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The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by OLAADEGBU(m): 8:10am On Aug 19, 2018
The Democratic Party is a painful reminder of the Democrats' 1864 plan to allow re-instatement slave
By Robert Laurie —— Bio and Archives--August 18, 2017

This week, we've learned that Democrats favor dismantling any and every visible vestige of America's ugly past. Specifically, public reminders of anyone that participated in or tolerated the slave trade must be eliminated. With that in mind, we have no choice but to dismantle the Modern Democratic Party. It’s very existence stands as a monument to a past of violence, hatred, and an 1864 effort to defeat Abraham Lincoln by re-instating slavery.

By the end of Lincoln's first term, a shattered United States was sick of death and destruction. Democrats hoped to exploit this to unseat the President, so they came up with a plan. What if, they wondered, we just promise to end the fighting as quickly as possible?

Chicago Platform
It was called the Chicago Platform, and it was the Dems' plan to end the Civil War by compromising with the South. The platform was as follows:

Resolved, that in the future, as in the past, we will adhere with unswerving fidelity to the Union under the Constitution, as the only solid foundation of our strength, security, and happiness as a people, and as a framework of government equally conducive to the welfare and prosperity of all the States, both Northern and Southern.

Resolved, that this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the federal Union of the States.

Resolved, that the direct interference of the military authorities of the United States in the recent elections held in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware, was a shameful violation of the Constitution, and a repetition of such acts in the approaching election will be held as revolutionary, and resisted with all the means and power under our control.

Resolved, that the aim and object of the Democratic party are to preserve the federal Union and the rights of the States unimpaired; and they hereby declare that they consider the administrative usurpation of extraordinary and dangerous powers not granted by the Constitution; the subversion of the civil by the military laws in States not in insurrection; the arbitrary military arrest, imprisonment, trial, and sentence of American citizens in States where civil law exists in full force; the suppression of freedom of speech and of the press; the denial of the right of asylum; the open and avowed disregard of State rights; the employment of unusual test oaths, and the interference with and denial of the right of the people to bear arms in their defense, as calculated to prevent a restoration of the Union and the perpetuation of a government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed.

Resolved, that the shameful disregard by the administration of its duty in respect to our fellow-citizens who are now and have long been prisoners of war in a suffering condition, deserves the severest reprobation on the score alike of public policy and common humanity.

Resolved, that the sympathy of the Democratic party is heartily and earnestly extended to the soldiers of our army and the seamen of our navy, who are and have been in the field under the flag of their country; and, in the event of its attaining power, they will receive all the care, protection, and regard that the brave soldiers and sailors of the republic have so nobly earned.

Democrat candidate, General George McClellan, said in his acceptance speech that "The reestablishment of the Union, in all its integrity, is and must continue to be the indispensable condition in any settlement."

The implication, of course, is that everything else - including slavery - was on the table. Couple that with the platform's references to states’ rights, Lincoln's constitutional violations, and his alleged "disregard" for citizens, and you can see the writing on the wall. The Democrats were ready to make slavery permanent in exchange for a cessation of hostilities.

Obviously, it didn't work. The party was absolutely savaged by an outraged pro-Lincoln media. McClellan's supporters made a half-hearted effort to claim he had embraced the party, while repudiating the platform but, as the New York Times reported, that simply wasn't the case..

"We suggest to some of McClellan's supporters that they had better now drop their talk of his having refused to accept the platform, kicked it over, made another platform of his own, etc. The World’s statement is doubtless by authority, Let us have no more attempts to misstate the issue of the contest but meet it squarely on both sides. We have had shuffling enough."

The damage was done. Cartoonists and illustrators took to wrapping the words of the Democratic platform around imagery of what its implementation would look like. The word was out. Democrats were planning to re-codify the era of human trafficking, slave hunts, and brutality.

McClellan was defeated, but the party persisted. It leaned heavily on its militant terrorist wing, the Ku Klux Klan, filibustered the civil rights act of 1964, implemented Lyndon Johnson's famous plan to "have N**gers voting Democratic for two hundred years," and up until 2010 enjoyed the services of Robert Byrd (a lifelong fan of the N-word and a former Klan recruiter) as their senior member in Congress.

Are there some extenuating circumstances we could consider? Maybe. Should we take into account mitigating factors? We could but …why would we?

If we're going to apply the standard that the left is applying to Washington and Jefferson, there's no time for subtlety or nuance. Facts be damned. It's horrific to think that we force minorities to live in a country where one of the two major political parties embraced a plan to undo the Republican effort to eliminate slavery. We have history to sanitize, and we’d better get to work.

In the immortal words of Al Sharpton, such an institution should receive no "public funds"and no quarter from the thought police. We don't need to completely obliterate it, but it should - at most - be seen in libraries or museums.

After all, as CNN's Angela Rye says, we want to make sure to teach the disgusting history of the Democratic Party, "so it never happens again."

https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-democratic-party-is-a-painful-reminder-of-the-democrats-1864-plan-to-al

Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by bedspread: 9:47am On Aug 19, 2018
The Modern day Democratic Party of the United States of America is a Killer of The American Glory...

The American founding Fathers will be turning in their graves with the acts of the Modern Democratic Party..

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Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by OLAADEGBU(m): 12:23pm On Oct 17, 2019
bedspread:
The Modern day Democratic Party of the United States of America is a Killer of The American Glory...

The American founding Fathers will be turning in their graves with the acts of the Modern Democratic Party..

What is the difference between modern day Democrats and the old? undecided

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Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by CTPlayer: 2:12pm On Oct 18, 2019
OLAADEGBU:


What is the difference between modern day Democrats and the old? undecided

Old Democrats were capitalistic, anti government intrusion into everyday life. They were also 100% pro slavery.
Today they want to rule over people with government, comply or we will make your life miserable. They are the party
of keeping poor people poor and giving them free stuff in exchange for votes and the party of big Tech oligarchs,
barriers to entry. An example is Beto O'Rourke. He said last weekend that any person, group or religious institution
should lose their tax exempt status if they are not for and do not recognize gay marriage.

The Dems morphed into the party of labor, but now most blue collar workers solidly support the Republicans

Jeff Bezos is another oligarch and he owns the Washington Post. Carlos Slim, a Mexican Billionaire, pretty much owns
the NY Times. Slim made his fortune by bribing the Mexican government for near monopoly control of phone service in Mexico.
He likes open borders so Mexicans in the USA can wire money back home so Mexicans can pay their phone bill.

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Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by OLAADEGBU(m): 3:16pm On Oct 18, 2019
CTPlayer:


Old Democrats were capitalistic, anti government intrusion into everyday life. They were also 100% pro slavery.
Today they want to rule over people with government, comply or we will make your life miserable. They are the party
of keeping poor people poor and giving them free stuff in exchange for votes and the party of big Tech oligarchs,
barriers to entry. An example is Beto O'Rourke. He said last weekend that any person, group or religious institution
should lose their tax exempt status if they are not for and do not recognize gay marriage.

The Dems morphed into the party of labor, but now most blue collar workers solidly support the Republicans

Jeff Bezos is another oligarch and he owns the Washington Post. Carlos Slim, a Mexican Billionaire, pretty much owns
the NY Times. Slim made his fortune by bribing the Mexican government for near monopoly control of phone service in Mexico.
He likes open borders so Mexicans in the USA can wire money back home so Mexicans can pay their phone bill.

Have you heard of the myth of the Southern Strategy? If so, what's your take on it?
Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by CTPlayer: 7:30pm On Oct 18, 2019
OLAADEGBU:


Have you heard of the myth of the Southern Strategy? If so, what's your take on it?
Yeah it is pretty fake as it relates to Nixon. The guy who wrote about it didn't even work with Nixon.
After Nixon plenty of Southern whites voted for Carter and Clinton twice. Between 1940-1970 5 Million
blacks moved from the South to the North, and even as far back as the 1960's Northern whites began
moving South to Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tampa, Huntsville Al. places like that. The elected white Dixiecrats
never flipped to the Republicans, except 1-2 that is it. Segregationist George Wallace got continued support from
Southern Black voters. Even in 1982 he got 90% of the Black vote because he had Democrat next to his name.

Specifically as the South became less racist and more pro America first it became Republican.
Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by OLAADEGBU(m): 8:04pm On Oct 18, 2019
CTPlayer:


Yeah it is pretty fake as it relates to Nixon. The guy who wrote about it didn't even work with Nixon.
After Nixon plenty of Southern whites voted for Carter and Clinton twice. Between 1940-1970 5 Million
blacks moved from the South to the North, and even as far back as the 1960's Northern whites began
moving South to Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tampa, Huntsville Al. places like that. The elected white Dixiecrats
never flipped to the Republicans, except 1-2 that is it. Segregationist George Wallace got continued support from
Southern Black voters. Even in 1982 he got 90% of the Black vote because he had Democrat next to his name.

Specifically as the South became less racist and more pro America first it became Republican.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiprVX4os2Y

Good call. It was also stated in this videoclip that it was because the South voted values and not skin colour. smiley

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Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by CTPlayer: 9:14pm On Oct 18, 2019
OLAADEGBU:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiprVX4os2Y

Good call. It was also stated in this videoclip that it was because the South voted values and not skin colour. smiley

Good video, she has a southern accent lol. The only thing she missed was in the mass influx of major corporations into the South
from the North. Which also included a lot of new Whites to the South from the North. And even before that the massive NASA and Military
bases in the South, lots of blacks and whites living and working in Military bases and towns. For the most part the old white racists just died off.
And their offspring are conservative whereas the Democrats continue to go far left.
Re: The Democratic Party Is A Reminder Of Democrats' 1864 Plan To Allow Slavery by bedspread: 11:17am On Oct 30, 2019
OLAADEGBU:


What is the difference between modern day Democrats and the old? undecided

The Old Time Democratic Party had People who stood for the Tenets of the Founding fathers of the USA.

The Old Time Democratic Party had People who Feared and Reverenced GOD ALMIGHTY ..

The Democratic began to go socialist at the tail end of Clinton .. and went full demoncrat from Obama..

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