• basmati@lemmus.org
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    1 month ago

    The right wing did clinch power in 1944, hence the dramatic stop to progressive legislation.

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        1 month ago

        The 1940s is the mid 1830s?

        Also the civil rights movement was not supported by government, and especially not the Dems.

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          If we’re being pedantic, we can go bank to the Magna Carta, or Hammurabi as the beginning of civil rights. But you’re the one who set the 80 year mark, which coincides with the 20th century civil rights movement which was a distinct movement from the abolitionism of the 1830s.

          But you’re wrong either way. The 20th century civil rights movement was absolutely supported by Democrats, or was Lyndon Johnson not a Democrat when he signed the voting rights act?

          And the 19th century civil rights movement was championed by the pre-switch liberal Republican party. So yes, the liberal party has been supportive, if not integral, to civil rights. You’d have to be pretty poorly educated in US history to be ignorant of that fact.