direstraits posted:Naio posted:gbrk posted:Naio posted:Naio posted:direstraits posted:Democrats, including presidents Obama and Clinton, have openly met with ant-Semites and racists like Farrakhan and Linda Sarsour. Never saw President Trump meeting or even agreeing with David Duke, who has almost no influence with anyone about anything.
The same with Farrakhan.
Furthermore, the kkk, as an organization, has a well documented history of domestic terrorism. The nation of islam doesn't. Fact check me...
The thought of people even trying to deflect from the reality of what happened in Pittsburgh shows how lost the republican party is now.
I don't know that using the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) advances your point with respect to the Republican party because during the majority of the KKK's history, as an organization, they were mainly backed by, supportive of, and members of the Democratic party. Up until the 1960's some of the Democratic parties leading politicians held positions within the KKK even. Just like in the passing of Civil Rights legislation Lyndon Johnson would never have achieved that Civil Rights legislation without Republican support for it was the Democrats, mostly Southern Democrats, that opposed the legislation and tried to prohibit it from passing. It only passed with Republican support. Many want to ignore that fact but history is what it is.
Yes, a few old line Democrats became Republicans. They may now be found in cemeteries. Perhaps, you might choose something more current. Say from the last 25 years.
http://bittersoutherner.com/fr...y-keri-leigh-merritt
And we must take heed of the beliefs of men like Leonidas Spratt, who championed reopening the African slave trade in the 1850s, and also worked hard to keep poorer whites from casting a ballot. Spratt claimed that throughout history, the most successful societies depended on “the greatest political inequalities.” Today, Brian Kemp and many other Republicans across the South are carrying on the Confederacy’s legacies — birthed in oligarchy, and ultimately dedicated to preserving white supremacy at any cost.
Stolen elections included.