[ClearCase_guy]

Not quite this topic — but related, I think — my brother says that “everyone knows” the parties switched places decades ago.

If you look at history (he tells me) it might “appear” that the Democrats were behind the KKK, and Jim Crow, and segregation, but that’s misleading. It also may “appear” that the Republicans freed the slaves and supported civil rights for many decades, but that is also misleading.

You see: the parties switched places, maybe around 1965 or something, and all the Democrats deserve to take credit for all the good things that the Republicans did. And the Republicans need to be blamed for all the bad things that the Democrats did. Because the Democrats are the Good Guys.

[dead]

Yes, they teach that nonsense in intro political college courses and liberals repeat it to each other. Whenever somebody claims "all the racists went to the Republicans in the late sixties" I ask them to name them. Did Robert Byrd? Did Bull O'Connor? George Wallace? Al Gore. Sr.?

No. Why would they leave the Democrat Party to join the party that voted in greater numbers for the civil rights legislation? Of course they wouldn't and didn't.

All those guys were racist Democrats till the day they died. Byrd went onto to become the Senate leader for the Dems all the way into the 90s! Not the 50s - the 90s! Before he was the Democrat Senate leader he was the Grand Kleagle of the KKK!

Democrats are very gullible and will repeat what they are told without applying any logic or factual research.

[MtnClimber]

I have been told this by a leftist before. Same exact switcheroo story. I asked him why it is that today the democRATs still want slavery? This time everyone is to be a slave to the state under socialism/communism. He just sat there with a blank look on his face.

[Boogieman]

Yes, I remember it well. It was on September 14, 1977. There was a giant, nationwide game of “Red Rover” between the Democrats and Republicans. But when all of the Democrats had gotten to the Republican side, and all of the Republicans had gotten to the Democrat side, they just decided to switch parties, since it was easier at that point than everyone walking back to the opposite side again.

[Glad2bnuts]

I heard that BS at every discussion that was allowed to touch on real subjects over Thanksgiving dinner, or get togethers with family.

Between Reagan and Trump, the parties “fat cats” got old and were replaced by truly vile “fat cats”. In the manner of Soros, they began to manipulate events instead of governing.

That has always been wrong. We don’t need a new stinking, lousy vision. Our country already has a mission statement, and it really needs no improvement. When it does, there is a process called AMENDMENTS. Nobody in positions of power wants to travel that route. It is too conservative, and requires trusting of “every day people”. They can’t have people who drink black coffee, and beer have a say.

[zeugma]

Re: the parties 'switching'. I saw a great article a couple of years ago that completely demolishes this entire argument. Wish I had kept a copy. It absolutely did NOT happen. Democrats have always been racist degenerates.