Posted on 08/28/2018 5:42:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Fifty years ago tonight, a great American political party was murdered by its own children and closest friends.
The party in question was the Democratic party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and JFK, which perished during the riots in Grant Park, Chicago, on the night of Aug. 28, 1968, in the midst of the party’s national convention.
Its children in this case were the rioters from the anti–Vietnam War Left. After killing off the traditional liberal Democratic party they despised, they would go on to take over the corpse and make it the host of America’s radical Left, from Jerry Brown to Bernie Sanders — with George McGovern, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama as their front men.
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A very good article by Arthur L. Herman. Thanks for posting. BUMP!
My father told it more simply:
The Democrats kicked out all who could be considered even remotely conservative.
So ironic - all these heretofore ‘make love, not war; live and let live’ hippies that took over the party are now rabidly hate-filled Nazi tyrants bent on keeping anyone and everyone in submission.
I can almost hear a sad ‘I tried to tell ya’ from the grave of Joe McCarthy.
The Rat party of FDR, Truman and JFK sucked too.
Eleanor Clift still has scars on her butt resulting from having sex with Bill Clinton on the concrete outside the convention hall
but they returned with vengeance in 1974!
Democrat.
NOT Democratic.
Democrat.
ping
Chicago Killings Cost $2.5 Billion as Homicides Dwarf N.Y.C.’s
Thursday, 23 May 2013 06:18 AM
When Gregory Glinsey was fatally shot while buying ice for his mother’s 80th birthday party, the emotional toll on his family was incalculable. The immediate price to the public was $800 for his autopsy.
His slaying and 505 others in Chicago last year scarred it with a rising homicide rate as most cities saw declines. Another 2,000 non-fatal shootings in Chicago added costs measured in shuttered businesses, lost wages, disability checks and depopulation. In Glinsey’s case, the price of his random killing mounted before his mother knew her 54-year-old son wouldn’t return from a convenience store in the South Shore neighborhood.
More than three dozen police swarmed the scene of the Feb. 19, 2012 shooting, which also killed a 19-year-old and injured five other teenagers. After $1,000 ambulance rides to hospitals for each survivor, the combined trauma-care bill would, on average, top $250,000. Gunfire outside Budget Food & Liquors cost its owner a tenant and $1,000 in monthly rent: A tax preparer next door bolted after a bullet from another shooting ripped past a secretary’s head.
“Violence hurts the economy, and sooner or later it permeates everything,” said Teyonda Wertz, head of South Shore’s chamber of commerce. “Unless we change our crime situation, it’ll kill us.”
All told, shootings cost Chicago $2.5 billion a year, or about $2,500 per household, according to Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Many of those costs are intangibles, Ludwig said, like keeping people from going outside or letting their children walk to school. Reducing even a fraction of the carnage, though, would free up more money than the city expects to save each year from the closing of 49 elementary schools approved yesterday by the school board.
Chicago Bleeding...........
https://www.newsmax.com/US/chicago-killings-cost-billions/2013/05/23/id/505970/
Somebody needs to drive a stake into the d@mned thing's heart.
And of Jefferson and Jackson as well.
Very true!
The Democrat party has always stood in opposition to the ideals upon which the nation was founded. Progressivism found its home in the Democrat party at the time of Wilson. The only difference between Woodrow Wilson and Democrats since then is Wilson was honest about his rejection of the founders and the principle of inalienable rights, natural law and the consent of the governed. Democrats since then have lied, lied and lied about their true objectives, that is, to usurp the powers of WE THE PEOPLE that have been Constitutionally organized and distributed and to transfer them to the executive State.
You are singing to the choir here, of course. The truth of the matter is the current DNC regards its proper name as including "Democratic". Without further research, it appears that has been part of its name since its beginning.
Interestingly, the current copyright is now claimed by the "Progressive Democrats Media", see DNC website. One would expect it to soon formally merge with the Democratic Socialists of America.
They died? Coulda fooled me for 16 of the past 25 years.
“They’re not real Democrats. They’re demon rats.” Jeanine Pirro
Yes, that’s right. They even changed the name!
And Chicago has been bleeding ever since August 1968.
And Chicago has been bleeding ever since August 1968.
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