Thursday, March 3, 2016

Turning the KKK into a Liberal Organization, Amazingly

I DON'T WANT TO BE UNFAIR. But, goodness, what will right wingers come up with next? Donald Trump did not distance himself quickly enough from David Duke. That's what started it all. There was the furor over that. Then, some right winger made the brilliant observation that the KKK was an organization founded and operated by democrats, therefore, it was and is a left wing orzanization. Say what? So, according to the right wing, the KKK is a left wing organization. I daresay you could ask any member of the KKK, from its founder, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to today's scattered membership, every menber, and not one of them will call himself or herself a liberal, no KKK member ever has identified as liberal, and in fact, they will all identify as conservatives, and Christians at that. Go give it a try, see what happens. Surely you know some Kluckers. The republican party was founded as a liberal party, the free soil party, but eventually became conservative, aligned with business, which it reamins today. The democratic party once housed many conservative members, mainly from the south, since the party of Lincoln, the G.O.P. was hated in dixie. But that's all changed now. Now, the dems are all liberals, the republs all conservatives, the conservatives have fled the democratic party and the south has kicked out the democrats. Indeed, in the days when conservative southerners inhabitated the democratic party, many clansmen were democrats. But they were then, as now, conservative, as every political science teacher knows, as every historian knows, and as every klansman knows. Funny that the right wing nut jobs of present America find it necessary to fabricate such crazy fiction, but, really, what else is new?

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