Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against all major civil rights initiatives. The party has a long racist history. The Democratic Party defended slavery, started civil war and racial segregation, opposed reconstruction, committed lynching’s, and fought against civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s.
Instead, the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. The goal of the Republicans was to stop the spread of slavery to the new western territories and eventually eliminate it completely.
However, the Supreme Court gave a strong counterattack. In the 1857 case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that slaves are not citizens, they are property. The seven judges who voted for slavery were Democrats. The two judges who voted against slavery were Republicans.
The issue of slavery was eventually resolved by the bloody civil war started by the Democrats. The Civil War began in 1860 after the presidential election, when Republican Abraham Lincoln won the election. He opposed the extension of slavery to the western regions. Lincoln’s inauguration was held in March and the Democrats started a civil war in April.
There were two sides to the civil war: the United States and the American Confederation. The American Confederation was a secession state from the United States from 1861-1865. The Democratic Party completely dominated the political life of the confederation during its existence.
The confederation was originally founded by seven southern states that seceded from the United States: Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. These areas were dependent on agriculture, especially cotton production, which used African American slaves. Jefferson Finis Davis (Democrat) was the sole president of the confederation.
The secession documents of every Southern state made clear, crystal clear, that they were leaving the Union in order to protect their "peculiar institution" of slavery -- a phrase that at the time meant "the thing special to them." The vote to secede was 169 to 0 in South Carolina, 166 to 7 in Texas, 84 to 15 in Mississippi. In no Southern state was the vote close.
A Democrat, Alexander Stephens of Georgia, the Confederacy's Vice President clearly articulated the views of the South in March 1861. "Our new government," he said, was founded on slavery. "Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, submission to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."
In the war, the United States, or the Nordic states, was led by Republican President Abraham Lincoln, the army was led by General Ulysses S. Grant.
Nearly every northern state was headed by a Republican governor. The war ended in the victory of the Nordic states (Republicans), after four years and the overthrow of 620,000 to 850,000 soldiers, Confederate troops surrendered in 1865.
In a famous campaign speech in 1858, Lincoln said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." What was it that divided the country? It was slavery, and only slavery. He continued: "I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free... It will become all one thing, or all the other." Lincoln's view never changed, and as the war progressed, the moral component, ending slavery, became more and more fixed in his mind.
His Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 turned that into law and freed enslaved people in areas in rebellion against the United States.
Slavery is the great shame of America's history. No one denies that. But it's to America's and Republican’s everlasting credit that it fought the most devastating war in its history in order to abolish slavery.
As a soldier, I am proud that the United States Army, defeated the Confederates. In its finest hour, soldiers wearing this blue uniform -- almost two hundred thousand of them former slaves themselves -- destroyed chattel slavery, freed 4 million men, women, and children from human bondage, and saved the United States of America.
Six days later, the actor John Wilkes Booth, who was bitter about the defeat in the South, assassinated President Lincoln.
Lincoln’s vice president Andrew Johnson was a Democrat and became the new president. Johnson strongly opposed Lincoln’s plan to integrate newly liberated slaves into the southern economic and social system.
President Johnson and the Democratic Party unanimously opposed:
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits slavery and forced labor throughout the federal territory.
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted blacks U.S. citizenship.
15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave blacks the right to vote.
All three additions were approved by Republican votes.
After bitter defeat in the Civil War and the Republican’s led release of slaves, a group of veterans and Democrats from the confederation founded the Ku Klux Klan. Behind the founding of the Ku Klux Klan was the desire to create chaos for the Republican Party and strengthen the dominance of the white population. The Ku Klux Klan sought to restore white supremacy to the territory of the southern states. The Ku Klux Clan was founded by Civil War veterans John C. Lester, John B. Kennedy, James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, Richard R. Reed, and J. Calvin Jones. At a meeting in Nashville in 1867, clan members decided to develop the Ku Klux Clan into an organization in which local actors across the United States reported on their activities to the organization’s headquarters.
Democrat, Confederate Brigadier General George Gordon wrote the clan’s “program of principles,” in which he described the organization, principles, and purpose of the organization. Gordon was elected three times (1873, 1879, 1891) to the U.S. Congress as a representative of the Democratic Party. Gordon told about the Ku Klux Klan to former slave trader Democrat, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. A few weeks later, Forrest was elected the first national leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Of the Klan’s original founding members, James R. Crowe moved to Colbert County, Alabama, after the Civil War, where he worked in the real estate business and assisted in founding the Tennessee River Masonic lodge. Crowe was actively involved in local politics in the ranks of the Democratic Party.
General John B. Kennedy, a Confederate veteran, was injured in Chickamauga and Jonesboro, Georgia. A native of Giles County, Kennedy did commercial business after the war. Kennedy was one of the six original organizers of the Ku Klux Klan. He was an active Democrat. In 1884 he was a candidate for the Democratic Party and a electoral for the state president.
The Klan was a military force that served the Democratic Party, the farming class, and anyone who wanted to restore white supremacy. Its intentions were political, as it sought to influence both public and private power relations throughout southern society.
The purpose of the Klan was to destroy the infrastructure of the Republican Party, hamper reconstruction, restore control of the black workforce, and racial subjugation in all aspects of life in the southern region.
The Klan and democrats seek to prevent African American’s right for education, economic development, the right to vote, and the right to bear arms. The Klan quickly spread to almost every southern state, where it began its destructive and violent actions by killing Republican leaders.
In addition to black political leaders, they killed priests and community group leaders on their nightly trips of terror. Masked men fired at the houses, burned them while the residents were still inside, and drove the successful black farmers away from their own lands.
In North and South Carolina alone, 197 murders and 548 assaults were committed in 18 months. Klan’s violence sought to silence black voters. In Louisiana, more than 2,000 people were killed, wounded and injured a few weeks before the November 1868 presidential election.
Although St. Landry Parish had a majority of registered Republicans (1071), no one voted for Republicans after the murders in the fall election.
Ku Klux Klan organized a hunt for black Republicans for purposes of terrorism, in which more than 200 black Republicans died as a result of a hunt in the woods. Thirteen prisoners were taken from prison and shot. The bodies of 25 people had been left in the woods. By these means, the Ku Klux Klan made the people vote for the Democrats.
The Ku Klux Klan killed more than 150 blacks in Florida County and hundreds of others in other counties. In Georgia’s 1868 election, Columbia County cast 1,222 votes for Republican Rufus Bullock.
By the November presidential election, intimidation by the clan led to the repression of Republican votes, with only one person voting for Ulysses S. Grant. Grant still won the election in 1869 and was elected 18th President of the United States.
Pennsylvania Republican Senator John Scott convened a congressional committee that recorded 52 witness testimonies of Klan atrocities, 12 of which were particularly brutal. Despite Democrat opposition, Republican John Bingham introduced the Force Act.
The Force Act of 1870, or the first Ku Klux Klan legislation, was a U.S. federal law that empowered the president to enforce Part 15 of the Constitution throughout the United States.
The law was the first of three law enforcement acts passed by the U.S. Congress in the Reconstruction Era in 1870 and 1871 to prevent attacks on blacks by government officials or violent groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and their attempts to prevent them from exercising their right to vote.
The law prohibited discrimination against voters on the basis of race, color, or previous slavery. The law also authorized the president to use the military to enforce the law. The law prohibited the use of terrorism, force, and corruption to prevent the exercise of the right to vote on the basis of race. The Ku Klux Klan was completely banned by law. The Ku Klux Klan legislation was signed into law by Republican President Grant.
The Federal Government used the Ku Klux Klan Act in conjunction with other laws to enforce the constitutional provisions on the civil rights of individuals. Under Klan law, federal forces were used and members of the Ku Klux Klan were prosecuted in federal court. Hundreds of members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested and convicted as criminals and terrorists.
Democrats opposed this law, and during its preparation, massacres began to be committed in the southern states. When North Carolina Republican Governor William Woods Holden summoned the military against the Klan in 1870, it destroyed his popularity. As a result, in the next election, Republicans lost their majority. At the height of their outrage, the White Democrats impeached Holden and removed him from the office.
In a few southern states, Republicans organized militia units to disband the Klan. In 1871, the enactment of the Ku Klux Klan Act led to the imposition of nine South Carolina counties under the martial law and thousands of arrests.
A law passed by the Republicans suppressed the Klan. In 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Klan unconstitutional. In 1874 and later, new organized and openly active paramilitary organizations, such as the White League and Red Shirts, began a new wave of violence. The purpose was to stifle Republican voting and get Republicans out of decision-making. The White League and Red Shirts contributed to the restoration of the political power of the White Democrats in all the southern states by 1877.
Thanks to the Republicans, blacks served on federal court juries, allowing them to participate in the sentencing of members of the Ku Klux Klan. Hundreds of Klan members were fined or imprisoned.
In South Carolina, habeas Corpus was suspended in nine counties. Habeas Corpus is a procedure in which a court examines whether a person has been lawfully arrested or detained. The purpose of the Habeas corpus is to prevent arbitrary detention and to ensure the lawfulness of a person’s arrest.
Although the people started to use the Klan as a mask for non-political crimes, the state and local government rarely acted against them. Democrats generally kept blacks out of juries. In lynching cases, white juries almost never condemned members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Democratic President Woodrow Wilson shared views with the Klan. He practiced racial segregation in several federal agencies.
Federal forces deployed south by Republicans during the reconstruction era helped secure the rights of newly released slaves. Hundreds of black men were elected to the Southern state legislature as Republicans, and 22 black Republicans served in the U.S. Congress by 1900. The Democrats did not elect a black man to Congress until 1935.
But after a period of reconstruction in the southern states, with the departure of federal forces, the Democrats regained power in the south. Reconstruction ended with the election of President Rutherford B. Hayes when Hayes suspended the occupation of the federal army in the southern states. Soon the black rights of the South were again taken away from the blacks of the South, which the Republicans in Congress had sought to safeguard.
The name Ku Klux Klan began to be used by several independent groups. For example, from the 1950s onwards, individual Klan groups in Birmingham and Alabama began to resist social change by bombing black houses. Klan groups carried out so many bombings on black homes in Birmingham in the 1950s that the city’s nickname was Bombingham.
In 1953, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower said he would use any means necessary to end racial segregation as president, but he was opposed by Democratic governors in the South.
The only serious congressional opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act came from the Democrats. Eighty percent of Republicans in Congress supported the bill, but only less than 70 percent of Democrats. Democratic senators delayed the bill for 75 days until Republicans were able to garner a few extra votes with which they managed to resolve the stalemate. Thanks to the Republicans, blacks got federal legislation to protect their civil and voting rights, Ku Klux Klan shifted his focus to opposing court-ordered school transportation of black children. Members of the Ku Klux Klan destroyed 10 school buses in Pontiac, Michigan in 1971.
When Democrats ’efforts to enslave blacks and prevent them from voting had failed, they came up with a new strategy: if black people vote, they might as well vote Democrats.
Democratic President Johnson said of the Civil Rights Act: "If they [African Americans] are allowed to vote, we will have their votes for two hundred years."
This was the turning point when the Democrats started to use Race Card against Republicans. Democrats made strategic political move and turned things around so that Republicans and the right wing are racists. This has continued to this day. The media in USA and in many other countries is 70-90% controlled by left wing journalist and activist. If something is repeated long enough in the media, it is generally believed.
Today’s Ku Klux Klan is no longer one big organization, but rather it is made up of several small independent groups across the United States. The formation of independent groups has made it difficult to infiltrate KKK groups, and it is difficult for researchers to estimate their numbers.
It is estimated that about two-thirds of the members of the Ku Klux Klan are concentrated in the southern United States. One third lives mainly in the Midwest. Members of the Ku Klux Klan have intensified recruitment in recent years, but the organization is growing slowly. The number of members is estimated at 5,000 to 8,000.
Many Ku Klux Klan groups have formed strong alliances with other white supremacist groups, such as the Nazis. Some Ku Klux Klan groups have become more and more "Nazi-like" and have adopted the so-called the appearance and symbols of white power and skinheads.
Why did Democrats begin to create an image of this domestic terrorist group’s connections to Republicans? Nazism has never had anything to do with Republicans or the right wing, but still Nazis - as well as Republicans - are called far-right.
Nazism is National Socialism. Nazism is a form of fascism with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system.
These are all the complete opposites of what the Republicans on the political right are pushing for.
Throughout the history Republicans have supported freedom, equality before the law, free markets, free trade, limited government, individual rights, capitalism, democracy, racial equality, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.
Hitler declared: "We are socialists, we are the enemies of today's capitalist economic system."
The term "National Socialism" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of socialism, as an alternative to international socialism and free-market capitalism.
By the early 1920s, the party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party to attract workers from parties such as the Social Democrats (SPD), and Adolf Hitler assumed control of the organization. Hitler outlined the antisemitism at the heart of his political philosophy as well as his disdain for representative democracy.
Left-wing elements of Nazism include a regulatory state, an anti-capitalist emphasis on labor value, and an attempt to limit plutocracy. The Nazis argued that free-market capitalism damages nations due to international finance and the worldwide economic dominance of disloyal big business, which they considered to be the product of Jewish influences. Hitler expressed opposition to capitalism, regarding it as having Jewish origins and accusing capitalism of holding nations ransom to the interests of a parasitic cosmopolitan rentier class.
Far-left themes in Nazism include the argument that superior people have a right to dominate other people and purge society of supposed inferior elements. Just like in today’s Democratic Party and left wing led social media platforms are suppressing Republican’s free speech. Expansion of government and its control of people. Republicans oppose all those ideas.
Why is National Socialism still classified as a far-right?
This is again the “ingenious” way for Democrats to label Republicans as racists by pushing the KKK domestic terrorist trash into the arms of Republicans in every opportunity they get. Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has opposed all major civil rights initiatives. The current Democratic Party continues to lie in various forms by using the most powerful weapon, left wing owned media.
The Democratic Party succeeds with the votes of the representatives of the oppressed ethnic group. 80-90 percent of blacks vote for Democrats. Democrats are wrong to claim that the Republican Party is a racist villain, when in reality blacks have been held in poverty by the Democratic Party’s failed policies in areas they manage themselves.
A huge state social welfare system has destroyed black families. The new school election law, opposed by Democrats, has kept them trapped in failed schools. Politically correct policing has left black neighborhoods vulnerable to violent criminals.
Worldwide media repeats US left wing media’s negative coverage of Republicans from one day to the next, and therefore forms a false image of Republicans to the world. Every airport has CNN on TV’s. The mainstream media no longer publishes news today, but the politically colored ideology of left-wing activist journalists, which is a direct ongoing to the misleading outputs of the U.S. Democratic Party, which has suffered from narcissistic personality disorder.
Remember this, when Democrats say that Ku Klux Klan is not founded by the Democratic Party, they will conveniently forget to mention that the Ku Klux Klan was founded by a group of Democrats to destroy the Republican Party.
We are still on the path begun by President Johnson, Democrats accuse everyone who disagrees with them being racists. Just the ones they themselves have represented throughout their history. Isn’t this exactly Saul Alinsky’s method: blame others for what you do yourself.
