User talk:StruthCrikey

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EvergreenFir (talk) 00:25, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Ku Klux Klan

How is it that the KKK is touted as a far right extremist group, when the absolute opposite is true?

The KKK was founded by Democrats to appose Republican policies. StruthCrikey (talk) 00:46, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Please see Southern strategy, Dixiecrat, and this PolitiFact article. EvergreenFir (talk) 00:49, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Not to mention that the Republicans were the progressive party in the 19th century and the Democrats were conservative/reactionary. That changed in the 20th century. Why would you think that everything was the same 150 years ago? Please read the encyclopedia and learn a little history. Acroterion (talk) 02:26, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

The left-right polarization of the two parties occurred in the 20th century, with FDR and Reagan. Karl Marx for example endorsed Abraham Lincoln. August Willich became a general in the Union army, while Joseph Weydemeyer became a lieutenant colonel. Both were well known Marxists. Fiorello La Guardia, the New York City mayor who supported FDR had also been a socialist. Robert M. La Follette, who was a Progressive Party presidential candidate in 1924 supported by the Socialist Party, had been a Republican. OTOH, Congressman Larry McDonald who was head of the right-wing John Birch Society was a Democrat.

There's also a Neo-Confederate theory that the Civil War was not about slavery, but about freedom, i.e., the freedom of Southerners to govern their states without big government in Washington telling them what to do. In that narrative, the South is right-wing, while the North is left-wing.

TFD (talk) 02:33, 17 April 2021 (UTC)