Civil Rights laws, busing, affirmative action, and the Great Society are all the heirs to and logical outcome of Reconstruction and of the Radical Abolitionists.
The fact that Democrats spearheaded these programs in the 1960's and Republicans spearheaded Reconstruction in the 1860's is irrelevant. I don't care about party labels or affiliations (because the political issues defining the parties today simply didn't apply 150 years ago), I care about policies and programs. Many of the political blights of the 1960's wouldn't have been possible without the precedent set the Reconstruction.
ek_hornbeck: ** “Civil Rights laws, busing, affirmative action, and the Great Society are all the heirs to and logical outcome of Reconstruction and of the Radical Abolitionists.” **
Let’s be very clear here: *Republicans* have always aspired to equal rights for all, as proclaimed in our Declaration of Independence and more specifically in the 13th, 14th & 15th amendments.
By stark contrast,*Democrats* have always favored special privileges for *their voters* including antebellum slaveholders, post-war Jim Crow laws and today’s welfare for descendants of slaves.
Only the beneficiaries & payers have changed.
But Democrats today are the same kinds of people they always were — using government to reward their voters.
ek_hornbeck: ** “The fact that Democrats spearheaded these programs in the 1960’s and Republicans spearheaded Reconstruction in the 1860’s is irrelevant...
Many of the political blights of the 1960’s wouldn’t have been possible without the precedent set the Reconstruction.” **
No, there’s a huge difference.
*Republicans* have always been about equal rights for all, while *Democrats* have always been about special privileges for *their voters*.
Think about it.