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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 |
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#2 Martin Van Buren doing literally nothing during an economic depression caused by the Democrats' destruction of the Bank of the United States |
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#3 Invading Mexico and slaughtering innocent people to make the west safe for slavery |
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#4 Acting as apologists for and defenders of slavery during the entire first quarter-century of their existance as a political party |
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#5 Trying to destroy the country to preserve slavery (Southern Democrat option) |
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#6 Openly collaborating with those trying to destroy the country to preserve slavery (Northern Democrat option) |
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#7 Pardoning traitors who tried to destroy the country to preserve slavery |
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#8 Black Codes/Anti-miscegenation laws/Jim Crow |
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#9 Establishment of a violent, far-right paramilitary group to execute freedmen and federal agents during the Reconstruction period (aka the Klu Klux Klan) |
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#10 Actively participating in or turning a blind eye to lynch mob executions of black Americans in the South |
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#11 Chinese Exclusion Act |
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#12 Using the military to put down the Pullman strike |
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#13 President Woodrow Wilson re-segregating the White House |
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#14 Pledging to 'keep us out of war' and then getting the US involved in World War I |
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#15 Botching the post-WWI peace process |
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#16 Burning crops while people starved during the Great Depression to push up farm prices |
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#17 FDR using the military to put down more strikes than any other President in US history |
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#18 Sending an entire group of people to concentration camps on account of their ethnic background |
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#19 Vaporizing two cities full of non-combatants with atomic weapons in spite of the fact that the Japanese were willing to surrender |
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#20 Purging labor unions and civil society of communists and gays during the late 1940s and early 1950s |
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#21 Using the CIA to overthrow democratically elected governments in Latin America, e.g. Brazil in 1964, etc. |
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#22 Nearly wiping out human civilization in an atomic dick waving contest with the USSR |
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#23 Getting tens of thousands of Americans and millions of Vietnamese killed to maintain muh western hegemony in Indochina |
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#24 Arming religious fanatics in Afghanistan to wipe out the socially progressive, pro-woman government there |
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#25 Voting for most of Reagan's domestic agenda while pretending to oppose it |
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#26 Ending 'welfare as we know it', i.e. liquidating what was left of the 'Great Society' they pretended to care about so much |
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#27 Proposing school uniforms and kicking teen moms off of welfare as 'solutions' to poverty and lack of education in the US |
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#28 Ramping up the drug war during the 1990s |
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#29 Hypermilitarizing the police, FBI, and ICE during the Clinton years |
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#30 Whitewater/Ruby Ridge/Waco/Assorted corruption of the Clinton years |
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#31 Voting for the War in Iraq |
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#32 Voting for the PATRIOT Act |
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#33 Pretending to oppose #31 and #32 |
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#34 Executing minors with drone strikes |
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#35 BENGHAZI |
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Partisan results
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| Total Voters: 51 |
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Topic: The Democratic Party's Greatest Hits! (Read 2503 times)
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