Democracy is DEAD in the USA. This is one city that is an obvious example:
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My point with this thread is that in other cities, power truly changed hands at least once, but the Democrats have had a monopoly on New Orleans ever since the Louisiana Purchase. I do admire white Southerners who were once part of a racist Democratic Party but have been voices for tolerance, such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Jimmy Carter who now is on his deathbed.
But still, isn't it disturbing that the USA is the only country in the world where two enemy parties traded places?
To those only familiar w/ 2-party systems... maybe.
To those only familiar w/ 2-party systems... maybe.
Other than that... no.
What principles do each party still live by that the parties originally were founded on? I still am nauseated at the thought that both parties are spineless. It's like Planned Parenthood or the ACLU changing into conservative organizations just because they would get donations that way.
New Orleans. It really is a tragedy that the majority of African Americans and "progressive" whites there are minions of the Democratic Party, the same party which used murder and rape to silence any opposition to slavery. I bring up New Orleans because the rich in that city at one time were almost all slaveowning Democrats, and their direct descendants are Democratic politicians today who blacks vote for unquestioningly.
Again, why do I pick on New Orleans? In other cities where conservative Democrats once ruled, conservative Republicans now rule, and in other cities where liberal Republicans once ruled, liberal Democrats now rule. But in New Orleans, the conservative Democratic political elite was replaced by a liberal Democratic political elite. So just remember, New Orleanian voters (most of whom are black, with a dessert of white gays and assorted white liberals), when you vote for white Democrats, you are voting for the grandsons of your own worst enemies. It's like a Jew voting for Hitler.
The Republican and Democratic parties have completely traded ideologies over the past 150 years. At the time of the Civil War, the Republicans were the liberals, espousing liberal ideas such as racial equality. The southern Democrats believed that Africans were an inferior species of humans, and that it was their God given right as superior beings to own them. And the Bible itself certainly endorses slavery. But the antebellum Democratic Party was a party of staunch hard line conservatives.
Over the course of the last 150 years however, the positions of the two American political parties have completely reversed. The victorious northern states were made up mainly of Republicans, and after the Civil War the Republican party enjoyed a prolonged period of political power. The longer the Republicans stayed in power, the more satisfied and entrenched in their positions they became and as a result the more conservative they became, increasingly aligning themselves with the powerful and the wealthy. The Democratic party, as the party mostly outside of power, began to become increasingly more grassroots and progressive, aligning itself with the common man against the power of the oppressive monopolies, termed "The Trusts." The Democrats are now firmly the liberal party, committed to representing the interests of the middle and poor classes, and now the Republicans are the conservatives, closely tied to representing the interests of the wealthy.
The Republican and Democratic parties have completely traded ideologies over the past 150 years. At the time of the Civil War, the Republicans were the liberals, espousing liberal ideas such as racial equality. The southern Democrats believed that Africans were an inferior species of humans, and that it was their God given right as superior beings to own them. And the Bible itself certainly endorses slavery. But the antebellum Democratic Party was a party of staunch hard line conservatives.
Over the course of the last 150 years however, the positions of the two American political parties have completely reversed. The victorious northern states were made up mainly of Republicans, and after the Civil War the Republican party enjoyed a prolonged period of political power. The longer the Republicans stayed in power, the more satisfied and entrenched in their positions they became and as a result the more conservative they became, increasingly aligning themselves with the powerful and the wealthy. The Democratic party, as the party mostly outside of power, began to become increasingly more grassroots and progressive, aligning itself with the common man against the power of the oppressive monopolies, termed "The Trusts." The Democrats are now firmly the liberal party, committed to representing the interests of the middle and poor classes, and now the Republicans are the conservatives, closely tied to representing the interests of the wealthy.
I think of the Libertarian Party as just like the Nazi Party, and the Green Party as the communist party. Sure, Steve McQueen looks like Daniel Craig but they aren't the same.
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