@WilyRickWiles

Honestly that is kind of sophomoric

@wolfhnd Is it?

Conservatives*

@WilyRickWiles You’re not a student of history, are you? Democrats like to forget their past because it isn’t especially pleasant...like I bet you imagine Lincoln was democrat. Or he was assassinated by a Republican. Or The KKK isn’t a Democrat organization. Or that Democrats voted against giving women and blacks the vote in the mid 1880s...

@WilyRickWileand let's not forget that Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the KKK as the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.

@parsifal I bet you think Thaddeus Stevens was a conservative!

@WilyRickWiles Interesting how one person somehow excuses the near 200 year history of the Democrats... do you have anyone else? His wife, maybe?

@parsifal I didn't excuse the southern Democrats of yore. Nor do I refrain from criticizing today's neoliberals.

@parsifal This you?

@parsifal Or maybe this?

@parsifal How about this? [nytimes.com]

@parsifal Or this? [nytimes.com]

@parsifal Perhaps this? [history.denverlibrary.org]

@parsifal Or this? [beltmag.com]

@parsifal Maybe you have some thoughts on W.E.B Du Bois.

@parsifal Or the Populists?

@parsifal I mean I'd love for your narrative to be coherent. We need to finish Reconstruction!

@WilyRickWiles

You're fighting a losing topic here. Just who forced end of the Reconstruction? Why it was those friendly Democrats, that's who.

@timon_phocas Did you read the things I posted? Can you see how it challenges your narrative? Can you see that you're also arguing with a straw man?

@timon_phocas Tell me more about how Trump and/or the Republicans today would support radical Reconstruction or even the Civil Rights Movement.

@timon_phocas I'm not a Democrat, btw.

@WilyRickWiles

Everett Dirkson, Republican minority leader, led the movement to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rghts Act of 1965. A far larger percentage of Republican voted for these acts than Democrats, who filibustered the acts. Today's Republicans would do the same. The Republican Party was formed to abolish slavery. The Democratic Party was formed, under Jackson and his successors, to perpetuate it.

@timon_phocas Ah a Republican from my own state. Like I used to be! Tell me, what part of the country was that and what was the breakdown by region and political party (let alone ideology) of the votes?

@timon_phocas Do you identify as a Rockefeller Republican?

@timon_phocas Maybe it would help you to read those NYTimes articles above from '64. Do you remember Goldwater and his alignment on civil rights?

@timon_phocas Jackson is Trump's favorite President btw.

@WilyRickWiles Whoa! Cut me to the quick you did...very wily

@WilyRickWiles Ny times? No wonder you’re warped

@WilyRickWiles Lions and tigers and bears oh my!

Let’s erase Democrat history. No lynchings, no FDR. No affirmative action. No...if you can’t erase it, tear down the statues.

Had any good book burnings lately, Ricky?

@parsifal I didn't erase anything. I'm arguing that parties are coalitions and their ideological factions change over time. You're arguing that they are static over 100+ years.

@WilyRickWiles Lol. Yeah, sure. Nice dodge. Ain’t working.