Then refute it with facts. Here, I'll help you.
Were the founders of the Ku Klux Klan Republicans or Democrats?
Was George Wallace a lifelong Republican or Democrat?
Was Ku Klux Klan Exalted Cyclops and later Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd a lifelong Republican or Democrat?
Which party filibustered (the longest in US Senate history) the 1965 Civil Rights Act, Republicans or Democrats (I'll give you a hint, one of the leaders was the aforementioned Robert Byrd)?
In states all across The South where segregation, Blacks having to sit in the back of the bus, and firehoses and dogs and other violence used against Blacks, which party controlled every single one of those towns, cities, states, and local law enforcement agencies who actively participated or did nothing to stop it or prosecute those who perpetrated the violence? Was it the Republicans or the Democrats?
Now, instead of silly giggling or dodging the questions or spinning, just give a direct answer to the questions and show me which ones I was wrong about.
Following Lyndon Johnson, a southern democrat, signing of the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965, the Dixiecrats (the racists) jumped off the democratic ship and swam into the Republican one.
Of course, you already know this and are too arrogant and obtuse to acknowledge it and spoil your little good guy narrative. The mass exodus of the Dixiecrats to the Republican Party was the impetus of the southern strategy which has been the go to in every national presidential party race since Nixon resulting in the flipping of states from red to blue across the south. And that’s pretty much how it’s remained ever since. Racists apparently dig voting and since all those rats are now firmly entrenched in the Republican Party along with their fondness for voter suppression and gerrymandering) hey win now and again, even when they get less votes.
Of course, you’ll ignore those facts and continue to blather on like you don’t know the history that happened during your own lifetime … only that which happened before your time. How convenient for you to ignore such a historic reshuffling of the cards so you can pretend your party was always on the right side of history. You are clownish and this is why nobody takes you seriously.
The history of the Democratic Party was garbage because it was centered on garbage philosophies about human rights and equality. They took out their garbage in 1965. Lyndon Johnson knew that signing the voting rights act would cause his party to lose elections. But he signed it because it was the right thing to do. The rats couldn’t abide it.
You know what they say … one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. But let’s pretend that white nationalism is a far out fantasy, the civil war was a war of northern aggression, the civil rights movement was about lack of bootstrap pulling and do-nothing blacks just looking to game the system. Les pretend it doesn’t drive you up a wall when a black football player kneels during a song or someone suggests that Black Lives Matter. Let’s pass that ignorance on to to a new generation by erasing it from school curriculums and burning books with any mention of anything you find offensive.
Let’s leave the mess for our grandkids to clean up because, dammit, we’re just too patriotic to recognize how persistent a problem racism is and how it’s kinda shaped much of our political and social history. But thank goodness it’s all gone now, right. Like I said, clownish.
