Crow was with us until at least 1965, almost 100 years.
When Grant was President, Democrats all over the South were so vile and violent that he had to compromise and allow Jim Crow to keep the peace. We were close to another Civil War.
No Democrat was elected President until Grover Cleveland. But it was actually Woodrow Wilson who formed the Democratic Party that we see today. He built upon the culture of the party’s past.
Woodrow Wilson was a racist. He resegregated the entire US government. He fired Blacks from jobs.
"Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen." When Trotter insisted that "it is untenable, in view of the established facts, to maintain that the segregation is simply to avoid race friction, for the simple reason that for fifty years white and colored clerks have been working together in peace and harmony and friendliness," Wilson admonished him for his tone: "If this organization is ever to have another hearing before me it must have another spokesman. Your manner offends me … Your tone, with its background of passion."
He emboldened Southern Democrats to tighten segregation and Jim Crow in the South. The great migration of Blacks to the North happened during the time of Cleveland and Wilson. Why? Job opportunities for sure but also less discrimination. Of course, the Northern cities had their own brand of discrimination and enforced it vigorously. You can look up when the last Republican mayor of major cities was elected and look at how the city has fared since.
It was the Democrats who embraced lynching. If you read Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird, the recalcitrants in it weren’t Republicans.
Woodrow Wilson was a vocal defender of the Ku Klux Klan. Senator Robert Byrd of West Virgina, and the Democratic Leader in the 1980s and 1990s was a leading member of the KKK.
Wilson also instituted the expansion of government and the personal income tax. Again, core Democratic values. Democrats love centralized bureaucracy and committees and the love to tax. They are redistributionist. When Obama said “You didn’t build that.”, he channeled a core value of the Democratic Party. Of course, the Fair Tax could fix all that.
Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the foundation of the meddlesome and overarching government we see today. Because there were no term limits, he served three and a half terms and was more like an emporer than President. FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court. He saw most people as stupid serfs who couldn’t decide for themselves. His hand-picked experts in Washington knew better. He loved to regulate and loved to set prices rather than let the free market do its job. Much of what we see in government bureaucracy today was put in place by FDR not to help Americans, but to buy votes. It was about power, not altruism.
Lyndon Baines Johnson expanded the size and scope of government with his War on Poverty which never worked. The government hasn’t brought one person out of poverty unless you count getting a government job with a defined benefit pension that the rest of us pay for. Conveniently, LBJ lied to the American public about the Vietnam War. Sure, the Voting Rights Act was passed under LBJ, but that effort was led in the Senate by Republicans. Republican Illinois Senator Everette Dirksen is why we have the Voting Rights Act. Southern Democrats voted against it.
Interestingly, in 1972, the Democratic Governor of Alabama George Wallace, ran for President and did surprisingly well. If he had been elected, he would have reintroduced Jim Crow across the country.
Since FDR’s time, Democrats have been for more centralization of power. Today’s Democratic Party is embracing Marxism, which is not a stretch for them since Marxism is similar to FDR’s vision for America.
It was Democratic Senator Harry Reid who broke the filibuster for lower court judges in hopes the Democrats would have permanent power and pack the courts. It is Democrats today who talk about expanding the Supreme Court. On the hard left-leaning show The View, they fantasized about murdering Supreme Court Justices. No surprise given Aaron Burr and the cultural history of the Democrats.
It is the Democrats who propose a new agency to solve a problem. It is the Democrats that propose new programs that never work to solve problems. It is the Democrats that have engaged in lawfare to beat political rivals. This is not any different than Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, and any other despot you care to name.
It was a Democratic President Clinton who disrespected the office of President and got blow jobs under his desk from a 19-year-old intern. Even Nixon respected the office of President significantly more than Clinton and had the good sense to resign the office. Democrats have no shame or conscience. Again, when your party has a founder who killed a political rival in a duel, having no shame or conscience comes with the territory.
It is a Democratic Party that leads the league in corruption. See Illinois. Take a gander at Tammany Hall. How about Huey Long’s corruption in Louisiana? All Democrats.
President Obama was a commie. People flocked to him because he was black but it was as Shelby Steele correctly calculated “white guilt” that caused it. Those of us from Illinois knew exactly who Obama’s mentors were. I even donated to Hillary because I knew how bad he was.
It is the Democratic Party that has turned California into a Communist caliphate. They are lucky they have good weather and a coastline otherwise no one would be left there. It is the Democrats that have ruined cities across America. Buckle up Boston because you are next. The mayor there advocated for no prosecution of many crimes. That’s going to escalate.
If you are a squishy Republican and don’t realize it, then you are part of the problem. We don’t have the patience, nor is there time for you to figure it out. I don’t want to hear your babble. I don’t want to hear about what could have been or some chalkboard theory. What’s happened has happened and the playing field looks a lot different today than it did yesterday when you woke up.
If you are a centrist Democrat, I can’t help you. I can try to persuade you that “good government” is impossible but you are unpersuadable. If you don’t understand what has been happening over the last several years, it is impractical to try and persuade you. There is no time. You will get run over by your political party. The Marxist teachers’ union has run over centrist Democrats all over the country. Why will you be any different?
We are in a new America today. The Democrats will try and get Trump to do a perp walk and get a photo behind bars. Republicans should not respect this court, and do all they can to fight against it. There is no objective rule of law in America today.
That’s what happened yesterday.
We're truly living in revolutionary times Mr Carter! I have zero respect for anyone's "moderate" views on either side of the aisle. There is no room for moderation in today's America, which is hanging on by a thread! Things that can't continue won't. Too much government, and to much complacency on the part of the professional Republicans, who come around talking like a conservative when they want our vote and as soon as they get to DC sell us down the river! I think there's a quiet anger, a kind of cold fury that's building in the normal center of the country as more of the BS gets exposed. Time will tell. "A Republic if you can keep it"
Excellent summation of the history of the Democratic party. Think it was Rush Limbaugh who used to say they should be prosecuted under RICO act! Keep up the good fight!
I agree more with you than you do with yourself.
I am going to start growing bananas.
JLM
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