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Can Someone Explain to Me Why the Democratic Party Never Rebranded/Renamed Itself?

posted 2 years ago by HarveyManFredSin (4877)
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Rather than remain historically aligned to an institution that was founded to uphold slavery, and was aligned to the KKK and segregation until the 1960s?

Yes, yes, I understand the flip between the parties, and all that, but as a rational, reasonable, science-based individual, I care about FACTS over SPECULATION, and the FACT is that the Democratic Party was for over a century the party of anti-Black segregation.

Why not rename itself the Progressive Party, or the Liberal Party, for instance?

It's hard for me to trust any institution with such problematic foundations (which is also why I'm very sceptical about Disney).

I DON'T like being GASLIT, and as someone with OCD (i.e. a mental illness; which any TRUE progressive should be SYMPATHETIC and SUPPORTIVE over), I struggle with cognitive dissonance and contradictions.

[–] Information-Police (4896) 2 years ago

Just stay in the here and now and deal with things as they are, when the Republican Party is the party of white supremacy and it will make more sense to you.

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) 2 years ago

Or, here's an idea, rename yourself rather than using a brand/name associated with fucking slavers and segregationists. 🤷‍♂️

Like I say, I don't cope well with cognitive dissonance and contradictions, BECAUSE of a NEUROLOGICAL CONDITION. Any TRUE progressive, assuming the DNC are made up of any (🤔) would understand and act accordingly, instead of STUPIDLY clinging onto a brand/name that is associated with the KKK.

It would be fucking simple. I don't know why they don't do it. Apathy and carelessness, I can only presume.

[–] Information-Police (4896) 2 years ago

Yes, the Democratic party should change their name because you have a neurological condition. I don't know why they so heartlessly ignore your needs.

[–] B1cKsurN (17837) 2 years ago

The parties never "flipped", that's a gross over simplification of what happened.

The modern day Republican/Democrat uniparty dynamic started with Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was a former Whig. After the Civil War was over, the remaining Whigs infiltrated the old "Party of Jefferson" Democrats, and began their race-based policies. This led to the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation, etc.

In the 1960s, the "Southern Strategy" employed by Nixon and others was a vote generation machine by appealing to racists in the south. It's all about votes. The parties have never "switched"... What they do, is flip-flop based on the population demographics in order to maintain power, keep the people divided, get rich while you get poor, and they do this all the while preaching unity.

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[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) 2 years ago

Well, post-Civil Rights Act and Southern Strategy, the DNC is clearly the party favoured by Black people, and anti-racists in general (the GOP rarely gets above 10% of the entire Black vote, which clearly says something), and whilst I am loathe to call *ALL* Republicans 'racists' (although in view of recent events, it's becoming much easier and fairer to do so), clearly the average racist is going to have MUCH more in common with Trump's GOP than they do with the DNC.

I detest the GOP with a passion. I just don't think that much of the DNC either. Don't get me wrong; come election time, I'll be urging everyone to vote for the lesser of the two evils (which has for my entire lifetime been the DNC), but I'm still sceptical about any party that refuses to rename and distance itself from pro-slavery foundations.

[–] B1cKsurN (17837) 2 years ago

DNC is clearly the party favored by Black people

"The Man" going after Trump may have permanently damaged this assumption. DNC is in trouble if this is true.

but I'm still sceptical about any party that refuses to rename and distance itself from pro-slavery foundations.

Then you should stop voting altogether. Every race on earth has been enslaved and have been slavers. It's been going on since humans began, and it goes on to this day.

Do you own Nike's or an Apple device? Got some bad news for ya man...

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Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.
Leftists always lie.
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