AProudLefty
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It's quite simple. You dismissed the sources as false. Why is that hard for you to understand?
BTW, I created a new thread about genetic fallacy. You are welcome to participate.
Why did the Democratic and Republican parties switch platforms?
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It's quite simple. You dismissed the sources as false. Why is that hard for you to understand?
BTW, I created a new thread about genetic fallacy. You are welcome to participate.
They didn't. The DNC just switched tactics on how best to destroy black families. Blacks progressed well after slavery until LBJ came along, and they've been poorer, less educated and more prone to single parent homes every year since. Robert Byrd had no effect on blacks while he was a leader in the KKK, but as a senator he kept millions of blacks poor and made his former KKK buddies proud.
AProudLefty
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You don't think the War on Drugs had anything to do with it?
Geeko Sportivo
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President and a Republican (left), and Franklin Roosevelt, the 32nd U.S. President and a Democrat. The Republican and Democratic parties effectively switched platforms between their presidencies. (Image credit: Public domain)
The Republican and Democratic parties of the United States didn't always stand for what they do today.
During the 1860s, Republicans, who dominated northern states, orchestrated an ambitious expansion of federal power, helping to fund the transcontinental railroad, the state university system and the settlement of the West by homesteaders, and instating a national currency and protective tariff. Democrats, who dominated the South, opposed those measures.
After the Civil War, Republicans passed laws that granted protections for Black Americans and advanced social justice. And again, Democrats largely opposed these apparent expansions of federal power.
Sound like an alternate universe? Fast forward to 1936.
Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt won reelection that year on the strength of the New Deal, a set of Depression-remedying reforms including regulation of financial institutions, the founding of welfare and pension programs, infrastructure development and more. Roosevelt won in a landslide against Republican Alf Landon, who opposed these exercises of federal power.
So, sometime between the 1860s and 1936, the (Democratic) party of small government became the party of big government, and the (Republican) party of big government became rhetorically committed to curbing federal power.
Eric Rauchway, professor of American history at the University of California, Davis, pins the transition to the turn of the 20th century, when a highly influential Democrat named William Jennings Bryan blurred party lines by emphasizing the government's role in ensuring social justice through expansions of federal power — traditionally, a Republican stance.
But Republicans didn't immediately adopt the opposite position of favoring limited government.
Read more at https://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parties-switch-platforms.html
Because Republicans have lost their way! Trump has most of them all side-tracked, hi-jacked, and brainwashed!
The question is- Will they ever find their way again with the VOTING MAJORITY!
At present state- that is not likely!
gfm7175
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I dismissed your sources (with prejudice) as sources that I do not accept. I still addressed your claim itself and explained why it is incorrect.
No Genetic Fallacy was committed.
gfm7175
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So, you're saying that the Republican Party "had their way" until 2016 when Trump caused them to "lose their way"? Interesting...
AProudLefty
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Dismissing the source is genetic fallacy. Why is that difficult for you to understand?
And you have not addressed my OP at all. All you did was asking me why the history of slavery isn't included on the DNC website.
Once again, they were CONSERVATIVE Democrats, just like the Republicans at the time leaned left, one of the facts that those over on the right never seem to acknowledge when they try to portray the Democrat Party as racist
Wait a minute, "blacks progressed well after slavery until LBJ?"
So all those years or Jim Crow and "separate but equal" were the good ole days?
Geeko Sportivo
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The Republicans were still a functioning political party and legitimate contender before Trump led them down into a swampy sewer during his 4 years in office.
The Republicans have lost Both houses of Congress and the Executive seat since he was elected president.
If you can't acknowledge the damage done- then you'll only repeat your mistake again!
They still progressed well in spite of those Democrat initiatives. As I said earlier, LBJ came up with a brilliant strategy to destroy the black family while getting most of them to vote Democrat.
Democrats today have the exact same wrong-headed economic beliefs that they had when they were full-on slavers: That the rich make their wealth off of the poor.
I'm well aware of that narrative, and unconvinced that blacks have any propensity for certain drugs over whites.
AProudLefty
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The War on Drugs was intended for blacks.
Again, I'm well aware of that narrative. You must be racist as all hell to think that blacks have any more propensity to drugs, or certain kinds of drugs, than whites.
AProudLefty
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It's the only reasonable assumption to be made, based on your narrative. But you can still try to convince me otherwise by telling me your theory why blacks have any more propensity to drugs, or certain kinds of drugs, than whites.
AProudLefty
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I have never made such an assumption.
Then explain why you think that the WOD targets blacks.