Democrats and Racism
At that time in history — as you surely know, Steve — those called 'Democrats' were the 'conservatives'...
Could you have found a few more weasel words to use, Strother? Those called Democrats? That was the Democrat Party. You might as well say Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, and Hillary Clinton are "those called Democrats." That's almost as disingenuous as calling the current leadership of the Republican Party RINOs. They aren't Republicans in name only, they are the Republican Party.
I just listened to some weasel history professor from Duke on WZTK spend 20 minutes talking about this and studiously avoiding any mention whatsoever that the party in question was the Democrats. The two jackasses who host the show complicitly avoided the word as well. Democrats love to try to paste ancient history on their opponents all the time, but when it comes to their own, well that stuff was other people who just "called themselves Democrats."
Bartlett's just saying, 'See, they were racists too!' and mining old racist dirt to take a swing at modern-day Dems.
That's BS and you know it, Strother. There isn't any "old racist dirt" to be mined here. And Bartlett didn't make any more of the race issue than existed. As a matter of fact, he went out of his way to point out that the thuggery was aimed at populists of both races. It was your precious Democrats who made race an issue and continued to do so until the late 1960s. We're not talking about old news, this is the history of the Democrat Party. The point of Bartlett's article is that the Democrats are still operating true-to-form, they just tend not to shoot anyone these days. At least not openly. They are no more a party of ideals and principles than the Republicans are, and they have a much longer history from which we can extract examples of demagoguery, corruption, and just plain fascism.
The really funny thing is that Democrats haven't changed all that much. They are still the party of racism. They just put a more attractive face on it and made it more pernicious by hiding it behind pretty words like "affirmative action," "minority preferences," and my personal favorite, "multiculturalism." The welfare state is nothing more than a modern-day plantation with Massa Kennedy and Massa Reid and Massa Dean all presiding over "their" welfare slaves. Al Gore, Junior isn't all that different than Al Gore, Senior. It's just that Al Gore, Senior was more honest about his brand of racism.
Could you have found a few more weasel words to use, Strother? Those called Democrats? That was the Democrat Party. You might as well say Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, and Hillary Clinton are "those called Democrats." That's almost as disingenuous as calling the current leadership of the Republican Party RINOs. They aren't Republicans in name only, they are the Republican Party.
I just listened to some weasel history professor from Duke on WZTK spend 20 minutes talking about this and studiously avoiding any mention whatsoever that the party in question was the Democrats. The two jackasses who host the show complicitly avoided the word as well. Democrats love to try to paste ancient history on their opponents all the time, but when it comes to their own, well that stuff was other people who just "called themselves Democrats."
Bartlett's just saying, 'See, they were racists too!' and mining old racist dirt to take a swing at modern-day Dems.
That's BS and you know it, Strother. There isn't any "old racist dirt" to be mined here. And Bartlett didn't make any more of the race issue than existed. As a matter of fact, he went out of his way to point out that the thuggery was aimed at populists of both races. It was your precious Democrats who made race an issue and continued to do so until the late 1960s. We're not talking about old news, this is the history of the Democrat Party. The point of Bartlett's article is that the Democrats are still operating true-to-form, they just tend not to shoot anyone these days. At least not openly. They are no more a party of ideals and principles than the Republicans are, and they have a much longer history from which we can extract examples of demagoguery, corruption, and just plain fascism.
The really funny thing is that Democrats haven't changed all that much. They are still the party of racism. They just put a more attractive face on it and made it more pernicious by hiding it behind pretty words like "affirmative action," "minority preferences," and my personal favorite, "multiculturalism." The welfare state is nothing more than a modern-day plantation with Massa Kennedy and Massa Reid and Massa Dean all presiding over "their" welfare slaves. Al Gore, Junior isn't all that different than Al Gore, Senior. It's just that Al Gore, Senior was more honest about his brand of racism.
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