Is It Time to Ban the Democratic Party?

The American Spectator ^ | 08/17/17 | Jeffrery Lord

[Enlightened1]

All of a sudden America is confronted with American leftists abruptly striking out at their own history — pulling down statues of those who were the military leaders of a philosophical belief that is historically recorded and enshrined as the building block of the Democratic Party.

In a 2016 commencement address to City College in New York graduates, then-First Lady Michelle Obama said that “every single day” as First Lady “I wake up in a house that was built by slaves.” True enough.

 

Back there in the stone age of 2008 I authored a piece in The American Spectator which was reprinted in the Wall Street Journal. In which there was a specific recounting of the Democratic Party’s construction as the Party of Race. A party that was built on the idea of racism.

Among the hard facts of party history cited were these:

• Six party platforms from 1840-1860 that supported slavery.
• Twenty Democratic Party platforms from 1868-1948 that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject.
• The use of the Ku Klux Klan, which, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner, became “a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease described the Klan as the “terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.”
• The Democratic Party opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. The 13th banned slavery. The 14th effectively overturned the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision (made by Democratic pro-slavery Supreme Court justices) by guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves. The 15th gave black Americans the right to vote.

 

[Enlightened1]

If the statues birthed by Democratic Party orthodoxy must come down — and there is now a call to remove statues of prominent Democratic members of the House or Senate from the US Capitol building — should the political party that gave birth to those statues in the first place be the exception to the First Amendment — and banned and outlawed outright?

 

[Enlightened1]

“By the standards established by the Cultural Revolutionaries of today's American left — we should ban the Democratic Party

[Slyfox]

This map comes from the Washington Compost:

The DNC has made sure that it's vast implosion is going according to schedule.

[Parley Baer]

IMHO the dimoKKKRAT party and the media are flaming all this racial tension. They are trying to bring down this county and install their socialist ideals.

[Slyfox]

[Enlightened1]

[MayflowerMadam]

American Spectator doesn’t know it’s the Democrat party - not DemocratIC?

[Navy Patriot]

Is It Time to Ban the Democratic Party?

Yes, and it is time to permanently remove citizenship from anyone still a member of the DemoRat party at the time of the ban.

[Enlightened1]

Think it's a little more red than the Washington Post map indicates.

[Slyfox]

But still, that is a hell of a lot of red.

[hawkaw]

I get a little sick and tired seeing these maps. They are highly misleading as they represent area and not population.

[Enlightened1]

Well given all the votes that Hillary stole too.

It’s a bigger see of red.

[HiTech RedNeck]

That’s why I love it when the Dems bark up the slavery tree. Far be it from us to get in their way. Full disclosure city.

[Enlightened1]

Granted

[Carl Vehse]

It’s time to indict, try, convict, and sentence Demonicrats for lying, murder, treason, and crimes against humanity.

[blueunicorn6]

The purpose of the Democrat Party is to elect thieves to public office so that they have access to the public treasuries in order to loot them.

There is nothing noble about Democrat thievery.

[goldstategop]

Hillary won the nation’s 99 most populous counties.

She lost all the rest. Democrats today represent coastal corridors and Chicago.

They’re shut out in the rest of the country.

[Texas Eagle]

Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about!

Yo, Sean Hannity! Give Whorealdo Rivers a rest. Give Lanny Davis a pacifier. Screw what Rachel Maddow said on her show.

Put Jeffrey Lord on your show and then shut your trap until he's done talking.

[dragnet2]

You won't have to.

The American people are growing weary of the Nazi, racist chants on the hour.

Russia, Trump, Russian Trump didn't work....So it's Trump and his supporters, (half the country) are now Nazis.

[Lionheartusa1]

There is no such party as the “DEMOCRATIC” party ,,,, it is the democrat party and they are hardly ever democratic in their principles . I hear so much today people using that term DEMOCRATIC when referring to that leftist nut job club of morons known as democrats . It bugs me to no end !