The truth is, Progressive Leftists are opposed to individual liberty as defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The only real complaint they have about chattel slavery in America two hundred years ago is that the slaves were privately owned.
But they get orgasmic over the idea of slavery to the state.
Democrats never pass up on opportunity to tell us why enslavement by the state is for our own protection and our own safety, because life under the anarchy that conservatives want to impose is just too risky and dangerous. We can't have any of that inhumane "on-your-own economics" that conservatives advocate.
The Democrats are truly the Uncle Tom party.
This is so stupid - as if the Democrats of today have anything to do with the reconstruction and Jim Crow South Democrats, as if by joining a party you acquire its long-dead members DNA or something.
Since 1964-5, the Democratic Party has been pro-black. Blacks have benefited tremendously from their support for the modern Democratic Party, which support is goal-directed and highly rational.
It cracks me up that so many Republicans and some conservatives believe they can talk blacks off of the gravy train that the Democratic Party has become for them. “Hey, have you read Murray Rothbard? Why don’t you give up that Federal management job, or that EBT card?”
Absurd.
DemocRATS are as dependent on the black vote as blacks are on DemocRATS.
If the 'RAT party gets anything less than 90% of the black vote, it will cease to exist.
They must see that happening and that is why they are trucking in, flying in, training in Mexicans, Central Americans and Middle East "refugees" by the millions.
Also the party of Margaret Sanger and Jim Crow.
The party of slavery, the KKK, segregation, dependency, institutional poverty, Affirmative Action, inferior schools, Westboro, etc.
Carson is absolutely right about this.
Remember that the father of modern progressivism (at least one of them) is Woddrow Wilson, a virulent racist who resegregated the Federal bureaucracy (after a Republican had desegregated it.) Wilson may be the most virulent racist ever to occupy the White House. (Lyndon Johnson could give him a run for his money.)
Oh, did I mention that President Wilson was a Democrat?
I forget who pointed out that “Not all democrates are segregationists, but all segregationists are democrates.”