04-21-2021, 02:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-21-2021, 02:30 PM by Eric the Green.)
(04-21-2021, 02:09 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-21-2021, 05:13 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: You misrepresent American history badly enough that I suspect malignancy.American history began with a serious of tax revolts and the American Revolutionary war began with an attempt by the British to seize an arsenal and disarm the American population. Well, here we are again. The only difference is, the British of the time are the Democrats of today. As far as the Confederacy and it's connection to the Democratic party, the connection still exists today. It's slaves black then aren't slaves today. They may as well be, but they aren't today. The Democratic party of today still has a hold over the bulk of them (the descendants of the slaves) today. The hold the Democrats have is more psychological than physical and the plantations are no longer functional, apparent or visible these days. In short, the Democratic blacks aren't free or not as free as they should be because the Democratic party still has a hold over most of them. Like you, the Democratic blacks have no other choice but to going along with the Democratic party and whatever they do and whatever trouble or bind they get you in at this point. It's kind of sad but it is what it is and there's no turning back.
Just check the Eisenhower-Obama overlay map to see how the Parties have changed hands. Democrats used to have the Southern white agrarian racists locked down as a reliable constituency. That is over. Oh, is that over! Eisenhower did extremely well among college graduates, and so did Obama.
If Democrats have a connection to the old slave-owning planters then it is through those planters' ill-favored descendants: their slaves and the descendants of those slaves. There was much sowing of wild oats in the days of slavery, and when some comparatively-pale slave child appeared, then the slave-owner's family typically responded with
"Who, me? Impossible. I am a good family man. That must have been some lonely merchant or other traveler."
The British were not able to seize an arsenal, because the Yankees had dispersed their arms to a number of different locations, so the British had to do a search and destroy mission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of...nd_Concord
Those right-wing rebel militias today who are getting armed and stockpiling weapons are preparing for civil war. That is the only time that people need weapons. In that sense yes, we are the British. But Classic Xer, this, your rebellion, is retrograde; confederate. Our 4T is the Cold Civil War turning. We are the Union, the blue, and the gray has become the red. The blacks could not vote during the civil war yet, so they were not Democrats, but the confederates were-- although the Party was split, which allowed Lincoln to win. The confederate candidate, John Breckinridge, had the lowest horoscope score for a presidential candidate ever recorded, and he was later tried as a traitor. After blacks could vote, they joined the Republican Party which had freed them.
The blacks today are Democrats because over the last saeculum that Party has supported civil rights and government relief and programs to eliminate poverty, which benefit all races, but which cost some taxes from rich people and from racists like Classic Xer who resent paying them. They have joined and now support the Republican Party, which had already become the Party of the wealthy and big business in the years following the civil war, and continues to be today. And since the sixties, it has become the Party of the racists too.