While some of what you said is true, that's not what the poster (whose comment I responded to) asked, which was: "were they ever American?", to which the answer is yes. You are conflating the behavior of one part of the party, the Southern Democrats, with the party as a whole. That's unjust and runs contrary to historical fact. The Northern and Western Democrats were terribly distressed by the growing sectional divide because it threatened the integrity of The Nation.
There's a big difference between the Dems of 1860 and today, and that difference is...hard-leftism, and especially the communist variety. If today's Democrats are uneasy about the direction of the party, they're playing a very dangerous game by attempting to take advantage of the anarchic dynamism of hard-leftism while trying to maintain party integrity. They've made a deal with devil by allowing communist rowdiness to bloom in the party just for the sake of 'energizing the rank & file'.
A central feature of communist ideology is internationalism; thus, there's an element of the Dem party that couldn't give a shit about the integrity of The Nation, which they feel is an outmoded relic, dustbin of history, yadda, yadda. If the party as a whole is distressed about this Bolshevik-style platform-hijacking, they're flat-out insane if they think they've got any control over it. And sadly, they actually are insane with TDS.
But, Trump isn't playing games. He and I and millions of other leftover Cold Warriors, knew this was coming. The destruction of the USSR has cast adrift those internationalist tentacles that were in the US, and we've got a job to root that shit out. The Dems aren't their own best doctor for the job since, historically, they've been the more anti-capitalist/populist party. Rooting out the communist virus (in every sense) is going to require a massive prophylactic dose of freemarket wealth-generation.
Which is why today's infected Democrats are fighting tooth-and-nail to destroy the nation's literal health, because its economic health will follow.
While some of what you said is true, that's not what the poster (whose comment I responded to) asked, which was: "were they ever American?", to which the answer is yes. You are conflating the behavior of one part of the party, the Southern Democrats, with the party as a whole. That's unjust and runs contrary to historical fact. The Northern and Western Democrats were terribly distressed by the growing sectional divide because it threatened the integrity of The Nation.
There's a big difference between the Dems of 1860 and today, and that difference is...hard-leftism, and especially the communist variety. If today's Democrats are uneasy about the direction of the party, they're playing a very dangerous game by attempting to take advantage of the anarchic dynamism of hard-leftism while trying to maintain party integrity. They've made a deal with devil by allowing communist rowdiness to bloom in the party just for the sake of 'energizing the rank & file'.
A central feature of communist ideology is internationalism; thus, there's an element of the Dem party that couldn't give a shit about the integrity of The Nation, which they feel is an outmoded relic, dustbin of history, yadda, yadda. If the party as a whole is distressed about this Bolshevik-style platform-hijacking, they're flat-out insane if they think they've got any control over it. And sadly, they actually are insane with TDS.
But, Trump isn't playing games. He and I and millions of other leftover Cold Warriors, knew this was coming. The destruction of the USSR has cast adrift those internationalist tentacles that were in the US, and we've got a job to root that shit out. The Dems aren't their own best doctor for the job since, historically, they've been the more anti-capitalist/populist party. Rooting out the communist virus (in every sense) is going to require a massive prophylactic dose of freemarket wealth-generation.
Which is why today's infected Democrats are fighting tooth-and-nail to destroy the nation's literal health, because its economic health will follow.