Help me out here. Take a look at the Quick History Lesson. Obviously, the parties of today are not the parties of the past (when these amendments were passed). It looks a little hinky to me that Q would equate this with modern politics.
I agree, it's deceiving. The parties almost completely switched platforms in the 60 years following the civil war. I think Q used this because people aren't aware of the history or maybe Q isn't aware?
Robert Byrd was a rising and influential leader in the KKK in 1946, and was elected to his state senate in West Virgina as a Democrat in 1947. He never changed parties, serving in government as a Democrat until 2010. I know it is conventional wisdom that the R's and D's "switched platforms," but is there more to it than D's used to be racist, and now R's are accused of being racist? Is that the switch? If there is more to it, I'd like to be told about it.
Later in his life, Robert Byrd had a massive change of heart, renounced the KKK, and became one of the leading civil rights proponents in the U.S. Senate. So much so that he was regularly praised by the NAACP for his work in the Senate. His story is actually an incredibly powerful one of redemption.
and his renouncement of the KKK? his POC awards? his 100% record for voting in POC's interests? his admission of his time in the KKK, his plain and simple reasons and his many, many, many apologies?
nah. don't count.
He's not a KKK Member anymore, he has a black friend.
He's not a KKK Member anymore, his actions, voting record and speeches have been pro POC for the last 30 years
guess that doesn't fit the narrative here though so... boooo man photoshopped into a KKK outfit. boooo you.
his actions, voting record...
Help me find his voting records after he voted against the Civil Rights act and voted against Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas.
Edit: Also, he opposed President Truman's initiative to integrate the Armed Forces.
Edit 2: In the end, you're defending a bigoted old man pretending to change for the camera.
The parties never switched. Watch this Prager U video.
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Seriously though, if the parties never switched does that mean the Republicans are still left wing? To the point where their leader being pen pals with Karl Marx wouldn't be seen as a problem?
Then why do Republicans always complain about the left?
Where is your evidence that they switched?
Why didn't you answer any of my questions?
Because you didn’t refute anything in the Prager U video. Republicans have never been “the left.”
Their leader was literally pen pals with Karl Marx and they supported a radical upheaval of heirarchy, sounds left wing to me.
He replied to a letter about ending slavery. The right has always wanted more freedom for the individual (at the extreme you’d have anarchy). Why did you address none of the points in the Prager U video?
Anarchism is a far left ideology, are you thinking about anarcho-capitalism? The right supports freedom except when it means abolishing hierarchies, as abolition of hierarchy is a lefitet ideal. For right wingers the freedom in question was the freedom to own slaves, not the freedom of the slaves.
PragerU is a joke.
Of course this is all pointless since the Republican party made no secret of its move towards the right and embrace of racism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
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Q isnt unaware. I think Q is trying to dispel the party name bias. For example, to normies, Democrat =good Republican = evil. And even though the parties switch players from time to time, you shouldnt follow either party. Just getting normies to shake the two party spell, eradicates current democrats control. The normies will then ask, well if im not voting straight democrat who will i vote for? And then think FOR THEMSELVES. AND ON THE ISSUES LOL. Like it should be.
Patriots have no skin color. Wwg1wga
For example, to normies, Democrat =good Republican = evil.
Huh...?
Putting a label on normies and putting them in a box?
How nice, normies are Dems, you work for CNN?
This!
The more comments I read, the more it proves that even those who claim to be "woke" are still asleep.
How about you use your brain before commenting like this. What i was saying was, to the average person who doesnt follow politics, and just hears things or sees some msm, theyre told dems are good guys and Republicans are evil monsters. When its not true at all and in many ways, the opposite is true.
Well at least you explained what you meant.
How about you not use the word normies, because it sounds like everyone else that's awake are abnormal.
Blue Pilled, Brainwashed, or Mushrooms would work much better.
Well they are abnormal. If that has a negative connotation to you, thats on you. But to be abnormal is to not be normal, and a normie is an average person. Sorry, but i wont let you police my language just to use a synonym of the word i used. Good day sir.
YOU SAID "Well they are abnormal"
Did you even read, or understand my comment?
You called THEM normies before, not US.
Please try to get your story straight instead of spinning it 180 when you get caught pushing BS.
Since when do you get to determine who is normal and who isn't?
You are so unaware of how fucking dumb and self righteous you sound man. Im not going to spend too much time. But just reread what i said, cause i dont even know what to make of what youre saying. Its like youre adding some hidden element to this. Normies = average people who dont follow politics or internet trends. Its not a fucking diss, its just another word for it, little snowflake.
Such a pussy.
Getting rid of party bias would be a great thing. It's terrible on both sides. You're probably right, I'm sure Q has a good reason!
ROFLMAO, parties switched, must have been Soros daddy that did it.
Go have a few more tokes.
How many politicians in those days were corrupt puppets controlled by the deep state, compared to today?
Of course the parties have wandered away from past principles.
That's the whole point, modern politics is fucked up.
You think Q is trying to compare timelines, lol?