Is Harassment of Public Figures Acceptable: Your Sincere Opinion

[Lucanus]

If you like the trump administration, you have more in common with these fascist shits than you might like to think.

I'm not even American, and even if I was, I wouldn't be a milquetoast liberal like most democrats. I'm coming for your toothbrush, bourgie scum

[Crossless2.0]

You know damned well where those Southern conservative Democrats went, and it happened quite a while ago.

Yes, I do. There were exactly three of them. WIKI

"Some southern Democrats became Republicans at the national level, while remaining with their old party in state and local politics throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Of the known Dixiecrats, only three switched parties becoming Republicans: Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Mills E. Godwin, Jr."

And it was Senator Byrd, the former Klansman, who remained in the Democratic party and continued to be praised throughout his career. WIKI again That is NOT ancient history. That is where today's Democratic party puts its allegiance.

Also from the first Wiki page...

"The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a significant event in converting the Deep South to the Republican Party; in that year most Senatorial Republicans supported the Act (most of the opposition came from Southern Democrats), but the Republican Party nominated for the Presidency Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who had opposed it."

VIDEO of the HISTORY of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY

The history is clear. Democrats were the party of racism and the notion that all the Democrats became Republican is simply false.

Also, was D'Sousa wrong? Yes or No.

For Christ's sake, Neo! Did you really think I was talking about members of Congress? I'm talking about the rank and file. Starting in '68, the GOP played a long game of pandering to white Southerners' cultural resentments in the wake of the Civil Rights Act, and it has paid off handsomely. That the Democrats were the party of Southern racism is well known. You're not breaking any news, here.

D'souza is right in the narrowest sense. Yes, slaveholders were Democrats, and Republicans were opposed to slaveholding (or at least its spread). But D'souza isn't making a point about history. He (and many others on the right) have repeatedly used that talking point to revile contemporary Democrats for attitudes the party has scorned for decades. Meanwhile, they never tire of reminding us how the GOP was the party of Lincoln and the party of those Republicans who helped pass the Civil Rights Act, even as they become the party of Trump.

[Angrboda]

[Neo-Scholastic]

Members of Congress matter because they objectively represent changes to both the DNC and the GOP before and after the passage of the Civil Right Act. You are stating a subjective interpretation based on a narrative the DNC has fostered to cover-up it's sordid and inescapable past. It is based on slanderous stereotypes of Southerners. It makes no sense to me that hardened racists would magically repent to join the party who voted for the Civil Rights Act. There is no logic to that. Democrats want to believe that the "State's rights" policies of the GOP represented a call to return to the Jim Crow laws of the Democrats. The fact is that the GOP, having successfully passing the Civil Rights Act against the will of most Democrats, shifted its attention towards matters that moderate Southerners cared about such as abortion, prayer in schools, etc.

[Crossless2.0]

Members of Congress matter because they objectively represent changes to both the DNC and the GOP before and after the passage of the Civil Right Act. You are stating a subjective interpretation based on a narrative the DNC has fostered to cover-up it's sordid and inescapable past.  It is based on slanderous stereotypes of Southerners. It makes no sense to me that hardened racists would magically repent to join the party who voted for the Civil Rights Act. There is no logic to that. Democrats want to believe that the "State's rights" policies of the GOP represented a call to return to the Jim Crow laws of the Democrats. The fact is that the GOP, having successfully passing the Civil Rights Act against the will of most Democrats, shifted its attention towards matters that moderate Southerners cared about such as abortion, prayer in schools, etc.

As I said, cultural resentments.

[Divinity]

lol Trump was a racist long before Hillary ran for President. Fuck, he was a racist long before the Apprentice. But before that most people didn't give a fuck who he was unless they lived in New York and had to see his ugly ass name on buildings.

[The Grand Nudger]

No no no.  I'm sure that was just the deep state preemptively working against the fuhrers campaign all the way back to 70's so that it wouldn't succeed in 2016....

....with the Clinton's time machine.

Besides, he had a plausible explanation..he didn't hate the darkies, at least not so much as he was trying to shit on poors instead.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Wow! I've noticed and inverse relationship to the number of facts I present in my posts, along with links to sources, and the seriousness of the replies. You guys should try using facts for a change instead of baseless one-line assertions.

[Angrboda]

Wow! I've noticed and inverse relationship to the number of facts I present in my posts, along with links to sources, and the seriousness of the replies. You guys should try using facts for a change instead of baseless one-line assertions.

You really don't posses a shred of personal insight, do you?

[The Valkyrie]

Depends how it’s done.

If for political gain, it’s bad.

If as a hobby, well, everyone needs a hobby.