the actual party of SLAVERY, whining about slavery... and the RATS are incapable of seeing the irony so thick you could cut it with a knife the actual party of SLAVERY, whining about slavery... and the RATS are incapable of seeing the irony so thick you could cut it with a knifeNo kidding.
“Slave Owner” should be the first 2 words on every Demonrats headstone or monument.
You sound like D’Souza.
George Washington had a guest worker program. He was not a Democrat.
Use sound doctrine to oppose Democrats today.
Ah yes, the Democrats, the party of slavery. But maybe that cartoon version of American political party history as popularized by the likes of Dinesh D’Souza isn’t especially accurate.
George Washington was perhaps the largest slaveholder of his day, and if he was connected to any party it was the Federalists.
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, all slave owners, weren’t Democrats, a party that didn’t yet exist. All were members of the Democratic-Republican Party, as was John Q Adams. The Democrat-Republican party dissolved into two rival parties, the National Republicans/Whigs and the Democrats. The Whigs also had a Federalist background.
Whigs were the major party that eventually would become the Republicans. Whig President Wm Henry Harrison was from a wealthy slaveowning family and had been pro-slavery as Indiana Territory Governor. Harrison died in office. His VP, President John Tyler owned slaves, and at the end of his life was elected to the Confederate Congress.
The next Whig President, Zachary Taylor, was also a slaveowner. Like Harrison he died soon in office, with his VP Millard Fillmore succeeding him. Finally with Fillmore we have a Whig who openly opposes slavery’s expansion, but despite that he signed the Fugitive Slave Act that helped drive the country to civil war. The Whigs collapsed at the end Fillmore’s Presidency in 1853.
So that leaves us with Democrat Presidents to examine. Jackson, the first Democrat, slaveowner. Van Buren of New York, not a slaveowner. And who later ran on the anti-slavery Free Soil Party ticket. James K Polk, slaveowner. Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, not a slaveowner. James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, not a slaveowner. Maybe we should throw in John Tyler, who although elected with Harrison on the Whig ticket, had once been a Democrat. But then there is also Lincoln’s VP, and successor Andrew Johnson. What do you do with him? A slaveowner, elected with Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket.