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I got banned from the /conservative community on .ee because one of those idiots was saying that Democrats are the ones who support the Confederacy.
I posted five pics of traitor flags at Trump rallies and the mod banned me for "bad faith."
He left up the lies that I refuted though, just like a cryptofascist would.
See, they didn't even play their shitty little game correctly. You don't say the Democrats were the party of the Confederacy. You say the Democrats were the party of slavery. And then you ignore the connection between the Confederacy and Slavery. Then hope no one brings up the Southern Strategy and the obvious realignment.
Obviously it falls apart if you think about it for even a second, but it's not designed to convince anyone. It's designed to sound good to people who won't think about it for even a second, and annoy the people who would.
I've been saying for years that it all not making a lick of sense is the point. It's a dog whistle for those on board, and an open insult to everyone else.
It's such an odd argument. It's true that the democrat party is the party pre 20th century that supported slavery rights.
The deep south was a Democratic stronghold until around the 1950s when the party started supporting civil rights and social reform.
At this point the southern wing of the party broke off from the main party.
The Republican party was founded specifically by anti slavery activists in the 1850s and was rather neutral on civil rights issues post civil war until they saw the fracture in the Democrat party in the 1950s and used the opportunity to change their platform to oppose social reform in order to pick up those disenfranchised southern voters.
So saying the democrat party was the party of slavery during the civil war is one of those things that's technically true but has no bearing on the present.