Why do progressives attempt to paint the Confederates as rightwingers?

[daveman]

Why do progressives attempt to paint the Confederates as rightwingers?

Simple. They're desperate to claim Lincoln as one of their own.

But reality simply doesn't support that claim.

He's a site that compares and contrasts the two parties' platforms from their inception. You can plainly see the GOP has always championed civil rights; the Dems are Johnny-come-latelies.

http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/misc/CivilRightsPlatforms.pdf

Further, look at this Democratic campaign poster:

"The two platforms" From a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See "The Constitutional Amendment," no. 1866-5.) The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as "for the White Man," represented here by the idealized head of a young man. (Clymer ran on a white-supremacy platform.) In contrast a stereotyped black head represents Clymer's opponent James White Geary's platform, "for the Negro." Below the portraits are the words, "Read the platforms. Congress says, The Negro must be allowed to vote, or the states be punished." Above is an explanation: "Every Radical in Congress Voted for Negro Suffrage. Every Radical in the Pennsylvania Senate Voted for Negro Suffrage. Stevens [Pennsylvania Representative Thaddeus Stevens], Forney [John W. Forney, editor of the " Philadelphia Press":], and Cameron [Pennsylvania Republican boss Simon Cameron] are for Negro Suffrage; they are all Candidates for the United States Senate. No Radical Newspaper Opposes Negro Suffrage. "Geary" said in a Speech at Harrisburg, 11th of August, 1866--"There Can Be No Possible Objection to Negro Suffrage."​

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Racistcampaignposter1.jpg

For the left to claim Lincoln as their own is laughable.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Because they were...they wanted the status quo...that is Conservativism.

You mean, the status quo of a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Yeah that is what Lincoln and the Republican party wanted to preserve. It is shameful the democrat party's role in slavery and the fact that they have yet to apologize. Or they have yet to apologize for what they have done to the black community since LBJ.

Why would a Democrat today have to apologize for the misdeeds and wrongheaded beliefs of some person, now long dead, who happened to use the same name for his party?

Which of your ancestors' sins, just in your own family tree, are you today responsible for?

 

[Mad_Cabbie]

You haven't refuted a single point by anyone... I really don't care whether you are a libtard or not anymore... you are just stupid.

So, what's your "smart" take on this subject, or are you just going to keep hurling insults and avoid the facts yourself?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Why do progressives attempt to paint the Confederates as rightwingers?

Simple. They're desperate to claim Lincoln as one of their own.

But reality simply doesn't support that claim.

He's a site that compares and contrasts the two parties' platforms from their inception. You can plainly see the GOP has always championed civil rights; the Dems are Johnny-come-latelies.

http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/misc/CivilRightsPlatforms.pdf

Further, look at this Democratic campaign poster:

"The two platforms" From a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See "The Constitutional Amendment," no. 1866-5.) The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as "for the White Man," represented here by the idealized head of a young man. (Clymer ran on a white-supremacy platform.) In contrast a stereotyped black head represents Clymer's opponent James White Geary's platform, "for the Negro." Below the portraits are the words, "Read the platforms. Congress says, The Negro must be allowed to vote, or the states be punished." Above is an explanation: "Every Radical in Congress Voted for Negro Suffrage. Every Radical in the Pennsylvania Senate Voted for Negro Suffrage. Stevens [Pennsylvania Representative Thaddeus Stevens], Forney [John W. Forney, editor of the " Philadelphia Press":], and Cameron [Pennsylvania Republican boss Simon Cameron] are for Negro Suffrage; they are all Candidates for the United States Senate. No Radical Newspaper Opposes Negro Suffrage. "Geary" said in a Speech at Harrisburg, 11th of August, 1866--"There Can Be No Possible Objection to Negro Suffrage."​

File:Racistcampaignposter1.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the left to claim Lincoln as their own is laughable.

If your great-grandfather had been a murderer, how much blame for his crime accrues to you,

because you happen to bear the same name?

 

[daveman]

Because they were...they wanted the status quo...that is Conservativism.

You mean, the status quo of a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Yeah that is what Lincoln and the Republican party wanted to preserve. It is shameful the democrat party's role in slavery and the fact that they have yet to apologize. Or they have yet to apologize for what they have done to the black community since LBJ.

Why would a Democrat today have to apologize for the misdeeds and wrongheaded beliefs of some person, now long dead, who happened to use the same name for his party?

Which of your ancestors' sins, just in your own family tree, are you today responsible for?

None of them. So why does the left insist reparations be made to the descendants of slaves?

 

[Mad_Cabbie]

You mean, the status quo of a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Yeah that is what Lincoln and the Republican party wanted to preserve. It is shameful the democrat party's role in slavery and the fact that they have yet to apologize. Or they have yet to apologize for what they have done to the black community since LBJ.

Why would a Democrat today have to apologize for the misdeeds and wrongheaded beliefs of some person, now long dead, who happened to use the same name for his party?

Which of your ancestors' sins, just in your own family tree, are you today responsible for?

None of them. So why does the left insist reparations be made to the descendants of slaves?

We needed the reparations a hundred years ago - not now.

What the world needs now (black and white) is not "love, sweet love" but a swift kick in the ass ~

 

[NYcarbineer]

You mean, the status quo of a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Yeah that is what Lincoln and the Republican party wanted to preserve. It is shameful the democrat party's role in slavery and the fact that they have yet to apologize. Or they have yet to apologize for what they have done to the black community since LBJ.

Why would a Democrat today have to apologize for the misdeeds and wrongheaded beliefs of some person, now long dead, who happened to use the same name for his party?

Which of your ancestors' sins, just in your own family tree, are you today responsible for?

None of them.

Then how do you justify blaming the current Democratic Party for acts committed a 150 or more years ago by people who also used the name 'Democrat'.

How do you propose to get those long dead people to apologize?

 

[American4Americ]

The confederates ARE the Republicans.

KKK Disbands Claiming GOP Has Co-opted All Of Their Ideas

GOP Governor Robert F. McDonnell declares Confederate History Month

Georgia celebrates Confederate History Month

Confederate History Month is not a new event. Several states traditionally observe Confederate History Month, including Alabama, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida.

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USMB Right Wingers can stop pretending. We know the Republican Party is the Confederate Party.

I want you to use your brain, examine the ideology of each party. The south was ANTI-CAPITALIST during the civil war, and HATED the North's system of labor (wage labor). The ideology of the current democrat party is as it always has been - ANTI CAPITALIST, ANTI FREEDOM, and ANTI LIBERTY.

Just look at William Jennings Bryan.

William Jennings was a politician long after the Civil War, are you high or just retarded?

Jennings was one of a long train of Progressive Democrats.

 

[daveman]

Why do progressives attempt to paint the Confederates as rightwingers?

Simple. They're desperate to claim Lincoln as one of their own.

But reality simply doesn't support that claim.

He's a site that compares and contrasts the two parties' platforms from their inception. You can plainly see the GOP has always championed civil rights; the Dems are Johnny-come-latelies.

http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/misc/CivilRightsPlatforms.pdf

Further, look at this Democratic campaign poster:

"The two platforms" From a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See "The Constitutional Amendment," no. 1866-5.) The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as "for the White Man," represented here by the idealized head of a young man. (Clymer ran on a white-supremacy platform.) In contrast a stereotyped black head represents Clymer's opponent James White Geary's platform, "for the Negro." Below the portraits are the words, "Read the platforms. Congress says, The Negro must be allowed to vote, or the states be punished." Above is an explanation: "Every Radical in Congress Voted for Negro Suffrage. Every Radical in the Pennsylvania Senate Voted for Negro Suffrage. Stevens [Pennsylvania Representative Thaddeus Stevens], Forney [John W. Forney, editor of the " Philadelphia Press":], and Cameron [Pennsylvania Republican boss Simon Cameron] are for Negro Suffrage; they are all Candidates for the United States Senate. No Radical Newspaper Opposes Negro Suffrage. "Geary" said in a Speech at Harrisburg, 11th of August, 1866--"There Can Be No Possible Objection to Negro Suffrage."​

File:Racistcampaignposter1.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the left to claim Lincoln as their own is laughable.

If your great-grandfather had been a murderer, how much blame for his crime accrues to you,

because you happen to bear the same name?

That has absolutely NOTHING to do with my post.

I'm talking about the left's continued attempts to rewrite history.

On edit: Can you link to any posts of yours castigating your fellow lefties for bringing up Prescott Bush?

 

[daveman]

Why would a Democrat today have to apologize for the misdeeds and wrongheaded beliefs of some person, now long dead, who happened to use the same name for his party?

Which of your ancestors' sins, just in your own family tree, are you today responsible for?

None of them. So why does the left insist reparations be made to the descendants of slaves?

We needed the reparations a hundred years ago - not now.

What the world needs now (black and white) is not "love, sweet love" but a swift kick in the ass ~

 

[daveman]

Why would a Democrat today have to apologize for the misdeeds and wrongheaded beliefs of some person, now long dead, who happened to use the same name for his party?

Which of your ancestors' sins, just in your own family tree, are you today responsible for?

None of them.

Then how do you justify blaming the current Democratic Party for acts committed a 150 or more years ago by people who also used the name 'Democrat'.

How do you propose to get those long dead people to apologize?

I don't have to justify something I'm not doing.

How do you justify the left rewriting history to makes themselves look pure as angels?

 

[NYcarbineer]

None of them.

Then how do you justify blaming the current Democratic Party for acts committed a 150 or more years ago by people who also used the name 'Democrat'.

How do you propose to get those long dead people to apologize?

I don't have to justify something I'm not doing.

How do you justify the left rewriting history to makes themselves look pure as angels?

When was defending states rights a liberal position?

 

[JWBooth]

I don't have to justify something I'm not doing.

How do you justify the left rewriting history to makes themselves look pure as angels?

Left, right, center, apathetic, the rewriting of history to fit agendas knows no single point of view, it is a bastard child of many fathers.

 

[daveman]

Then how do you justify blaming the current Democratic Party for acts committed a 150 or more years ago by people who also used the name 'Democrat'.

How do you propose to get those long dead people to apologize?

I don't have to justify something I'm not doing.

How do you justify the left rewriting history to makes themselves look pure as angels?

When was defending states rights a liberal position?

When was Lincoln a Democrat?

 

[rdean]

What are you, an idiot? Surely you know the conservatives fled the Democratic Party in the middle 60's when the blacks joined and they swelled the ranks of the GOP which is why it's 90% white today. That's fairly recent history. Who doesn't know that? You would either have to be a pre-teen, a tard, a liar, or in denial to not know that.

Is there really a Republican alive today who doesn't know this?

Only idiots and fools don't know this to be a lie.

And one more time, bigots and racists really seem to hate Obama supporters who are white.

Keep at it.

Blacks are but a drop in the bucket on who wins for Obama. Oh and watch them throw you over for the caucasian latino vote.

You simply can't be serious. You seriously don't know that Republicans are the Confederate Party?

Come on right wingers. Educate your own.

 

[rdean]

I don't have to justify something I'm not doing.

How do you justify the left rewriting history to makes themselves look pure as angels?

When was defending states rights a liberal position?

When was Lincoln a Democrat?

He wasn't a Confederate.

 

[rdean]

The confederates ARE the Republicans.

KKK Disbands Claiming GOP Has Co-opted All Of Their Ideas

GOP Governor Robert F. McDonnell declares Confederate History Month

Georgia celebrates Confederate History Month

Confederate History Month is not a new event. Several states traditionally observe Confederate History Month, including Alabama, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida.

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USMB Right Wingers can stop pretending. We know the Republican Party is the Confederate Party.

I want you to use your brain, examine the ideology of each party. The south was ANTI-CAPITALIST during the civil war, and HATED the North's system of labor (wage labor). The ideology of the current democrat party is as it always has been - ANTI CAPITALIST, ANTI FREEDOM, and ANTI LIBERTY.

Just look at William Jennings Bryan.

So if the liberals were in the north and the conservatives were in the south and the Republicans controlled the North and the Democrats controlled the south, what does that tell you? Think it through.

 

[daveman]

When was defending states rights a liberal position?

When was Lincoln a Democrat?

He wasn't a Confederate.

No shit. He also wasn't a Democrat.

Why do you have to steal Republican heroes?

Oh, yes -- because you have none of your own.

 

[paperview]

Then how do you justify blaming the current Democratic Party for acts committed a 150 or more years ago by people who also used the name 'Democrat'.

How do you propose to get those long dead people to apologize?

I don't have to justify something I'm not doing.

How do you justify the left rewriting history to makes themselves look pure as angels?

When was defending states rights a liberal position?

I think you really confuse them when you remind them who is the party of State's Rights today.

 

[paperview]

PS: The OP works off a seriously fucked up premise.