I couldn’t agree with you more. The left has become the party of racists. They use racial incidents for political advantage and take the money or perks. The people used are left with nothing, nothing. Does the left care? Not at all! They are hopeless frauds!
I don’t think the Democrats have ever stopped being racists, just perfected their lying about it.
Even before the word “socialism” was coined, Jacksonian Democrats were famed for their violence and bitter hatred of other races and religions, and people who were successful. Even then they demanded government largess, and sought power to oppress others. Jackson himself carried out an extensive ethnic cleansing of the southern Indian tribes, internal deportation to West of the Mississippi River.
When the country was being divided by slavery, a big defender of slavery was George Fitzhugh, whose proto-socialist writings are some of the clearest descriptions of their outlook on life and things.
His book Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), was not just a *defense* of black slavery, but said that 9 out of 10 people in the world should be slaves, ruled over by the 1 in 10 who were elite and superior to them.
By elite and superior, he essentially meant the “elitism and superiority” that Democrats, before and after, have imagined themselves to have.
After the fall of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, etc., the Democrats went searching for any other people they could feel superior to, who they would offer to “uplift”, but in truth, strongly work to “keep down”.
The tried it with the Indian tribes, but most had a long cultural memory of the Democrat’s treachery and violence, so generally gave them the bum’s rush.
Democrat-leftist-liberals hearts went pitter-patter when the laughably incompetent anthropologist Margaret Mead went to Samoa, and not realizing that Samoans have a highly developed sense of humor, believed and published tales of Samoan sexual debauchery. From the left’s point of view, such tales were what they wanted to hear, and the way people would live if they could just be persuaded to give up on civilization, and live as slave-peasants under the watchful gaze of the elite and superior Democrats.
The twists and turns down the dark and menacing alley that is the monster that leftists propagate, are no longer philosophical doctrines except around the periphery, but are instead generated spontaneously over and over again, by those who share in their failings and have attraction to socialism. They no longer need to read to grasp what they want.
But it is today no different than it has ever been.