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Question: Which of the following would you say is your favorite example of Democratic Party governance down through the ages?
#1
The running campaign to eradicate Native Americans begun by Andrew Jackson and continued by subsequent Democratic presidents
 
#2
Martin Van Buren doing literally nothing during an economic depression caused by the Democrats' destruction of the Bank of the United States
 
#3
Invading Mexico and slaughtering innocent people to make the west safe for slavery
 
#4
Acting as apologists for and defenders of slavery during the entire first quarter-century of their existance as a political party
 
#5
Trying to destroy the country to preserve slavery (Southern Democrat option)
 
#6
Openly collaborating with those trying to destroy the country to preserve slavery (Northern Democrat option)
 
#7
Pardoning traitors who tried to destroy the country to preserve slavery
 
#8
Black Codes/Anti-miscegenation laws/Jim Crow
 
#9
Establishment of a violent, far-right paramilitary group to execute freedmen and federal agents during the Reconstruction period (aka the Klu Klux Klan)
 
#10
Actively participating in or turning a blind eye to lynch mob executions of black Americans in the South
 
#11
Chinese Exclusion Act
 
#12
Using the military to put down the Pullman strike
 
#13
President Woodrow Wilson re-segregating the White House
 
#14
Pledging to 'keep us out of war' and then getting the US involved in World War I
 
#15
Botching the post-WWI peace process
 
#16
Burning crops while people starved during the Great Depression to push up farm prices
 
#17
FDR using the military to put down more strikes than any other President in US history
 
#18
Sending an entire group of people to concentration camps on account of their ethnic background
 
#19
Vaporizing two cities full of non-combatants with atomic weapons in spite of the fact that the Japanese were willing to surrender
 
#20
Purging labor unions and civil society of communists and gays during the late 1940s and early 1950s
 
#21
Using the CIA to overthrow democratically elected governments in Latin America, e.g. Brazil in 1964, etc.
 
#22
Nearly wiping out human civilization in an atomic dick waving contest with the USSR
 
#23
Getting tens of thousands of Americans and millions of Vietnamese killed to maintain muh western hegemony in Indochina
 
#24
Arming religious fanatics in Afghanistan to wipe out the socially progressive, pro-woman government there
 
#25
Voting for most of Reagan's domestic agenda while pretending to oppose it
 
#26
Ending 'welfare as we know it', i.e. liquidating what was left of the 'Great Society' they pretended to care about so much
 
#27
Proposing school uniforms and kicking teen moms off of welfare as 'solutions' to poverty and lack of education in the US
 
#28
Ramping up the drug war during the 1990s
 
#29
Hypermilitarizing the police, FBI, and ICE during the Clinton years
 
#30
Whitewater/Ruby Ridge/Waco/Assorted corruption of the Clinton years
 
#31
Voting for the War in Iraq
 
#32
Voting for the PATRIOT Act
 
#33
Pretending to oppose #31 and #32
 
#34
Executing minors with drone strikes
 
#35
BENGHAZI
 
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Total Voters: 51

Author Topic: The Democratic Party's Greatest Hits!  (Read 2594 times)
H. Ross Peron
General Mung Beans
Junior Chimp
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E: -6.58, S: -1.91

« on: May 20, 2015, 07:17:56 PM »

Coming from the poster who wouldn't vote to convict Timothy McVeigh, ok.
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H. Ross Peron
General Mung Beans
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 9,401
Korea, Republic of


Political Matrix
E: -6.58, S: -1.91

« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2015, 09:21:10 PM »
« Edited: May 20, 2015, 09:24:12 PM by National Progressive »

I personally like the Mexican American war because people still apologize for it even though it was literally just the U.S. government invading a foreign country with no provocation with the intent of expanding slavery.

Except that interpretation of the war is as simplistic as Manifest Destiny jingoism. Border conflicts were already going on at the time, with both sides obviously blaming the other. And the Mexican-American War was fought to expand territory period not to expand slavery. It has to be remembered Polk was a fairly "moderate" Southerner in the tradition of Jackson who wanted expansion primarily for strengthening the American state rather than a regionalist/ideological interest of expanding slavery and that the opponents of the Mexican Cession included not just New England abolitionist but also the staunch stalwarts of States' Rights such as John C. Calhoun.

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Because this is somehow relevant to the thread?
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Perhaps we should have a "Marxism's Greatest Hits" thread instead.
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