Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 11:33 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 8:46 pm
MikeNovack wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2026 8:36 pm
Walker, are you truly blind to the reality that the REPUBLICAN Party today doesn't stand for what it did in 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, 1960, 1980, etc.? American political parties aren't representing fixed ideologies but instead shifting coalitions of voters.
Let's say that's how it is. Let's believe you.
Who, then, is responsible for owning slaves, for the Confederacy, for Jim Crow, for the KKK, for turning the hoses on the civil rights marchers, and for betraying the black family in America? It was never the Republicans, of course; they were the party of anti-slavery, of Lincoln, of desegregation, of opposition to Jim Crow, against the New Deal and subsidizing single motherhood and fatherless homes, and so on. And now you say it isn't the Democrats, either?
So nobody is responsible for those things. Things happened, and nobody did them. Neither party can be blamed. This is what you would have to be saying. Are you saying that?
If not, at whose feet do you lay responsibility for slavery, the KKK, the opposition to civil rights, Jim Crow...and so on?
Considering the fact that the Republican Party currently seems to be the primary favorite of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and the Democratic Party less so,
That's the story the Dems want you to believe, of course. Their own exculpation depends on them forgetting or not knowing the entire history of the Democrat Party, and then shifting it to the Republicans. Then they can "boo" and "hiss," and you'll think they're no longer racist.
But why should you? The Republicans didn't switch. And the Dems kept all but two of the "Dixiecrat" racists in their own party. And which party is still obsessed with race? It's not the Republicans. It's the Democrats. And which party runs all those major cities, like Chicago, LA, NY, Baltimore, Minneapolis, and so on, in which racial inequality is so persistent? The cities aren't being controlled by Republicans, and in many cases, haven't even had a Republican mayor for several decades. And which party is desperate to make sure that you forget everything that happened before around 1970?
So why should you exculpate the Democrats from what they have historically done, and what they are still doing right now, and instead take their protestations of "anti-racism" at face value? Why believe the perpetrators?