Posted by
Cato on Friday, April 17, 2009 1:31:24 PM
It’s 1854. We should watch closely to see if any political party decides to make our agenda its own and give them our backing if they do. If none of them do, then we must form a new political party. Back in the 1850s, a populist movement against the spread of slavery did just that. That was how the Republican Party was born. If they could do it in the 1850s, we can do it in the 2000s. Also note, they ultimately met their original goal. Not only was the well-entrenched institution stopped from spreading, it was ultimately eliminated in the U.S. We too can meet our goal if we are committed enough. So, if we cannot get the existing parties to listen to us, like the Antislavery people of the mid-1800s couldn’t, then, just like them, we will start our own party, the Tea Party.
Here is the true irony of the current so-called mainstream view of the political parties. The Republican Party was formed in the first place to oppose the spread of slavery. A Congress dominated by Republicans passed a Civil Rights Act in 1875 that prohibited segregation of the races in public accomodations (hotels, restaurants, etc.) and in public transportation (trains, trolleys, etc.). A Supreme Court dominated by Democrats declared this law unconstitutional in 1883. The party of Jim Crow and the KKK in the south was the Democratic Party. When Congress finally passed a new Civil Rights Act in 1964, the percentage of Republicans who voted for it was overwhelmingly higher than the Democrats who did so.
LBJ, the Democratic President behind it was known for racist language and really mostly saw all the new legislations as a way to expand on the New Deal that FDR had pushed. He was a Progressive who believed that the people should have managers in the Bureaucracy to make their decisions for them. Sounds a lot like slavery to me. The Dems are a party conceived in slavery.
They were pro-slavery then and they are pro-slavery now. They have just changed to expand it and just like they used racism in the 1860s and 70s in accusing Rebublicans of being far too chummy with black people (I am avoiding the racial and sexual inuendos they actually used because they are so offensive, they now try to accuse Republicans of racist assumptions that they themselves often secretly, and sometimes not so secretly hold.
They want blacks as vote slaves on the election plantations along with the other groups to which they want to play benevolent "massa." They promise them no need to make their own decisions or take their own adult risks. "Massa" will take care of you because you are really incompetent to take care of your self. That is their real message. They also want everyone else who does try to take care of themselves black, white, asian, or others on their plantation as the field hands who support "Massa," (a political and social elite) and the house slaves (all the "victim" classes).
Sorry if this seems to be a rant but to me the above seems more than obvious. Wake up. The Dems and the big government Repubs want to be "Massa." We need to do what that populist movement back in the 1850s did and reverse the expansion of slavery.