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Should the Democratic Party Change Its Name?
My answer? It is the party of slavery.
Yes, after their support for slavery and racist laws and regulations for all those decades it’s clear that the well documented and unambiguous racist history of that party should make us all demand that the party distance itself from their history of racism. The party name makes me blanch every time I hear it or read it. How can anyone be associated with such a party that is laced with a sordid history of hatred and bigotry and racism?
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What am I missing?
Always with the question and missing the context, Fred. Here’s what you had said:
I wish I had more time and you could show me how to do this. Expanding this requires more time than I can devote to things — but, I so agree that it needs to be done.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Be kind. Consider the “Progressive Peoples’ Party” or the P-P-P-Party. Th-th-th-that’s all, Folks! Too harsh on stuttering cartoon pigs?
Or how about the “Positive Rights Party” given how much Democrats despise all those Natural Rights, er, Negative Rights, enumerated in that most odious of documents, the Bill of Rights, and prefer those rights granted by government only., or, in other words, everything that is not permitted by government is forbidden…
Physics. To every action (or eight years for that matter) … there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The other 17 dwarfs who threw their hats into the GOP POTUS primary were deemed not up to the task (in strength of force or opposition).
… uh … well … really? Okay … how about the death threats?
Okay. But this guy wasn’t motivated by death threats. He said they wouldn’t move him. And it’s not really clear which side the death threats were coming from.
I wonder if you will ever answer questions instead of just posing them. ;)
I think “workers” is preferred.
That’s not quite right. Whatever isn’t forbidden is mandatory.
Answering questions is a part of the Socratic method wherein one can come to a point of understanding and improved clarity. I doubt that is the goal here.
What do you think the goal is?
Lol.
Maybe Fred’s a shrink: “How do my questions make you feel?” ;)
You can’t take history down. It is. There is a lot of crappy sculptures scattering the country and assaulting the senses. They are called art.
Most of them probably created with private capital, and every single one better than “Piss Christ.”
It is so interesting how the left can get the media and the cowardly NT elite conservatives and Republicans all in a bother about issues that have a moral aspect, isn’t it?
Think about the moral frame of mind that allows these two things to exist simultaneously: 1) whipped up frenzy about 150 year old statues that represent support for slavery combined with admiration for martial valor and 2) present day leftists still living who loved Fidel Castro. They really loved and admired this mass murderer. Why is that? And why are these same leftists allowed to educate us on any shared notions about what is moral when they have such beliefs?
Answer: they don’t really have these beliefs about what is moral — none that we share. It is simply a desperate move to use any tool they have — and now the only tool they have is the charge of racism. So, they are left with lying about it whenever they can. Sad.