What the Democratic Party is, is the party of the overwhelming majority of elites in the four interlinked industries — entertainment, technology, finance, and university education — to which the United States owes its global economic pre-eminence. The Democratic Party’s America is what the whole rest of the world thinks about when it thinks about America — the prowess, the novelty, the glamour.
What that coalition doesn’t include is anyone who actually does anything…..does as in the sense of physically…..
This tho’ is one of the great lies:
The Democratic Party is also the inheritor of the great civil rights crusade, which culminated in the end of racial segregation in the 1960s and has since become the model for progressive causes in all walks of American life.
The Ds were Jim Crow. I always find it amazin’ that this is forgotten.
It ain’t “forgotten”, it’s a deliberate attempt at painting the Republican’s, the party of Lincoln as the racists and the Democrat’s as the party of the poor, the blacks and the other diverse. It was always a deliberate attempt at rewriting the reality of the past.
The Republicans returned 5 African-American members to the US Congress in 1870 (a senator and 4 congressmen), but it took until 1935 for Arthur Wergs Mitchell to be elected as the first African-American from the Democratic party serve.
You can bet your bottom dollar that these facts slip down the back of the sofa when educating kids in the sink schools of New York, Chicago and Detroit.
It’s also always conveniently forgotten that a) the Republican party was founded as an anti-slavery campaign; and b) the KKK is a Democrat party offshoot.
“Elites in education” … Pretty sure the nominally-adult-students needing crayons and a Therapy Duck is a good indication how “elite” that Democrat Education is…
Technology… The one US-ian currently doing something technologically breakthrough-ish at any level is a declared supporter of Trump and the Republicans.
The fact that he consistently embarasses the Honeypot Technocrats at Boeing and NASA, thouroughly offended the Democrat Wokerati by taking over their favourite Social Media Toy, and regularly utters rather outlandish things that Offends TPTB takes care of the entertainment.
Much better than the woke shyte and-definitely-not-Progressive-propaganda-honest-guv’ Disney™ turns out .
Finance… How many banks that toppled and threatened to take the whole card house down again?
And how’s that defecit doing?
Nice job those “elites” did there… The dissociation is strong in this one…
Lincoln inherited those slaves as well as massive debts and if he’d tried to free them his creditors were entitled to re-enslave and sell them. Horrible as it was, they were probably better off as his slaves.
In an article about presidential politics, Caldwell’s assertion that the GOP “spent most of the twentieth century out of power” is rubbish. The GOP occupied the White House for a bare majority of the century.
This must all be far-right propaganda! The Left would never, ever manipulate facts and the law this way! Just look at our own knight of the realm who is our Prime Minister!
Oh, wait…
Better not.
The Democrats are the party of Jewish billionaires, faggoty SWPL upper middle class strivers with “fur babies” or “trans kids”, and permanently resentful black women who think white people owe them something.
The Republicans are the party of the normal American majority.
Grikath – most of the innovation, dynamism and competence we used to expect from American Big Tech has been killed by all the Pajeets they’ve imported because nobody wants to pay conpetent white man wages.
When a tech company reaches a certain percentage of Bharatry, it stops being a tech company and becomes an immigration and employment scam for Jumpshit and his 12,000 cousins, each one less useful than the last.
Google 2004 was better at search than Google in 2024. Microsoft can only make new products that enrage users.
There’s a statue of Lincoln on a college campus (can’t remember where) that says “Abraham Lincoln, Democrat”.
Surveys & interviews with American blacks show most didn’t know Lincoln was an R, the KKK was Dems, etc.
Not sure it’s been done by rewriting the past so much as just that if you’ve always been told that Dems are the saintly protectors of blacks & Rs want you in chains you assume all the rest.
Quite ironic that the party that says you can’t praise America without acknowledging slavery, etc. doesn’t hold that view about itself.
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P.S. @BIND: “Lincoln inherited those slaves …” Eh?