by
Daniel Greenfield
I’m starting to wonder if the Democratic Party isn’t a party of
liars, but a party of people so abysmally ignorant of basic history that
they don’t even know that they’re lying anymore.
For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for
civil rights, health care, Social Security, workers’ rights, and women’s
rights.
That’s
the claim on the Democrats site under “Our History”
I’m interested to hear about Andrew Jackson’s support for health care
reform and his civil rights achievements on the Trail of Tears. And I
doubt that Andrew Jackson’s Petticoat Affair (not what you think) really
qualifies as feminism.
The Democrats seem to think that they were fighting for civil rights
while supporting slavery. Perhaps they mean this notable support for
civil rights
from the Democratic Party Platform of 1868.
After the most solemn and unanimous pledge of both Houses
of Congress to prosecute the war exclusively for the maintenance of the
government and the preservation of the Union under the Constitution, it
has repeatedly violated that most sacred pledge, under which alone was
rallied that noble volunteer army which carried our flag to victory.
Instead of restoring the Union, it has, so far as in its power,
dissolved it, and subjected ten States, in time of profound peace, to
military despotism and negro supremacy.
That was only 144 years ago.
