Mark Levin talks about how the democratic party was the party of slavery

[qwihtown]

He forgot that republicans we black in the 1860's

[bronxbearbud]

Uh, Mr. Levin, what happened to the "solid dixiecrat south" when the democrat party got more inclusive ("darkened up" so to speak)? Oh, right? It went republican!

WHY do these republican geniuses always leave out THAT part of the story?

[tibiscum1]

One word for you Levin.....jewwatch.com !

[Messiohhh]

the democrats of yesteryear reversed there ideologies in the 60's and 70's with Bobby Kennedy and Richard Nixon.  The parties are in no way the same today as they once were.

[trueconservatie33]

@Messiohhh you are completely wrong, most dixiecrats DID NOT become republicans, mendel rivers, richard russell, al gore's father, bill clinton's mentor J william fulbright, robert byrd, even george wallace remained a democrat till his death. Georgia didnt switch till to republican in the senate till 2002, Lousianan didnt switch till 2004. The south voted republican evetually because of economic issues, abortion,and national defense

[flipgood89]

@trueconservatie33 .....lol. You care to explain why the southern states all went red in the 2nd half of the 20th century? States that, coincidentally, were the most aggressively racist

[trueconservatie33]

@flipgood89 you care to explain to me how jimmy carter won the entire south, how bill clinton did so well. How Louisiana was controlled by democrats till 2004, Georgia since 2002? You want to explain to me how democrats controlled the congressional seats in the south till 1994? How 90 percent of the democrats voted against the civil rights remained democrats in their death bed. How eisenhower did well in the south while supporting civil rights?

[flipgood89]

@trueconservatie33 ...LBJ, when signing the civil rights bill "Ive just handed the south to the republican party for the next 50 years".....What you are doing is taking exceptions and expanding them to create a narrative that fits your ideological worldview. If you reject the notion that republicans became the home for disillusioned dixiecrats/democrats, and have been playing race baiting politics to an audience of angry white people, be my guest. But any lucid thinker would disagree.

[trueconservatie33]

@flipgood89 well actually that quote has never been proven, and i think what he meant was a third party candidate would ruin the democrat's chance like george wallace(by the way who seek the presidency as a democrat in the 1972 election). The reason that the south eventually became republican was because their rejection of cruel practice of abortion, the rise of urban middle class and they enjoyed the idea of Reagan's tough stance against communism

[flipgood89]

@trueconservatie33 .....You seem reasonable, so I must ask: Do you think race is absent from that equation of the south's migration to the republican party? Im not talking about a small portion of it, but a major component.

[seabreezemm]

@Messiohhh That is the liberal lie of the century that you would love all to believe. The Dem party of those days when they fought for slavery and fostered the KKK are the same Dems of today. The only thing that that changed is their methods and their lies....

[TheCaliCapitalist]

What this little guy doesnt know is that those Reps were mainly in the north and the Dems the south. Today its vice versa I live in the south and I see more confederates and confederate supporters and they are not liberal or democrats. This is just a right wing joke pretending to care about other minorities while smearing them.

[trueconservatie33]

@TheCaliCapitalist what u talking about, most southern democrats remained in the democratic party, republicans didnt take over the congress till 1994, georgia didnt switch till 2002 i believe, a lot of misssipi districts are stilled run by democratic party

[TheCaliCapitalist]

@trueconservatie33

The early history of democrat party is different from todays democratic party.

[trueconservatie33]

@TheCaliCapitalist somewhat

[Southernjuggalo63]

@TheCaliCapitalist doesnt matter to accept a party that has such hateful history is appauling to me in anyway much like how i feel about the american flag that flew over all slave ships and protected slavery for over 90yrs then tries to put all the blame on the confederacy lol liberals hate historical facts

[Southernjuggalo63]

@TheCaliCapitalist doesnt matter to accept a party that has such hateful history is appauling to me in anyway much like how i feel about the american flag that flew over all slave ships and protected slavery for over 90yrs then tries to put all the blame on the confederacy lol liberals hate historical facts

[TheCaliCapitalist]

@Southernjuggalo63

Liberals, conservatives, democrats, republicans, and different ethnic groups dont have a perfect track record of treating people as equals. But for the most part of history people who tend to be more to the left have had a better track record then those on the right. But again they arent perfect just much better.

[Southernjuggalo63]

@TheCaliCapitalist lol democrats have the worst history of all political parties and i dont respect anyone who embraces it because its history is hateful and wrong

[EchoMike03]

Why does anyone need to be reminded of this.

B.J. (Bill Jefferson) Clinton ulogized at Robert Byrd's funeral a few months ago, that as a Democrat ,Mr Byrd "did what he had to do to get eleceted" in W. Virgina as a Democrat. This was in reference to his "fleeting" association with the KKK.

"Fleeting" is evidently liberal code phrase for "holding high position".

Democrats elected this guy to 9 terms of office to the Senate.

[TheFlanker35]

@questionmarkjones,

Goldwater was strongly opposed to segregation personally and supported the 1954 Civil Rights Act, but he opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act because it was unconstitutional.

[michigan6443]

@KingBobP sorry but those are not liberal ideas. you are using terms like liberal vs conservative which are just mental masturbation. democrats are the party of slavery while republicans are the party of freedom. Martin Luther King was a conservative republican.

[michigan6443]

The Democrat party is the party of slavery.

[NonPointRulz101]

@michigan6443 The Christian conservative party is the party of discrimination

[plaguelandscapes]

@NonPointRulz101 Yes and it always has been

[NonPointRulz101]

@plaguelandscapes Conservatives and Republicans like to point out who ended the slave trade, but if they'd notice, many slave owners had some of the characteristics of modern day (Southern) Republicans(I can't list them right now)

BUT, does it really matter who started or ended the slave trade? The good thing is that most people, both Left-Wing and Right-Wing, agree that slavery was a disgusting thing, and that's all that mattered.

[Extraordinaire]

@NonPointRulz101 You're making false assumptions, moron. The Republican Party of today is founded upon the values of individualism, of liberty, of self-reliance and self-agency. Slavery runs COUNTER to such values. Slavery consists of violating the inviolable rights of the individual, and thus contradicts the metaphysics of liberty to pursue one's own RATIONAL self-interest? Understand? What the Dems have done is kept blacks enslaved to the Welfare State.

[NonPointRulz101]

@Extraordinaire Really? If I may point out, how many of today's Dems are gun-toting, Bible-believing, anti-gay, anti-government people? That's exactly what Dems believed hundreds of years ago and now, Reps believe the same thing today.

It was Dems that started kept slavery alive, but it was the Conservative belief(If it's not how America was founded, it shouldn't be) that fueled it.

It's not only Dems that are to blame for slavery; it's Conservatism in general that's also to blame

UNDERSTAND?

[Extraordinaire]

@NonPointRulz101 You don't seem to understand, moron. The Republican Party was overwhelmingly CONSERVATIVE during the period of the New Deal and Great Society, yet it supported CIVIL RIGHTS POLICY to a greater degree than the Democrat Party ever did. Blacks started moving to the Democrat Party during the New Deal Period even as the Democrats remained STAUNCH SEGREGATIONISTS!

[NonPointRulz101]

@Extraordinaire How so?

Give me one example of how they were Conservatives?

I already told you that Dems used to believe what they currently believe(for the most part): Pro 2nd Amendment, Anti-Government, Anti-anything NOT American, Anti-homosexuality, and other things.

The Dem belief shifted in the 1960's, and now Cons believe what Dems used to believe.

[Extraordinaire]

@NonPointRulz101 At the same time it defended Slavery, from the Jacksonian period onward, Democrats fought against the Gold Standard and in favor of UNIONS against Business. The Conservative-Liberal dichotomy isn't even that accurate, as both parties contain elements of both Conservatism and Liberalism.

[Extraordinaire]

@NonPointRulz101 I am not a southerner, but a northerner, myself descended from Ottoman serfs and Russian serfs, and ultimately from Egyptian and Babylonian and Roman slaves. I have great contempt for that evil institution. It runs counter to the inviolable rights of the individual over his own life, to pursue his own self-interest without harming the pursuance of other's self-interests.

[Extraordinaire]

@NonPointRulz101 It is the Dems who keep up bringing race, as if somehow it determines or should determine one's thoughts and actions rather than intrinsic individual traits which are independent of the accident of melanin count in one's skin, and this Olive-Skinned young man is SICK AND TIRED of this crap. Ethnic loyalties or skin color should not determine whether someone supports policies which ensure the liberty to be in charge of one's life, or otherwise to be suckling the government teat.

[Extraordinaire]

@NonPointRulz101 I can tell you that the GREAT MAJORITY of Conservatives with whom I associate basically worship the words of MLK, that it is intrinsic merit that should determine how one fares in society, based one's ability and perseverance and work ethic and the wisdom of one's decisions, rather than one's ethnic affiliation.

[Extraordinaire]

@NonPointRulz101 It is the Dems who counter this message and reject it by claiming that if you're so-and-so ethnicity, you must think and feel a certain way, otherwise you're a "race traitor". If you abhor authoritarian fiscal policy and accept Lincoln's admonition, quoting from the Bible (I'm a disbeliever, btw) that "from the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat", then you must be an evil Uncle Tom, says the Democrat Plantation Master.

[BenAliGtor]

Did this little squirt have his balls removed before puberty? I thought that the last castrados were in the 19th Century in Italy.

[jetmtn]

yeah and abraham lincoln was a big government liberal so is mark levin proud to be a republican? Radical republicans didn't think the states should decide about slavery it was up to the federal government. During reconstruction the federal government was in control of the entire south. Jefferson owned slaves until the day he died does that make his legacy steeped in slavery? don't think so mark ur way off base on this one.

[PirateEyepatch]

I don't know if the parties have changed but one thing hasn't changed: the south still likes to fuck their own sisters and conservatives are closet homos. LOL.

[RobGoth100]

The Democrat Party in the last 150 years can be summed up in four words and they all begin with "S". Slavery, sedition, segregation and socialism.

[NonPointRulz101]

@RobGoth100 are you kidding me?

[rkniffy]

@RobGoth100

Wow this couldn't be more wrong. The parties have long since reversed their ideologies...in that era the Democrats supported states rights' and conservatism, and the Republicans wanted a strong Federal government...look at Abe Lincoln. He fought for the Federal strength against the State's Rights Democrats!!!

Clearly, this is exactly the opposite of today. Republicans favor reducing federal power and Democrats want to strengthen it. Right or wrong, they clearly switched.

[rkniffy]

@RobGoth100 As further proof, I offer the elections going all the way back to 1800. If you look at today's liberal states (New England, New York, etc.), they all voted republican back then. Was it because they weren't liberal? Nope, they favored expansion of federal government, increased social reform, and all the things democrats of today love. And the exact opposite is true if you look at the South.

[FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7]

@RobGoth100 they were conservatives

[plaguelandscapes]

A Democrat during the civil war era would be ideologically right wing in todays terms. Democrats and Republicans today are completely different than what they were decades ago. Levin is ignoring the evolution of political parties in the United States and trying to frame Democrats as racist, when it has always been extreme right wing ideology that fuels racism.

[thecaliforniaknight]

@plaguelandscapes

"A Democrat during the civil war era would be ideologically right wing in todays terms."

They willing ignore that because that would fall back on them. Do these people really think that blacks hispanics and jews wouldnt pick up on that Dems are still racist.

[plaguelandscapes]

@thecaliforniaknight Well I would respond to whatever your trying to say but its so grammatically incorrect that I dont really understand what your trying to say...I guess that right wingers for you :)

[michigan6443]

@thecaliforniaknight The democrat party is still the party of slavery they just use economics enslaving millions on welfare. they have not changed. blacks are to assume their "place" in the democrat party. slavery is not a conservative or a liberal problem it is solely a democrat issue period. democrats are the party of slavery and republicans are the party of freedom. you cannot change history by playing with words.

[thecaliforniaknight]

@michigan6443

Enslaving millions to welfare. I dont understand what that means. You do know that people arent forced on to welfare and welfare today by law is only temporary. No one lives on for life and most people are off it in a year. Today there are about 5 million people on welfare and thats just in recession.

[Extraordinaire]

@michigan6443 Thank you for stating the obvious, yet all-too-suppressed truth.

[michigan6443]

@plaguelandscapes wrong. democrats are the party of slavery and you cannot change that.

[plaguelandscapes]

@michigan6443 Actually, Im not wrong at all...democrats during the civil war era were ideologically right wing...do you realize that political parties shift?

[michigan6443]

@plaguelandscapes Right wing and left wing are buzz words that mean nothing. the democrats are the party of slavery just look it up.

[plaguelandscapes]

@michigan6443 The only thing that is the same is name "democrat" but its just a name

[Extraordinaire]

@plaguelandscapes Look up the Conservative Coalition which opposed FDR's New Deal...Mostly Republicans. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- 82% Republicans voted in favor in the Senate, 66% Democrats in the House. PROGRESSIVE Woodrow Wilson re-segregated federal offices...

[michigan6443]

@plaguelandscapes slavery is and always be the party of slavery. conservative or liberal is not the point slavery is and always will be a democrat institution. Not all democrats are racist but their party at one time enslaved blacks and lynched them and killed them and nbeat them. The republicans freed the slaves of the democrat party because the republicans are the party of freedom.

[plaguelandscapes]

@michigan6443 No, the same people who would have been democrats during the civil war era would be republican in todays terms are you not aware of party shifts in the United States? Anyone who ascribed to the philosophy of the democratic party during that time of slavery would be ascribing to the ultra conservative philosophy of today

[mitchstrongjr]

@veriteez, @nockuout1 not sure if you guys know what the southern strategy is. Maybe you should learn more about Barry Goldwater. Its funny how anyone can post a comment on here without any knowledge on actual history. maybe you should try to understand political history. this is not name calling but we can have a serious debate about the southern stategy.

[veriteez]

@nockuout1 - "dmk" is like the other liberals. When the going gets

tough, claim the parties changed to suit the democrats. He's absurd. I've heard his argument from other liberals. First it was under Lincoln, than it was early 20th century, NOW it's under LBJ.

[dmk2113]

@nockuout1 Alright, you can have fun with your low taxes that pay for your wars and all other vital services and your deregulated markets that manage to also keep your jobs in the US. Not to mention your free market health care - I presume that you would oppose allowing the emergency rooms to be used by people that don't have health insurance. Oh, and getting rid of "illegals"... I guess the government should do that for free too, right?

[veriteez]

@dmk2113 - so basically what you're saying is, is that todays republicans are yesterdays democrats? The war-protesting hippies of yester-year are todays conservatives? Is this your theory? Or a theory taught in college? The switch in parties began in the early 20th century? huh?? Like FDR, who claimed votes of blacks due to through govt. programs? He was a DINO? Lol. Stay a bleeding heart liberal.

[dmk2113]

@nockuout1 I said if you want to. I'm not going to bother you if you're completely dead-set on being a fucking moron.

[dmk2113]

@nockuout1 Oh? What points am I wrong on? Please tell me.

Yeah, I am, I'm a bleeding heart New York City liberal.

[dmk2113]

@nockuout1 I don't love my party, but I do love my country, and I think that Mark Levin is an intellectually shallow ideologue and an immature, vile little toad. If you want detailed reasons I have 1500 words on the subject that I'd be happy to send you.

[dmk2113]

@nockuout1 So if you want pull it over party lines, the Democrats of the time were clearly the pro-Slavery and then anti-Civil rights leaders - unfortunately, the majority of those people defected to the Republican party or, in Mr. Byrd's case, grossly changed their tune.

[dmk2113]

@nockuout1 and became a dyed in the wool Republican. And he never recanted on his civil rights stances either.

This is not 100% exact, partially because the country was largely indifferent to the Civil Rights movement before the 50s, so you get people like FDR who was far closer to today's Democrats. But rampant stubborn ideological racism has always been more of a SOUTHERN trend than anything else, and today's Rep. party is a SOUTHERN party.

[dmk2113]

@nockuout1 No. Let me make this REALLY simple for you because it's clear that something is not getting through.

1) The Democratic Party pre-1960s is a LOT closer to today's Republican party.

2) The Republican Party pre-1960s is a LOT closer to today's Democratic party.

3) Robert Byrd is an old-school Democrat who has since repented for his civil rights stance and changed his ways.

4) Strom Thurmond is an old school Democrat who left the party over civil rights issues

[dmk2113]

@nockuout1 Wow dude, coward much? You call me an idiot and I respond with facts and you respond by calling me a drone.

Sounds like you've taken more than a page from the Levin playbook - big on name-calling, small on facts.

[dmk2113]

@nockuout1

2) I am aware of Robert Byrd, but nice try. Check his voting record since the 80s and get back to me. Then do me a favor and look at Strom Thurmond, who decided to change parties.

You want to play facts? I'm down.

[dmk2113]

@nockuout1 Okay, allow me to rephrase.

1) The current incarnation of the Republican party can largely trace its ideological lineage back to the traditional Democratic-Republican party. "No new slavery in the territories" doesn't sound like a particularly small government principle to me -- and explain to me if this isn't true, why was Lincoln voted into office, ushering in secession, without a single southern vote?

[veriteez]

@nockuout1 - I totally agree with you.

[dmk2113]

Yeah, the Democratic party also used to be the party of the South. All of the pro-slavery Democrats are today's Republicans. Let's not forget that the "solid south" was lost over civil rights legislation.

[veriteez]

@dmk2113 - tell me something, DMK2113, if that's true, that would mean

John f. Kennedy would be a republican today. He was not truly for civil rights. It's funny, when it's an inconvenience to a liberal, they revert to the "but , yesterdays democrats are todays republicans" excuse.

[dmk2113]

@veriteez Uh, I didn't mention JFK and I agree that if he were resurrected today with the same views he had 50 years ago, he'd probably be a Republican - the ideological switchover of the South occurred under LBJ after Kennedy had been shot. What's your point?

[veriteez]

@dmk2113 - My point is that liberals always try and paint the republican as

the bad guy. Now it's your opinion that the switch happened under LBJ. And liberals

always say that the "kkk" democrats of the turn of the century were the republicans. Sounds like you and the liberals can't keep track of when the parties supposedly

switched.

[dmk2113]

@veriteez What the heck are you talking about? It's pretty much fact that the south switched parties under LBJ, you don't have to take my word for it. I've never claimed that turn of the century KKK Democrats were anything other than Democrats, but those same people are by and large the forefathers of today's southern conservative republicans.

Funny how you claim we're painting you as the bad guy on the comments section of a man who calls us "statists"

[GayAtheistsUnited]

LIES this is just fake history

[BrownDogProductions1]

@GayAtheistsUnited These arent lies, you'll find them in any eighth grade history book. Gay Atheists United? What a joke.

[axel360]

More people should view this video and take this all in

[MMouthPeach]

Day of reflection.

[weightSndrumS]

marc is a hero

[jd55192]

Thanks for uploading.