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Thomas Hurt

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1. Conservatives keep trying to sell this shit over and over...

Reply to mfcorey1 (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2020, 09:02 PM

Jun 2020

First the Democratic Party of Civil War era is not the same party or today, neither is the GOP. Conservatives try to scam people into believing it is so.

Second, the movement to "conserve" the traditional economic system or slavery and the cultural institution of white supremacy, has always been a conservative or reactionary one.

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Fact check: Democratic Party did not found the KKK, did not start the Civil War [View all] mfcorey1 Jun 2020 OP

Conservatives keep trying to sell this shit over and over... Thomas Hurt Jun 2020 #1

and the roles between the parties have been reversed since FDR and beyond still_one Jun 2020 #2

More accurately since LBJ. When I was a kid the South was solidly Democratic. GulfCoast66 Jun 2020 #10

No question about it, Trump is the ghost of George Wallace. The reason I started with FDR was still_one Jul 2020 #13

To be honest, Dixiecrats were racists in 50s, 60s, early 70s. BUT Hoyt Jun 2020 #3

A Better Response erpowers Jun 2020 #4

Thank God you republicans won that war back in the 1860s. keithbvadu2 Jun 2020 #5

The Dem party in fact split in two in 1860... First Speaker Jun 2020 #6

Lincoln would be ashamed of today's Trumplican party. roamer65 Jun 2020 #7

Not to mention that all of the old Dixiecrats became Republicans. yellowcanine Jun 2020 #8

I send people this video. It's very well done Quixote1818 Jun 2020 #9

LOL! I'm not a supporter of the "Democrat Party" anyway, so why should I care? Crunchy Frog Jul 2020 #11

If you look at events in terms of liberal and conservative, Hortensis Jul 2020 #12