Impeaching President Trump

[Ligma]

you need a history lesson on how the parties switched platforms

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistoria..._of_democrats/

And you keep implying I want to call you racist. I'm not sure what's up with that.

[Ripp]

Here's another interesting historical fact:

Only 69% of Democrats in the Senate voted for the Civil Rights Act, while 82% of Republican Senators voted for it. In the House, it was even worse, with just 63% of Democrats voting in favor, and 80% of Republicans supporting the legislation.

Facts people. Just facts.

[Ripp]

Originally Posted by Ligma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistoria..._of_democrats/

And you keep implying I want to call you racist. I'm not sure what's up with that.

Nope, sorry, just more lies.


Of course, another major strategy of covering up racist Democratic roots is saying that it isn’t the party today that it once was.

Some people even say the parties flipped at some point… so Democrats get credit for Lincoln (who was a Republican), and Republicans get credit for the KKK (which was founded by Democrats).

Well, when exactly did the parties suddenly and miraculously switch platforms?

Neither party added proposed anti-KKK positions to its platform at the 1924 conventions.

In 1963, the Democrat Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, stood blocking a doorway, refusing to allow a black girl to enter a white school that had just been desegregated by law.

And if the Democrats were still racist in 1963, that means Democrat hero Franklin D. Roosevelt was part of the old racist Democratic party. (Big surprise, that the guy who put Japanese Americans in concentration camps was racist).

Some people would say that the flip occurred with the election of President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. After all, George Wallace lost the primary against Johnson, which seems to be a rejection of Wallace’s racism.

Plus, Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[Ligma]

Originally Posted by Ripp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here's another interesting historical fact:

Only 69% of Democrats in the Senate voted for the Civil Rights Act, while 82% of Republican Senators voted for it. In the House, it was even worse, with just 63% of Democrats voting in favor, and 80% of Republicans supporting the legislation.

Facts people. Just facts.

The parties were very split by region the majority of southern democrats voted No. No southern Republican voted yes. And Southern democrats ruled overwhelmingly. Either way a majority of both parties voted yes and the only take away from it is that southerners were racist.

original House version:

Southern Democrats: 7–87

Southern Republicans: 0–10

Northern Democrats: 145–9

Northern Republicans: 138–24

The Senate version:

Southern Democrats: 1–20

Southern Republicans: 0–1

Northern Democrats: 45–1

Northern Republicans: 27–5


Your opinion on the switching of political platforms is alternate 'facts' plain and simple.

[Ripp]

Originally Posted by Ripp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here's another interesting historical fact:

Only 69% of Democrats in the Senate voted for the Civil Rights Act, while 82% of Republican Senators voted for it. In the House, it was even worse, with just 63% of Democrats voting in favor, and 80% of Republicans supporting the legislation.

Facts people. Just facts.

I realize this is not comfortable for you Liberals but truth is truth. These statistics are historical facts.

A Republican freed the slaves.

Democrats created the KKK.

Facts are facts. Deal with it.

[Ripp]

Originally Posted by Ripp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ah hem.

From History.com:

Most prominent in counties where the races were relatively balanced, the KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white Republicans at night, employing intimidation, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections. In a few Southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan. In 1871, the Ku Klux Act passed Congress, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to use military force to suppress the KKK. The Ku Klux Act resulted in nine South Carolina counties being placed under martial law and thousands of arrests. In 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Act unconstitutional, but by that time Reconstruction had ended and the KKK had faded away.


The moral of story is, be careful of who you call racist. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And once again, it was the Democrats who formed the KKK and the Republicans who fought against them.

Facts.

[BadOrangeMan]

Originally Posted by feniin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Race relations blew up because racists couldn't handle a black man as their superior.

Obama is the most racist president of the past 100 years.

[Wonkie]

Originally Posted by Ligma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The parties were very split by region the majority of southern democrats voted No. No southern Republican voted yes. And Southern democrats ruled overwhelmingly. Either way a majority of both parties voted yes and the only take away from it is that southerners were racist.

original House version:

Southern Democrats: 7–87

Southern Republicans: 0–10

Northern Democrats: 145–9

Northern Republicans: 138–24

The Senate version:

Southern Democrats: 1–20

Southern Republicans: 0–1

Northern Democrats: 45–1

Northern Republicans: 27–5


Your opinion on the switching of political platforms is alternate 'facts' plain and simple.

Southy Dems got released by the Whip cuz the vote was well-in-hand, ain't the Party's fault the South sucks.

[Ligma]

Again, possibly factually correct except for the assertion that the KKK was founded by the democratic party. But it's a disingenuous, bad faith arguement based on some kind of alternate history created by ultra partisan hacks.

But it's irrelevant because who's running the KKK, proud boys and patriot prayer RIGHT NOW?

[feniin]

Southern racists are going to do everything they can to ignore their own hypocrisy while following the Trump cult. Can't help that. Only thing left to do is put money into education to help prevent this shit from happening in another generation.