skinster wrote:Antifa didn't originate from the Dem Party, I don't think the KKK was either. TIG?
Still, Dems suck anyway.
The Democrats didn't exactly found the KKK. However, the KKK was counter to the Republican Party, early on.
This all said, the Republican Party used to have a correspondence with Karl Marx, so it's pretty insincere and incredibly ignorant to pretend that Republicans today are anything like the ones that loved Karl Marx.
The Republican Party was the party of the cities.
The Democrats, having been founded by Jefferson, was the party of the Yeoman farmer--and this included slavers.
But in most of the country, basically, the workers that sided with the Republicans didn't find it in their interest to side with their bosses and eventually became Democrats.
The South was a little different as they absolutely refused to legitimize the Marxist (and other leftist) aspect of the Republican Party.
So you had the Dixiecrats in the South as almost a third party allied with the urban immigrants. This often led to strife, most notoriously the
Klanbake of the 1920s when the Democratic Party attempted to expel the Dixiecrats and failed.
Eventually, to put it shortly, the urban immigrant base of the Democrats represented by the Kennedys actually did succeed in expelling the Dixiecrats.
The Republican Party was right there to cravenly pick up and promote any racist puked out by the Democratic Party.TLDR: it's true that Southern racists used to be Democrats. It's also true that Karl Marx and the Republican Party used to love each other.
And it's also true that the Democrats purged their party of the KKK, and the Republicans did everything they could to recruit every member of the KKK into their ranks.
As far as Antifa having anything to do with the Democrats, I've never heard of such a thing and cannot comment. No member of Antifa I've ever known or heard from has been a Democrat, but it's certainly possible.
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