• DancingBear@midwest.social
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        4 days ago

        Was anyone? What is the the question or is it rhetorical I need to look it up actually myself I’m not some expert on kkk or post bellum civil war politics myself but I’m interested in it was just commenting

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          It’s rhetorical, I’m trying to say at no point have the Dems ever been leftists. They are a more socially progressive right wing party.

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          Yes, there were literally communists who fled Germany during 1848 and would join the union army.

          Enough that a former revolutionary, Franz Sigle, was promoted to general, because German immigrants who’d also fled in 1848 looked up to the guy and were willing to join to serve under the guy.

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          Was anyone?

          Uh, yes? Maybe not a major US party, but yes of course.

          No major party in the US has ever been leftist, and the historical Democrats being discussed here (the racist segregationists who invented the KKK) were the opposite of leftist.

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      4 days ago

      You assume wrong. And it definitely is. You complete lack of knowledge of everything which you so confidently claim is quite impressive.