The Democratic Party was Never Democratic

[mystery-ak]

August 24, 2024
The Democratic Party was Never Democratic
By Douglas Schwartz

RFK Jr. recently lamented:

    The Democratic party I grew up with, the party of Robert and John Kennedy, was fighting to make sure that Americans, every American, could vote for the candidates that they chose to vote for. And this Democratic party is doing everything in its power to make sure Americans are disenfranchised.

Democrats abhor democracy and project their sins onto opponents. Is this new? Certainly not during the party’s founding or at any point in between.

The Democratic party began in 1828 as a southern phenomenon to elect Andrew Jackson, famous for exploits in Indian wars. Jacksonian “democracy” excluded certain races. Jackson’s Removal Act of 1830 focused on clearing the South of 50,000 remaining Indians to prepare for slave plantations. The Trail of Tears, which herded 15,000 Cherokee west and killed 3-4,000, was not a voter registration drive. Native Americans finally attained citizenship under Coolidge in 1924.

Democrats started the Civil War to prevent all Americans from enjoying citizenship. 800,000 dead later they surrendered. In subsequent generations Democrats sought to undo their loss through Jim Crow and similar segregationist de jure and de facto lawfare techniques that continued past WWII. Republican Abraham Lincoln freed Democrats’ slaves. School desegregation finally began under Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. He deported over a million illegal immigrants, rectifying another Democratic mess. Republican Richard M. Nixon concluded Democrats’ Vietnam fiasco.

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[Bigun]

There is not, and there never has been, a DEMOCRATIC party! It's the DEMOCRAT Party Damit!

 

[Smokin Joe]

There is not, and there never has been, a DEMOCRATIC party! It's the DEMOCRAT Party Damit!

 

As for starting the Civil War (the reasons stated are not exactly correct), hostilities, civilian and formal, were instigated because the Union (Northern) Army refused to vacate a harbor fort, and invaded Maryland (Pratt Street Riots , the first KIA of the War) and Virginia (Bull Run, twice).

Prior to that, it wasn't a war, at least not a shooting war. It was a political divorce.

...When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them...