I find it really annoying when people make the claim that “the parties have switched”. There is no evidence for this at all. The Democrats have been hurting blacks for 150 years. They’ve never stopped. Republicans have been trying to help blacks for 150 years. They’ve never stopped.
This is like Communists attacking Nazis as “rightwingers”. No. Nazis are Socialists. Nazis are Leftists. They are Collectivists. They don’t care about individual rights and freedom. They care about group identity and government control. They are Leftists.
The Left always tries to pretend that they are something that they are not.
I’ve always said that one of the tactics of the left is to deny that the left exists.
The Democrat party STILL think they own all the black people.
Just look at how they treat a black individual that votes or defends conservatives. They still invoke the fugitive slave act when one “Runs off the plantation”
“I find it really annoying when people make the claim that “the parties have switched”. “
But, they have. And historically that is not unusual.
In our case, first we had the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The Federalists didn’t last long, and Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans were born out of the Anti-Federalists. They, in turn, split in the late 1820s to become the Jacksonian Democrats and the briefly lived National Republican Party, which was created in opposition to the Jacksonians. In the 1830s the National Republican Party became the Whigs. The Whigs punted in the mid 1850s and became the Republican Party, and the Jacksonian Democrats morphed into the Democrat Party that in 1860 further divided into the Southern Democrats and the Northern Democrats.
In a nutshell, the Federalists/National Republicans/Whigs/Republicans believed in a strong and dominant federal government that distrusted the rule by the people and thought the nation could best be governed by the elites (basically, the gentry). On the other hand, the Anti-Federalists/Democratic-Republicans/Democrats wanted a limited federal government and strong state governments and, since they distrusted elites, they believed that ordinary people (small farmers, shopkeepers, laborers, merchants) should have a pivotal role in governing.
So, you see, the parties have to a great extent “flipped.” Today it is the Democrats that favor a strong and dominant federal government with the states and the people being subordinate to and subservient to the federal government; and it is today’s Republican Party that subscribes to a limited federal government and more and greater state and local control. Now, within that distinction some things haven’t changed too much from the 19th century, but the basic concept of government has.