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John Neely Kennedy

2025-04-29T21:07:14Z

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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=John Neely Kennedy
|image=John Kennedy.jpg
|office=Junior [[United States Senator]] from [[Louisiana]]
|term_start=January 3, 2017
|term_end=
|predecessor=[[David Vitter]]
|successor=
|office2=Louisiana State Treasurer
|term_start2=January 10, 2000
|term_end2=January 3, 2017
|predecessor2=[[Ken Duncan (Louisiana politician)|Ken Duncan]]
|birth_date=November 21, 1951
|birth_place=Centreville, [[Mississippi]]
|residence=Madisonville, Louisiana
|death_date=
|death_place=
|resting_place=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned [[Republican Party|Republican]] (2007)
|spouse=Rebecca Stulb Kennedy
|children=Preston Kennedy
|religion=[[United Methodist]]
|alma_mater=[[Vanderbilt University]] [[University of Virginia]] Magdalen College, Oxford
|website=kennedy.senate.gov
}}
'''John Neely Kennedy''' (born November 21, 1951) is an [[attorney]] and [[politician]] who is the junior [[United States Senator]] from [[Louisiana]], with service since January 3, 2017. A former [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] who switched parties in 2007, he was his state's treasurer from 2000 to 2017.

Kennedy's 2016 landslide victory for the Senate over the Democrat Foster Lonnie Campbell, Jr., of Bossier Parish was in sharp contrast to the two losing races that he had made for the Senate in 2004 as a Democrat against [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[David Vitter]] and in 2008 as a Republican against Democratic Senator [[Mary Landrieu]]. When Vitter did not seek a third term in the Senate in 2016, after he lost a race for [[governor]] in 2015 to the Democrat [[John Bel Edwards]], Kennedy launched his third bid for the position. He had mended fences with Vitter, whom he supported in the gubernatorial race, and Vitter backed Kennedy as his successor.

In 1988, Kennedy first entered politics as the special legal counsel for incoming Governor [[Buddy Roemer]], a Democrat who switched parties in 1991. He returned to the private practice of law until 1996, when Governor [[Mike Foster]], another Democrat-turned-Republican, appointed Kennedy secretary of the Louisiana Department of Revenue.<ref>[[Ron Gomez]], ''My Name Is Ron And I'm a Recovering Legislator: Memoirs of a Louisiana State Representative'', ([[Lafayette]], [[Louisiana]]: Zemog Publishing, 2000), isbn=0-9700156-0-7, p. 247</ref>

Though born in southwestern [[Mississippi]], Kennedy was reared in Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish, near the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]]. He resides in Madisonville in St. Tammany Parish is [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]], sixty-six miles from Baton Rouge.

Senator Kennedy endorsed his fellow St. Tammany Parish resident, Republican former state Representative [[John Schroder]] in the special election runoff held on November 18, 2017, to choose Kennedy's successor as state treasurer. Schroder won his race for treasurer.

==Consideration of gubernatorial candidacy in 2019==
In March 2018, Kennedy accused Democratic Governor [[John Bel Edwards]] of attempting to tax the state into prosperity. Kennedy said that believes Louisiana voters as a whole do believe there is a state fiscal crisis. Edwards' office disputed Kennedy's criticism and said the former state treasurer has no solutions for state financial problems.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_8524f6f0-2181-11e8-877a-6f530176b7d4.html|title=U.S. Sen. John Kennedy blisters Gov. John Bel Edwards, says voters doubt fiscal crisis|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Will Sentell|date=March 6, 2018|accessdate=August 11, 2018}}</ref>

In June 2018, Kennedy even called upon Governor John Bel Edwards to step down from his position and turn the office over to Lieutenant Governor [[Billy Nungesser]], a [[Moderate Republican]], who declined to support Edwards' 2019 Republican opponent, [[Eddie Rispone]]. Kennedy was critical of Edwards' repeated calling of special legislative sessions to obtain more tax increases to close a state budget deficit. Kennedy maintains spending must first be reduced before higher taxes should be considered. Edwards' office called Kennedy's demand "absurd."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_a5197e72-6e5c-11e8-a322-fff7ebf6289f.html|title=Sen. John Kennedy: John Bel Edwards should resign; governor's office says that's 'absurd' |publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=June 12, 2018|author=Elizabeth Crisp|accessdate=June 13, 2018}}</ref> Kennedy's opposition to Edwards drew the scrutiny of the [[liberal]] ''Baton Rouge Advocate'' newspaper, which claimed the U.S. senator is using his office as "a platform for politically absurd suggestions" and should instead "focus on what is really important to those that elected him. The U. S. Senate, Kennedy's ostensible workplace, hasn't exactly been a model of accomplishment lately. If the senator is worried about the lack of political leadership these days, he should start by looking into the mirror."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_86570780-6e7e-11e8-b7ff-23a402c6376d.html|title=Our Views: John Kennedy worried about lack of leadership? He should look into the mirror (commentary)|publisher=''Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=June 12, 2018|accessdate=June 13, 2018}}</ref>

In August 2018, Kennedy criticized Edwards in regard to criminal justice overhaul. Kennedy said that Edwards advocated a "soft approach" to dangerous prisoners. Kennedy noted that he had warned that early prison releases backed by Edwards would lead to murders: "it was inevitable." Kennedy said that Edwards "just thinks these guys are sick and confused. I think a lot of them are bad." Kennedy sent a letter to President Trump outlining the senator's opposition to Edwards' criminal justice policies.<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_d433d0f0-99b7-11e8-accd-27e2a6faf8f9.html|title=U. S. Senator Kennedy, Governor Edwards renew dispute on merits of criminal justice overhaul|date=August 8, 2018|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Will Sentell|accessdate=August 11, 2018}}</ref> [[Sheriff]] [[Steve Prator]] of Caddo Parish similarly disagreed with Edwards' criminal justice reforms, approved in a bipartisan fashion by th3e legislature. As the disagreement with Prator escalated, Edwards stopped the pending appointment of Mrs. Prator to a seat on the Red River Waterway board of commissioners formerly held by the late [[Rogers M. Prestridge]] of Shreveport.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/opinion/2018/08/16/gov-edwards-plays-politics-denies-caddo-waterway-commission-seat/1008148002/|title=Gov. Edwards plays politics to deny Caddo Parish a waterway commission seat|author=John E. Settle, Jr.|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 16, 2018|accessdate=August 30, 2018}}</ref> Kennedy has strongly defended Prator in the dispute with Edwards, who named Mike Deville of Rapides Parish to fill the vacancy. Kennedy said that he believes Edwards rejected Carolyn Prator's appointment because of the sheriff's earlier criticism of the governor's justice reforms. Kennedy cited the [[African-American]] Democratic state Senator [[Greg Tarver]] of Shreveport, who was quoted in ''The Baton Rouge Advocate'' as having said that Edwards told him he was rejecting the Carolyn Prator appointment because of her husband's opposition to the criminal justice reforms.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2018/09/13/kennedy-accuses-edwards-vendetta-against-caddo-sheriff/1291981002/|title=Kennedy accuses Edwards of vendetta against Caddo sheriff|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|accessdate=September 16, 2018}}</ref>

Despite his previous criticisms of Governor Edwards, Kennedy announced on December 3, 2018, that he would not run for governor in the nonpartisan blanket primary in 2019, when Edwards won his second term. For months earlier, Kennedy had been mentioned as a prospective gubernatorial candidate. His decision leaves only the [[Baton Rouge]] Republican businessman Eddie Rispone and [[U.S. Representative]] [[Ralph Abraham]] of Richland Parish in the race to unseat Edwards.<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2018/12/03/breaking-kennedy-wont-run-governor/2189459002/|title=Breaking: Kennedy won't run for governor|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=December 3, 2018}}</ref>

In 2019, Kennedy endorsed conservative Republican [[Robert Mills]] for the District 36 seat in the Louisiana State Senate based about [[Bossier City]] and [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], rather than incumbent Moderate Republican [[Ryan Gatti]], a close friend of Governor John Bel Edwards.

==Ukraine war==
Kennedy turned to be establishment tool and voted for sending $40 billion to Ukraine.<ref>https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00191.htm</ref>

==Quotes==
*''I believe love is the answer, but I own a handgun just in case.''
*''I believe that you can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out.''<ref>[https://thepostmillennial.com/cpac-sen-john-kennedy-slams-biden-admin-cancel-culture CPAC: Sen. John Kennedy slams Biden admin, cancel culture]</ref>
*''Make it clear to Mr Putin, we are willing to turn him and his country into fish food''<ref>[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/media/trump-needs-willing-turn-putin-russia-into-fish-food-outspoken-gop-senator-says.amp</ref>
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Joseph Stalin

2024-11-11T04:07:48Z

Theocon: The war didn't "in a humiliating Soviet defeat", that's simply not true, Finland gave up a significant portion of its territories to the USSR after the Winter War ended

{{Dictator bio
| image =[[File:Joseph-Stalin.png|260px]]
| name =Joseph Stalin
| birth =December 18, 1878 Gori, Tiflis Governorate ([[Republic of Georgia|Georgia]]), Russian Empire
| parents =Vissarion Dzhugashvili Catherine Dzhugashvili
| religion =Georgian Orthodoxy (rejected) [[Atheism]]
| education =Tiflis Theological Seminary, Georgia
| spouse =Ekaterina Svanidze (d. 1906-1907) Nadezhda Alliluyeva (d. 1919-1932)
| children =Yakov Dzhugashvili Vasily Dzhugashvili Svetlana Alliluyeva
| death =March 5, 1953 Kuntsevo Dacha, Moscow
| deathmanner =Complications of a stroke
| burial =Near the Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Russia
| country =[[Soviet Union]]
| military =Soviet Armed Forces (1943–1953)
| rank =Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943–1945) (de jure) Generalissimus of the Soviet Union (1945–1953) (de facto)
| polbeliefs =[[Communism]] [[Marxism-Leninism]]
| party =[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| dictatordate =By 1929
| war =[[Great Purge]]
| deathnumber =8,000,000 according to soviet records 20,000,000 is the average estimate while 62,000,000 is the high estimate
}}
'''Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin''' (born '''Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili'''; Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли) (1878 - 1953) was the dictator of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the [[Communist Party]] of the [[Soviet Union]] ([[CPSU]]) from 1922 until his death from a stroke in 1953. <ref name="BBC Stalin">https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml</ref> Joseph Stalin, who was a brutal proponent of [[atheism|atheistic]] [[Communism]], was greatly influenced by the work of the [[evolution|neo-Lamarckian]] [[Trofim Denisovich Lysenko]] as were other Communist leaders.<ref>https://creation.com/the-darwinian-foundation-of-communism</ref><ref>https://creation.com/stalins-ape-man-superwarriors</ref><ref>https://creation.com/a-tale-of-four-countries</ref><ref>https://creation.com/darwin-trotsky-connection</ref> During 1942 - 1943, knowing that few people were inspired by Communism, Stalin reinstated the Russian Orthodox Church in order to boost morale while The USSR was at war with [[Nazi Germany]].<ref>http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2008/08/stalin-reinstates-church-1942-43.html</ref><ref>http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/frroman1.aspx</ref> When the war ended, many Red Army soldiers and Christians who defeated [[fascism]] were shipped off to Soviet [[concentration camp]]s - the [[gulag]]. On a similar note, largely because his predecessor Vladimir Lenin's passage of unrestricted abortion threatened to cause all of the USSR to die out quickly, Stalin also ended up making abortions temporarily illegal during the 1930s.<ref>https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/11/17/november-1920-2020-a-century-of-abortion-in-russia/</ref>

The son of a poor Georgian cobbler, Stalin was a former seminary student who joined the Communist Party when Georgia was still under the rule of the Russian Tsar. He became one of [[Lenin|Lenin's]] closest allies when the Kerensky regime was overthrown by Lenin's faction in 1917. During the [[Russian Civil War]] Stalin, who chose his name from the Russian word for steel, held the city of Tsaritsen on the Volga from counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin later renamed Tsaritsen [[Stalingrad]] in honor of his victory; Stalingrad would be the site of [[Germany]]'s massive defeat in [[World War II]].

Stalin was affectionately known as "Uncle Joe"<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Joe-FDR-DEEP-STATE/dp/0692939784</ref> by [[Democrat]]s before [[Joseph Biden]] adopted the nickname.<ref>https://archive.is/XjGXa</ref>

==Rise to Power==
Stalin was tapped by the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, as a low-level informer shortly after he was expelled from the Tiflis seminary in 1899. Stalin then began to systematically inform revolutionary comrades in party organizations in Tiflis, Baku, and Batum over the next few years. He acquired a highly unsavory reputation among the [[Social democracy|Social Democrats]] of these cities and was finally arrested for cover purposes in 1902 when suspicions about him were about to boil over. It was the Okhrana that furnished the invisible means of support for the family he acquired after 1904.

In 1917, the Commissariat of Nationalities was formed with Stalin as its Commissar (Minister). The Commissariat addressed the question of the nationalities of the Russian Empire, and helped integrate them into the [[Soviet Union]]. From 1919 to 1922 he was also the People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection (Rabkrin, from Russian), which was founded to be a check on the burgeoning Soviet bureaucracy.

In 1920, Stalin was tasked with invading Poland and then Germany, after having chased the Polish army out of a Ukrainian revolt it had aided. However, when the Red Army reached Warsaw, they were defeated in battle and forced to retreat back to Russia. This damaged Stalin's reputation as a general and helped persuade Lenin to adopt the long-term strategy of inducing another European war through political agitation and seizing the opportunity to invade when the nations were thought to be at their weakest.

In 1922, Lenin named Stalin General Secretary of the CPSU. In 1924 Stalin in turn created the "Secret Department," a unit of 94 of his personal functionaries that maintained special privileges as the ''[[nomenklatura]]'', or a list of trusted individuals. He also appointed regional party secretaries who all, of course, supported Stalin. Through the Secret Department, Stalin gained control of the [[Red Army]] after removing [[Leon Trotsky]] in 1925 and the OGPU (later, [[KGB]]) when its leader [[Felix Dzerzhinsky]] died in 1926. Lenin had foreseen all of this and had warned in his last testament that Stalin should be removed from General Secretary because the position's power was unlimited.
[[Image:Stalin-Lenin.jpg|right|thumb|[[Lenin]] left, Stalin right]]
Stalin, however, did not allow this to happen. His most powerful rival, Leon Trotsky, who was the commander of the Red Army, was painted as a danger to the Revolution, because he continued to push the idea of international revolution; the "left opposition." Other Soviet leaders, like [[Zinoviev]], leader of the [[Comintern]], and [[Kaminev]], the head of the Communist Party in Moscow, were painted with the same brush because they supported Trotsky and did not wish to expel him from the CPSU in 1927. Later, he accused his ally [[Bukharin]] of being a member of the "right opposition," i.e. he was in favor of a more capitalistic economic system, as seen under the [[New Economic Policy]] (NEP) of the early 1920s. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 by [[Ramón Mercader]] in an extensive conspiracy that included underground operatives from the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA). Zinoviev, Kaminev, and Bukharin were the center of the infamous "[[Great Purge|show trials]]" of the 1930s. All were put to death.

==Objectives of the Comintern==
In 1932, [[Sergei Ivanovich Gussev]], who had served as [[Comintern]] agent and Stalin's personal representative in the United States, "commanded the [[Communist Party of the United States|Communists in the United States]] to take up four tasks. Two of them were the defense of the Soviet Union and the furtherance of the Red conquest of [[China]]." In 1933 the notorious [[Gerhart Eisler]] "was secretly sent into the United States by Moscow to make sure these orders were carried out."<ref>[[Louis F. Budenz]], ''The Techniques of Communism'', (Chicago: Henry Regnery and Company, 1954), pp. 162-163.</ref> [[Edgar Snow]] wrote in his 1937 book, ''Red Star Over China,'' "The political ideology, tactical line and theoretical leadership of the [[Chinese Communists]] have been under the close guidance, if not positive direction, of the Communist International, which during the last decade has become virtually a bureau of the [[Russian Communist Party]]. In the final analysis, this means that for better or worse, the policies of the Chinese Communists, like the Communists in every other country, have had to fall in line with, and usually subordinate themselves to, the broad strategic requirements of [[Soviet Russia]], under the dictatorship of Stalin."<ref>''Red Star Over China'' by Edgar Snow, New York, 1937, pg. 374.</ref>

==Catch and Overtake==
In 1928 Stalin decided that the Soviet Union was not properly industrialized to enjoy a communist future, so he initiated the First Five-Year Plan and the campaign to collectivize agriculture in order to "build socialism," and to "catch and overtake" the capitalist world. Stalin fanned the fires of collectivization, claiming that peasants had been hoarding grain and that they needed to be controlled. Under this program, rich peasants (kulaks), were exiled or killed for being enemies of the people, and peasants' land was taken in order to introduce collective farming to expedite grain appropriations. Many were called kulaks by jealous neighbors, while the remaining peasants were often the laziest and most ill-suited to producing enough grain. Collectivization caused massive famine in Russia, particularly in [[Ukraine]] (see [[Holodomor]]), where Stalin ordered the Red Army to blockade certain regions and take grain by force. It is estimated that the famine of 1931-33 killed 6-7 million people, while 20 million starved.

The First Five-Year Plan was a program of crash-industrialization. After [[World War I]] and the Russian Civil War Russia had an industrial capacity equal to that of its 1861 capacity. The only way for Russia to be able to break the "capitalist encirclement," Stalin declared, was to industrialize. Brigades of shock workers were formed to work faster and harder than the world had ever seen. Most of this, however, was pure propaganda, although the shock workers did set the record for concrete poured in a single shift. Compared to the capitalist world which was experiencing the Great Depression, Soviet growth was impressive. Between 1929 and 1937, 8,000 factories were constructed, the average GDP growth was around 10%, and the official unemployment statistics, which included gulag detainees, was 0. In 1936, after the Second Five-Year Plan, Stalin declared socialism "built." Nevertheless, the capitalist world lived better than the Soviet Union, despite the Great Depression. [[John Scott]], an American CPUSA member and Comintern operative who was living in the Soviet Union during the Five Year Plans, notes this in his memoirs of that period ''Behind the Urals.'' The legacy of the Five Year Plans (most of which Stalin declared "completed" in 4 years) injured the Soviet's production models, because they encouraged quantity and speed over quality. However, the planning of the 1930s enabled the Russians to defeat the Nazis in the 1940s.<ref>Suvorov, Viktor. ''Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?// (Viking Press/Hamish Hamilton; 1990) ISBN 0241126223.</ref>

==Famine of 1933==
{{main|Holodomor}}
* "This famine was deliberately engineered by the regime of Joseph Stalin {{years since|1933}} years ago claimed millions of lives, mostly in [[Ukraine]] but also in some other parts of the [[Soviet Union]]. It is today considered one of the worst [[atrocities]] of the Soviet regime and a terrifying act of [[genocide]]. Even so, the famine of 1933 is relatively unknown. ... Estimates of how many people died in Stalin's engineered [[famine]] of 1933 vary. But they are staggering in their scale -- between seven and 11 million people."<ref>[http://www.ukemonde.com/news/rferl.html Stalin's Starvation of Ukraine – Seventy Years Later, World Still Largely Unaware Of Tragedy], By Askold Krushelnycky, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague, 8 April 2003.</ref>

Besides Ukraine, the Northern Caucasus, Volga Region and Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia were also affected.<ref>[https://www.philosophy.nsc.ru/sites/default/files/journals-old/humscience/2_98/15-MAL.HTM] (Russian)</ref><ref>http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2003/0101/analit02.php (Russian)</ref>

==Stalin's Terror==
[[Image:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|260px|right|thumb|Joseph Stalin]]
In 1934, Sergei Kirov was approached by Communist Party delegates to run against Stalin for Secretary General. This initiated Stalin's campaign to destroy the independence of the Communist Party along with all other Soviet groups that might provide independent centers of power. By the next Party Congress in 1939, 98% of its former delegates had been executed or sent to the Gulag.

Between 1936 and 1938, Joseph Stalin launched his purges to rid the Soviet Union of "fifth columnists," or spies who were loyal to the [[capitalist]] world. During the Terror 3 million people were arrested on various and often made-up charges, while 750,000 were executed. Due to the interrogation techniques of the NKVD (later, KGB), which often were torturous, most of those arrested confessed and were sent to work camps, called the [[Gulag]] for 10 years and sometimes even 25. Here, prisoners were forced to labor in mines, to log forests, or to do construction. Few lived through their sentences.

In early 1937, a senior officer of the OGPU (KGB) stumbled upon a highly classified file in the old archives of the Tsarist secret police, the Okhrana. It detailed the work of one J. V. Djugashvili as an informant and agent provocateur for the Okhrana inside the Bolshevik Party before the Russian Revolution. The OGPU officer, Stein, was shocked. Djugashvili was the true name of Stalin who was now purging the Old Bolsheviks on charges of being foreign spies and counter-revolutionaries.

Stein took the file to a close friend, the head of the OGPU in Ukraine, who went over it carefully with his trusted deputy, Zinovy Katsnelson, a cousin and close friend of Alexander Orlov. Convinced of its authenticity, they shared it with Jonah Yakir, commander of the Red Army in the Ukraine, and Stanislav Kossior, secretary of the Communist Party in the Ukraine. Alarmed by the file's revelations, Yakir flew to Moscow and revealed its contents to [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]], Supreme Commander of the Red Army. They brought his deputy, Yan Gamarnik, into their confidence and decided to overthrow Stalin in a coup d'état, denounce him and execute him.

As the coup plan was being developed, Katsnelson traveled to Paris and informed Orlov. The plot was foiled and Orlov's fate was sealed.

The infamous show trials of former leaders of the Soviet Union occurred during this period, where they were accused of working with Trotsky or sabotaging the Soviet Union. Stalin also eviscerated the high command of the Red Army, killing 90% of the leadership. The minions of oppression were not spared either; of the NKVD's 809 officials, 43 lived through the purges. The leadership of the communist party was persecuted as well. For example, in 1934 130 members of the 139-member Central Committee were arrested. The Terror forever made Russians afraid to speak out against the government, and also made sure that no one but Stalin could ever rule the Soviet Union as effectively. This also ensured that the Red Army could not fight effectively when Nazi Germany invaded the USSR during Operation Barbarossa.

==Censorship and propaganda policies==
{{Main|Atheism and historical revisionism}}

During Stalin's time in power, Stalin often altered various newspapers to push his agenda, and even edited out anyone who displeased him, which was most infamously evident with former NKVD head [[Nikolai Yezhov]] subsequent to his death in 1940 via execution, where a photograph of him walking with Stalin near the Moscow-Volga Canal had Yezhov airbrushed out. Ironically, after his death and Khrushchev's secret speech, Stalin himself would end up falling victim to the very same censorship policies he himself had used against his enemies, with footage of him in Soviet propaganda films depicting Lenin's rise to power often adding in a silhouette of a soldier conveniently placed in where Stalin was in the original footage.

==World War II==
To avoid war with [[Nazi Germany]], Stalin ordered the Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, [[Molotov]], to sign a non-aggression pact with [[Adolf Hitler]], named the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact]], on August 19, 1939. The treaty detailed the agreement to split up [[Poland]] between Germany and the Soviet Union, give Stalin the Baltic Republics of [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], and [[Estonia]], and to allow the Soviets to wage war on [[Finland]], a war that ended in a Soviet victory, but with large casualties. Part of the reason why Stalin arranged for the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was so he would use Nazi Germany and have them fight a prolonged front against France and Britain so as to weaken Europe enough to have Communism spread quickly through the continent, largely because he realized war would have benefitted Communism's spread better than peace. Both sides, however, knew that they would eventually engage in hostilities.<ref>Albert L. Weeks: Stalin`s Other War. Soviet Grand Strategy 1939-1941 Rowman & Littlefield, USA 2002 '''STALIN:''' ''"The question of war or peace has entered a critical phase for us. If we conclude a mutual assistance treaty with France and Great Britain, Germany will back off of Poland and seek a modus vivendi with the Western Powers. War would thus be prevented but future events could take a serious turn for the USSR.'' ''"If we accept Germany’s proposal to conclude with it a non-aggression pact, Germany will then attack Poland, and Europe will be thrown into serious acts of unrest and disorder. Under these circumstances, we will have many chances of remaining out of the conflict while being able to hope for our own timely entrance into war.'' ''"The experience of the past 20 years shows that in peacetime it is impossible to maintain a Communist movement throughout Europe that would be strong enough so that a Bolshevik party could seize power. A dictatorship by this party becomes possible only as a result of a big war. We are making our choice and it is clear. We must accept the German proposal and politely send the Anglo-French delegations back home. The first advantage we will get will be the destruction of Poland up to the very approaches to Warsaw, including [[Ukrainian Galicia]].'' ''"Germany has given us full leeway in the Baltic countries and has no objection to returning Bessarabia to the USSR. Germany is also prepared to yield by giving us a sphere of influence in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The question of Yugoslavia still remains open.'' ''"At the same time we must anticipate what will ensue from the destruction of Germany in war as well as from a German victory. If it is destroyed, the Sovietization of Germany follows inevitably and a Communist government will be established. We must not forget that a Sovietized Germany would face great danger if such Sovietization occurred after the defeat of Germany in a short war. England and France would be powerful enough to seize Berlin and destroy a Soviet Germany. We would not be able to come to the aid of our Bolshevik comrades in Germany.'' ''"Therefore, our task consists in helping Germany wage war for as long as possible with the aim that England and France would be in no condition to defeat a Sovietized Germany. While hewing to a policy of neutrality and while waiting for its hour to come, the USSR will lend aid to today’s Germany and supply it with raw materials and foodstuff. Of course, it follows that we will not allow such shipments to jeopardize our economy or weaken our armed might."'' ''"At the same time we must conduct active Communist propaganda especially as directed at the Anglo-French bloc and primarily in France. We must be prepared for the fact that in France in wartime the Communist Party there must abandon legal activities and go underground. We realize that such work will require an enormous sacrifice in lives. However, we have no doubts about our French comrades. Above all, their task will be to break up and demoralize the French army and police. If this preparatory work is completed in a satisfactory way, the security of Soviet Germany is assured. This will likewise ensure the Sovietization of France.'' ''"To realize these plans it is necessary that war last as long as possible and that all efforts should be made, whether in Western Europe or the Balkans, to see that this happens.'' ''"Let us look now at the second possibility – namely, that Germany becomes the victor. Some propose that this turn of events would present us with a serious danger. There is some truth in this notion. But it would be erroneous to believe that such a danger is as near and as great as they assume. If Germany achieves victory in the war, it will emerge from it in such a depleted state that to start a conflict with the USSR will take at least 10 years.'' ''"Germany’s main task would be then to keep watch on the defeated England and France to prevent their restoration. On the other hand, a victorious Germany would have at its disposal a large territory. Over the course of many years, Germany would be preoccupied with the exploitation of these territories and establishing in them the German order. Obviously, Germany would be too preoccupied to move against us.'' ''"There is still another factor that enhances our security. In the defeated France, the French Communist Party would be very strong. A Communist revolution would follow inevitably. We would exploit this in order to come to the aid of France and to win it over as an ally. Later these peoples who fell under the “protection” of a victorious Germany likewise would become our allies. We would have a large arena in which to develop the world revolution.'' ''Comrades! It is in the interests of the USSR, the Land of the Toilers, that war breaks out between the Reich and the capitalist Anglo-French bloc. Everything must be done so that the war lasts as long as possible in order that both sides become exhausted. Namely for this reason we must agree to the pact proposed by Germany and use it so that once this war is declared, it will last for a maximum amount of time. We must step up our propaganda within the combatant countries so that they are prepared for that time when the war ends."''</ref>
[[File:Sword of Stalingrad.jpg|400px|thumb|Stalin presented with the Sword of Stalingrad by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt during a ceremony at the [[Teheran Conference]]. The sword was specially forged and bejeweled by command of [[King George VI]].<ref>https://russianswords.com/the-sword-of-stalingrad/</ref>]]
It seems that Stalin anticipated this less than Hitler, who, in June 1941 invaded the Soviet Union with the largest land army ever assembled. It consisted of 170 divisions, or 3.5 million troops. Stalin was caught off guard, and the Nazis [[History_of_Ukraine#Nazi_colloboration:_1941-1945|blazed a path through the Ukraine]] picking up many collaborators. Reaching [[Moscow]] in European Russia in October 1941, the Nazis threatened Stalin and the entire Soviet Union with defeat. In only 6 months, the Nazis controlled one-third of the Soviet economy, a total of 5% of the Earth's surface. Hitler's troops were defeated at Moscow during the winter of 1941-42 after Stalin appointed [[Georgy Zhukov]] as commander of the Red Army. A spy in the German embassy in Tokyo, [[Richard Sorge]], informed Stalin that Japan was not going to attack [[Siberia]], freeing thousands of winter ski troops to move to Moscow to defeat the Nazis. It was during this time that Stalin famously invoked the name of [[God]] and allowed religious services to be conducted after 20-plus years of repression. Also, 1500 factories were evacuated and restored in Siberia and 12-15 million workers were moved east of the [[Urals]], where Soviet production was higher than Germany's in 1942, despite Germany holding some 50% of Soviet industry.

The Red Army went on the offensive after the defense of Moscow, but soon the Nazis gained the advantage and pushed to Stalingrad. More than one million troops fought on each side in urban combat. Hitler refused to allow surrender, and eventually the Nazis were encircled and routed. After turning the tide of war in Stalingrad, the 1943 [[Kursk]] tank battle was decisive in pushing the Nazis from European Russia. In two years, the Red Army pushed the Nazis all the way back to [[Berlin]]. Stalin used his control of Eastern Europe to extract concessions from [[President Roosevelt]] at Allied conferences, including control over the region. [[Winston Churchill]] warned against this very control, for he greatly feared Soviet hegemony in Europe. Victorious, Stalin named himself Generalissimo and became more popular than ever in the Soviet Union and more dangerous than ever to the capitalist world.

Over the course of World War II, around 26 million Russians died. Eight million were in the armed services and about 18 million were innocent civilians. The total number of 26 million reflects half of the worldwide losses of human life during World War II. The population did not recover until 1956. Many Soviet POWs, like famous writer [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], were sent to the Gulag after the war because they had fallen into German hands, and were accused of being spies. This swelled the prison camps by the thousands.

==Post-War Period and Death==
Similar to the 1930s, Stalin undertook a harsh campaign of industrialization, which hurt the Soviets as much as it helped them rebuild. Money was devalued to one-tenth of its previous value, 2 million German and Japanese POWs were forced to stay in the Soviet Union and rebuild the country, and 10% of investment from 1945-46 was from looted machinery. The crops produced by household plots were collected by the government to sell, and a famine in 1947 caused by drought and Soviet single-crop farming killed 2 million. The recovery was built on the Soviet subjects.
[[Image:Stalinfuneral.jpg|250px|right|thumb|''Right to left:'' Lavrenti Beria, Georgi Malenkov, Vassily Stalin, V.M. Molotov, Nikolai Bulganin]]
After World War II, Stalin's [[cult of personality]] emerged as the dominant force of Soviet life. He was credited as the savior of the Soviet Union and the architect of victory, though it was really General Zhukov who was responsible for most of this. The communist youth group, the [[Komsomol]], devoted songs to "the Father of All Nations" or "the Driver of the Locomotive of History." Party membership increased by one million people between 1945 and 1953. Books quoted Stalin as an expert in communism, while he was often photographed surrounded by children to make him seem friendlier. This all served to form a deep, personal connection with Stalin for many Soviets. Indeed, he was loved by the Soviets. Between 1949 and 1952 Stalin increasingly took vacations and met with the [[Politburo]] less and less.

The atheistic Stalin became increasingly paranoid as he grew older.<ref name="BBC Stalin"/> Beginning with the [[Doctor's Plot]], other members of the [[Politburo]] feared another round of murderous purges in which they themselves, family, and friends. and other innocents could be caught up in. They conspired to remove him by poisoning that induced a stroke. Ironically, his own megalomaniacal nature beforehand ensured no one dared try to check up on him, as his own guards feared checking up on him lest they be executed due to his leaving explicit orders to not disturb him in his room. Following the stroke on March 1, 1953, Stalin died on March 5 after a period of declining performance. On his deathbed, he also glared at the attendees with disgust and wordlessly pointed at each of them before eventually pointing at a wall, with Svetlana, his daughter, recalling this event, indicating this was the most haunting event she ever experienced.

When he died in 1953 an anxious mob at his viewing crushed and trampled some mourners to death. Dissidents like Sakharov, the man forced into a prison to build the Soviet atomic bomb, cried upon hearing that Stalin had died, despite their intense hatred of him. Despite his terror, he had convinced millions that he was their father. When he died a short power struggle ensued, one which led to the execution of KGB head [[Beria]] as a spy. Eventually [[Khrushchev]] became the General Secretary of the CPSU and denounced Stalin's repressive tactics, his purges, gulags, and his cult of personality in the [[Secret Speech]] at the 20th Party Congress of 1956. Gulags were dismantled and the political climate was slightly less tense, but Soviet oppression still continued. The period following Stalin's rule is called the "thaw," the start of life again after a long winter.

==Quotes==
* "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." ~ to Churchill, 1945.

* "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

* "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything"

* "The only real power comes out of a long rifle."

* "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."

* “Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.”

* [[C.S. Lewis]] wrote:
:Of all tyrannies, a [[tyranny]] sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most [[oppression|oppressive]]. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral [[busybody|busybodies]]. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own [[conscience]]. [http://www.tsowell.com/quotes.html]

* "The one aim of these [[banker|financiers]] is [[New World Order|world control]] by the creation of inextinguishable [[debt]]." - [[Henry Ford]]

* "Educate and inform the whole mass of [[citizen|the people]]... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our [[liberty]]." -- [[Thomas Jefferson]]

*“Quantity has a quality all its own.” - Joseph Stalin (Related to war armaments in WWII)

==See also==
* [[Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism]]
* [[Stalinism]]
* [[Darwin-Stalin connection]]
* [[List of dictators]]
* [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]]
* [[List of Communist States]]
* [[List of Socialist States]]
* [[Death toll of communism]]
* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]
*[[The Gulag Archipelago]]

==References==
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==Sources==

*Hosking, Geoffrey. ''The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

*Kotkin, Stephen. ''Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization.'' Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

*Scott, John. ''Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel''. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.

*Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]], 1918-1956''; an experiment in literary investigation'', Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney, Publisher New York, Harper & Row (1974–78), 1st Edition, pg. 67n.

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Monogamy

2024-01-31T20:04:00Z

Theocon:

'''Monogamy''' is an exclusive conjugal relationship between a man and a woman. [[Marriage]]s in Western culture are set up based on the concept of monogamy. [[Polygamy]], a "marriage" with multiple partners, occurred in ancient cultures, but has become less common over time.

In the [[Bible]], [[Solomon]] had 700 wives and 300 [[concubine]]s, but being from [[pagan]] lands, they tempted him to worship false gods, and this led to the dissolution of the holy Kingdom.<ref>[[1 Kings 1-11 (Translated)#Chapter 11|1 Kings Chapter 11 (Conservative Bible)]]</ref> By the time of [[Jesus]] and the writings of the [[New Testament]], being "the husband of one wife" was a requirement for an elder. Monogamy can be found in the animal kingdom, even among pack animals. [[Wolves]] and [[Fennec fox|fennec foxes]], for instance, mate for life in monogamous pairs.
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Amiga

2023-12-12T02:42:58Z

Theocon:

'''Amiga''' was a line of [[personal computer]]s created and developed by the Amiga Corporation. The Commodore Company was responsible for financing and distributing the Amiga computers throughout North America. Although famed for its multimedia capabilities, by 1994 the line declined sharply in its popularity (with its publishing company even going bankrupt that same year) and eventually was discontinued in 1996.<ref>https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/</ref> The company is best known by the Amiga 500 which was released in 1987. This model was the company's most popular product. For a short period of time, from the late 1980s to early 1990s, Amiga was one of the leading personal computer producers. However, they soon began to loose market share until they went out of business shortly after.<ref>https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/</ref>

== Operating system of Amiga computers ==

[[AmigaOS]] is the operating system for the Amiga line of personal computers. <ref>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/10/amiga-history-4-commodore-years/</ref> After Commodore's demise, other developers took control of the operating systems future, a role currently filled by Hyperion Entertainment.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.amiga.org Amiga.org - OS support forum]

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Amiga

2023-12-12T02:40:12Z

Theocon:

'''Amiga''' was a line of [[personal computer]]s created and developed by the Amiga Corporation. The Commodore Company was responsible for financing and distributing the Amiga computers throughout North America. Although famed for its multimedia capabilities, by 1994 the line declined sharply in its popularity (with its publishing company even going bankrupt that same year) and eventually was discontinued in 1996.<ref>https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/</ref> The company is best known by the Amiga 500 which was released in 1987. This model was the company's most popular product. For a period of almost ten years from late 1980 to early 1990, Amiga became one of the leading personal computer producers. However, they soon began to loose market share until they went out of business shortly after.<ref>https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/</ref>

== Operating system of Amiga computers ==

[[AmigaOS]] is the operating system for the Amiga line of personal computers. <ref>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/10/amiga-history-4-commodore-years/</ref> After Commodore's demise, other developers took control of the operating systems future, a role currently filled by Hyperion Entertainment.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.amiga.org Amiga.org - OS support forum]

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Mark Milley

2023-12-06T22:49:24Z

Theocon:

[[File:Milley.jpg|right|250|px|thumb|US Gen. Mark Milley]]
'''Mark Milley''' was the [[woke]] crypto-[[fascist]] puppet chairman of the Joint [[Chief of staff|Chiefs-of-Staff]].<ref>''Pron:'' Chief-Syco-Fant in the Pentagon.</ref> He was appointed Army chief of staff by [[President Obama]] in 2015 and served until late September 2023, overseeing the disastrous [[NATO]] defeats in [[Afghanistan]] and [[Ukraine]]. After the US and NATO humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, Milley was not fired or disciplined, and went on to engineer NATO and the US-backed [[Kyiv regime]]'s horrific battlefield losses in the [[Ukraine proxy war]]. Milley was roundly criticized for politicizing the military, spewing [[Democratic party]] talking points in sworn congressional testimony, and implementing [[Marxist]] policies in the U.S. armed forces.<ref>https://rumble.com/vk9jj1-milley-faces-criticism-after-claiming-hes-apolitical-despite-comments-in-re.html</ref> Milley is a proponent of [[scientific racism]].<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-its-not-critical-race-theory-its-racism</ref>

Milley asserted on July 21, less than a month before [[Afghanistan]] fell to [[Taliban]] terrorists:
{{cquote|The Afghan Security Forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country ....<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/08/15/woke-gen-mark-milley-in-july-afghan-security-forces-have-the-capacity-to-defend-their-country/</ref>}}
Over 220 retired Generals and Admirals called for Milley's immediate resignation over his incompetent performance of duties during the planning and disasterous operation of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/over-220-retired-admirals-and-generals-call-for-milley-and-austin-to-resign-immediately-over-afghanistan/</ref> Shortly thereafter, it was revealed Milley colluded with Democrat [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]]<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-milley-said-i-agree-pelosi-called-trump-crazy-book-2021-9</ref> in the [[coup]] against [[President Trump]].<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/09/14/new-reporting-shows-general-milley-engaged-in-a-coup-against-trump-n2595858</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/14/cnn-and-wapo-write-devastating-articles-outlining-general-mark-milley-as-leader-of-military-coup-against-president-trump/</ref>

Milley was a classmate of [[transgender]] activist Dr. [[Rachel Levine]] at the elite private Belmont Hill School for boys in [[Boston]] in the 1970s.<ref>https://nationalfile.com/white-rage-general-mark-milley-and-transgender-health-secretary-rachel-levine-played-football-together-in-high-school/</ref> The school has a reputation as an "all-boys [[Massachusetts]] prep school well known for its almost entirely [[homosexual]] student body".<ref>https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=belmont%20hill</ref> Levine was promoted to a four star Admiral, a rank equal to Milley, by socialist [[führer]] Joe Biden in 2022.

==Rape of Afghanistan==
:{{See also|Rape of Afghanistan}}
[[File:Taliban flag raising.PNG‎ |right|300px|thumb|Taliban mock U.S. flag raising at [[Iwo Jima]] in their victory over Mark Milley and America.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/taliban-mock-iwo-jima-flag-raising-pose-for-photos-with-their-trove-of-american-vehicles-weapons-equipment/</ref>]]
Milley testified before Congress on June 23, 2021 that the Taliban controlled about 81 districts in Afghanistan. Milley was asked about closing [[Bagram]] Airforce Base. Milley replied, “Bagram is not necessary, tactically or operationally for what we are going to try to do here with Afghanistan."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bpS8Zcic-U&t=4230s</ref> Less than a month later, on July 21, 2021 he told reporters the Taliban controlled half of Afghanistan’s 419 districts, or more than twice as many as before. According to media reporting, the Taliban also controlled large stretches of multiple major highways, and at least six international border crossings. Civilian casualties hit a record high in May and June, according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.<ref>https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2021-07-30qr.pdf</ref>

The U.S. military left the strategic Bagram Airfield in [[Afghanistan]] in the dead of night in early July 2021, leaving behind “thousands of civilian vehicles, including many that no longer had keys, and hundreds of armored military vehicles, such as Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs…”<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-left-behind-millions-of-things-at-key-base-2021-7</ref> There are reports of the seizure by the Taliban of a “massive boon” of U.S. weapons supplied to and now abandoned by U.S.-trained Afghani soldiers. “The Taliban now find themselves flush with American-supplied tools, without having to raise a single penny.”<ref>https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210814-weapon-seizures-massive-boon-for-taliban-as-cities-fall</ref>

Mark Milley told reporters at his July 21, 2021 press conference, “our drawdown continues in a safe and orderly manner.” He continued with the following excerpted statement:
{{quotebox-float|“The Afghan Security Forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country, and we will continue to support the Afghan Security Forces where necessary in accordance with the guidance from the president and the secretary of defense.

“The future of Afghanistan is squarely in the hands of the Afghan people, and there are a range of possible outcome[s] in Afghanistan. And I want to emphasize repeatedly, and I’ve said this before, a negative outcome, a Taliban automatic military takeover, is not a foregone conclusion. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and make adjustments as necessary.”<ref>https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/2702966/secretary-of-defense-austin-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-of-staff-gen-mille/</ref>}}
[[File:General Milley also knew.PNG|left|300px|thumb|"You guys left American citizens at the gate of the Kabul airport. Three empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. You and I talked on the phone. I told you where they were. Gave you their passport images... And you left them behind....General Milley also knew. Great job saving yourselves."<ref>https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2021-08/YonEmailToMajorRedacted.pdf</ref>]]
''[[Breitbart]]'' reported on August 16, 2021 that Milley told [[senator]]s on a briefing call that U.S. officials are expected to alter their earlier assessments about the pace of terrorist groups reconstituting in Afghanistan.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/16/gen-milley-warns-senators-terror-groups-will-come-back-faster/</ref>
{{quotebox-float|“Based on the evolving situation, officials now believe terror groups like [[al-Qaeda]] and others may be able to grow much faster than expected, according to the person, who had direct knowledge of the briefing but was not authorized to discuss the details of the call publicly and spoke to the [[AP]] on condition of anonymity.”

“The Biden administration officials on the call with senators—among them were Milley, Secretary of State [[Antony Blinken]] and Defense Secretary [[Lloyd Austin]]—said U.S. intelligence agencies are working on forming a new timeline based on the evolving threats, the person familiar with the matter said.”}}
During a press conference on August 18, 2021 at the [[Pentagon]] with Biden defense minister [[Lloyd Austin]], Milley was adamant when he proclaimed: “There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days.” Unfortunately, 23 U.S. Embassy staffers, all Americans, signed the July 13, 2021 cable sent to Antony Blinken warning of rapid territorial gains by the Taliban and the subsequent collapse of Afghan security forces, and offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and speed up an evacuation.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/19/yesterday-general-milley-claimed-no-one-saw-afghan-collapse-coming-today-cables-show-kabul-embassy-warning-of-collapse-in-july/</ref> At the same moment the White House was lashing out at the [[Taliban]] for violating their promise to allow safe passage for stranded Americans to the Kabul Airport,<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/stunning-woke-general-milley-claims-taliban-not-interfering-kabul-airport-white-house-lashes-taliban-interfering-airport/</ref> according to [[NPR]] Milley was telling reporters "the Taliban are facilitating the safe passage to the airport for American citizens. That is U.S. passport holders."<ref>https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1029004615/pentagon-issues-update-on-efforts-to-evacuate-thousands-from-afghanistan</ref> Sasha Ingber, a reporter for Newsy, wrote on Twitter. “We’ve had Americans get beaten throughout the night. One of them, an American woman, was beaten ‘twice’ even though she was carrying a U.S. passport. Yesterday @PentagonPresSec said Americans are not being impeded as they travel to the Kabul airport, no Americans harmed. The Taliban agreed to let them evacuate,” she continued. “What I am hearing suggests otherwise. Americans have been injured and stopped from boarding planes.”<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-some-americans-were-beaten-throughout-the-night-in-afghanistan-by-taliban-reporter-says</ref>

Milley and Austin and admitted that several US aircraft flew out of the country during the 2021 Rape of Afghanistan. They think they were flown to [[Russian Federation|Russian Federal Republics]] of [[Uzbekistan]] or [[Tajikistan]], but they were not sure. Austin and Milley had no idea how many aircraft were taken.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/biden-effect-us-lost-several-military-aircraft-flown-afghanistan-no-idea-many-lost-video/</ref>

Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent was among the private citizens working with private networks and the military to rescue stranded Americans. Yon said, "We had them out there waving their passport screaming, 'I'm American.' People were turned away from the gate by our own Army." Yon emailed an Army major whose team had tried to coordinate the rescue before abandoning it. "You guys left American citizens at the gate of the Kabul airport. Three empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. You and I talked on the phone. I told you where they were. Gave you their passport images. And my email and phone number. And you left them behind. General Milley also knew. Great job saving yourselves. Probably get a lot of medals."<ref>https://justthenews.com/government/security/were-americans-people-screaming-outside-gates-kabul-airport-turned-away</ref><ref>https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2021-08/YonEmailToMajorRedacted.pdf</ref>

===Drone killing===
[[File:Family of Biden murder victims.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Distraught family of Biden murder victims.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/09/10/kabul-strike-killed-us-aid-worker-and-family-not-isis-bombers/</ref>]]
To ameliorate the rage after the murder of 13 U.S. servicemen Biden went on national television and vowed revenge. In as tuff a talk as Biden could muster, Biden said, "We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay."<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/biden-set-speak-thursday-evening-202738463.html</ref> Within hours the executions began. [[Mainstream media]] reported a revenge killing for the alleged ISIS-K attack. The home of a family of 10, including 6 children, was struck in a drone strike.<ref>https://freedomjournalist.com/biden-regime-targets-isis-k-terrorists-in-missile-strike-kills-6-children-instead/</ref> CNN reported a brother of the one of those killed said that they weren’t ISIS but an “ordinary family....We are not ISIS or Daesh and this was a family home — where my brothers lived with their families."

A neighbor told the outlet, “All the neighbors tried to help and brought water to put out the fire and I saw that there were five or six people dead,” “The father of the family and another young boy and there were two children. They were dead. They were in pieces. There were [also] two wounded.”<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/30/reckless-abandonment-piers-morgan-joe-biden-after-drone-strike-reportedly-kills-9/</ref> [[Piers Morgan]] called out Biden’s “reckless abandonment” of Afghanistan after the drone strike killed 10 family members. “Horrific,” the former "''Good Morning Britain''" host tweeted to his millions of followers. “Yet more tragic casualties of President Biden’s woefully reckless abandonment of Afghanistan [and] the inevitable chaos [and] carnage that resulted from it.”

According to ''The New York Times'', Biden killed Zemari Ahmadi, a long-time worker for Nutrition and Education International, a [[California]]-based aid group, and 9 other members of his family. On the morning of the atrocity, Ahmadi’s boss called him at 8:45 a.m and asked him to pick up his laptop; Mr. Ahmadi left at around 9 a.m. in a white Toyota Corolla belonging to his employer. This is when surveillance began; An MQ-9 Reaper drone tracked Ahmadi around Kabul, as he picked up breakfast and went to his office; Around 2:30pm, Ahmadi began filling canisters with water, to distribute them as aid; Mr. Ahmadi commuted home around 4pm;
As he arrived home at 4:50pm, the U.S. drone fired a [[Hellfire missile]] at him, murdering him and his family members.

Shortly after the strike, U.S. military leaders insisted only ISIS combatants had been killed, and that a secondary explosion proved there were explosives in the vehicle. An on-the-ground investigation disproves any claims of a secondary explosion. Ahmadi’s relatives said 10 members of their family, including seven kids, were killed: Ahmadi and three of his children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 10; Mr. Ahmadi’s cousin Naser, 30; three of Romal’s children, Arwin, 7, Benyamin, 6, and Hayat, 2; and two 3-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/news/joe-biden-committed-a-war-crime-by-drone-striking-civilian-aid-worker-not-isis-evidence-reveals/</ref>

When questioned about the drone strike, Milley lied about it,<ref>https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1436438916148703235</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nyt-confirms-biden-murdered-innocent-family-kabul-drone-strike</ref> then admitted the US was entering an intelligence sharing agreement to target ISIS-K with the Taliban.<ref>https://www.commdiginews.com/world-news/middle-east/milley-dishonors-military-kills-ahmadi-family-in-kabul-empowers-new-terror-140130/</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/milley-us-coordination-with-taliban-on-strikes-possible/3252039/</ref>

==Deep state coup==
{{See also|Transition Integrity Project|U.S. Color Revolution}}
[[Deep State]] [[subversive]]s openly talked about military intervention in politics and presidential succession in August 2020.<ref>https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/08/12/john-nagl-and-paul-yingling-advocate-oath-breaking/</ref> ''Defense One'', which describes itself as "a portfolio brand of GovExec, whose market-leading services help contractors support government leaders and their missions," is in short one of numerous daily globalist newsletters for the [[administrative state]] and [[military-industrial complex]]. Thomas Crosbie of the Royal Danish Defence College’s Centre for Joint Operations wrote in ''Defense One'':
[[File:Levine Jean-Pierre.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Childhood sweetheart Adm. Dr. Rachel Levine posing with [[LGBT]] activist and Biden press secretary [[Karine Jean-Pierre]].]]
{{quotebox-float|"there are two competing visions of the military in the public sphere today. One is the orthodox view, steeped in the reassuring Huntingtonian principles of subordination and nonpartisan, apolitical professionalism. The other is the heterodox view — despised and scorned wherever it appears — that dispenses with the self-serving myth that the military (or indeed any million-person, trillion-dollar organization) can ever be apolitical. Nonpartisan, yes; professional, yes; but never apolitical.

The problem is that the first perspective cannot abide any debate on the role of the military in politics, since these thinkers believe there is no acceptable role. For them, any overt action by the military in the political arena is forbidden. For reasons that have never been clear to me, covert action by the military in the political arena — for example, community relations, industrial relations, congressional relations, or public relations — seems to be fine.

From the second perspective, the military has a gravitational effect on American political life, and so inaction is no less politically charged than action.

These two perspectives are not distributed equally. Only the first is taught at military colleges and debated in polite society. The second is '''hounded wherever it appears, dismissed as a form of crypto-fascism. From my perspective, however, the opposite is closer to the truth.'''

On one hand, the orthodox view to keep the military separate from politics has had a long-term corrosive effect, contributing to an ineffective, wasteful military that is never criticized or audited thoroughly enough, and must be left alone as an autonomous, honorable organization for so long as it forsakes any overt political behavior. On the other hand, that same view poses an immediate danger as it insists that the military roll over and accept whatever anti-democratic actions are undertaken by a president clearly intending to do what he can to break the Constitution.

The second perspective — that the military simply is not above or outside of the nation’s politics — demands that we call military silence and inaction by its name: in the worst scenarios, complicity in the shredding of the Constitution, comfort to the enemies of democracy, and facilitation of an authoritarian coup (not by the military itself, but rather the unlawful seizure of power by Trump).

In their open letter,<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/08/all-enemies-foreign-and-domestic-open-letter-gen-milley/167625/</ref> Nagl and Yingling were asking the general to act if and only if an authoritarian coup has already taken place — and to do so strictly in accordance with his personal oath to the Constitution. We see the ascendency of the first perspective in the vitriol poured upon their argument. These otherwise respected figures are vilified as advocating a military take-over and mocked for suggesting that a staff officer (especially the chairman, who has no direct command authority over any troops) should somehow be involved. It is as though the authors were channeling Othello’s Iago, a Spartan dog if ever there was one, in their advice to Milley: “follow him, to serve your turn upon him.”

Nagl and Yingling’s critics are right in describing such military intervention as unlawful and outrageous, but they err in labeling it a military take-over and are wrong in assuring the public it won’t be preferable to the alternative.

'''A forced transfer of power from Trump to someone else is not a traditional coup but rather a ''pronunciamento''. Although unknown in American history, the type of political transition does occur globally."''' <ref>https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/08/six-scenarios-military-intervention-after-january-20/167777/</ref>}}
After the staged insurrection by the [[FBI]] at the [[U.S. Capitol building]] on January 6, 2021,<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-finds-no-evidence-trump-153636457.html</ref> Milley had the incentive "to act if and only if an authoritarian coup has already taken place" that Crosbie spoke of, and colluded with Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the coup against President Trump. On January 8, 2021 Pelosi told House Democrats that she spoke with Milley to discuss President Trump and the nuclear codes.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/house-speaker-joint-chiefs-milley/index.html</ref>

==Leftist proclivities==
After becoming chairperson of the Joint Chiefs, Milley began implementing the [[revolution]]ary [[long march through the institutions]] advocated by [[Antonio Gramsci]] and [[Cultural_Marxism#Dutschke|Rudi Dutschke]]. [[President Donald Trump]] said of Milley, "Milley went to Congress and actually defended [[Critical Race Theory]] being shoved down the throats of our soldiers. This [[Marxist]], [[racist]] [[propaganda]] has no place in our Military—I banned these programs, now [[Biden]] and the [[Pentagon]] have resumed them. As soon as possible Congress must defund this racist indoctrination. General Milley ought to resign, and be replaced with someone who is actually willing to defend our Military from the [[Leftist]] [[Radical]]s who hate our Country and Flag."<ref>https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1410280462740819972</ref>

Milley is notable for a rather obtuse statement in a Congressional hearing: "I want to understand white rage. And I'm white."
[[File:Milley white rage.jpg|left|300px|thumb|[https://wacotrib.com/opinion/columnists/ramesh-ponnuru-stop-lauding-general-milley-s-evasions-on-critical-race-theory/article_65b43e3a-d9d3-11eb-88ae-838c55c874ae.html Source]]]
Milley said in a House Armed Services Committee hearing he is “widely read” in [[communist]] literature and, most notably, “I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military general officers are commissioned [and] noncommissioned officers of being ‘woke,’ or something else because we’re studying some theories that are out there. I’ve read [[Karl Marx]], I’ve read [[Lenin]], that doesn’t make me a communist. I want to understand white rage. And I'm white." Author Lee Smith noted that Milley was not asking the right questions:
{{quotebox-float|"Why are they mad we exported their jobs to [[PRC|China]]? Why are they mad we send their children to kill and die in strategically pointless foreign wars that advance only our interests? Why are they angry we denigrate their symbols and their monuments, their heroes, and their history? Why are they mad we destroyed their businesses and kept their children from going to school? Why are they mad we didn’t let them visit their loved ones in nursing homes and hospitals as they lay dying? Why are they mad we tell them they are [[racist]], and their country will be remade in the image of those we encourage to cross our borders illegally, and the [[criminal]]s we send to the streets to kill them? Why are they mad when we tell them that there is no place for them in the new country until they [[rectification|confess to the evil]] they have done?<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/americas-top-general-reads-marx-but-does-not-understand-how-its-destroying-america_3874251.html</ref>}}
Helen Raleigh of ''[[The Federalist]]'' asks,
{{quotebox-float|Here are some questions for Milley. How can American soldiers of different racial backgrounds fight side-by-side and entrust each other with their lives if their relationship is defined as oppressors and oppressed because of their skin color? How can you ask minority soldiers to defend this nation (and even make the ultimate sacrifice) if they have been told they are victims of this nation’s everlasting racism?<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/30/why-is-the-u-s-military-fighting-american-freedom-harder-than-foreign-threats/</ref>}}
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''Federalist'' Publisher Ben Domenech discussed Gen. Mark Milley and the increasingly politicized nature of the U.S. military:
{{quotebox-float|“General Milley’s record of achievements, such as they are, include episodes of profound blundering — a persistent misunderstanding of the national interest. And a dangerous willingness to politicize the army of the United States....Our armed forces remains a stronghold of brave patriots. But once you get that first star on, things change. Advancement becomes about subjective politics, not empirical outcomes. When your next job and your next promotion depend on a vote of the [[United States Senate]], their priorities become your own, and you start to resemble a [[senator]] more and more, and a general less and less....This is a group of leaders who are masters at political climate, media engagement, and spending trillions in your taxpayer dollars....They even get the praise of one useful media idiot after another, whose natural inclination is to ‘yes queen’ anyone who agrees with their woke ideology no matter how obvious it is that they fail at any measure of success at their actual job.”<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/29/domenech-americas-top-general-mark-milley-cloaks-his-leadership-failures-with-woke-politics/</ref>}}

==Quotes==
* ''"There should be no Russian who goes to sleep without wondering if they’re going to get their throat slit in the middle of the night."''<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20231205073555/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/04/ukraine-counteroffensive-us-planning-russia-war/</ref>

==See also==
*[[Atheism and obesity]]

==References==
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Homophobia

2023-11-26T15:09:27Z

Theocon:

{{Homosexuality}}
'''"Homophobia"''' is a politically motivated term with dubious meaning. It is a coinage modeled on terms such as "claustrophobia" and "hydrophobia" but unlike those terms "homophobia" has no basis in clinical psychology.<ref>http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/homophobia</ref> In response to the so-called "normalization" of homosexuality, pro-homosexual [[activist]]s attempted to stigmatize political opponents using a smear tactic to imply religious believers and others suffered from a "[[mental illness]]". The word caught on in academia, news media, and among Hollywood celebrities and is still used to imply [[discrimination]] against a person with a disability is perfectly legitimate and acceptable. Nowadays, the use of the term has become a defense mechanism for the left against any criticism of the homosexual agenda.

== Etymology and definition ==
The word homophobia comes from combining the Greek prefix ''homo-'', meaning "same", and suffix ''-phobia'', meaning "fear of". In its early usage, the term described heterosexual fears that others might think they were homosexual.<ref>http://www.narth.com/docs/creates.html</ref> The [[neologism]] was promoted by [[George Weinberg]], a homosexual activist and psychologist, who attempted to define it in clinical literature shortly before the downgrading of homosexuality as a mental illness by the [[American Psychiatric Association]] in 1973. Weinberg claimed it was "the dread of being in close quarters with homosexuals -- and in the case of homosexuals themselves, selfloathing."<ref>Plummer, David, ''One of the Boys: Masculinity, Homophobia, and Modern Manhood'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=xHGz4f_2_7IC&pg=PA3&ots=U8ktZZgnAk&dq=George+Weinberg+homophobia&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=d7hjCcZ1uuBlgdLyRjUJwEn51uA#PPA3,M1 pp. 3-4]: "'Homophobia was introduced into the clinical literature by George Weinberg in 1972, in ''Society and the Healthy Homosexual.''</ref> The term then entered common usage beginning with [[pornographic]] publications.<ref>Gregory M. Herek, Ph.D., published ''Beyond 'Homophobia': Thinking About Sexual Prejudice and Stigma in the Twenty-First Century,'' in the April, 2004, issue of Sexuality Research & Social Policy.</ref>

A study by University of Arkansas researchers concluded that the word ''homophobia'' is technically incorrect. Doctoral student Bunmi Olatunji, lead author of the study stated that homophobia is not actually a fear, and therefore it should not be "pathologized," or treated as a disease would be treated. The 138 participants in the 2001-2002 study, whose gender preferences were unknown to the researchers, were asked to complete a series of questionnaires and surveys. While some subjects displayed conservative sexual attitudes of elevated levels of disgust and dread of contamination toward homosexuals, the results showed a negative correlation between attitudes about homosexuals and measures of fear or anxiety.

The term's meaning has not been accepted or agreed upon within the psychological [[therapeutic]] community. William O'Donohue and Christine E. Caselles <ref>William O'Donohue and Christine E. Caselles, [http://www.springerlink.com/content/n0264m864t146585/ Homophobia: Conceptual, definitional, and value issues], Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, Volume 15, Number 3, Springer Netherlands, September, 1993. ISSN 0882-2689</ref> have concluded based upon research within the therapeutic community a clear understanding of the term has not been adequately evaluated and it is not clear whether the term can be accurately characterized. They have concluded, "the construct of homophobia, as it is usually used, makes an illegitimately pejorative evaluation of certain open and debatable value positions, much like the former disease construct of homosexuality."

Gregory M. Herek, a psychology professor at the University of California at Davis, and a recognized authority on prejudice against lesbians and homosexual men, credits psychologist George Weinberg with inventing the word homophobia in the late 1960s. However, the word "has a number of problems with it," said Herek, particularly because there is no basis for the "phobia" suffix in a clinical sense.

Connie Ress, a regional media manage at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation stated that she had no intention of dropping the use of the word due to semantical controversy, as she claimed discrimination against homosexuals and the need for laws to protect them was the real issue.<ref>No fear factor in 'homophobia,' by Keith Taylor, The Washington Blade</ref> At a minimum, its continued use stigmatizes people with disabilities.

==Application==
The term homophobia is primarily used by LGBT campaigners and their supporters, to disparage persons who in any way oppose homosexuality and its practices. Some claim that "it is intended to sound like a form of [[mental illness]]", but this does not describe its popular use or the definition of the word. According to the [[National Association for Research & Therapy on Homosexuality]] (NARTH), homosexual-rights advocate Gregory M. Herek, Ph.D. wrote that the term "homophobia" was useful in pushing forward the homosexual agenda in our culture.<ref>[http://www.narth.com/docs/creates.html Gay Psychologist Creates New Terms for Use in the Social Debate]</ref> "In his paper on homophobia, stigma, and sexual prejudice, Dr. Herek suggests that although the term "homophobia" was useful in pushing forward the gay agenda in our culture, the term may be too limited in its scope today."

For example, NARTH says,
<blockquote>
The term "homophobia" is often used inaccurately to describe any person who objects to homosexual behavior on either moral, psychological or medical grounds. Technically, however, the terms actually denotes a person who has a phobia—or irrational fear—of homosexuality. Principled disagreement, therefore, cannot be labeled "homophobia." <ref>[http://www.narth.com/menus/positionstatements.html NARTH Position Statements]</ref>
</blockquote>

The more recent, restrictively pejorative use of the term "homophobia" reflects upon the intents of the homosexual community to skew perceptions of them (versus their detractors) by manipulating the language used to describe them.

It was recently announced that the Associated Press has dropped the term "homophobia" from its Style Book and will no longer use that term in its news reports, noting that the use of the suffix "-phobia" (referring to an "irrational or uncontrollable fear") should not be used in political or social contexts in AP reports, including "homophobia" (and its derivative "homophobe").<ref>[http://americansfortruth.com/2012/12/04/ap-style-book-ends-use-of-smear-term-homophobia/ AP Style Book Ends Use of Smear Term ‘Homophobia’ in Political and Social Contexts]</ref>

=== Claims of Internalized homophobia ===
The therapeutic community is largely divided between proponents of "[[gay gene]]" theory who believe a person is born a homosexual and will always be a homosexual, and proponents of [[Reparative therapy]] who believe with sympathy and understanding a homosexual can be relieved of afflictions if they so desire. Gay gene advocates wish to inform homosexuals that their sexual orientation may be based in genetics, whereas restoration therapy advocates claim that it is to cruel to "brainwash" young people into believing there is no hope of ever leading a "heterosexual lifestyle".

Dr. [[Joseph Nicolosi]] reports homosexuality is a symptom of an underlying problem of [[gender identity]]. Nicolosi says,
:In the classic triadic family we have a sensitive boy who did not get the close, affirming relationship with his father that would have confirmed him in his gender identity, and a mother who is likely to be over-close and standing in the way between father and son. The father was not supportive enough in affirming, recognizing and reinforcing the boy's maleness.<ref name = "griefwork">[http://www.narth.com/docs/griefwork.html Clinical Issues: Grief Work], Interview: Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D.</ref>

Nicolosi adds many homosexual men admit that no matter how liberated they are, they always struggle, on some deeper level, with a sense of inferiority or self-loathing. Some therapists refer to this as [[internalized homophobia]]. Nicolosi attributes this feeling to an internal process, unrelated to social stigma, which precedes [[same-sex attraction]]s.<ref name = "griefwork"/>

=== Homophobia as an over-used term ===
The suffix "phobia" suggests an irrational fear,<ref>Psychologists do not recognize it as a phobia in any generally recognized publication like the DSM IV.</ref> but it is most often used as an attack term by [[homosexual rights|homosexual "rights"]] groups to suggest that opposition to homosexuality is "irrational" and "hateful".<ref>E.g., this site [http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_phob.htm] first defines homophobia as a dread or fear, but says that it includes those who write their Congressmen to oppose same-sex "marriage".</ref> Dr. Sander J. Breiner of NARTH has stated, "it would be very valuable for society in general, and therapists in particular, to have a clear picture of homophobia separated from all the other topics that have been lumped under that rubric." <ref>[http://www.narth.com/docs/coll-breiner.html HOMOPHOBIA: A Scientific Non-Political Definition], Dr. Sander J. Breiner, National Association for Research and Therapy on Homosexuality, 2003.</ref> Of the myriads of references to the term in popular and other sociologic publications Breiner observes, "There is no personal, internal, institutional, or cultural homophobia. The terms do not exist in the recognized scientific literature...There is only one homophobia, which has been properly defined," in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) <ref>[http://anxiety.psy.ohio-state.edu/phobia-d.htm Specific Phobia DSM-IV Criteria]</ref> developed by the American Psychiatric Association. Breiner, an advocate of [[Reparative therapy]], claims "There is no doubt that homophobia exists" as an irrational fear among both homosexuals and heterosexuals. In response, many Christians look to Bible verses such as, 2 Timothy 1:7: "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.<ref>[http://bible.cc/2_timothy/1-7.htm 2 Timothy 1:7]</ref>

Noted homosexual activist and pornographer Clinton Fein, in his article, “The Gay Agenda” stated, “Homophobic inclinations alone, even without any actions, should be criminal and punishable to the full extent of the law.”

Erik Holland, author of "The Nature of Homosexuality," perceives that homosexuals have become so reckless in labeling others homophobic that "anyone who questions their labeling someone a homophobe is called a homophobe himself. Even quoting factual statistics about the connection between homosexuality and AIDS is allegedly homophobic." In addition, according to pro-homosexual author Vernon A Wall, "even acceptance of homosexuality can be seen as a form of homophobia, because to talk about the acceptance of homosexuality is to imply that there is something about homosexuality that needs acceptance."<ref>http://www.homosexinfo.org/Homophobia/HomePage</ref>

===Term homophobia used as a political tactic ===
The term "homophobia" is sometimes associated with a theory that anybody who is hetero-normative, or disapproves of homosexual behaviors of any kind, or finds homosexuality distasteful, is secretly homosexual. This "repressed gay" theory has no scientific basis whatsoever. It is merely a means of psychological intimidation and mind control used in promoting the homosexual agenda. By this means a powerful stigma is attached to those who even conscientiously oppose homosexual practices, thus silencing many who might otherwise object to it. In relation to such oppression, psychologist Nicholas Cummings, former president of the American Psychological Association (APA), observed, "Homophobia as intimidation is one of the most pervasive techniques used to silence anyone who would disagree with the gay activist agenda." In addressing 100 fellow professionals, Cummings related that while writing "Destructive Trends in Mental Health" with psychologist Rogers Wright, a number of fellow psychologists who were invited to participate flatly turned them down, fearing loss of tenure, loss of promotion, and other forms of professional retaliation. "We were bombarded by horror stories," Dr. Cummings said. "Their greatest fear was of the gay lobby, which is very strong in the APA."<ref>[http://www.narth.com/docs/insiders.html Psychology Losing Scientific Credibility, Say APA Insiders]</ref>

While not all homosexuals agree with such tactics, it has been explicitly promoted by leaders in the LGBT movement. In what is widely regarded as the handbook for the homosexual agenda, Harvard trained marketing experts and social scientists Marshall Kirk (1957 - 2005) and Hunter Madsen advocated avoiding portraying homosexuals as aggressive challengers, but as "victims", while making those who opposed them as "evil persecutors". As a means of the latter, they promoted "jamming," in which Christians, traditionalists, or anyone else who opposes the homosexual agenda are publicly smeared. "In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be portrayed as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to adopt the role of protector ... The purpose of victim imagery is to make straights feel very uncomfortable," they suggested.

"Jam homo-hatred (i.e., disagreement with homosexual behaviors) by linking it to Nazi horror," was the strategy of Kirk and Madsen. "Associate all who oppose homosexuality with images of 'Klansmen demanding that gays be slaughtered,' 'hysterical backwoods preachers,' 'menacing punks,' and a 'tour of Nazi concentration camps where homosexuals were tortured and gassed.'" (In fact, they never were – see [[Homocaust myth]]). Thus, "propagandistic advertisement can depict homophobic and homohating bigots as crude loudmouths..."
<ref>http://www.leaderu.com/socialsciences/sellinghomosexuality.html http://www.article8.org/docs/gay_strategies/after_the_ball.htm</ref>

What is seen by some as Kirk and Madsen's most revealing admission is their statement, '''“[O]ur effect is achieved without reference to facts, logic, or proof.”''' "...the person's beliefs can be altered whether he is conscious of the attack or not"<ref>After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s, p. 152-153 (1989, Doubleday/Bantam)</ref>

Marshall Kirk died in 2005 at the age of 48. The cause of death has not been publicly revealed but is suspected to have been HIV-related.

Author Robert Bauman additionally records, "It makes no difference that the ads are lies . . . because we’re using them to ethically good effect, to counter negative stereotypes that are every bit as much lies, and far more wicked ones." <ref>The Gentleman from Maryland: The Conscience of a gay Conservative, by Robert Bauman, 1986, page 163.</ref>

There are increasing indications that pro-homosexual attempts at brainwashing have been highly effective, as assent to such an irrational perception by homosexuals, or assent to its deceptive tactics, is not confined to those within actual homosexual organizations, as [[mainstream media]] and academic publications often arbitrarily use the term to describe all those who oppose homosexuality, and its attendant practices. Recently, the government of Brazil relegated all who oppose homosexuality to being "homophobic".<ref>Brazilian Government Says 99% of Citizens Are "Homophobic" and Must Be Reeducated https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09021301.html</ref>

In an article titled, "First Things" (Aug/Sept. 1993), Professor Jerry Z. Muller described how the homosexual lobby has gained widespread acceptance in the educational realm.

[Their] strategy has been remarkably successful. With a rapidity largely attributable in large part to a total lack of articulate resistance, homosexual ideology has gained an unquestioned and uncontested legitimacy in American academic life. Within the academy, as within nonacademic elite culture, the definition of opposite to homosexuality as "homophobia - a definition which implies that it is impossible to give good reasons for the cultural disapproval of homosexuality - is the best evidence of the success of this strategy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cbfVg_1qhe0C&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&dq=David+W.+Virtue+scots+college&source=bl&ots=aDW7a615Gn&sig=Y1cLsx5sCQTgUUDJ88b5AKPRkNg&hl=en&ei=8skISpP1AcGktgfi2PzsCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPR14,M1 Homosexuality, by F. Earle Fox, David W. Virtue, p. 12]</ref>

The American College of Pediatricians, commenting on one prototypical pro-homosexual bias which indicts contrary views as "homophobic", stated that such a response is "scientifically improper and demonstrates an anti-heterosexual viewpoint."<ref>http://www.acpeds.org/index.cgi?cat=24&art=58&BISKIT=3443441086&CONTEXT=art</ref>

This has also resulted in extreme attempts to negate the Biblical injunctions against homoeroticism and to read it into the Bible, in seeking affirmation for the sin. See [[Homosexual misinterpretation]]

=== Fear of homophobia as a psychological condition ===
It may be speculated that the widespread response to labeling all who oppose homosexuals "homophobic" may itself be driven by an irrational fear of those who oppose them, in which homosexuals imagine that most or all of those who oppose them are motivated by irrational fears, and wish to do them harm, and from which type of people they must be especially protected. "Homophobia" has also been stated to be the real cause of AIDS<ref>"An essay on the origin and nature of homophobia," Scott Bidstrup (pro-homosexual activist)</ref> Such fears may explain the perception that "the nuclear family is a microcosm of the fascist state...",<ref>Socarides, A Freedom Too Far, 1995</ref> and similar attacks on ''heteronormativity''. It has also been claimed by preeminent pro-homosexual psychotherapist, John J. McNeill, that "Interiorized self-hatred is the sin of gay people, and we must learn to see it that way."

=== Violence against homosexuals===
[[Image:0-picture.jpg‎|thumbnail|180px|right|The eminent [[Pathology|pathologists]] [[Bernard Knight]] and [[Pekka Saukko]] stated that it is a fact that some of the most violent homicides seen by pathologists are among male homosexuals.<ref name="Knight's Forensic Pathology' 2004 page 428">Knight's Forensic Pathology',(3rd Ed) Saukko P. and B. Knight (2004) Arnold Publishers, London, page 428</ref>
 
 
See also: [[Homosexuality and Murders|Homosexuality and murders]] ]]
In 1990, Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act, which required the Attorney General to collect data about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin. In 1994, lawmakers amended the Hate Crime Statistics Act to include bias against persons with disabilities.<ref>Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Hate Crime Statistics 2005: About Hate Crime [http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/abouthc.htm]</ref>

In 2005, law enforcement agencies reported 1,171 hate crime offenses based on sexual-orientation bias, 348 of which are property crimes which includes theft and graffiti.<ref>U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Investigation, [http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/table4.htm Uniform Crime Reports], Offense Type by Bias Motivation, 2005 Table 4.</ref> While the FBI reports statistics by victim class or bias motivation, race, religion, sexual orientation and disability, the FBI does not report the sexual orientation of known offenders. Thus a conclusion that all offenders are heterosexual is faulty, and the methodology does not measure violence within the homosexual community. In all of 2004, there was one anti-homosexual murder in the United States, and the FBI has reported none since.<ref>U.S. Department of Justice — Federal Bureau of Investigation, [http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/tables/HateCrime2004.pdf Uniform Crime Reports], Offense Type by Bias Motivation, 2004 Table 4.</ref> Of greater concern among many is the higher risk and more frequent incidence of domestic abuse in same-sex partnerships than among the heterosexual population.<ref>[http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02 Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples]</ref>

While 818 bias-motivated crimes of persons against homosexuals were reported nationwide in 2004, an earlier study found 5046 incidences of homosexual domestic violence in only nine cities, all of which are crimes of persons. The subject of homosexual domestic violence has not been researched with anything near the thoroughness afforded to heterosexual domestic violence. However the uniformity of conclusions based upon varying sample sizes point to a prevalence ranging from 20%-35% of homosexual domestic partnerships,<ref>[http://ncavp.org/common/document_files/Reports/2001ncavpdvrpt.pdf Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Domestic Violence in 2001,] National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2002.</ref> with a study by the Canadian government showing gay domestic abuse as high as 82%.

==Resistance to the term==
Commenting on its psychological use, WorldNetDaily managing editor David Kupelian states,
<blockquote>This is how the "marketers of evil" work on all of us. They transform our attitudes by making us feel as though our "super uncomfortable" feelings toward embracing unnatural or corrupt behavior of whatever sort – a discomfort literally put into us by a loving God, for our protection – somehow represent ignorance or bigotry or weakness.<ref>[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48076 '''Brokeback Mountain': Rape of the Marlboro Man'', December 27, 2005]</ref>
</blockquote>

==Conclusions==
In effect, "homophobia" is a bogus term invented to suppress and eradicate all resistance to the normalization of homosexual behavior under any circumstances, or criticism of [[LGBT]] ideology, activism and the LGBT agenda.
It is being applied to an ever-wider range of things, such as resistance to increased political and social power of homosexuals in advancing their [[homosexual agenda|agenda]]. The term is used regularly by activists to describe several kinds of people, which may or may not match the actual definition of "fear of homosexuals and homosexuality". The recipients of the "homophobia" label include those who feel uncomfortable around homosexuals, those who reveal that they disagree with LGBT ideas and even those who may privately tolerate homosexuality but who fail to publicly support homosexuals when called upon to do so.<ref>pro homosexual author Vernon A Wall</ref>

==Term of Insult or Manipulation==
The word "homophobia", which is widely used as an insult, is an ideological tool of left-wing [[political correctness]] and effectively enforces censorship by smearing all dissenters from LGBT ideology with accusations of "mental illness" - "phobia". It goes hand in hand with the ploy of replacing moral terminology with accusations of "hatred".

The current usage of terms like "homophobic" and "homophobe" imply that all opposition to the LGBT agenda is crazy. Actually, there are many rational reasons that logically-thinking people remain hetero-normative, and unconvinced by LGBT ideology.

The term is closely linked with the slang expression "gay-bashing" and the two words are often used interchangeably as synonyms, strongly implying that anybody who will not capitulate to the LGBT ideology and accept all their arguments, is guilty of violent physical attacks on persons practicing homosexuality. By this casual association, hetero-normativity is denigrated and criminalized, while all logical debate is censored and silenced.

The term "homophobia" is increasingly applied to all hetero-normative discourse or moral criticism of [[homosexual]] behavior, implying that any such viewpoint is "irrational" (see [[phobia]]). Furthermore, the term has been adopted in law as an equivalent term to "racism" and is now being used to criminalize hetero-normativity as well as classifying it as a "mental disorder".

==Homophobia and AIDS==
The term "homophobia" gained currency during the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, when embattled LGBT campaigners were faced with the disaster of their own making. Unwilling to admit that the lethal disease was the result of their own behavior, they insisted that homosexuals were dying because of the ignorance and prejudice of heterosexuals, who were guilty of "homophobia". This argument gained traction in the mainstream media, where homosexuals and activists have a disproportionate influence.

==Distorted worldview==
The term "homophobia" is closely linked to efforts of LGBT activists to publicize and exaggerate any acts of aggression towards any homosexual by heterosexuals worldwide, past or present, which all come under the category of "homophobia". This is a distorted picture meant to draw attention away from the unwelcome facts that most violence against homosexuals is carried out by other homosexuals, and that by spreading the AIDS pandemic they are killing each other as well as causing a grave problem for the population at large.

To support their claims of "homophobia", homosexuals and activists frequently invent attacks, and make false reports about violence against homosexuals, past and present. Here is just one, incomplete, list of such hoaxes that have been exposed. More such examples can be found using internet search <ref>https://gaybullyingitisreal.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/how-homosexuals-fake-hate-crimes/</ref>

The LGBT myth of the "Homocaust" i.e. mass extermination of homosexuals under the Nazi regime in Germany, is an example of fake history invented to support the fake ideology of "homophobia". See [[Homocaust myth]].

==Extension to create transphobia==
The term "homophobia" is twinned with the coinage "transphobia" used to mean any doubt about, resistance to or criticism of [[gender confusion]] ideology.
The second term functions in the same way, smearing with accusations of mental illness, closing down scientific or rational debate, and when enshrined in law, criminalizing resistance to a fake ideology. The belief in "transphobia" is backed up by unconvincing evidence. It has been claimed that in 2016, a total of 23 gender-confused people were killed in the USA. However, even if we accept the figures at face value and accept that the motivation in every case was prejudice, this statistic is merely in line with the percentage of gender-confused people in the general population. It does not indicate any higher likelihood of being murdered.<ref>https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2017</ref>

==Christian view==
People who use the term "homophobia" are implying that it is impossible to "hate the sin and love the sinner", which is the duty of Christians. To refuse to applaud deplorable behavior or even to remain neutral is crudely labeled as "hatred". No one talks about opposition to alcoholism in terms of [[hatred]], because groups like [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] have popularized the view that drinking alcohol is addictive.

Conservative Christians and other people who regard homosexuality as sinful, harmful or abnormal, have coined the term [[heterophobia]] to describe those who manifest an antipathy to those who uphold hetero-normativity. While the term ''phobia'' is an irrational fear of something, nobody is afraid of homosexuals, and nobody fears contracting homosexuality. That is in contrast to heterophobia, the existence of which has been documented.

==See also==
*[[Persecution complex]]
*[[Opposition to homosexuality]]
*[[Homosexual agenda]]
*[[Gender identity disorder]]
*[[Gleichschaltung]]
*[[Political Correctness]]
*[[Atheism and the suppression of homosexuality]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Homosexuality]]
[[Category:Mental Health]]
[[Category:Homophobia]]

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

2023-10-06T12:37:32Z

Theocon:

'''''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich''''' (1962) is a short novel<ref>209 pages</ref> by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] which was one of the greatest to emerge from the [[communist]] [[Soviet Union]]. It extols the ability of the human will to triumph over the most inhumane conditions. When Solzhenitsyn won the [[Nobel Prize]] in Literature in 1970, the presentation speech highlighted both the novel's instant impact and how it established its author as "a major new writer."<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1970/ceremony-speech/</ref>

The novel, despite having plain anti-communist themes, was unanimously endorsed by the Soviet regime at the time and officially published by the Soviet "New World" (''Новый Мир'') magazine throughout the country in 1962.<ref>https://urokiistorii.ru/history_days/publikacija-odnogo-dnja-ivana-denisovicha</ref>

An excerpt from the book:
{{cquote|A man can live here, just like anywhere else. Know who croaks first? The guy who licks out bowls, puts his faith in the sick bay, or squeals to godfather [a snitch].<ref>https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/how-to-resist-marxism-according-to-solzhenitsyn</ref>}}
== References ==
{{reflist}}
[[category:novels]]

Essay:Greatest Conservative Novels

2023-07-22T10:30:59Z

Theocon: This novel is already listed in the essay of the worst Liberal Books. It is not a good nor "conservative" book, it promotes and encourages brutal violence against Blacks, Jews and the Russians.

[[Conservative]] novels exist, and some are immensely influential. Please read one of these, or add a new one that you like to our growing list, '''''or write your own!'''''

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Title
!Author
!Summary
!Genre
!Year Published
|-
|''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]
|[[Robert Louis Stevenson]]
|A fast-paced, brilliantly original tale about [[good]] and [[evil]], with multiple references to [[God]] and [[Satan]] as well as mockery of the [[media]] (an official's “eye lighted up with professional ambition. 'This will make a deal of noise,'” meaning publicity)
|Fiction in [[London]]
|1886
|-
|''[[Animal Farm]]''
|[[George Orwell]]
|A short story by [[George Orwell]], it describes a farm run by [[socialist]] animals. The animals rebel against its owners and set up a new farm under socialist ideas, though this idealistic future devolves into a dictatorship run by Napoleon the pig. Although it seems to be more pro-socialist, as the book goes on it begins to show the dangers and corruptness that arises through [[communism]]. It is based on the beginning of the Soviet Revolution, and every character represents either a prominent Soviet leader or a group of Russian citizens (Such as the elderly or workers).

Two film adaptations have been released: an animated film in 1954 and a live-action/puppet film in 1999.
|Political Satire
|1945
|-
|''[[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ]]''
|General [[Lew Wallace]]
|The bestselling [[American]] novel of the 19th century, it tells the story of [[redemption]] by a victim around the time of [[Christ]] who is the hero in an indirect way.
|Historical Fiction
|1880
|-
|''[[The Bostonians]]''
|[[Henry James]]
|A brilliant satire of the elite in [[Boston]] in the late 1800s, this book hurt the career of the magnificent writer Henry James because [[liberal]]s disliked both his mockery of them and his implicit criticism of the early [[feminist]] movement. James did not expect the politically motivated disdain for this classic, and it caused him to shift some of his time to writing plays.

A movie version was made in 1984, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, and Jessica Tandy.
|Political Fiction
|1886
|-
|''[[1984]] / Nineteen Eighty-Four''
|[[George Orwell]]
|Another classic book by Orwell, it focuses on a civilian living in a [[Socialist]] world. The earth is split into 3 Nations : Oceania (The Americas, Australia, South Africa, and England), Eurasia (All of Europe and Russia), and Eastasia (Japan, China, and other parts of South Asia). All 3 nations fight over the left over areas, like North Africa and the Middle East, which result in endless casualties. There is constant editing of history. People, places, and things are constantly erased or changed or added (similar to the acts of the Soviet Union). Words and thoughts are censored and use of them result in torture and death.
|Dystopian
|1949
|-
|''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]''
|[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]
|This novel about a [[communist]] prison camp describes the triumph of [[faith]] and perseverance over inhumanity and compliance with [[evil]].
|Political Fiction
|1962
|-
|''The Brothers Karamazov''
|[[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]]
|The book is about keeping your traditional values, such as love in God, in a quickly changing world.
|Philosophical Fiction
|1880
|-
|''Crime and Punishment''
|[[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]]
|A man must argue against his morality in this novel. The main character, a poor school drop-out, murders a corrupt pawnbroker and takes her cash. Although he knows murder and robbery is wrong, he uses the stolen cash to do good and help people. This is similar to the tale of Robin Hood, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.
|Philosophical Fiction
|1886
|-
|''Detransition, Baby''
|[[Torrey Peters]]
|Reese, an infertile woman, is forced to choose between her hedonistic, bohemian lifestyle and her lifelong desire for motherhood when a woman, Katrina, offers her the chance to adopt her new baby. As the title suggests, the book also features a gender-confused character, "Amy", who successful manages to "detransition" from the gender-confused lifestyle, adopting the male name Ames.
|Drama
|2021
|-
|''Advise and Consent''
|[[Allen Drury]]
|A gripping account of a confirmation battle in the [[U.S. Senate]] with an underlying criticism of how [[liberals]] think and act.
|Political Fiction
|1959
|-
|''[[Fahrenheit 451]]''
|Ray Bradbury
|The perils and harm caused by book-burning, a metaphor for [[censorship]].
|Science Fiction
|1953
|-
|''The First Circle''
|[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]
|The book follows "Zeks" , a group of intelligent scientists living in Soviet gulags forced to work for the Soviet Government ; they're forced to help improve a government that causes too much pain and suffering. The novel is about the moral struggle between keeping yourself alive and causing someone else more pain in the future or doing the right thing.
|Autobiographical Fiction
|1968
|-
|''The Moon is a Harsh Mistress''
|[[Robert Heinlein]]
|Set in a Lunar Colony created as a prison on the Moon in the year 2075, Heinlein tells the story of the revolution by the Moon colony and its criminal population against the authoritarian Earth (Similar to a Soviet Gulag revolting against the USSR). The novel seems to lean towards Libertarian beliefs.
|Science Fiction
|1966
|-
|''Double Star''
|[[Robert Heinlein]]
|Fate smiles on a skilled but extraordinarily vain, racist (OK: species-ist), and seemingly hopelessly character-flawed actor induced by chance casting to practice better behavior for long enough dimly to recognize the worth of doing so for its own sake - and duly grows into the role becoming, to his own amazement, a significant and inspiring historical figure.
|Science Fiction
|1956
|-
|''Starship Troopers''
|[[Robert Heinlein]]
|Human society had to rebuild itself after a war between [[Communist]] [[China]] and a [[Russia]]n, [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[America]]n alliance. As part of that rebuilding, mustered-out [[veteran]]s, returning to find their home cities in disorder, imposed an order of their own, leading to a society in which one has to earn the right to [[vote]] by serving the society by putting one's life at risk. A young man, a product of this society, joins a [[Marines]]-like space infantry to impress a female friend at his school, but makes a career of it and goes on to become an [[officer]] – as his society must fight a major [[war]] against a species of [[spider]]-like social [[insect]]s. A stark contrast between total communism and a society where those who would take part in running the state, must first risk their lives for the sake of the state.
|Science Fiction
|1959
|-
|''Lord of the Rings''
|[[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
|With about 150 Million copies sold, this book is said to be the best-selling novel of all time. The book touches on themes of corruptness through absolute power, Fate VS Free Will, and Death.
|Fantasy
|1954-1955
|-
|''The Man Who Was Thursday''
|[[G.K. Chesterton]]
|This book follows an English detective recruited to an Anti-Anarchist branch of Scotland Yard.
|Fantasy
|1908
|-
|''Darkness at Noon''
|[[Arthur Koestler]]
|The book is set in the year 1938 in the now Communist Russia. The main character, Nicholas Rubashov, stands trial during one of Josef Stalin's infamous Purges. A former Bolshevik leader, he is tried for treason against the nation he helped to change. Although the novel is based on true events, Koestler doesn't use names like "Stalin" or "The Soviet Union". The novel is about the dangers of communism, similar to "Animal Farm" , and tries to show the reader how corrupt the Soviet system is.
|Dystopian
|1940
|-
|''The Camp of the Saints''
|[[Jean Raspail]]
|Back on the Bestseller list, Le Camp Des Saints is a book that could be applied to modern day. Its about citizens from a third world country that mass immigrate to Europe and America and absolutely destroy the Western culture. The book has "Rouge States" , Countries that refuse to give in to pressure from others to accept immigrants. It can be applied to modern day with Muslims. Muslims come into countries (Germany, England, ECT.) and rape their once great culture and turn it into the hell that was their home countries.
|Speculative Fiction
|1973
|-
|''State of Fear''
|[[Michael Crichton]]
|Crichton's novel revolves around a terrorism plot by "Eco-Terrorists" to raise attention on Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change / Climate Disruption / Carbon Pollution. Even though the book is a work of dystopian fiction, it tries to get readers to think about both sides of the global warming debate. Critics and readers say this ruin the book's story.
|Dystopian
|2004
|-
|''The Red Badge of Courage''
|[[Stephen Crane]]
|About redemption, this book is about a Union Army Private during the United States Civil War. During a battle, he fled from the skirmish. Overcome by shame, he decides that he could redeem himself if he takes a bullet for his cause.
|Fiction
|1895
|-
|''Persepolis''
|Marjane Satrapi
|Graphic novel about a teen girl in [[Iran]] at the time of the 1979 [[Iranian Revolution]] who secretly gains a liking for Western culture and realises how corrupt her country's new [[Islamic extremist]] government is. The book portrays American values positively and the authoritarian regime of Iran negatively.
|Fiction
|1980
|-
|''Nuremberg: The Reckoning''
|[[William F. Buckley, Jr.]]
|Set during the 1945 Nazi War Crime trials in Nuremberg, Germany, a young German-American interpreter must listen and translate stories of the brutal treatment by National Socialist German Workers' Party members of Jews during the Holocaust. Being of German descent, he must deal with the shame he now has from his home country's acts.
|Historical Fiction
|2003
|-
|''Gilead''
|[[Marilynne Robinson]]
|Gilead is the autobiography of a fictional dying pastor from Iowa who writes about his life for his young son to read. The son, who wont have many memories of his father, develops a love for God and family through this diary-like book from his father.
|Fiction
|2004
|-
|''Rainbow Six''
|[[Tom Clancy]]
|About a counter-terrorist unit in several nations, it focuses on the unit as they deal with terrorist plots worldwide, similar to the G.I. Joe team but worldwide. The concept was so popular it has spawned a video game series, starting in 1998 and still continuing today, giving teenage gamers good morals.
|Techno-Thriller
|1998
|-
|''Red Storm Rising''
|[[Tom Clancy]]
|This book focuses on a Third World War between the forces of NATO And those of the Warsaw Pact. Surprisingly, the war never escalated to the point where nuclear warheads were used, but conventional guns and vehicles were used instead.
|Techno-Thriller
|1986
|-
|''The Bridges at Toko-Ri''
|[[James Michener]]
|About US Navy pilots during the Korean war, they must destroy bridges in enemy territory used by the Koreans to send supplies and soldiers to the front. The story was so popular it eventually spawned a movie of the same name in 1954.
|Fiction
|1953
|-
|''The Thin Red Line''
|[[James Jones]]
|
|War Story
|1962
|-
|''Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero''
|[[Henryk Sienkiewicz]]
|
|Historical Fiction
|1895
|-
|''The Day of the Jackal''
|[[Frederick Forsyth]]
|
|Spy Fiction
|1971
|-
|''Master and Commander''
|[[Patrick O'Brian]]
|
|Historical Fiction
|1969
|-
|''The Idiot''
|[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]
|
|Philosophical Fiction
|1868
|-
|''The Overton Window''
|[[Glenn Beck]]
|
|Fiction
|2010
|-
|''[[The Fountainhead]]''
|[[Ayn Rand]]
|
|Philosophical Fiction
|1943
|-
|''Little Women''
|[[Louisa May Alcott]]
|Jo March and her sisters come of age during the end of the Civil War, in which their father is fighting for the Union. The March sisters hold to conservative values taught by their mother despite pressure from their companions.
|Bildungsroman
|1868
|-
|''One Second After''
|William R. Forstchen
|
|Speculative Fiction
|2009
|-
|''[[The Screwtape Letters]]''
|[[C.S. Lewis]]
|C.S Lewis tells the story of Screwtape, a demon mentoring his "nephew" Wormwood and giving him advice on how to tempt Christians, revealing the weaknesses the Church must repair.
|Satire
|1942
|-
|''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe''
|[[C.S. Lewis]]
|Four children cross over from a wardrobe to a fantasy world called Narnia, where the heroic lion Aslan prepares a great battle against the White Witch, who wants to keep Narnia in an eternal winter. Contains many Christian allegories.
|Fantasy
|1984
|-
|''Dracula''
|[[Bram Stoker]]
|Abraham van Helsing is a Christian vampire slayer who does what he believes is right.
|Horror Fiction
|1897
|-
|''Frankenstein''
|[[Mary Shelley]]
|A condemnation of [[scientism]] and stark warning against the dangers and consequences of playing [[God]].
|Horror Fiction
|1818
|-
|''The Canterbury Tales''
|[[Geoffrey Chaucer]]
|It's about a pilgrimage, or quest for Christianity from the Christians' standpoint.
|Anthology
|1478
|-
|''Beowulf''
|Anonymous
|Depicts the ever going battle between good and evil with Christianity being the good.
|Poetry
|700-1000 A.D.
|-
|''The Jungle Book''
|[[Rudyard Kipling]]
|A boy named Mowgli is found orphaned in the Indian jungle and is raised by a pack of wolves, with Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear as his teachers. He also faces down Shere Khan, a crippled tiger who wants to kill and eat Mowgli after separating him from his parents. The book promotes friendship and family values, and misanthropy is frowned down upon.
|Children's Literature
|1894
|-
|''Maus''
|Art Spiegelman
|Portrays the sheer disgustingness of the German National Socialists from the viewpoint of a Holocaust survivor. In 2022 the book was banned by the McMinn County School Board in [[Tennessee]]<ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/22/01/26/tennessee-school-board-bans-holocaust-comic-maus-by-art-spiegelman.html Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as ‘Orwellian’ ]</ref>
|Autobiography/Biography
|1980
|-
|''Gone with the Wind''
|[[Margaret Mitchell]]
|Celebrates man-and-woman relationships as well as a strong heroic woman who is the antithesis of a modern feminist.
|Historical Fiction
|1936
|-
|''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' series
|[[A.A. Milne]]
|Winnie-the-Pooh and his toy friends, along with Christopher Robin, experience the innocence of childhood. A classic standing against the Liberals' attempts to ruin childhood.
|Children's Literature
|1924-1928
|-
|''[[A Christmas Carol]]''
|[[Charles Dickens]]
|A classic Christmas story about how Ebenezer Scrooge decides to give up his miserly ways and shows the dangers of hating Christmas in the end.
|Novella
|1843
|-
|''The Gift of the Magi''
|[[O Henry]]
|Heart warming story about a poor married couple who sacrifice their most cherished possessions to buy each other a Christmas gift.
|Fiction.
|1905
|-
|''The Monkey's Paw''
|[[W.W Jacobs]]
|Warns of the consequences of playing God.
|Horror
|1902
|-
|''The Railway Series''
|Rev. W. Awdry (1945–1946, 1948–1970, 1972) Christopher Awdry (1983–1996, 2007, 2011)
|Promotes friendship values and many of the anthropomorphic trains overcome hardships.
|Children's Literature
|1945–1946, 1948–1970, 1972, 1983–1996, 2007, 2011
|-
|''Of Sound Mind''
|Jean Farris
|It's about overcoming hardships as a high school senior named Theo is the only hearing member of an all deaf family. It also promotes friendship and family values.
|Realistic Fiction
|2001
|-
|''Painting the Black''
|Carl Deuker
|For the majority of this book, it promotes friendship values between a baseball playing high school senior named Ryan Ward and his best friend named Josh Daniels, who plays both football and baseball. After Josh grabs a girl by the bra at lunch, has a mocking article in the school newspaper, and attempts to sexually assault the girl who wrote it as revenge, Ryan doesn't want to rat him out but eventually does. The ending has a message about overcoming such hardships. The book can also be seen to show the dangers and consequences of [[anger]].
|Realistic Fiction/Sports Fiction
|1997
|-
|''[[The Divine Comedy]]''
|[[Dante]]
|Describes the dangers of wrongdoing, which could have you end up in the infamous Inferno (Hell) and the virtues of doing the right thing, which could have you end up in Heaven. It also talks about Purgatory.
|Epic Poetry
|1320
|-
|''Ferdinand the Bull''
|Munro Leaf
|This book is about a bull named Ferdinand who lives in Spain and prefers to stay under his favorite cork tree and smell flowers over fighting a matador in a bullring. It also inspired conservative leader [[Martin Luther King]]. In 1938, Walt Disney had created a cartoon about Ferdinand, and an animated movie about Ferdinand (created by Blue Sky Studios) was released after in 2017.
|Children's Literature
|1936
|-
|''[[Watership Down]]''
|[[Richard Adams]]
|This book tells of a band of British rabbits led by two brothers - clever leader Hazel and prophetic Fiver - as they journey to a new home when their old home is bulldozed. Once they reach their new home, they spend the novel building it up by recruiting more rabbits to join them, as well as fend off an attack from an aggressive neighboring warren.

While Richard Adams said that the book is more for entertainment and not an allegory, there are still some lessons to be learned in the story. The book promotes upholding traditions, though the rabbits are not afraid to break tradition once in a while to make their new home (for example, females do most of the digging for their babies, but the males that made it through the journey decide to dig in their place), thus showing that there is room for both conservative values and progressive values. Totalitarian rule is condemned in the form of the book's villain: General Woundwort, who rules Efrefa with an iron paw; he keeps his rabbits in seclusion in Efrefa to the point of them overcrowding and allows his council to rip the ears of another rabbit named Blackavar for trying to escape. Courage, loyalty, and fighting for one's home are shown in a positive light, an example being Bigwig (a friend of Hazel's and an officer in the "Owsla") helping his friends defend their new home and fighting Woundwort himself. Hazel and Fiver share a strong brotherhood; while they have their differences in ways of thinking (Hazel being more daring and Fiver being more cautious), they ultimately respect each other and care for each other, showing brotherhood in a good way. Finally, while there is some environmentalism in the book (though the humans are portrayed as mainly apathetic to the rabbits' lives, and Richard Adams had condemned urbanizing the countryside), it does show that humans can be good to rabbits, as seen when a girl named Lucy saves Hazel from her cat and releases him back into the wild.

An animated movie based on the book premiered in 1978, which (while portraying the same values as the book) is remembered for being pretty graphic and violent. A three-season animated TV series was released in 1999 and ended in 2001, being the most family-friendly of ''Watership Down'' adaptations. BBC released a CGI Netflix miniseries in 2018, which follows the book more than the 1978 film. A sequel to the book called ''Tales from Watership Down'' was published in 1996.
|Xenofiction
|1972
|-
|''Guardians of Ga'Hoole''
|Kathryn Lasky
|The series stars a world where owls dominate the world after humanity goes extinct and form their own kingdoms; a band of owls called the Guardians of Ga'Hoole is formed, knightly owls who rise each night to perform noble deeds, protect the innocent, and vanquish evil. The first several books tell of the story of Soren, a young barn owl shoved out of the nest by his older brother Kludd, as he and an elf owl named Gylfie escape their captors and join new friends in finding the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. His nephew Coryn (born to the traitorous Kludd and Nyra) gets his story in the last few books, where he goes from child soldier to kindly king of Ga'Hoole.

These books positively portray a battle of good versus evil (showing who is clearly good and who is clearly evil) and objective morality, as well as portraying family in a positive light. Betraying family is seen in a negative light, an example being where Kludd shoves Soren out of the nest to pass a Pure Ones test, brainwashes his baby sister, and very likely kills his parents. Racism is rightfully portrayed as negative, as the Pure Ones are barn owl supremacists who want all other species of owls to be servants to barn owls; they even show hypocrisy by treating other Tytos in their ranks (like sooty owls and masked owls) lower than barn owls. Faith and science are both important in the series, where owl authors have written in books how the gizzard is important to owls both physically and mentally; the more scientific spotted owl Otulissa even learns to respect others' way of thinking even if she doesn't agree.

The books have also gotten a field guide, a collection of stories, and a prequel called ''The Rise of a Legend'' (which tells the long story of a soldier-turned-teacher owl named Ezylryb who had served in the owl army). Spinoffs were also included like ''Wolves of the Beyond'', ''Horses of the Dawn'', and ''Bears of the Ice''. An animated movie called ''Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole'' was released in theatres in 2010, loosely based on the first three books of the series (''The Capture'', ''The Journey'', and ''The Rescue'').
|Xenofiction/Fantasy
|2003-2008
|-
|''The Alchemist ''
|Paulo Coelho
|This novel is ultimately an anti-victimhood moral. It's a story about having a dream, and the number one thing that keeps us from achieving greatness is not some oppressive force, (although there will be obstacles), it's instead one's fear that keeps one from ever trying.

Set at some undisclosed time somewhere in the middle east, a young shepherd boy has a dream. Of which he is convinced is a prophetic vision where he will find a hidden treasure in Egypt. The boy is visited by a mysterious traveler (who turns out to be a famous biblical character) who knows without being told, the boys vision, and at the cost of 10% of his flock will help him on his journey.

The boy has to decide if he is going to take a leap of faith and embark on a journey that is filled with life lessons, hardships, and mysteries. While in the end, all these things were just a part of an ordained destiny, or as he puts it, necessary steps towards his "Personal Legend". It's a wonder quick read, with a wonder biblical story type feel but has magical or "Alchemist" elements similar to "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" that makes it appealing to fantasy readers.

It's all the more powerful and inspiring when you read the Author's life story, and realize the story is true.
|Fiction
|1988
|-
|''Elephants Are Not Birds''
|Ashley St. Clair
|This children's book stars a young elephant child named Kevin who loves to sing, which prompts a vulture named Culture to trick him into believing that he was born a bird; the vulture even gives him some fake wings and a fake beak so that he can be one. Over the course of the book, however, Kevin comes to understand that he can't be a bird and decides to be happy as an elephant who loves to sing. The author confirms that this is an "unapologetic rebuke of the transgender acceptance and the growing number of young people identifying as trans", calling out the idea of creating many "genders" and confusing kids into becoming trans.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/26/conservative-publisher-brave-books-launches-with-anti-trans-childrens-book-elephants-are-not-birds-1109054/?fbclid=IwAR3t0e9Y3eF3itTGLec83eQxbOPg_BOrS5jD-6mhoI_5pR3m4BSM8xXCqIE</ref>
|Children's literature
|2021

|-
|''Johnny the Walrus''
|[[Matt Walsh]]
|Children's book about the harm of transgenderism, short and effective in its conservative messaging.
|Children's Fiction
|2021
|}

==Debatable whether Conservative==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Title
!Author
!Summary
!Genre
!Year Published
|-
|''[[Bambi]]''
|Felix Salten
|Even though it's anti-hunting, this novel featuring the life of a young European roe deer still promotes friendship and family values. An animated film by Walt Disney was released in 1942, changing the setting from Austria to Maine, USA, for a more familiar audience (and thus changing Bambi from a roe deer to a white-tailed deer).
|Children's Literature
|1923
|-
|''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' series
|Jeff Kinney
|Although these books are silly and don't necessarily portray friendship and family values in the most positive light, the main character, Greg Heffley and his family are Christians. Some of these books also have brief anti-public school and anti-environmentalist messages as well. Even though Greg Heffley can be a jerk sometimes, in some books, he overcomes certain hardships.
|Comedy
|2007-2017
|-
|''[[The Great Gatsby]]''
|[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]
|It's about living the [[American Dream]], but its stances on [[gambling]] seems to be rather mixed to positive. It also speaks against materialism, but seems to glorify Gatsby, the epitome of [[materialism]] and sexual immorality. He has an affair with Daisy despite her being married.
|Historical Fiction
|1925
|-
|''Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel''
|A.W. Jantha
|The first part of this novelization of the classic 1993 [[Halloween]] film ''Hocus Pocus'' contain the same conservative messages that the movie had portrayed: family and friendship, as well as resisting against evil. The sequel has Max and Allison's daughter Poppy witnessing the three Sanderson witch sisters rising up again after twenty-five years, and she must work with her friends and Thackery Binx's ghost to stop them from wreaking the destruction that her parents and aunt had helped stop. While the sequel contains most of the same conservative messages that the book before and the film portrayed, Poppy is shown to be homosexual by having a crush on a fellow girl after being friends for years.
|Young Adult Novel/Fantasy
|2018
|-
|''Hoot''
|Carl Hiaasen
|While it seems to be rather pro-environmentalism and anti-capitalism, it still shows three teenaged kids standing up for what they believe in, doing what they believe is right, and even standing up to a bully.
|Realistic Fiction
|2002
|-
|''[[The Lorax]]''
|[[Dr. Seuss]]
|While it has an environmentalist agenda, it also warns against monopolies.
|Children's Literature
|1971
|-
|''[[Lord of the Flies]]''
|William Golding
|During a fictional World War 3, a plane containing schoolboys crashes, leaving the boys left on a deserted island. They band together for survival and make their own society, which begins to crumble the more they stay on the island. Conservative lessons include responsibility and self-reliance, for the boys make a fire to signal for help and also hunt for enough food for them all. On the other hand, the ending has a rather negative message on how there is ultimately no redemption, only a perpetuation of sin and violence. Christ has the promise of redemption.
|Allegory
|1954
|-
|''Warriors''
|Erin Hunter
|''Warriors'' (or ''Warrior Cats'') is an ongoing book series about five colonies of feral cats called Clans living together and fighting for survival. The series starts with a house cat named Rusty leaving his owners to join one of these Clans, and later books star much more characters that include the descendants of Rusty - who eventually becomes Firestar - and even cats from before his era. The series itself has had eight six-book arcs, fifteen stand-alone books, four manga arcs and four stand-alone manga novels, five field guides, and twenty-one novellas.

The series starts out pretty neutral, one example being that while the Clans are staying separate, they can still come together to fight whatever threatens all the Clans, including Scourge and his BloodClan cats as well as the Dark Forest (the cat version of hell). Family is mostly portrayed positively, an example being Firestar agreeing to adopt his sister's firstborn kitten Cloudtail so that he can be a warrior like him. Totalitarianism is condemned through leaders like Brokenstar, who kills kittens during battle practice and forces his cats to constantly go to war.

However, more liberal elements show up in later books. Characters protest the use of borders, an example being Mistystar's decision to temporarily close RiverClan's borders and look after her own cats first being portrayed as negative (however, this is seen as not completely bad by some fans, who said that it could put an end to inbreeding in the Clans). Moral relativism is seen as good in a way, an example being the author portraying the murderous manipulator Mapleshade as sympathetic by making everyone around her even worse; there are, however, instances where a villain's tragic history doesn't excuse their evil actions (like Scourge, Firestar's half-brother who grows up from a bullied kitten to the vicious leader of BloodClan). ''The Raging Storm'' portrays an unsubtle jab at Donald Trump's 2016 slogan "Make America Great Again" by painting Tigerheart's line "Make ShadowClan great again" in a negative light. The series promotes a slight environmentalist message in glorifying the wild cats' harsh life while having the Clan cats look down on house cats (known to them as "kittypets") for preferring to be with loving humans over wild living; one of the rules in their warrior code tells warriors to reject the "soft life" of house cats, encouraging contempt towards them. Finally, witchcraft and feminism seem to be glorified in the later books in the form of the Sisters: a band of molly cats who banish year-old tomcats from their group and create a ceremony that allows them to call ghosts from beyond the grave; one molly even scoffs that all toms want to do is fight and that everyone is better off without them, and no one debunks this.
|Xenofiction/Fantasy
|2003-
|}

==See also==
*[[Essay:Greatest Conservative Non-fiction Books]]
*[[Essay: Worst Liberal Books]]
*[[Greatest Conservative Writers]]
*[https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2010/02/08/ten-great-conservative-novels/ Ten Great Conservative Novels according to ''National Review'']

[[Category:Essays about Conservatism]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Greatest Conservative Novels}}

MGTOW

2023-06-27T19:02:17Z

Theocon:

'''MGTOW''', or '''Men Going Their Own Way''' is an online group of people presented as a "men's rights" movement, but in actuality it is almost the same as [[feminism]] (a radical women's movement) in a way that they are against marriage, romantic or even long-term relationships between a man and a woman.<ref>http://www.returnofkings.com/91186/4-ways-to-stop-being-a-mgtow</ref> Their main issue for them to avoid marriage is because how family court in western countries became anti-men and favor wives in all ways.<ref>https://www.mgtow.tv/watch/what-happens-to-men-in-family-court_UJatntwCnpKk1Zv.html</ref> The movement has become very popular on the internet because of their awareness about hypergamy in relationships after the [[Sexual Revolution]].<ref>[http://shoebat.com/2020/08/26/mgtow-is-mainstream-because-the-struggle-is-real/ MGTOW Is Mainstream Because The Struggle Is Real]</ref> Though their message is supposedly [[anti-feminism|anti-feminist]], the end product of their actions, coupled with the actions of separatist feminists, would result in the complete annihilation of the family unit,<ref>https://rjastrachan.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/mgtow-radical-feminism-ruin-traditional-family-values/</ref><ref>https://biblicalgenderroles.com/2018/11/27/why-mgtow-is-an-unbiblical-philosophy/</ref> and a massive rise of [[homosexuality]].<ref>http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/04/22/mgtow-warns-women-by-supporting-gay-rights-youll-turn-more-men-gay-and-then-they-wont-marry-you-ha-ha/</ref> They're also known for their promotion of Sex dolls and Robots instead of marriage.<ref>[https://gunnerq.com/2019/01/30/mgtow-life-the-wages-of-sex-dolls/ MGTOW Life: The Wages of Sex Dolls]</ref>. In practice, remaining a feminist movement in denial, MGTOW activists are very oftenly involved in shaming of married or engaged men.

MGTOW are the opposite of ''[[incels]]'', or ''involuntary celibates''. Though they advocate against the symbiotic relationship between the sexes, MGTOW are not misanthropes, and no one identifying as MGTOW has ever committed murder or mass murder.<ref>https://mgtowliving.com/mgtow-vs-incel-men-going-their-own-way-vs-involuntarily-celibate/</ref>

==Values==
Many of their values are against Christian values, such as them supporting short-term relationships and promoting sex dolls. However they have some good values corresponding with conservative values:
* Increasing awareness on family court injustice against men.
* Increasing awareness on hypergamy in relationships after the [[Sexual Revolution]].
* Opposition to feminism.
* Encouraging men who are rejected by women to be successful at their jobs, study and increase their fitness.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0qSkLTzo-40rA-WvzjTHDg Will Men Go MGTOW ?], The Ukrainian Lens, youtube.com

[[Category:Gender]]

MGTOW

2023-06-27T18:59:42Z

Theocon:

'''MGTOW''', or '''Men Going Their Own Way''' is an online group of people presented as a "men's rights" movement, but in actuality it is almost the same as [[feminism]] (a radical women's movement) in a way that they are against marriage, romantic or even long-term relationships between a man and a woman.<ref>http://www.returnofkings.com/91186/4-ways-to-stop-being-a-mgtow</ref> Their main issue for them to avoid marriage is because how family court in western countries became anti-men and favor wives in all ways.<ref>https://www.mgtow.tv/watch/what-happens-to-men-in-family-court_UJatntwCnpKk1Zv.html</ref> The movement has become very popular on the internet because of their awareness about hypergamy in relationships after the [[Sexual Revolution]].<ref>[http://shoebat.com/2020/08/26/mgtow-is-mainstream-because-the-struggle-is-real/ MGTOW Is Mainstream Because The Struggle Is Real]</ref> Though their message is supposedly [[anti-feminism|anti-feminist]], the end product of their actions, coupled with the actions of separatist feminists, would result in the complete annihilation of the family unit,<ref>https://rjastrachan.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/mgtow-radical-feminism-ruin-traditional-family-values/</ref><ref>https://biblicalgenderroles.com/2018/11/27/why-mgtow-is-an-unbiblical-philosophy/</ref> and a massive rise of [[homosexuality]].<ref>http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/04/22/mgtow-warns-women-by-supporting-gay-rights-youll-turn-more-men-gay-and-then-they-wont-marry-you-ha-ha/</ref> They're also known for their promotion of Sex dolls and Robots instead of marriage.<ref>[https://gunnerq.com/2019/01/30/mgtow-life-the-wages-of-sex-dolls/ MGTOW Life: The Wages of Sex Dolls]</ref>. In practice, remaining a feminist movement in denial, MGTOW activists are very oftenly involved in shaming against married or engaged men.

MGTOW are the opposite of ''[[incels]]'', or ''involuntary celibates''. Though they advocate against the symbiotic relationship between the sexes, MGTOW are not misanthropes, and no one identifying as MGTOW has ever committed murder or mass murder.<ref>https://mgtowliving.com/mgtow-vs-incel-men-going-their-own-way-vs-involuntarily-celibate/</ref>

==Values==
Many of their values are against Christian values, such as them supporting short-term relationships and promoting sex dolls. However they have some good values corresponding with conservative values:
* Increasing awareness on family court injustice against men.
* Increasing awareness on hypergamy in relationships after the [[Sexual Revolution]].
* Opposition to feminism.
* Encouraging men who are rejected by women to be successful at their jobs, study and increase their fitness.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0qSkLTzo-40rA-WvzjTHDg Will Men Go MGTOW ?], The Ukrainian Lens, youtube.com

[[Category:Gender]]

Ho Chi Minh

2022-09-07T15:54:11Z

Theocon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Vietnam

{{Dictator bio
| image=[[File:Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam.jpg|200px]]
| name =Ho Chi Minh
| birth =19 May 1890, Nghe An Province, French Indochina
| parents =Nguyen Sinh Sac (father)
| religion =Unknown<ref>Available sources attribute either traditional Vietnamese folk religion or atheism to Ho Chi Minh</ref>
| education =Educated in France
| spouse =[[Tang Tuyet Minh]]
| children =None
| death =3 September 1969 (aged 79), in Hanoi
| deathmanner =Heart failure
| burial =Buried in Hanoi with honors
| country =[[Vietnam]]
| military =Led military as commander in chief during wars with France and US
| rank =N/A
| polbeliefs =Communist
| party =Vietnam Workers Party
| dictatordate =Served as President from 2 September 1945 – 3 September 1969
| war =Invasions of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia; [[Vietnam War]]
| deathnumber =100,000+
}}

'''Ho Chi Minh''', born on May 19, 1890 as Nguyen Tat Thanh, was a [[Vietnam]]ese revolutionary and communist dictator who imposed socialist authoritarian rule on North [[Vietnam]], dashing any hopes of it becoming a [[Democracy|democratic]] [[country]]. He was [[prime minister]] of the Viet Minh, a [[Communist]] proto-state, from 1945 to 1955. The Viet Minh became the government of North Vietnam in 1954. Ho became president in 1955 and held this position until [[death]] on September 2, 1969. Ho was more a figurehead than a leader. Although Le Duan, the [[political party|party boss]], maintained a lower profile, he was a more powerful leader. "Ho" is a surname while "Chi Minh" means "the one who brings light." [[Vietnamese]] generally call him ''Bác Hồ'' (Uncle Ho). This phrase was coined in imitation of "Uncle Joe," one of [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]'s nicknames. Official [[propaganda]] stresses that Ho was celibate and dedicated only to welfare of the nation. Few Vietnamese are aware that he was married to [[Tang Tuyet Minh]], a [[Chinese]] [[Catholic]] who lived in [[Guangzhou]]. After the [[Vietnam War]] ended in 1975, [[Saigon]] was renamed [[Ho Chi Minh City]].

==Life and career ==
Nguyen Tat Thanh left Vietnam at the age of 20. He traveled to [[London]], [[New York]] and [[Paris]] and took different jobs (among others: worked as a [[ship]] steward, gardener, cook in a restaurant). While working on a ship he used name Nguyen Van Ba, then he returned to his original name.

In 1919 he joined the [[French]] [[Socialist Party]] and in 1920, after the [[party]] fell apart, he become a member of the French [[Communist Party]]. He became an expert in [[colonialism]] issues. In 1922 he was delegated to [[Moscow]], where he studied the [[doctrine]] and techniques of Communism.
In 1925 he was sent to [[China]], officially as a staff member of the [[Soviet]] Consulate in [[Canton]], in fact as a [[Comintern]] agent. Then he became the Director of the Comintern Office in [[Shanghai]]. Since then, until the start of the [[Second World War]] he traveled a lot over [[Asia]].

* Ho throughout his life was a dedicated [[Communist international]]ist. In 1938 Ho went from [[Moscow]] to Moa's side at [[Yenan]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NJcolGHWfzoC&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq=chi+minh%2Bmao%2Byenan&source=bl&ots=MqYmygssrY&sig=HuS7BoXeptzMYrD_EJfYeEaZTMk&hl=en&ei=cVHDTY7UA5CPsgav0qneAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=chi%20minh%2Bmao%2Byenan&f=false [[OSS]] in China: prelude to Cold War], By Maochun Yu.</ref><ref>http://www.oldwardogs.us/2006/12/understanding_r.html</ref>
* Ho Chi Minh was a [[Nationalism|nationalist]] in the sense that he had a special affection for Vietnam's people and favored Vietnamese unification and independence, but, from his reading of [[Lenin]]’s Theses onward, he firmly adhered to the [[Leninist]] principle that Communist [[nation]]s should subordinate their interests to those of the international Communist movement.<ref>http://www.triumphforsaken.com/index.php?pr=Excerpt</ref>
*Because of Ho Chi Minh drafting a Declaration of Independence that specifically referenced the American revolution, liberals (including most infamously Barack Obama) thought Ho Chi Minh was inspired by Thomas Jefferson, even though many stuff in Minh's declaration had stark differences from Jefferson's ideas (namely, placing more emphasis on the nation than on individual men), as well as faking admiration specifically to trick Americans into supporting his cause,<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2013/07/obama-ho-chi-minh-comment-echoes-kgb-disinformation/</ref> falling in line with the Communist use of [[deceit]] to fool the public into believing the opposite of the Communists' true intentions.

==External links==
{{Language box
|vie=Hồ Chí Minh
}}
*[http://www.triumphforsaken.com/ Triumph Foresaken] - history book by [[Mike Moyar]] which disproves most of the liberal propaganda about Ho.
*[http://www.vietquoc.com Viet Quoc]- The website of the Vietnamese Nationalist Party.
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/hochiminh.html The Blood-Red Hands of Ho Chi Minh], Vietcong mass murder in South Vietnam
*[http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP6.HTM Statistics Of Vietnamese Democide: Estimates, Calculations, And Sources]
*[http://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam_landreform-20060608.html The North Vietnamese Terror] "More than 172,000 people died during the North Vietnam land reform campaign after being classified as landowners and wealthy farmers, official records of the time show. But official figures leave out summary executions of those accused of membership of the National People’s Party, however. Unofficial estimates of those killed by Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam Labor Party, which later become the Vietnamese Communist Party, range from 200,000 to 900,000. ...“The land reform campaign was a crime of genocide like that of [[Pol Pot]],” Hao said."
*[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,839103,00.html "The Massacre of Hue", Time Magazine, 1969] South Vietnamese skulls stacked on top of one another in dozens of mass graves reveal a gruesome slaughter of thousands by the Vietcong.
*[http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/239/2390710003A.pdf "The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam,"] US Government Report estimates that at least half a million were killed in the north and that up to one million will be killed in the south following the Communist victory. See the rest [http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/239/2390710003B.pdf here],[http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/239/2390710003C.pdf here], and [http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/239/2390710003D.pdf here]. Communist Lt. Col. Chuyen states that 5 million South Vietnamese are targets for persecution and that about 500,000 will be killed--which is almost exactly what happened. When asked if fears of a bloodbath are exaggerated, he says "they could not be exaggerated. It will happen." It ''did'' happen.
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/landreform.html Ho Chi Minh’s Land Reform: Mistake or Crime?] Lam Thanh Liem, a major authority on land issues in Vietnam, concludes that the communists perpetrated a huge bloodbath and that the death toll was in the hundreds of thousands.
*[http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/232/2322203025.pdf The Vietnamese Gulag] Chilling reports of the utter despair and mass suicides that followed Communist victory in South Vietnam.
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/toai.pdf In Vietnam's Gulag, the Captives Die a Slow Death]
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/boatpeople1.pdf "Hanoi Regime Resolved to Oust Nearly All Ethnic Chinese"]
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/boatpeople3.pdf Nightmare at Sea Haunts Refugee Who Survived] Communist ethnic cleansing and forced expulsions literally drove millions into the sea, where hundreds of thousands died.
*[http://dartcenter.org/content/camp-z30-d-survivors Camp Survivors] At least a million South Vietnamese were sent to concentration camps, with at least 165,000 never being seen again.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030215155233/http://www.laohumrights.org/laowht02.html Genocide in Laos] The Vietnamese and Laotian Communists waged a genocidal war against the Hmong tribesmen, with 100–300,000 dead.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaLwFvhWdZE Ho Chi Minh The Man and The Myth Documentation on YouTube]

==References==
<references/>

{{Communism}}

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Ho Chi Minh

2022-09-07T15:52:07Z

Theocon:

{{Dictator bio
| image=[[File:Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam.jpg|200px]]
| name =Ho Chi Minh
| birth =19 May 1890, Nghe An Province, French Indochina
| parents =Nguyen Sinh Sac (father)
| religion =Unknown<ref>Available sources attribute either traditional Vietnamese folk religion or atheism to Ho Chi Minh</ref>
| education =Educated in France
| spouse =[[Tang Tuyet Minh]]
| children =None
| death =3 September 1969 (aged 79), in Hanoi
| deathmanner =Heart failure
| burial =Buried in Hanoi with honors
| country =[[Vietnam]]
| military =Led military as commander in chief during wars with France and US
| rank =N/A
| polbeliefs =Communist
| party =Vietnam Workers Party
| dictatordate =Served as President from 2 September 1945 – 3 September 1969
| war =Invasions of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia; [[Vietnam War]]
| deathnumber =100,000+
}}

'''Ho Chi Minh''', born on May 19, 1890 as Nguyen Tat Thanh, was a [[Vietnam]]ese revolutionary and communist dictator who imposed one-party rule on North [[Vietnam]], dashing any hopes of it becoming a [[Democracy|democratic]] [[country]]. He was [[prime minister]] of the Viet Minh, a [[Communist]] proto-state, from 1945 to 1955. The Viet Minh became the government of North Vietnam in 1954. Ho became president in 1955 and held this position until [[death]] on September 2, 1969. Ho was more a figurehead than a leader. Although Le Duan, the [[political party|party boss]], maintained a lower profile, he was a more powerful leader. "Ho" is a surname while "Chi Minh" means "the one who brings light." [[Vietnamese]] generally call him ''Bác Hồ'' (Uncle Ho). This phrase was coined in imitation of "Uncle Joe," one of [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]'s nicknames. Official [[propaganda]] stresses that Ho was celibate and dedicated only to welfare of the nation. Few Vietnamese are aware that he was married to [[Tang Tuyet Minh]], a [[Chinese]] [[Catholic]] who lived in [[Guangzhou]]. After the [[Vietnam War]] ended in 1975, [[Saigon]] was renamed [[Ho Chi Minh City]].

==Life and career ==
Nguyen Tat Thanh left Vietnam at the age of 20. He traveled to [[London]], [[New York]] and [[Paris]] and took different jobs (among others: worked as a [[ship]] steward, gardener, cook in a restaurant). While working on a ship he used name Nguyen Van Ba, then he returned to his original name.

In 1919 he joined the [[French]] [[Socialist Party]] and in 1920, after the [[party]] fell apart, he become a member of the French [[Communist Party]]. He became an expert in [[colonialism]] issues. In 1922 he was delegated to [[Moscow]], where he studied the [[doctrine]] and techniques of Communism.
In 1925 he was sent to [[China]], officially as a staff member of the [[Soviet]] Consulate in [[Canton]], in fact as a [[Comintern]] agent. Then he became the Director of the Comintern Office in [[Shanghai]]. Since then, until the start of the [[Second World War]] he traveled a lot over [[Asia]].

* Ho throughout his life was a dedicated [[Communist international]]ist. In 1938 Ho went from [[Moscow]] to Moa's side at [[Yenan]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NJcolGHWfzoC&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq=chi+minh%2Bmao%2Byenan&source=bl&ots=MqYmygssrY&sig=HuS7BoXeptzMYrD_EJfYeEaZTMk&hl=en&ei=cVHDTY7UA5CPsgav0qneAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=chi%20minh%2Bmao%2Byenan&f=false [[OSS]] in China: prelude to Cold War], By Maochun Yu.</ref><ref>http://www.oldwardogs.us/2006/12/understanding_r.html</ref>
* Ho Chi Minh was a [[Nationalism|nationalist]] in the sense that he had a special affection for Vietnam's people and favored Vietnamese unification and independence, but, from his reading of [[Lenin]]’s Theses onward, he firmly adhered to the [[Leninist]] principle that Communist [[nation]]s should subordinate their interests to those of the international Communist movement.<ref>http://www.triumphforsaken.com/index.php?pr=Excerpt</ref>
*Because of Ho Chi Minh drafting a Declaration of Independence that specifically referenced the American revolution, liberals (including most infamously Barack Obama) thought Ho Chi Minh was inspired by Thomas Jefferson, even though many stuff in Minh's declaration had stark differences from Jefferson's ideas (namely, placing more emphasis on the nation than on individual men), as well as faking admiration specifically to trick Americans into supporting his cause,<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2013/07/obama-ho-chi-minh-comment-echoes-kgb-disinformation/</ref> falling in line with the Communist use of [[deceit]] to fool the public into believing the opposite of the Communists' true intentions.

==External links==
{{Language box
|vie=Hồ Chí Minh
}}
*[http://www.triumphforsaken.com/ Triumph Foresaken] - history book by [[Mike Moyar]] which disproves most of the liberal propaganda about Ho.
*[http://www.vietquoc.com Viet Quoc]- The website of the Vietnamese Nationalist Party.
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/hochiminh.html The Blood-Red Hands of Ho Chi Minh], Vietcong mass murder in South Vietnam
*[http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP6.HTM Statistics Of Vietnamese Democide: Estimates, Calculations, And Sources]
*[http://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam_landreform-20060608.html The North Vietnamese Terror] "More than 172,000 people died during the North Vietnam land reform campaign after being classified as landowners and wealthy farmers, official records of the time show. But official figures leave out summary executions of those accused of membership of the National People’s Party, however. Unofficial estimates of those killed by Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam Labor Party, which later become the Vietnamese Communist Party, range from 200,000 to 900,000. ...“The land reform campaign was a crime of genocide like that of [[Pol Pot]],” Hao said."
*[http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,839103,00.html "The Massacre of Hue", Time Magazine, 1969] South Vietnamese skulls stacked on top of one another in dozens of mass graves reveal a gruesome slaughter of thousands by the Vietcong.
*[http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/239/2390710003A.pdf "The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam,"] US Government Report estimates that at least half a million were killed in the north and that up to one million will be killed in the south following the Communist victory. See the rest [http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/239/2390710003B.pdf here],[http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/239/2390710003C.pdf here], and [http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/239/2390710003D.pdf here]. Communist Lt. Col. Chuyen states that 5 million South Vietnamese are targets for persecution and that about 500,000 will be killed--which is almost exactly what happened. When asked if fears of a bloodbath are exaggerated, he says "they could not be exaggerated. It will happen." It ''did'' happen.
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/landreform.html Ho Chi Minh’s Land Reform: Mistake or Crime?] Lam Thanh Liem, a major authority on land issues in Vietnam, concludes that the communists perpetrated a huge bloodbath and that the death toll was in the hundreds of thousands.
*[http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/232/2322203025.pdf The Vietnamese Gulag] Chilling reports of the utter despair and mass suicides that followed Communist victory in South Vietnam.
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/toai.pdf In Vietnam's Gulag, the Captives Die a Slow Death]
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/boatpeople1.pdf "Hanoi Regime Resolved to Oust Nearly All Ethnic Chinese"]
*[http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/vietnam/boatpeople3.pdf Nightmare at Sea Haunts Refugee Who Survived] Communist ethnic cleansing and forced expulsions literally drove millions into the sea, where hundreds of thousands died.
*[http://dartcenter.org/content/camp-z30-d-survivors Camp Survivors] At least a million South Vietnamese were sent to concentration camps, with at least 165,000 never being seen again.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030215155233/http://www.laohumrights.org/laowht02.html Genocide in Laos] The Vietnamese and Laotian Communists waged a genocidal war against the Hmong tribesmen, with 100–300,000 dead.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaLwFvhWdZE Ho Chi Minh The Man and The Myth Documentation on YouTube]

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{{AmericanPoliticalParty
| party_name=Democratic Party
| party_articletitle = Democratic Party (United States)
| party_logo = [[Image:democraticpartyusalogo.png|200px]]
| website = [http://www.democrats.org www.democrats.org]
| headquarters = 430 South Capitol Street SE (next to the [[Murder of Seth Rich|Seth Rich bike rack]])<ref>[https://www.swpm.us/crowd-chants-justice-seth-rich-outside-dnc/ CROWD CHANTS ‘JUSTICE FOR SETH RICH!’ OUTSIDE DNC], By Alicia Powe and Chelsea Schilling, ''The Front Line'', July 11, 2017.</ref> [[Washington, D.C.]] 20003
| chairman = [[Jaime Harrison]]
| houseleader = [[Nancy Pelosi]]
| senateleader = [[Chuck Schumer]]
| foundation = 1828
| ideology = [[Liberalism|State Liberalism]] [[Cultural Marxism]] Pink Fascism [[Fake News|Mediacracy]] White Guilt [[Feminism]] ([[Misandry]]) [[Homosexual Agenda]] [[Statism]] Historically: [[White Supremacy]] [[Segregation|Racial Segregation]] [[New Deal]]
| fiscalpolicy = [[Inflation]]ary
| socialpolicy = [[Lawless]]
| international =
| colors = Blue (unofficial) formerly Red prior to the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]]
| footnotes =
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<center>''This article is about the Democratic Party of the United States. For parties named "Democratic Party" in other countries, see [[Democratic party (disambiguation)]]. For the grammatically-correct name of the party, see [[Democrat Party]]''</center>
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The '''Democratic Party'''<ref>This is the official name of the party.[https://www.democrats.org/about/our-party/party-organization]. Some refer to it as the Democrat party, implying the party is not democratic. The term is said to grate on Democrats' ears.</ref> ('''D''') is a [[leftwing]] [[fascist]] [[totalitarian]] organization and one of two major political [[parties]] in the [[United States of America]].<ref>Multiple sources: [https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/the-democratic-party-has-officially-gone-full-fascist-op-ed The Democratic Party Has Officially Gone Full Fascist], By Seth Connell, ''The Federalist Papers'', June 29, 2016. [https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/02/left-wing_totalitarianism_in_america.html Left-wing Totalitarianism in America], By Richard Winchester, ''American Thinker'', February 17, 2014. [https://archive.is/nOTAl Democrats open door to Marxist totalitarian rule through attacks on police, history and institutions], By Andy Biggs, ''Washington Times'', June 23, 2020.</ref> The Democratic party seeks to outlaw and smash any political opposition.<ref>[https://archive.is/wip/Bzvtb A vote for Biden is a vote for a one-party state], ''The Washington Post'', Op-Ed by Marc Theissen, September 23, 2020.</ref> Slavery, segregation, and controlling minorities remain one of its founding principles, which the GOP was founded to oppose.<ref> Since its formation, Democrats have held the position that some lives are disposable. The party was, therefore against the abolition of slavery. The same view supports abortion as they view the unborn baby as disposable. https://www.coursehero.com/file/p5gmsch/Core-principles-The-opposing-party-to-the-Democrats-party-is-the-republicans/ The rights and dignity of the individual remain the core principal of the Republican party, be it opposition to slavery, abortion, big government, or high taxes.</ref> The party claims as part of its legacy of the [[Jim Crow]] era a long history of [[Democrat election fraud]],<ref>https://theredelephants.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/try.mp4?_=2</ref> election tampering, [[voter suppression]], and ballot box stuffing at the polls that continues to this very day.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/09/from-hanging-chads-to-ballot-creep-democrats-are-perfecting-post-election-heists/</ref> It was founded in 1828 by [[Andrew Jackson]] and [[Martin Van Buren]], and its governing body is called the "'''Democratic National Committee'''" ('''DNC'''). The party is currently controlled by international [[globalism|globalist]]s whose principle aim is the overthrow of American [[democracy]] and free elections and the destruction of America as a [[republic]], a [[constitutional republic]].<ref>[Collapse Of American Democracy Is Packaged As Its Triumph], ''Oriental Review'', 14/11/2020.</ref>

A core tenet of the Democratic party is opposition to the principle of "one person, one vote", be it the original insistence on a [[Three-Fifths Compromise|3/5's rule]] for minorities among its early promulgators or fractional vote rigging in the [[2020 Presidential election]].<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436 'Online and vulnerable': Experts find nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems connected to internet], By Kevin Monahan, Cynthia McFadden and Didi Martinez, [[NBC News]], JAN. 10, 2020.</ref> As [[Candace Owens]] pointed out, [[illiteracy]] was used to control slaves and illiteracy among black males in many Blue state [[public school]] systems today is as high as 75%. In the 2020 presidential primaries, Democrats fielded a black man, a black woman, Hispanic-American, a [[Samoa]]n, a fake [[Native American]], the first openly [[gay]] candidate, a male socialist and a female socialist, and settled on an a mentally incompetent corrupt old rich white guy to represent their party. An August 2021 poll of registered Democrats showed 59% supported [[communism]].<ref>https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/majority-registered-democratic-voters-prefer-socialism-to-capitalism-fox-news-poll</ref> Communism has murdered at least 100 million people in the past 100 years.<ref>https://www.hudson.org/research/13994-100-years-of-communism-and-100-million-dead</ref>

In late 2021, a small group of traditional Democrats, some of whom still believed in [[God]], [[Western civilization]], [[America]], legal regulated immigration, capitalism, a two-party system and other traditional American values attempted to separate themselves from the [[insanity]] and [[crime|criminality]] gripping the Democratic party and its leadership by organizing themselves under the rebranded name of "Normal Democrats."<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/moderate-democrats-rebrand-normal-012159375.html</ref>

In January 2022, well in advance of the [[2022 midterm elections]], socialist leader Joe Biden proclaimed that failure of the Democrats to win the [[2022 midterms]] would make the elections illegitimate.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/biden-midterm-election-voter-rights-legitimate/index.html</ref>

On May 13, 2022 Democrat Congressional leader [[Steny Hoyer]] announced on the floor of the House of Representatives, "We're at war" without informing the American people or having a congressional vote.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA6PXKYis2U</ref> The Democrats doubled the size of the [[IRS]], hiring armed agents willing to use deadly force.

==117th Congress==
{{cquote|When people who spent four years role-playing as "the Resistance" against a "stolen election" suddenly start telling us dissent and resistance are treason that will be punished without mercy, we know exactly what's going on. It's a grim story repeated throughout human history..|||John Hayward, ''[[Breitbart News]]''<ref>https://www.bookwormroom.com/2021/07/28/john-hayward-says-what-needs-to-be-said-about-the-jan-6-show-trial/</ref>}}
:{{See also|117th United States Congress}}
As the 117th Congress was sworn in, one thing was certain and obvious to the American people: the Democratic party no longer had any regard or respect for [[democracy]] and the [[human rights]] of other people. The Democratic party organization, from poll workers, to members of the [[civil service system]], to elected officials, had rejected the fundamental tenets of a [[two-party system]] and embraced full-fledged [[single party control|single party]] [[communism]] and [[totalitarianism]], including rigged elections, [[censorship]], lack of [[due process]] rights, a rejection of the right of free association, a perverted [[law enforcement]] and [[judicial]] system, wholesale domestic spying, a [[globalism|globalized]] and [[collectivist]] [[planned economy]], a rejection of [[God]] and [[religion]], and an attack on the rights of armed citizens to defend themselves.

Political scientist LaShonda Brenson, who tracks diversity on Capitol Hill, said only 14 percent of high-ranking positions in House members’ offices were held by people of color in 2018. According to ''Roll Call'' magazine, Brenson said there are reasons to hope. "This year’s crop of new lawmakers, who are mostly Republicans, have so far filled 23 percent of their top staff positions with people of color."<ref>https://www.rollcall.com/2021/02/25/where-am-i-black-staffers-describe-capitol-hill/</ref>

Democrats shot down a bill to prohibit U.S. corporations from using [[forced labor|slave labor]] in the [[Peoples Republic of China]].<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/18/217-house-democrats-torpedo-bill-prohibiting-corporate-cooperation-with-chinese-slave-labor/</ref> Apple and [[Nike Inc]] increased their donations to Democrats by more than 400% to fight the Republican introduced Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act barring imports of products from Chinese slave labor.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/30/apple-nike-coca-cola-lobby-to-preserve-slavery-of-uighurs-by-communist-china/</ref> Rep. [[Eric Swalwell]], who sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence with access to the nations top secrets, was reported as having a close relationship with Christine Fang, a Chinese spy. Fang compromised several Democrat politicians, including Swalwell, for whom she assisted in fundraising.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/china-suspected-spy-slept-with-mayors-yearslong-intelligence-campaign-axios-2020-12</ref> Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to remove Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee.<ref>https://dailyjournalonline.com/opinion/columnists/the-democrats-eric-swalwell-problem/article_d11d7172-35b0-5d7f-a4d5-466101da76b6.html</ref>

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest lobbying group in the United States, said that the socialist Democrat Party 2022 budget reconciliation bill “poses an existential threat to the US economy”.<ref>https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/democrats-reconciliation-bill-threaten-us-economy-chamber-of-commerce</ref>

Democrat supreme leader Joe Biden, who boasted of having once placed a dead dog on the doorstep of someone "not of the same political persuasion as me,"<ref>https://youtu.be/PWy7ZrJRobs</ref> has been fully compromised by the Chinese communist government.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/27/biden-family-whistleblower-joe-biden-is-compromised-by-communist-china/</ref>

===Pro-inflation===
The party is pro-inflation and advocates printing money, massive government spending, and adding to the national debt supposedly as a means to prosperity. Additionally, the party advocates regulation to discourage production, job creation, and distribution of goods and services. The party advocates taxation and seizure of wealth as a means to increase the livelihood and wellbeing of bureaucrats while disenfranchising the poor and increasing the number of homeless and destitute.

[[Inflation]] destroys hope, economic opportunity, and the physical and spiritual wellbeing of people in poverty more than any other group.

===Racist vaccine mandate===
African Americans were the group with the highest number of unvaccinated people against the [[CCP virus]].<ref>https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-by-race-ethnicity/</ref> In September 2021 Joe Biden issued a [[Biden's vaccine mandate|covid vaccine mandate]] which would require anyone refusing the vaccine to be fired from their job.<ref>https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/09/major-companies-demand-biden-clarify-covid-vaccine-mandate/</ref> Black Lives Matter called the vaccine mandate racist.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-blm-leader-promises-national-uprising-over-racist-vaccine-mandates-similar</ref> Blacks historically have been targeted by Democrat administrations for medical experiments.<ref>https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2020/11/04/americas-forgotten-history-of-forced-sterilization/</ref>

Democrats killed The COVID-19 Origin Act.

===Defund the Police===
:{{See also|Defund the Police}}

Raheem Kassam and Gatewaypundit exposed [[Black Lives Matter]] as a [[money laundering]] scheme for the Democratic National Committee.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/exclusive-donations-including-international-funding-blacklivesmatter-com-go-directly-dnc-money-laundering/</ref> On the BLM homepage, which features a “[[Defund The Police]]” petition front and center, if a user chooses to donate, they’re rerouted to a site hosted by [[ActBlue]], the DNC's official payment portal.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=C00401224&cycle=2020</ref> ActBlue claims to be tax exempt organization and all donations to it are tax-deductable. The terms and conditions also link to ActBlue and mention “Campaign Finance Laws”.<ref>https://secure.actblue.com/content/fineprint</ref> [[Joe Biden]] is a top beneficiary of the ActBlue’s fundraising efforts.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/biden-black-lives-matter-defund-the-police/</ref>
ActBlue contributions comprise 99.64 percent of all funds raised for the “[[Biden for President]]” entity and the total is nearly 773 times greater than the group with the second-highest donation sum. As of May 21, 2020, the organization has donated $119,253,857 to the “Biden for President” effort.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=c00401224&cycle=2020</ref>

A one year old Black toddler was murdered while sitting in a stroller in the [[BLM]] violence.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/13/go-to-hell-gardner-family-slain-toddler-tells-killers/</ref> The Democrat-controlled Minneapolis City Council told [[citizen]]s to be ready to give up wallets and cell phones to [[criminal]]s.<ref>https://twitter.com/KyleHooten2/status/1289590875119661062</ref>

The [[murder|homicide]] rate escalated in Democrat-run cities between 33% and over 200% after the June 2020 Democrat-sponsored [[Defund the Police]] movement.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/homicide-spike-cities-chicago-newyork-detroit-us-crime-police-lockdown-coronavirus-protests-11596395181</ref> [[Nashville]] reported the biggest bump, a 233% increase. [[Baltimore]]; [[Denver]]; [[Detroit]]; New Rochelle, New York; Charleston, South Carolina; Newark, New Jersey; and Prince George's County, Maryland all had huge increases. [[New York City]] reported a 67% increase. In [[Houston]], homicides rose 68% over 2019. For the month of May alone, they've shot up 150%. [[Cincinnati]] is up 115%, [[Milwaukee]] 103%, and [[Louisville]], Kentucky 63%. In [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], where the murder rate has risen 23% since last year, more people have died from gun violence than COVID-19.<ref>https://www.insider.com/murder-rates-are-rising-in-cities-across-america-2020-5</ref>

A [[Gallup Poll]] found 81% of African Americans want more policing in their neighborhoods, not less.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gallup-poll-81-of-black-people-want-police-to-stay-in-their-neighborhoods</ref> Other polls found only 47% of Black Americans under 30 years plan to vote for Biden, 46% have anything positive to say about Joe Biden, 44% trust Democrats in Congress to do what's right for the Black community while a rising 28% trust Republicans in Congress to do what's right for the Black community.<ref>https://theconversation.com/young-black-americans-not-sold-on-biden-the-democrats-or-voting-143884</ref>

===Impeachment sham 2.0===

House Democrats in the 117th Congress tampered with evidence to bring a second sham impeachment charge against President Donald Trump.<ref>https://ifapray.org/blog/tampering-with-evidence-is-a-crime-even-in-the-senate/</ref><ref>https://clarion.causeaction.com/2021/02/11/democrats-sham-impeachment-evidence-contains-footage-by-communist-antifa-agitator-john-earle-sullivan/</ref> Chief Justice [[John Roberts]] refused to preside over what was obviously an illegal and unconstitutional abuse of power.<ref>https://www.wjr.com/news/cancel-the-unconstitutional-show-trial-against-president-trump/</ref> Democrats refused to allow the [[subpoena]] of Speaker Pelosi to testify as a witness under oath in the impeachment trial about her role in the pre-planned attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/ex-capitol-police-chief-says-pelosi-mcconnells-sergeants-at-arms-refused-security-measures-while-new-timeline-proves-trump-incitement-claims-bogus/</ref>

[[New Jersey]] Rep. [[Jeff Van Drew]] quit the party rather than vote in its second bogus impeachment sham. After voting to object to electoral certification, a [[mainstream media]] journalist with the ''Ocean City Sentinel'' left a voice mail on Van Drew's home phone:
{{quotebox-float|“As a member of the New Jersey Press Association, I will do everything in my power to ensure that you are deposed, if not dead. Anything that I can do to basically get you out of office, I will do. You are a traitor, Jeff Van Drew, and you deserve the fate of all traitors."<ref>https://therightscoop.com/wow-lib-member-of-press-leaves-death-threat-for-rep-who-switched-from-d-to-r-oh-and-published-threats-as-opeds/</ref>}}
The [[ACLU]] argued that the Democrats' new Domestic Terrorism bill to target their enemies will harm minority communities.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/02/24/new-domestic-terror-laws-will-harm-minority-communities-aclu-says-1034122/</ref> H.R. 1 and S. 1 effectively ended voter registration.<ref>https://www.dickmorris.com/hr1-effectively-ends-voter-registration-lunch-alert/</ref> That, coupled with the executive order raising the migrant refugee ceiling by 730% in the midst of the COVID pandemic effectively put an end to free and fair elections.<ref>https://twitter.com/FAIRImmigration/status/1363126347573379073</ref>

====Racist origins of sham impeachment====
The only precedent for the second [[impeachment]] of [[President Donald J. Trump]] was that of William W. Belknap, President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]’s Secretary of War during [[Reconstruction]], who was tried and acquitted by the [[U.S. Senate]] after resigning from office. An investigation into the War Department was launched. Under Belknap the [[U.S. Army]] was used in combination with the [[Justice Department]] to prosecute the [[Ku Klux Klan]], a policy opposed by most [[Democrat]]s.<ref>https://brewminate.com/the-life-of-william-w-belknap-impeached-post-resignation-in-1876/</ref> Senate Democrat Majority leader [[Chuck Schumer]] said, “The Senate convened a trial, and voted, as a chamber, that Mr. Belknap could be tried ‘for acts done as Secretary of War, notwithstanding his resignation of said office.’ The language is crystal clear, without any ambiguity,” quoting a resolution by Senator [[Allen G. Thurman]], who opposed President [[Abraham Lincoln]]’s [[Emancipation Proclamation]] and campaigned against allowing black people to vote.<ref>[https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/sultan-knish/the-racist-origins-of-president-trumps-impeachment/2021/02/22/ The Racist Origins of President Trump’s Impeachment], By Daniel Greenfield - 10 Adar 5781 – February 22, 2021. www.jewishpress.com</ref>

===DCCC===
According to ''[[Breitbart News]]:''
{{quotebox-float|The [[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]] (DCCC) tapped Dyjuan Tatro, the former “triggerman” for Albany’s Original Gangsta Killers, or OGK, street gang to help lead efforts in protecting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) slim majority in the House.

The DCCC, led by chairman [[Sean Patrick Maloney]] (D-NY), hired Tatro, a former New York [[gangbanger|gang member]], to serve as a senior adviser for “diversity and inclusion.” He served time for “shooting two rival gang members in 2006” and was also convicted in 2011, serving six years for racketeering [[conspiracy]], according to the ''[[New York Post]]''.

According to the outlet, Tatro “confessed to the shootings, and to a ‘razor slashing’ of another victim in 2002 as well as to dealing drugs,” making around $12,000 per month doing so.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/15/democrats-hire-ex-gang-member-to-lead-efforts-in-protecting-slim-house-majority</ref>}}
===Nursing home extermination campaign===
Not only were [[covid lockdown]]s an abuse of power, they also failed to protect the elderly.<ref>https://youtu.be/Wab_E1FTHJM</ref>

Gov. [[Andrew Cuomo]] of New York mandated that longterm nursing home facilities accept Covid 19-positive patients. Despite the [[scientific]] evidence, Cuomo issued the decree anyway.<ref>https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Cuomo-defends-nursing-home-policies-as-long-term-15284326.php</ref> The virus spread like wildfire among the elderly, mostly [[Babyboomer]]s, giving New York the highest death toll from the [[CCP virus]].<ref>https://apnews.com/4042f05613ee4259b7a44d4466a0a02a</ref> New York's death toll accounts for 30% of the U.S. fatality rate. ''Frontpage Mag'' reported:
{{Quotebox-float|Cuomo's Department of Health had issued an order that, "no resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19" and also prohibited requiring testing of returning patients. Sending hospitalized patients with coronavirus to the same mismanaged nursing homes was a death sentence for countless seniors in those facilities.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/1-5-coronavirus-deaths-could-have-been-prevented-daniel-greenfield/</ref>}}
The Cuomo administration then deliberately tried to coverup the extent of the carnage by undercounting deaths.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/15/new-york-coronavirus-reporting-nursing-home-deaths-undercounting/</ref>

Cuomo's order sent 6,400 COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes - the highest risk group.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/07/gov-cuomos-order-6000-coronavirus-patients-nursing-homes/</ref> More than 5,800 died. According to him, the deaths were the fault of [[Donald Trump]].<ref>[https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2020/10/20/cuomo-i-hold-trump-responsible-for-every-new-york-covid-death-n2578429 Cuomo: I Hold Trump Responsible for Every New York COVID Death]</ref>

In January 2021, the New York Attorney General's office reported that the Cuomo administration had covered up the number of nursing home murders and under-reported the figure by 50%.<ref>https://mindmatters.ai/2020/11/why-did-new-york-issue-a-policy-that-killed-elderly-patients/</ref> Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] called for an investigation into Gov. Cuomo's [[human rights]] abuses.<ref>https://twitter.com/J__Velasquez/status/1362836454116884482</ref>

In May 2020, Gov. [[Gretchen Whitmer]] of Michigan directed a dangerous policy in ordering seniors, or anyone else, who test positive for [[COVID-19]] to be transported to nursing homes that house healthy seniors,<ref>[https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2020/05/12/michigan-dem-lawmaker-sounds-off-on-whitmers-nursing-home-order-n2568678 Michigan Dem Lawmaker Sounds Off on Whitmer's Nursing Home Order]</ref> a measure criticized by even a [[Democrat]] state representative. A few days later, [[Republican]] state senator Peter J. Lucido sought an investigation into the matter.<ref>[https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/05/18/michigan-sen-peter-j-lucido-seeks-investigation-into-placing-covid-19-patients-at-nursing-homes/ Michigan Sen. Peter Lucido seeks investigation into placing COVID-19 patients at nursing homes]</ref> Whitmer's misguided directive came under heavy criticism<ref name="Whitmer Explaining">[https://100percentfedup.com/mi-gov-whitmer-has-some-explaining-to-do-20-yr-old-black-man-with-mental-issues-who-brutally-beat-77-yr-old-veteran-in-nursing-home-was-moved-to-nursing-facility-after-covid-diagnosis/ MI Gov Whitmer Has Some Explaining To Do: 20-Yr-Old Black Man With “Mental Issues” Who Brutally Beat 77-Yr-Old Veteran In Nursing Home, Was Moved To Nursing Facility After COVID Diagnosis]</ref> when in May 2020, a 75-year-old nursing home resident, an Army veteran who had been illegally seized from his apartment by Whitmer goons and sent to the residence without his relatives being notified, was brutally beaten in a racist attack<ref name="Whitmer Explaining"/> by 20-year-old Jaydon Hayden, a COVID-19 patient with mental health issues who had been sent to the same nursing home and has since been arrested and charged for the crime.<ref name="Grethcen factor">[https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/turning_nursing_homes_into_extermination_sites_the_gretchen_factor.html Turning nursing homes into extermination sites: the Gretchen factor] at the American Thinker</ref>

It was reported on June 15, 2020, that one-third of all [[coronavirus]]-related deaths in Michigan were in nursing homes.<ref>Two references:
*[https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2020-06-15/mich-requires-testing-finds-nearly-2k-nursing-home-deaths Nursing Homes, Tied to One-Third of Deaths, Ordered to Test]
*[https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/06/15/nursing-home-residents-deaths-covid-19-michigan/3175103001/ Nursing home residents account for 34% of Michigan's COVID-19-related deaths]</ref> Despite this, Whitmer's administration irresponsibly refused to consider transporting COVID-19 positive patients to vacant centers rather than nursing homes.<ref>[https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/06/20/michigan-declined-nursing-homes-idea-put-covid-19-patients-vacant-facilities/3223213001/ Michigan declined nursing home leader's idea to put COVID-19 patients in vacant centers]</ref> When later questioned on the matter, Whitmer refused to specify details about the dangerous policy.<ref>[https://townhall.com/tipsheet/reaganmccarthy/2020/06/22/whitmerscalise-n2571102 Gov. Whitmer Declines to Answer Rep. Scalise's Questions on Devastating Nursing Home Policy]</ref>

The Macomb county prosecutor advised survivors who lost loved ones to COVID as residents or staff inside nursing homes should collect the vital information about the circumstances of their death and take that to local police and make a complaint as a wrongful death. [[Criminal]] charges could be filed against the Democrat fascist governor over putting COVID patients inside nursing homes used as hubs during the pandemic.<ref>https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/macomb-county-prosecutor-says-criminal-charges-possible-against-governor-whitmer-over-nursing-home-deaths</ref>

Whitmer was appointed DNC vice chair in 2021.

As the secretary of the Pennsylvania Health Department during the CCP pandemic, Biden [[HHS]] assistant secretary [[Richard "Rachel" Levine]] ordered nursing homes that house healthy seniors to take in COVID-19 positive patients, which resulted in thousands of needless deaths.<ref>Multiple references:
*Bleau, Hannah (May 12, 2020). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/12/governor-defends-pa-health-secretary-rachel-levine-over-botched-nursing-home-policy/ Governor Defends PA Health Secretary Rachel Levine over Botched Nursing Home Policy]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
*Scolforo, Mark (June 26, 2020). [https://apnews.com/article/34a7e5f3ddac76e3b0388c017913acf8 Health secretary defends pandemic response in nursing homes]. ''Associated Press''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
*Kengor, Paul (May 29, 2020). [https://spectator.org/pennsylvanias-nursing-home-covid-19-scandal-rachel-levine/ Pennsylvania’s Nursing Home COVID-19 Scandal]. ''The American Spectator''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.</ref> By mid-May 2020, two-thirds of all coronavirus-related deaths in the state occurred in nursing homes.<ref name="Pennsylvania health official moved mother from nursing home as deaths skyrocketed">Feuerherd, Ben (May 13, 2020). [https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsylvania-health-official-moved-mother-from-nursing-home/ Pennsylvania health official moved mother from nursing home as deaths skyrocketed]. ''New York Post''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.</ref> A [[liberal hypocrite]], Levine removed his own mother from a personal care home as the deaths rose dramatically.<ref name="Pennsylvania health official moved mother from nursing home as deaths skyrocketed"/><ref>Two references:
*McKelvey, Wallace (May 14, 2020). [https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/05/health-secretary-rachel-levines-removal-of-mom-from-care-home-amid-epidemic-draws-scrutiny.html Health Secretary Rachel Levine’s removal of mom from care home amid epidemic draws scrutiny]. ''pennlive.com''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
*Hasson, Peter (May 13, 2020). [https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/13/coronavirus-pennsylvania-rachel-levine-mother-nursing-home/ PA Health Secretary Moved Mother Out Of Personal Care Home After Ordering Nursing Homes To Accept COVID Patients]. ''Daily Caller''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.</ref>

===Ukrainian Nazis===
[[File:Ukraine White Pride.PNG|right|300px|thumb|"White Pride" "Ukraine Above All!" Teenage girl at Ukrainian Nazi summer paramilitary training camp for kids.<ref>https://youtu.be/9KUe0ySMjcM</ref> In the spring of 2022, the [[Biden regime]] and Democrat Congress gave the fascist [[Kyiv regime]] $40 billion.]]
In May 2022 the Biden regime and Democrat congress voted to give $40 billion to the [[neo-fascist]] [[Kyiv regime]].

====Ukrainian biological weapons labs====
Through the executive branch, a legislative framework for funding military biomedical research directly from the federal budget was formed. Funds were raised under state guarantees from NGOs controlled by the Democratic Party leadership,<ref>https://thesaker.is/empire-of-bioweapon-lies/</ref> including the investment funds of the Clintons, Rockefellers, Soros and Biden.

The scheme involves major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and the US military-affiliated company Gilead. U.S. experts are working to test new medicines that circumvent international safety standards. As a result, Western companies are seriously reducing the cost of research programmes and gaining a significant competitive advantage.

The involvement of controlled nongovernmental and biotechnological organizations, and the increase in their revenues, allows the leaders of the Democratic Party to generate additional campaign finance and hide its distribution.

In addition to US pharmaceutical companies and Pentagon contractors, Ukrainian state agencies are involved in military bioweapons activities, whose main tasks are to conceal illegal activities, conduct field and clinical trials and provide the necessary biomaterial.

Thus, the US Department of Defense, using a virtually internationally uncontrolled test site and the high-tech facilities of multinational companies, has greatly expanded its research capabilities, not only in the field of biological weapons, but also in gaining knowledge about antibiotic resistance and the antibodies to specific diseases in populations in specific regions.<ref>https://telegra.ph/Briefing-on-the-results-of-the-analysis-of-documents-related-to-the-military-biological-activities-of-the-United-States-on-the-t-05-11</ref>

===Rape of Afghanistan===
{{See also|Rape of Afghanistan}}
[[File:Taliban flag raising.PNG‎ |right|300px|thumb|Taliban mock U.S. flag raising at [[Iwo Jima]] in their victory over America.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/taliban-mock-iwo-jima-flag-raising-pose-for-photos-with-their-trove-of-american-vehicles-weapons-equipment/</ref>]]
Pelosi commended Biden's handling of the U.S. withdrawl from [[Afghanistan]]:
{{quotebox-float|“The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and his action.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/pelosi-commends-biden-for-strong-and-decisive-action-in-afghanistan/</ref>}}
Marketwatch wrote: “In a stunning rout, the [[Taliban]] seized nearly all of Afghanistan in just over a week, despite the billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and [[NATO]] over nearly 20 years to build up Afghan security forces. Just days earlier, an American military assessment estimated that the capital would not come under insurgent pressure for a month.”<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/afghan-president-flees-the-country-as-taliban-move-on-kabul-01629048671?mod=home-page&mod=article_inline</ref>

On July 8, 2021, [[Joe Biden]] said from the White House, "I trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped, and more competent in terms of conducting war."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/bidens-afghanistan-predictions-were-all-wrong/</ref> Afghans became fearful of the brutal regime's return.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/2021/08/16/1028016095/taliban-takeover-reminds-afghans-of-the-brutality-of-their-previous-regime Taliban Takeover Reminds Afghans Of The Brutality Of Their Previous Regime], PBS, Aug 16, 2021</ref> [[CNN]] reported that on July 12, 2021 the Taliban knocked on the door of a mother of four in a small village in northern Afghanistan. They were demanding food. The mother told them, "I am poor, how can I cook for you?" The Taliban beat her to death.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/asia/afghanistan-women-taliban-intl-hnk-dst/index.html</ref> Less than a month later, White House chief propagandists [[Jen Psaki]] said "The Taliban has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community." Her comments came as reports flowed in of Taliban fighters going door-to-door and forcibly selecting girls as young as 12 to reward as brides for the victorious jihadis.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghans-tell-of-executions-forced-marriages-in-taliban-held-areas-11628780820</ref>

The people must mark their house with an “X” if they have a girl over 12 years old, so that the Taliban can take them. If they find a young girl and the house was not marked they will execute the entire family. If a married woman 25 years or older was found, the Taliban promptly kill her husband, do whatever they want to her, and then sell her as a sex slave.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/taliban-going-door-to-door-seeking-christians-searching-through-phones-for-bible-apps-report</ref> In Takhar province, the Taliban shot and killed a woman when she went out in public without a [[burqa]].<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/08/17/taliban-kill-woman-not-wearing-burqa-after-vowing-to-honor-womens-rights/</ref>

In Kandahar, Bodies lay strewn on the streets.<ref>https://rumble.com/vl8ixd-stunning-video-people-dead-on-kandahar-streets-after-violent-taliban-takeov.html</ref> Public executions in stadiums returned.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/taliban-execute-four-afghanistan-army-police-commanders-kandahar-cricket-stadium/</ref> It was a repetition of what the Taliban had done in all the other provinces to the forces that fought alongside Americans. Taliban atrocities included executions,<ref>[https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/03/afghanistan-advancing-taliban-execute-detainees Afghanistan: Advancing Taliban Execute Detainees], HRW, Aug 3, 2021</ref> even killing kids in front of their parents.<ref>https://sambadenglish.com/taliban-militants-are-killing-children-in-front-of-their-parents/</ref>

A Gold Star mother who lost her son in Biden's botched evacuation issued a statement:
{{quotebox-float|"My son was one of the marines that died yesterday. He was 20 years and six months old, getting ready to come home to be with his wife to watch the birth of his son.

And that feckless, dementia ridden piece of crap, Biden, just sent my son to die.

I woke up at 4’o’clock this morning to US Marines at my door telling me my son was dead.

I never thought in 1 million years that he would die for nothing, for nothing because a feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap who decided he wanted a photo-op on [[9/11 attacks|Sept. 11]] — that’s what kills me. I wanted my son to represent our country, to fight for my country. But I never thought that a feckless piece of crap would send him to his death, and smirk on television while he’s talking about people dying with his nasty smirk.

So, to have right on before me, to have to listen to that piece of crap Biden talk about diplomatic crap with Taliban terrorists who just freaking blew up my son and no, nothing, to not say anything about …"Oh my God I’m so sorry for failing.”

My son is gone, and I just want all you [[2020 Democrat election fraud|Democrats who cheated in the election]], or who voted for him legitimately, to know you just killed my son with a dementia ridden piece of crap who doesn’t even know he’s in the White House, who still thinks he’s a senator.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/listen-furious-mother-of-marine-killed-in-kabul-attack-says-dementia-ridden-biden-directly-to-blame/</ref>}}
The ''Financial Times'' wrote:<ref>[https://archive.is/JNSAP Nato allies urge rethink on alliance after Biden’s ‘unilateral’ Afghanistan exit], ''Financial Times'', Helen Warrell in London, Guy Chazan in Berlin and Richard Milne in Stockholm AUGUST 17 2021. </ref>
{{quotebox-float|"After the [[fall of Kabul]], EU defence and security officials have been strikingly critical of the US decision to send home its troops, arguing it has weakened Nato and raised questions about Europe’s security dependence on Washington."}}
Lord Peter Ricketts, the [[UK]]’s former national security adviser, said. “It looks like Nato has been completely overtaken by American unilateral decisions...The Afghanistan operation was always going to end some time, it was never going to go on forever, but the manner in which it’s been done has been humiliating and damaging to Nato.”

===Big Tech anti-trust===
In the weeks before the House Judiciary Committee voted on the antitrust legislation — aimed at [[Apple, Inc.]], [[Amazon.com]], and Alphabet’s [[Google]] — that was meant to limit the way companies organize and offer their products, Speaker Pelosi's husband who handles the family's finances exercised call options that netted the Pelosi's $5.3 million.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/08/report-pelosis-husband-secured-5-3-million-from-alphabet-options/#</ref>

===Transgenderism===
The so-called [[Equality Act]] is a bill that would eliminate the legal recognition of male and female sex, make it more difficult to bring charges of [[sexual harassment]] in the workplace, cater to gender ideology, and designate protection for the unborn as “pregnancy” discrimination. The legislation, which would rewrite civil rights law to include “sexual orientation and [[gender identity]]” as protected classes, would likely upend the national culture as Americans have known it. Ryan Anderson, president of Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC) said, “The so-called Equality Act isn’t drafted as a shield to protect vulnerable minorities from unjust discrimination, but as a sword to persecute those who do not embrace new sexual and gender ideologies.”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/19/jjoe-bidens-war-on-women-equality-act-to-end-legal-recognition-of-biological-sex/</ref>

===Immigration===

:{{See also|Illegal immigration}}
A Harvard/Harris poll produced in the summer of 2021 revealed that 80% of Americans believe that illegal immigration is a serious problem. 68% indicated they believed Biden was encouraging illegal immigration. 55% stated they believed President Trump’s immigration policies should have remained intact. Pollster Mark Penn wrote:
{{quotebox-float|“Sixty-four percent of registered voters want the [[Biden administration]] to issue new, stricter policies to reduce the flow of people across the border. Only 7% of voters could accurately call out the amount of monthly illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. with 84% underestimate the number, suggesting we should expect stronger voter reactions if the crisis evolves further. Overall, 74% of voters view the current surge in illegal immigrants as a [[crisis]] that needs to be addressed immediately, and 56% do not view climate change, racism, and [[sexism]] as root causes of migration from South and Central America.”}}
55% believed that Biden’s border policies are “increasing the flow of drugs,” into the country. 61% believed the flood of unaccompanied children surging at the southern border was the fault of the Biden administration.<ref>https://redstate.com/jeffc/2021/06/28/left-leaning-study-reveals-some-catastrophic-news-for-democrats-n403765</ref>

====Abolish ICE====

:{{See also|Abolish ICE}}
On July 12, 2018 Rep. [[Mark Pocan]] (D-Wis.) introduced H.R. 6361, in the House to abolish [[ICE]]. Eight House Democrats signed on as cosponsors: [[Pramila Jayapal]] and [[D. Adam Smith]] of Washington; [[Adriano Espaillat]], [[José Serrano]], [[Nydia Velázquez]], and [[Yvette Clarke]], all from New York; [[Earl Blumenauer]] of Oregon; and [[James McGovern]] of Massachusetts.<ref>https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6361/cosponsors?r=4</ref> Sens. [[Elizabeth Warren]] (D-Mass.), [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] (D-N.Y.), [[Bernie Sanders]] (I-Vt.), New York City Mayor [[Bill de Blasio]], and other Democrats all rallied behind the “Abolish ICE” banner.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/29715-no-borders-no-nation</ref>

Many [[Leftist]]s ran on a platform of abolishing the nation's [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement|imigration enforcement]] authority and moving toward a policy of unrestricted immigration and [[open borders]]. In November 2018 Kamala Harris compared ICE workers, more than half of which are [[Hispanic]], to the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. The suggestion sparked horror and outrage.<ref>Piccolo, Jason (November 23, 2018). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/kamala-harris-hateful-comparison-of-ice-to-the-kkk-is-even-more-unjust-than-it-seems Kamala Harris' hateful comparison of ICE to the KKK is even more unjust than it seems]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved November 23, 2018.</ref>

Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] referred to DHS detention facilities where illegal immigrants were being held as "[[concentration camp]]s" and people were being forced to drink toilet water. Motivated by AOC's rhetoric, the [[Tacoma suicide bomber attack|Tacoma suicide bomber]] attacked a detention facility housing hundreds of children.<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/13/armed-activist-hurling-molotov-cocktails-at-ice-facility-shot-killed-by-police/ Armed Activist Hurling Molotov Cocktails at ICE Facility Shot Killed by Police] See also:
*Dinan, Stephen (August 16, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/16/ice-attack-video-captures-exchange-of-gunfire-that/ ICE attack: Dramatic video captures exchange of gunfire that left anti-ICE attacker dead]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved August 16, 2019.</ref><ref>Giaritelli, Anna (August 16, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/video-shows-car-set-ablaze-by-alleged-antifa-shooter-in-attack-on-ice-detention-center Video shows car set ablaze by alleged Antifa shooter in attack on ICE detention center]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved August 16, 2019.</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90YXf5P1rE&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=1BRrxh8nJyANlPeS%3A6</ref><ref>Cheong, Ian Miles (July 14, 2019). [https://humanevents.com/2019/07/14/ice-detention-center-attacker-was-antifa-activist/ ICE Detention Center Attacker Was Antifa Activist.] ''Human Events''. Retrieved July 15, 2019.</ref><ref>Murphy, James (July 15, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/32853-antifa-linked-terrorist-shot-by-police-after-attacking-washington-ice-detention-center Antifa-linked Terrorist Shot by Police After Attacking Washington ICE Detention Center]. ''The New American''. Retrieved July 15, 2019.</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S376N3YfnP0</ref><ref>Hawkins, Awr (July 15, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/15/tacoma-ice-attacker-urges-leftists-ignore-laws-arm-themselves/ Tacoma ICE Attacker Urges Leftists to Ignore Laws, Arm Themselves]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 15, 2019.</ref><ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (July 16, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/32864-immigrant-ice-attacker-left-manifesto-warned-antifa-to-arm-for-war Immigrant ICE Attacker Left Manifesto, Warned Antifa to Arm for War]. ''The New American''. Retrieved July 16, 2019.</ref><ref>Price, Bob (July 14, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/07/14/man-who-attempted-to-blow-up-migrant-detention-center-praised-by-some-anti-ice-activists/ Man Who Attempted to Blow Up Migrant Detention Center Praised by Some Anti-ICE Activists]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 14, 2019.</ref><ref>Morton, Victor (July 15, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/15/willem-van-spronsen-manifesto-blasts-concentration/ Antifa lauds 'martyr' who attacked ICE detention center as manifesto circulates]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved July 16, 2019.</ref> AOC refused to condemn the attacks or to even speak to the media.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwL-TCkA5n4 AOC, Ilhan Omar repeatedly REFUSE to condemn Antifa attack on ICE!] at The Rebel Media YouTube channel</ref>

An [[Antifa]] supporter, [[Connor Betts]], murdered 9 people in the [[Dayton nightclub shooting]]. Betts, a registered Democrat and [[Elizabeth Warren]] backer posted to Twitter “I do not consider ICE agents to be human beings.”<ref>https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1158420694092242944</ref> and echoed Ocasio-Cortez' statement that [[ICE]] detention facilities were "[[concentration camp]]s." No less than four violent acts and shootings occurred against ICE facilites and border agents after Ocasio-Cortez's comments.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/14/gun-fired-office-makes-fourth-attack-ice-past-month/</ref><ref>https://lauraloomer.us/2019/08/13/another-ice-facility-attacked-after-aoc-stoked-tensions-with-concentration-camp-rhetoric/#.XVVuFZNKhBw</ref> Ocasio-Cortez then voted against a Democrat-sponsored bill that would have provided humanitarian relief for the border crisis and threw a fit when the Senate rejected the bill she herself voted against.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/28/ocasio-cortez-senate-mcconnell-house-border-bill-tapper/</ref>

====MS-13 and others====

By October 21, 2018, reports estimated the number of economic migrants at between 7,200 and 10,000. The numbers seemingly doubled and tripled upon entering Mexico. No further resistance was met once passed the border. Migrants from [[Haiti]], [[Congo]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Angola]], [[Cameroon]], and [[Bangladesh]] have swelled the ranks.<ref>https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1054441145886035977</ref> The crowd is mostly men, ages 16–40. There are [[MS-13]] gang members among them.<ref>https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1054481882484801538</ref> The caravan was now over two miles long.

Mexican authorities issued a warning about migrants in Guatemala who were preparing [[Molotov cocktail]]s and acquiring firearms to use against police officers. Two migrants were arrested, one a minor, after shooting at police. They were arrested carrying a loaded firearm.<ref>https://www.gob.mx/segob/prensa/detienen-a-dos-hondurenos-tras-ataque-armado-a-policias-federales</ref>

====Biden border crisis====

:{{See also|Cloward and Piven Strategy|Biden border crisis}}
On Biden's second day occupying the White House he issued a ''diktat'' which has been described as the most extreme directive in the history of modern [[law enforcement]]. Acting Secretary David Pekoske issued a memorandum on the evening of January 20, 2021 putting into place a [[deportation]] moratorium. There were narrow exceptions for terrorists and spies and none for [[criminal]]s and criminal suspects. It is estimated that about 12,000 criminal illegal aliens per month will not be deported from the United States throughout the existence of the Biden/Harris regime.<ref>https://www.newswars.com/over-12000-criminal-illegals-will-be-freed-monthly-former-trump-official-warns/</ref> These illegals can vote unchallenged under the Democrats "[[For the People Act]]".

The junta further scrapped the “public charge” rule—a government policy that sought to limit admissions of immigrants likely to become reliant on government benefits.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/biden-administration-ditches-trump-plan-limit-immigration-financially-dependent-n1260239</ref> People from [[Yemen]], [[Iran]] and [[Sri Lanka]] were crossing the border, including people on the terrorist watch list.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/15/john-katko-terror-suspects-are-part-border-surge/</ref>
[[File:Biden kids in cages.PNG|right|350px|thumb|On March 17, 2020, during a [[2020 Democrat primaries|2020 Democrat primary]] debate, Biden called for an immediate surge of illegal immigrants to the border.<ref>https://archive.is/tQq8A</ref>]]
The junta's executive order raised the refugee ceiling by 730% in the midst of the COVID pandemic.<ref>https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/02/10/biden-intends-to-increase-refugee-numbers-by-more-than-730-percent/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/10/poll-raising-refugee-admissions-is-bidens-most-unpopular-executive-order-so-far/</ref> By the junta's seventh week [[Arizona]] border agents reported illegal immigration in 2021 already surpassed all of 2018, and was on track to surpass 2018, 2019 and 2020 combined.”

After White House chief [[propagandist]] [[Jen Psaki]] denied a border crisis existed,<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/03/09/wh-refuses-to-call-mexico-border-rush-child-detainment-a-crisis/</ref> the junta dispatched [[FEMA]] to deal with over 100,000 illegal aliens who crossed the border in February,<ref>https://justthenews.com/government/security/biden-dispatches-fema-address-growing-border-crisis</ref> 150,000 in March,<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/illegal-border-crossings-jump-to-150000-in-march_3756182.html</ref> and 178,000 in April 2021, a two decade high for a single month. 17,000 of those in April were unaccompanied children.<ref>https://justthenews.com/nation/cbp-reports-encountering-more-178000-attempting-enter-americas-southern-border-april</ref> Democrat Reps. [[Vicente Gonzalez]] and [[Henry Cuellar]] criticized the junta's mishandling of the crisis.<ref>https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/biden-pushes-back-against-border-crisis-label-as-democrats-concede-theres-a-major-problem</ref> Biden found the humanitarian crisis he created flattering.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/03/25/biden-would-be-flattered-if-migrants-are-surging-because-of-him/</ref> Texas Lt. Governor [[Dan Patrick]] told Fox News,
{{quotebox-float|"There was a little girl that drowned in the river. Kamala Harris must think that’s amusing to her. She must think that the sex offenders who are coming into this country, who are coming into communities all over this country to assault children is funny to her. This is not a laughing matter to our country or to these people or for future victims. So far they won’t call this a crisis. It’s a designed disaster. This is their plan… Sex offenders are up 1,967% in just the Del Rio sector in Texas. Sexual offenders are defined by people we already arrested for offenses against children and they’re crossing back two or three times."<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/kamala-harris-must-think-amusing-tx-lt-gov-dan-patrick-goes-off-child-sex-trafficking-1967-video/</ref>}}
A border agent described conditions in the cells to the ''[[Epoch Times]]:''
{{quotebox-float|"The family-unit holding cells smell like [[urine]] and [[vomit]]. Fights break out in the unaccompanied-minor cells. [[Scabies]], [[lice]], the [[flu]], and COVID-19 run rampant. Up to 80 individuals are squeezed into each 24- by 30-foot cell, and there aren’t enough mattresses for everyone. Sheets of plastic divide the rooms. “Any diseases that are in there, it’s being kept in there, like a petri dish. The smell is overwhelming.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-border-agent-gives-inside-account-of-overcrowded-facilities_3746058.html?amp</ref>}}
After White House chief [[propagandist]] [[Jen Psaki]] denied a border crisis existed,<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/03/09/wh-refuses-to-call-mexico-border-rush-child-detainment-a-crisis/</ref> the [[Biden junta]] put Kamala Harris in charge of managing the catastrophe.<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/03/24/biden-just-named-a-new-person-in-charge-of-the-border-youll-know-her-by-the-sound-of-her-cackle-n349562</ref> Harris previously compared [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] officials to the [[Ku Klux Klan]].<ref>https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/kamala-harris-tapped-to-fix-the-border-despite-attacking-immigration/</ref> A week into the Harris' appointment as border czar, Harris had no immigration-related meetings on her schedule and made no public statements about the border crisis.<ref>https://freedomjournalist.com/kamala-has-no-immigration-meetings-scheduled-despite-leading-crisis-response/</ref> ''Axios'' reported "If you give someone a sh***ty assignment because the president doesn’t want to do it himself, you can’t be mad when the treacherous situation looks treacherous.”<ref>https://www.axios.com/kamala-harris-trip-problems-rekindle-2020-campaign-doubts-f08f807e-c00a-432a-a562-3c2a2beaa634.html</ref>

Harris refused to visit the border for six months and laughed at the unfolding human tragedy.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/03/23/kamala-harris-bursts-out-awkward-laugh-when-asked-about-visiting-the-border-not-today-1048624/</ref> Not until President Trump announced he and Texas governor [[Greg Abbott]] would visit the border did Harris announce she would visit the border.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/06/23/kamala-harris-announces-border-visit-just-days-before-president-trump-event/</ref>

Democrat Rep. [[Henry Cuellar]], whose district was hardest hit by disaster, had been calling for months for the Biden junta to listen to the people in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, to him, and to [[law enforcement]] that is overwhelmed called Harris' visit to [[El Paso]] in the Upper Rio Rio Grande Valley a “politically safe” trip, a “check the box” kind of trip and a "joke". Harris never consulted with Cuellar, Texas governor [[Greg Abbott]], or other local people.

====Human trafficing====
The Biden junta’s reversal of Trump-era border policies gave Mexican cartels an enormous opportunity to exploit immigrants for financial gain. This criminal and inhumane system is a direct consequence of Biden’s open border policies and willful neglect of border security. Chris Farrell, director of investigations and research at [[Judicial Watch]], explained how the cartels’ control of the Mexican border is driven by profit. “When Americans hear about the humanitarian crisis at the border,” said Farrell, “they should remember that it is fueled by a sophisticated criminal enterprise that is subsidized by the Biden administration’s failure to secure our border.” An Arizona rancher explained “Nobody comes through that border illegally without their [the cartels] authorization.” Dan Cantu, a retired Border Patrol agent, said no one “freelances”—or crosses into the U.S. from the Mexican border without cartel permission. In most cases, those who try are instantly killed. “They call those [who cross on their own] ‘chapulines’ … which means grasshoppers in Spanish. It’s common knowledge that the minute they try to freelance—as soon as they do—smugglers and recruiters [for the cartels] will notice … [and] they’ll flat out kill them.” They patrol ridge lines and mountains in search of “chapulines” walking on their own. If found, the chapulin is approached by a scout and asked for a code. Those who don’t know the code are often tied to a tree and beaten, raped, or killed by cartel operatives. “The chapulines experience all kinds of torture,” Cantu emphasized, “because [the cartels] have got to send a message … there is a price for attempting to traverse the border yourself.”<ref>https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/15/no-one-comes-through-the-border-illegally-without-the-cartels-authorization-how-bidens-policies-feed-a-criminal-monopoly/</ref>

According to a veteran Department of Homeland Security law enforcement officer, “The cartel makes more money on people than they do on dope.” The Mexican cartels have a valuation greater than [[Walmart]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/24/do-mexican-drug-cartels-make-billion-year/</ref>

====Child sex trafficing====
Biden also canceled the Trump era Operation Talon which focused on deporting illegal child sex traffickers and sexual predators.<ref>https://newspunch.com/biden-cancels-trump-program-that-targeted-child-sex-traffickers-in-the-us-illegally/</ref> The order essentially shut down [[ICE]] operations. An estimated 117,000 migrants crossed the border at the going rate for smuggling humans of $10,000 each the first month, totaling well over $1.1 billion for the cartels and human trafficking networks.<ref>https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/report-admin-lacks-resources-for-the-expected-117000-unaccompanied-children-at-border-this-year/</ref> Mexican President [[Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador]] expressed concern over the junta incentivizing human trafficing and organized crime.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-exclusive-idUSKBN2B21D8</ref> Reports indicated that human traffickers were purchasing children for $3200.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/human-trafficking-cartels-selling-kids-3200-head-joe-bidens-open-border-mexico-video/</ref><ref>https://rumble.com/vekxmd-biden-the-president-of-human-trafficking.html</ref> Drug cartels often recruit or kidnap migrants, hold them for ransom or [[murder]] them if their families don't comply with the operatives' demands.<ref>https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/biden-pushes-back-against-border-crisis-label-as-democrats-concede-theres-a-major-problem</ref>Evidence at the border suggested children were being [[rape]]d.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/video-reporter-finds-condoms-lube-and-childrens-clothes-dumped-at-the-border/</ref> @red_pill_latina said on [[Instagram]],
{{quotebox-float|"Where is [[AOC]]…where is the outrage of the media? Democrats in the Biden administration are making traffickers and cartels more powerful and dangerous than ever. If you voted for Biden, this is what you voted for. You claim to support the [[Latino]] community yet you don’t support strong border security. Latinos are the main targets/victims of human traffickers at the southern border. Especially the most vulnerable, innocent little children. If you voted for Biden this is the reality you voted for."<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/03/21/citing-border-crisis-trafficking-of-innocent-children-latino-woman-says-if-you-voted-for-biden-this-is-what-you-voted-for-1047799/</ref>}}
[[Guatemala]]n authorities rescued seven unaccompanied minors from human smugglers working inside the caravan. The smugglers were arrested and a broader investigation into [[criminal]] activity in the caravan continued.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/10/guatemalan-authorities-rescue-group-of-minors-from-human-smugglers-in-caravan/</ref>

====No covid testing====

The [[Customs and Border Protection]] (CBP) was not doing any [[covid-19]] testing on people apprehended at the border.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-testing-of-border-crossing-migrants-not-being-administered-consistently/ar-BB1eifgo</ref> The ''[[Epoch Times]]:'' described conditions in the holding cells:
{{quotebox-float|"The family-unit holding cells smell like [[urine]] and [[vomit]]. Fights break out in the unaccompanied-minor cells. [[Scabies]], [[lice]], the [[flu]], and COVID-19 run rampant. Up to 80 individuals are squeezed into each 24- by 30-foot cell, and there aren’t enough mattresses for everyone. Sheets of plastic divide the rooms. “Any diseases that are in there, it’s being kept in there, like a petri dish. The smell is overwhelming.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-border-agent-gives-inside-account-of-overcrowded-facilities_3746058.html?amp</ref>}}
The National Sheriffs Association estimated that up to 50% of all illegal immigrants were covid positive.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/up-to-50-percent-of-illegal-immigrants-estimated-to-have-covid-19-national-sheriffs-association_3737923.html</ref> Congressional [[Democrat]]s blocked a [[Republican]] bill which would require the [[Department of Homeland Security]] to test all apprehensions for covid.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/16/democrats-block-gop-bill-to-test-illegal-immigrants-for-coronavirus/</ref>
Restoration of the Obama era Catch and Release program led to the release of covid infected illegal aliens into American communities.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/psaki-cant-answer-illegal-aliens-test-positive-covid-released-actually-quarantine-video/</ref>

====Babies in cages====
[[File:Biden-cages-1.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The Biden / Harris regime kept babies in cages..]]
The junta renewed the Obama era program of locking migrant children in cages.<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2021/02/23/bidens-kids-cages-moment-carrizo-springs-facility-re-opens/</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' initially reported the junta was holding 3250 kids in "jail-like facilities"<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/03/09/nyt-nails-biden-for-holding-migrant-children-in-violation-of-law-but-they-do-a-little-spinning-in-the-process-n340404</ref> 38% longer than the law allows.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/biden-immigration-detention-increase/</ref> The figure was later revised to 9,400 in February alone,<ref>https://www.vox.com/2021/3/21/22343184/as-bidens-immigration-policy-faces-scrutiny-the-dhs-chief-says-the-border-is-closed</ref> and by the third week of March [[DHS]] said the number of babies in cages was 15,500.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-migrant-children-in-border-patrol-custody-hits-15500/</ref> The Former head of CBP said Homeland [[Commissar]] [[Alejandro Mayorkas]] "lied to the American people" about the crisis.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-administration-lied-american-border-crisis</ref>

According to [[CBS News]], children were held in overcrowded conditions, and some were having to sleep on the floor and were going hungry. One immigration lawyer representing the children said there were kids who have only showered once in seven days and weren’t allowed to shower more often. The children were not allowed outdoors and complained of not seeing the sun in days. The Donna complex which is supposed to hold only 250 people held 1,800, or 729% of its pandemic era capacity. The migrants were not able to practice any social distancing because of the massive number of people.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-children-detained-in-overcrowded-conditions/</ref> The ''New York Post'' wrote in an editorial, "While we feel Trump was wrongly vilified for these facilities, Biden deserves every knock of hypocrisy leveled against him."<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/bidens-kids-in-cages-prove-his-hypocrisy-on-immigration/</ref> ''[[Time magazine]]'' pleaded for the Dear Leader to end locking babies in cages.<ref>https://time.com/5945307/biden-end-detention-migrant-children/</ref>

''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported “[y]oung people are waiting in cramped, austere holding cells with concrete floors and benches. Lights remain on 24 hours a day, agents say, and there are few places to play.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/unaccompanied-minors-detention-cells/2021/03/10/a0d39390-81c6-11eb-bb5a-ad9a91faa4ef_story.html</ref> [[CNN]]’s Pamela Brown reported that “as the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border gets worse, the media is being kept from it despite calls of transparency from the Biden administration. Reporters and photographers were not been allowed inside the facilities where thousands of unaccompanied children are being kept in similar to jail-like conditions."<ref> https://youtu.be/FrUwXhmgLlM</ref>

When negative publicity arose, the Biden team then emptied the cages and forced children to sleep in buses overnight, according to [[NBC News]].<ref>https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/05/13/joe-bidens-america-migrant-children-stuck-overnight-on-parked-buses-for-consecutive-days-and-nights/</ref>

====Narcotics trafficing====
Prior to the junta [[open borders|opening the border]] [[bi-partisan]] experts estimated the money made on drug trafficking by the Mexican Drug Cartels at around $500 billion, or one half-trillion dollars per year. Sen. [[Sonny Purdue]] said in 2019: “At half a trillion dollars — $500 billion — that makes the cartel business and the drug traffic just in Mexico alone coming across to the United States bigger than [[Walmart]], to put it in perspective. So this is larger than our largest companies.” Democrat Sen. [[Dianne Feinstein]] quoted the same figure testifying, “The illicit drug trade is a business, valued at anywhere between $426 [billion] and $652 billion…”.<ref>https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/has-joe-biden-sold-out-america-to-the-mexican-drug-cartels/</ref>

===Racist Democrat officials===
{{See also|Liberalism and racism}}
[[File:Anthony Huber and JoJo Rosenbaum.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Anthony Huber (blue hat) and [[Joseph Rosenbaum|JoJo "Shoot me N*gga" Rosenbaum]].<ref>https://twitter.com/sirhottest/status/1458520078769528833</ref>]]
In April 2021, ''[[Twitter]]'' allowed a racist insult against Republican Sen. [[Tim Scott]] of South Carolina to "trend" on its website/platform following the GOP rebuttal to Biden's [[SOTU]] speech in which Scott debunked the liberal leftist agenda, accused Democrats of trying "to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present" and stating, "America is not a racist country."<ref>AILA SLISCO | ''Newsweek'', Read the Full Text of Tim Scott's Republican Rebuttal of Joe Biden's Joint Address to Congress, https://www.newsweek.com/read-full-text-tim-scotts-republican-rebuttal-joe-bidens-joint-address-congress-1587308, April 28, 2021</ref> Following the speech, angry leftists flooded ''Twitter'' in attempts to label the Senator "Uncle Tim" and using other racist slurs. During the rebuttal Scott stated, "I have experienced the pain of discrimination... I get called "[[Uncle Tom]]" and the N-word — by 'progressives'! By liberals!"<ref>CNN Politics, Read Republican Sen. Tim Scott's response to Biden's address to Congress, https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/28/politics/tim-scott-response-transcript/index.html, Updated 10:51 PM ET, Wed April 28, 2021</ref> The left traditionally uses the derogatory epithet and hurls it at conservatives who dare to walk off the [[Democrat plantation]]. This has long been a way for bigots to insult black people who are accused of being subservient to whites and used to send an intimidating message to others who might be thinking about leaving the plantation.<ref>Debra Heine | ''AG'' News, Twitter Allows Racist Attacks Against Tim Scott to Trend For Nearly 11 Hours, https://amgreatness.com/2021/04/29/twitter-allows-racist-attacks-against-tim-scott-to-trend-for-nearly-11-hours/, April 29, 2021</ref><ref>https://therightscoop.com/the-most-hideously-shameful-racist-rant-ever-to-air-on-cable-news-was-on-msnbc-yesterday-attacking-tim-scott/</ref>

The Biden regime spent $30 million distributing free crack pipes to achieve "racial equality."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity/</ref>

====Joe Biden====
In 1994 Joe Biden said, "if Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn't matter a whole lot."<ref>https://youtu.be/Wwf4FyA0B0M</ref> Biden referred to former chair of the [[Congressional Black Caucus]] and an Advisor to the President, [[Cedric Richmond]], as "my boy".<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/biden-calls-black-adviser-apos-183534786.html</ref> Biden has insisted Blacks do not know how to get a state-issued identification card or drivers license.<ref>https://thecitizen.com/2021/04/12/democrats-insult-millions-of-blacks-who-have-photo-ids/</ref>

Biden asserted that "poor kids are just as smart as white kids" yet repeatedly insisted minorities didn't know how to use the internet to find vaccinations sites.<ref>https://remezcla.com/culture/president-biden-infers-black-latino-communities-dont-know-use-internet/</ref><ref>https://www.opindia.com/2021/02/joe-biden-african-americans-hispanics-internet-coronavirus-vaccine/</ref><ref>https://thesource.com/2021/02/17/watch-president-biden-suggests-blacks-hispanics-cant-get-covid-vaccine-because-they-dont-know-how-to-get-online/</ref>

Since [[Biden's vaccine mandate|Biden's mandate]] to revive [[Tuskegee experiment|Tuskegee-like genetic experiments]],<ref>https://ghionjournal.com/tuskegee-institute-study-2-0-targeting-african-americans/</ref> Biden's approval rating among African Americans fell 25 percentage points.<ref>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/10/14/decline-bidens-job-approval-down-25-net-points-with-black-voters-since-august-1-n422527</ref> Biden threatened [[Blacks]] and [[Hispanic]]s with the highest unvaccinated rates<ref>https://www.stevegruber.com/2021/07/a-majority-of-the-unvaccinated-are-blacks-and-hispanics-not-trump-supporters/</ref> saying "this is not about freedom...our patience is wearing thin."<ref>https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/09/09/duh-president-biden-explains-that-his-vaccine-mandate-is-not-about-freedom-or-personal-choice-our-patience-is-wearing-thin/</ref>

As the Democratic Party nominee in the [[2020 presidential election]], he was endorsed by [[Neo-Nazi]] [[white supremacist]] [[Richard Spencer]], organizer of the June 2017 Charlottesville protests in which one person, Heather Heyer, was killed.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/24/white-supremacist-who-organized-charlottesville-race-riots-endorses-joe-biden/</ref> Biden publicly proclaimed that defenders of the [[Confederate]] flag were "many fine people".<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-praises-group-who-display-the-confederate-flag-as-fine-people-in-resurfaced-video</ref> After using California Senator Kamala Harris to exploit African American voters,<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/biden-admin-looking-dump-kamala-harris-fox-reporter-given-tip-familiarize-confirmation-process-replacing-vice-president/</ref> rumors circulated throughout [[Washington D.C.]] that racist and [[misogynist]] Democrats wanted to remove her from the vice presidency.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14/politics/kamala-harris-frustrating-start-vice-president/index.html</ref> By November 2021, Biden's approval rating among African Americans stood at a historical low for any Democrat Oval Office occupant at 52%.<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/new-poll-shows-biden-approval-among-black-voters-tanking/</ref> After the shooting of the racist pedophile [[Joseph Rosenbaum]] in [[Kenosha, Wisconsin]],<ref>https://heavy.com/news/joseph-rosenbaum/</ref> Biden slandered and defamed a Black Lives Matter supporter, Kyle Rittenhouse, as a white supremacist.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/kyle-rittenhouse-tells-tucker-carlson-005930560.html</ref>

====Sheldon Whitehorse====
[[Rhode Island]] Democrat Sen. [[Sheldon Whitehouse]] is a [[systemic racism|systemic racist]] who is a member of an all-white beach club in which his wife is a major shareholder.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/democrat-gets-cornered-over-being-a-member-of-all-white-private-elite-club/</ref><ref>https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/06/21/sen-sheldon-whitehouses-office-says-beach-club-has-had-members-of-color-doesnt-explain-why-he-said-theyre-still-working-on-it/</ref> Black Lives Matter gave Whitehorse an ultimatum to cut all ties with Spouting Rock Beach Association, also known as Bailey's Beach — or it will make his life miserable, according to [[ABC]] affiliate WLNE.<ref>https://www.abc6.com/possible-protests-against-sen-whitehouse-coming-blm-r-i-member-says/</ref> “We’ll go to his club, we’ll go to his office, we’ll go to his home — wherever we need to go,” one of the chapter’s directors vowed. BLM insisted Whitehouse’s denial was not enough to stop planned protests. “If he thinks we’re just going to forget about it, if he thinks that it’s going to get swept under the rug — it’s not.”

“This club is a proven racist club with exclusive ties to supremacy and exclusion, and that’s something that’s not gonna be tolerated by me, by my associates, my affiliates or my organization,” the spokesman said. BLM did not buy Whitehorse's claim that the club was on “the right side of pushing for improvements.” Bailey’s Beach Club is an elite private beach and club. The BLM spokesman said, “you know what type of black people he brings in.”<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/07/29/blm-gives-senator-a-deal-to-cut-ties-with-all-white-country-club/</ref>

====Brad Schneider====
The office of Illinois Democrat Rep. [[Brad Schneider]] was sued by a Black staffer for a hostile work environment and retaliation when the staffer complained. A supervisor made jokes about lynching directed toward a Black staffer during a video conference meeting of staff. The suit alleges the lynching jokes were directed at hthe Black staffer because of her race and that the office did not properly discipline the supervisor after being made aware of those actions. In addition, the staffer was retaliated against for reporting her white supervisor's behavior and subsequently was assigned a smaller work portfolio. The suit alleges the staffer was instructed to "“get a rope and put it around your neck.”<ref>https://www.rollcall.com/2021/07/15/rep-brad-schneiders-office-sued-for-hostile-work-environment-retaliation-against-black-employee/</ref>

====Ralph Northam====
[[File:Northam2.JPG|right|300px|thumb|Virginia Democrat Gov. [[Ralph Northam]] (left) in 1982. Northam was first elected as chief executive in 2018.]]
In early February 2019, it was discovered that Northam included a photo on his medical yearbook page of two people posing together, one wearing [[blackface]] and another dressed as a [[KKK]] member, although Northam implausibly denied that he was one of the two after he admitted to being one of them.<ref>Chretien, Claire (February 1, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/yearbook-page-of-virginia-gov.-who-defended-infanticide-shows-kkk-costume Yearbook photo of Virginia gov. who defended infanticide shows KKK costume]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved February 1, 2019. See also:
*Nolte, John (February 2, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/02/02/nolte-ralph-coonman-northam-medias-governor/ Nolte: Ralph ‘The Coonman’ Northam Is the Media’s Governor]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 2, 2019.</ref> Northam tried to excuse his conduct by claiming he dressed up for a [[Michael Jackson]] contest, although the clothing in the photograph was well out of style in the 1980s.

When the news broke, [[CNN]] ran a [[fake news]] chyron claiming Northam was a "Republican".<ref>https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-misidentifies-virginia-gov-ralph-northam-as-a-republican-during-coverage-of-racist-old-photo/</ref> 50% of Democrats continued to support Northam.<ref>Nolte, John (February 5, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/05/nolte-50-of-virginia-democrats-still-back-baby-killing-blackface-northam/ Nolte: 50% Of Virginia Democrats Still Back Baby-Killing, Blackface Northam]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 5, 2019.</ref>

In response, [[racist]] Democrats then tried to prevent Northam's resignation by exploiting [[sexual assault]] allegations against the [[African American]] Lt. Governor.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-party-of-virginia-says-sex-assault-claim-against-lt-gov-fairfax-of-profound-gravity</ref> Then, the [[Attorney General]] who would be third in line of succession revealed that he, too, had also appeared in blackface at a college party in the 1980s.<ref>https://www.vox.com/2019/2/6/18213902/ralph-northam-justin-fairfax-mark-herring-blackface-virginia-governor-line-of-succession</ref>

First Lady Pam Northam handed the [[African-American]] daughter of a state employee a piece of [[cotton]]. According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Leah Dozier Walker—an employee at Virginia's Department of Education—wrote a letter to lawmakers and Gov. Ralph Northam's office describing Mrs. Northam's behavior during a tour her daughter took at the Governor's mansion. Northam asked Walker's daughter and two other African American students “if they could imagine what it must have been like to pick cotton all day” after passing a cotton sample to them inside a historic kitchen on the property. “I can not for the life of me understand why the first lady would single out the African American pages for this—or—why she would ask them such an insensitive question,” Walker wrote, referring to students who had served as pages during the state Senate.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/wapo-gov-northams-wife-handed-cotton-to-black-kids-told-them-to-imagine-being-slaves</ref>

====Mazie Hirono and Tammy Duckworth====
Racist Democrat Sens. [[Tammy Duckworth]] and [[Mazie Hirono]] refused to vote for any [[white]] Biden appointee.<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/dem-sens-duckworth-and-hirono-threatened-to-vote-against-white-biden-nominees/</ref>

====Lori Lightfoot====

In May 2021 Chicago [[NBC]]5 reported mayor [[Lori Lightfoot]] refused to do interviews with white people.<ref>https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1394813036741885954</ref> The report was confirmed by Chicago [[PBS]] station WTTW.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/19/reporters-say-chicago-mayor-lightfoot-limiting-interviews-to-black-and-brown-journalists-1076308/</ref> and ''[[USAToday]]''.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/20/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-journalists-interviews/5192857001/</ref> The formal announcement said Lightfoot would only grant interviews to "Black and brown" reports. Lightfoot complained bitterly about the "whiteness and maleness" of Chicago's [[liberal media]] which had only aided in her election.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/20/lightfoot-defends-her-bigotry-slams-overwhelming-whiteness-and-maleness-of-chicago-media-outlets-1076689/</ref> ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' reporter Gregory Pratt, a [[Latino]] was granted an interview and asked the mayor’s office to lift its exclusion others. When the mayor's office refused, Pratt protested the [[racist]] policy and canceled the interview. A Chicago WGN anchor and a ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter supported the ''Tribune'''s action and called on all reporters to boycott the mayor's office racist policies.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/cancel-back-after-mayor-lightfoot-cancels-white-reporters-one-hispanic-reporter-cancels-her-in-return/</ref> The National Association of Black Journalists issued a statement: "that NABJ’s history of advocacy does not support excluding any bona fide journalists from one-on-one interviews with newsmakers, even if it is for one day and in support of activism...We have members from all races and backgrounds and diversity, equity and inclusion must be universal."<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/21/black-journalists-group-reluctantly-says-it-cannot-support-chicago-mayors-bigotry-against-white-scribes-1077398/</ref> [[Civil rights]] attorney [[Leo Terrell]] ripped Lightfoot's policy as "repugnant".<ref>https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1395396192893345797</ref> Former Rep. [[Tulsi Gabbard]] who excoriated [[Hillary Clinton]] as "the personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic party", called upon Lightfoot to resign. "I call upon [[Joe Biden|President Biden]], [[Kamala Harris]], and other leaders of our county—of all races—to join me in calling for Mayor Lightfoot's resignation.<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/05/21/tulsi-gabbard-calls-on-chicago-mayor-to-resign-over-antiwhite-racism-n2589828</ref>

Constitutional law professor [[Jonathan Turley]] weighed in: "The question is whether a race-based criteria for reporters is not just actionable but whether the media is prepared to sue Lightfoot for discriminatory policies....One of the most significant aspects of this controversy is that Lightfoot ordered staff to enforce the race-based criteria. That means that the policy was carried out with city staff and resources....The Illinois Human Rights Law states that unlawful [[discrimination]]
[[File:Lightfoot.PNG|right|175px|thumb|Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot refused to do interviews with journalists based upon skin color.]]
{{quotebox-float|“means discrimination against a person because of his or her actual or perceived: race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, order of protection status, disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or unfavorable discharge from military service as those terms are defined in this Section.”<ref>https://jonathanturley.org/2021/05/19/mayor-lightfoot-facing-media-outcry-over-race-based-access-policy/</ref>}}
Amidst a firestorm of outrage Lightfoot attempted to defend her racist and anti-male policies: “As a woman of color, as a [[lesbian]], it’s important to me that [[diversity]] is put front and center.”<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/mayor-lightfoot-defends-racist-interview-policy-woman-color-lesbian-important-diversity-put-front-center-video/</ref> Lightfoot argued that racism and discrimination will make "the [[collective]] us do better."<ref>https://therightscoop.com/bigoted-lori-lightfoot-says-excluding-whites-will-make-us-better-tucker-says-equity-is-racism-guess-who-press-is-mad-at/</ref>

The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) and [[Judicial Watch]] filed suit, alleging the Chicago mayors stated racist policy violated DNCF reporter Thomas Caenacci's [[First Amendment]] and [[Fourteenth Amendment]] rights:
{{quotebox-float|"The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, alleges that Lightfoot’s denial violates the DCNF and Catenacci’s First Amendment rights and Catenacci’s right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.

“It’s absurd that an elected official believes she can discriminate on the basis of race,” DCNF Editor-in-Chief Ethan Barton said. “Mayor Lightfoot’s decision is clearly blocking press freedom through racial discrimination.”}}
Catenacci requested an interview with Lightfoot through her office on May 20 to talk about [[coronavirus]]-related issues like Chicago's lagging vaccination rate, how she'd rate her handling of the [[pandemic]] in comparison to other cities, etc. He followed up on May 21 and May 24 and did not receive a response. “By failing to respond in a timely manner, Mayor Lightfoot has denied Plaintiff Catenacci’s request,” the complaint alleges.

Further, the DCNF alleged “on information and belief” that Lightfoot was aware that Catenacci is white, and that because of that and her newly announced policy of interviewing only “journalists of color,” he was being denied the opportunity to sit down and interview her in his [[legal capacity|capacity]] as a [[journalist]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/27/daily-caller-news-foundation-lori-lightfoot-lawsuit/</ref>

====Murial Bowser====
Bowser is a [[racist]] who complained about all the foreign refugees flooding into Washington, D.C. during the [[Biden border crisis]].<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/democrat-dc-mayor-bowser-wants-biden-regime-stop-illegal-aliens-bussed-dc-video/</ref>

When [[Cuba]]n refugees longing to be free and their oppressed masses painted "Cuba Libre" on the street in front of the Cuban embassy in Washington, Bowser ordered the message to be immediately [[censor]]ed.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-mayor-removes-unauthorized-street-sign-supporting-cubas-anti-communist-protesters</ref>

====Katie Hobbs====
[[Katie Hobbs]] is the Arizona Democrat Secretary of State who oversaw the corrupt [[Maricopa county]] election theft in 2020. Hobbs was also the Democrat frontrunner for Arizona governor in the 2022 Democrat primary. A former staffer for Hobbs, Taloyna Adams, was awarded $2.75 million in a racial discrimination lawsuit. It was the second time a federal jury agreed Adams was the victim of racial and gender discrimination. The jury also found Adams was retaliated against because she questioned why she was earning less than others who did the same work.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/arizona-gubernatorial-candidate-katie-hobbs-loses-2-75-million-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-likely-lead-democrat-race-governor/</ref>

====Jill Biden====
[[File:Jill Biden racism.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Jill Biden insulted Hispanics calling them "tacos."<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2022/07/12/abcs-gma-skips-jill-bidens-disastrous-comment-comparing-latinos</ref>]]
First Birthing Person [[Jill Biden]] insulted [[Hispanic]]s in a public forum, calling them "tacos." The National Association of Hispanic Journalists issued a stinging rebuke, "We are not tacos."

===Biden advisors===
''Politico'' reported,
{{quotebox-float|"Some of [Kamala] Harris’s advisers believed the president’s almost [[white privilege|entirely white]] inner circle did not show the vice president the respect she deserved,” Martin and Burns write. “Harris worried that Biden’s staff looked down on her; she fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious.”

At one point, Harris dispatched [incoming chief of staff Tina] Flournoy to talk to top Biden adviser [[Anita Dunn|ANITA DUNN]] to convey displeasure that White House staff was not standing up for Harris when she entered the room the way they did for Biden. “The vice president took it as a sign of disrespect,” according to the excerpt.<ref>https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2022/03/22/when-anna-wintour-pissed-off-kamala-00019368</ref>}}

===Capitol false flag attack===
[[File:Beatty and Sarsour.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Capitol insurrectionists Joyce Beatty and Linda Sarsour.]]
{{See also|United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Protests|Two-tier justice system}}
[[Congressional Black Caucus]] members [[Joyce Beatty]]<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/16/dem-congresswoman-chair-of-black-caucus-arrested-for-storming-senate-building-leading-insurgents-1104360/</ref> and [[Hank Johnson]],<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/23/another-democrat-lawmaker-arrested-on-capitol-hill-for-leading-march-into-building-so-insurrection-1107462/</ref> along with jihdist [[Linda Sarsour]],<ref>[https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/civil-rights-activist-linda-sarsour-is-being-arrested-by-a-news-photo/1328937385 Activists Demonstrate Against State Level Republicans Trying To Pass Restrictive Voting Rights Laws], July 15, 2021</ref> were arrested with mobs of insurrectionists after storming [[U.S. Capitol building]]. Sarsour declared [[jihad]] against the United States government in 2017.<ref>https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Linda-Sarsour-calls-for-jihad-against-American-government-499039</ref> In 2018, Sarsour was arrested for leading insurrectionists into the offices of the [[Speaker of the House]]<ref>https://www.theunitedwest.org/2018/03/08/linda-sarsour-arrested-at-the-us-capitol</ref> and again at the [[Kavanaugh hearings insurrection]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Sabrina|last=Siddiqui|title=[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/04/brett-kavanaugh-protests-disrupt-senate-supreme-court-hearing Brett Kavanaugh: protests disrupt Senate supreme court hearing]|date=September 5, 2018|work=The Guardian}}</ref>

The Pelosi Panel was a [[partisan]] [[witchhunt]] and [[demonization]] project formed by [[San Francisco values|San Francisco]] [[Democrat]] Rep. Nancy Pelosi when the [[United States Senate]] and Joe Biden<ref>https://www.axios.com/biden-jan-6-commission-67eb120f-5c0b-48e6-be77-08158ef94441.html</ref> rejected the idea of a [[bipartisan]] commission to investigate the [[2021 Capitol insurrection hoax]].<ref>https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-senate-votes-block-panel-probe-capitol-riot</ref> While first offering Republicans to participate, Pelosi booted off Republican members<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-rejects-jordan-and-banks-for-jan-6-committee-as-house-gop-says-it-will-launch-its-own-investigation-194806464.html</ref> and named one of her own hand-selected Republican [[NeverTrump]]ers to give it the appearance of bipartisanship. Pelosi did not want to answer questions about her own involvement in rejecting National Guard security in the days before the January 6 fiasco.<ref>https://freedomjournalist.com/it-was-a-set-up-both-dc-mayor-pelosi-turned-down-national-guard-on-jan-6/</ref>

==Political positions==
:{{See also|Democrat urban issues}}
<center>{{cquote|<big>We choose truth over facts.</big>|||[[Joseph Biden#Segregation|Segregation]]ist and former V.P. [[Joseph Biden]].}}</center>
[[File:Davell Gardner Jr.png|right|200px|thumb|1 year old Davell Gardner, Jr. was murdered by "peaceful" [[Black Lives Matter]] protesters<ref>https://youtu.be/NGBSCJ0dyyU</ref> while in his stroller after Democrats cut $1 billion from the New York Police Department.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/13/go-to-hell-gardner-family-slain-toddler-tells-killers/</ref>]]
Virtually all political positions, foreign and domestic, have been determined by how it redounds to the expansion of the civil service workforce, state and federal, and to the benefit of the existing civil service. This has been historically true since passage of the Civil Service Act in 1882, and was the basis of the Jacksonian [[spoils system]] and founding of the party. Democrat candidates campaign on, and Democrats voters vote for, government jobs and goodies and who will be called upon to hand out money from the public treasury. All policy discussion and decisions regarding national security, foreign policy, and domestic programs are based upon this basic tenet of controlling and expanding the power of the civil service workforce.

Half of all homeless persons in America live in the blue state of California, which has enacted voter suppression legislation against Republicans to keep President Trump off the ballot. Although unemployment is at record lows, blue states still lead the nation in crime and homelessness.

The Democratic party has persistently attempted to restrict gun ownership rights of blacks, Hispanics, and all other minorities at all levels, state and federal.<ref>https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1534&context=faculty_scholarship</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tOilPSHaM&list=PLuq9rBpmQwBRX_EExUHbChmECDSUf8dD0 Black Gun Owners SHRED Media Narrative About 'White Nationalist' Gun Rally]</ref> Democrats seek to disarm Blacks, where only cops and criminals have guns.

A key tenet of the modern Democratic party is, 'Diversity is our strength, provided that you are not [[Russian]].'

===Crime===
{{See also|Smash-and-grab}}
[[File:2020_leftist_insurrection.png|right|300px|thumb|Year-over-year increase in the Murder Rate in Democrat run cities during the 2020 [[U.S. Color Revolution]].]]
In Democrat-run cities crime has spiraled out control.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/news/democrat-run-cities-with-soros-backed-das-are-watching-crime-spiral-out-control/</ref> At least 16 major U.S. cities broke their annual homicide records in 2021, [[Philadelphia]], St. Paul, [[Portland]], Indianapolis, Tucson, [[Louisville]], Toledo, Baton Rouge, Austin, Columbus, Rochester, Albuquerque, [[Atlanta]], Jackson, Macon and New Haven.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/cities-record-homicides-2021</ref><ref>https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/its-like-the-purge-murder-records-are-being-shattered-all-over-america-and-next-year-could-be-even-worse/</ref> Houston, Oakland, Greensboro and Memphis are also neared record homicide highs in 2021.

New York City Council Member Antonio Reynoso (D) introduced a bill to abolish the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) gang database as gang crime reached a new high throughout the city. By October 2021, more than 100 children under 18 years old were involved in street-gang related shootings. Almost all of the children killed in gang-related violence in New York City are minorities, predominantly black. A police source told the ''New York Post'' that, “the gangs are eating these kids alive.”

In December 2020 Los Angeles District Attorney (LADA) George Gascon (D) entered office and released his plans to significantly downsize and dissolve LA County’s hardcore gangs unit. When entering office, Gascon immediately prevented his prosecutors from seeking the death penalty or issuing a cash bail for non-violent criminals. Steve Cooley, the former LADA, referred to Gascon as a “functional outlaw… basically, George Gascon is a George Soros puppet, and that is dangerous.” When Gascon’s plans coupled with two California Propositions (47 & 57) and Assembly Bill 109, the limited policing on gangs led to an immediate explosion in gang activity from prematurely-released violent gang-affiliated felons.

In 2019, Los Angeles was statistically one of the safest cities in the United States. Homicides dropped to 5 per 100,000 people, and violent crime was at 560 per 100,000. Less than a year into his tenure as District Attorney, violent crime, attacks and robberies of citizens, animal cruelty, and heightened rates of human trafficking throughout Southern California have risen. Between 2019 and 2021, homicide rose 116 percent, aggravated assault increased 19.9 percent, vehicular theft rose 24 percent, with a 224 percent increase in individuals being shot. By February 2021, gang-related homicides were up 266.7 percent and gang-related shootings increased 133.3 percent. Attacks on police officers also rose 300 percent in the first 18 days of January 2021 when compared to the same time period in 2020.

The pandemic emptied parts of San Francisco and highlighted some of its drawbacks: human and dog feces smeared across sidewalks, home and vehicle break-ins, overflowing trash cans, and a laissez-faire approach by officials to brazen drug dealing. Parents despaired as public schools stayed closed for most of 2021 as nearby districts welcomed children back to the classroom. Drug dealers carry translucent bags filled with crystal-like rocks or stand outside the public library’s main branch, flashing wads of cash while peddling heroin and methamphetamine. The number of people that died from drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2021 was nearly three times as high as the number that died from COVID.

Often, the worst criminals dress in suits and walk the halls of power. For example, a CNN producer was charged with luring a mother and her nine-year-old daughter to a rental home in Vermont for ‘sexual subservience’ training also told someone else he’d ‘trained’ girls as young as seven. John Griffin, a producer on CNN’s New Day and worked for [[Chris Cuomo]], was charged by federal prosecutors in Vermont who say he paid for sex with underage girls, including one whose mother he convinced into letting her visit him.

314 police officers were shot in 2021. Meanwhile, the mainstream media and leftist groups continue to relentlessly demonize the police, driving good people out of the profession in record numbers. A workforce survey released in June 2021 by the Police Executive Research Forum found the retirement rate in police departments nationwide jumped 45% over 2020 and 2021. And another 18% of officers resigned, the survey found, a development which coincided with nationwide social justice protests and calls to defund the police.

===Critical race theory===
:{{See also|Critical theory}}
[[Derrick Bell]],<ref>https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/derrick-bell/</ref> [[Barack Obama]]’s favorite [[Harvard]] professor, devised Critical Race Theory,<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/critical-race-theorys-toxic-destructive-impact-on-america</ref> which exemplifies Lenin’s strategy as applied to race. According to Discover the Networks:
{{quotebox-float|Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently the nation’s legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid … members of “oppressed” racial groups are entitled—in fact obligated—to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing. …}}
[[File:Rules-for-radicals-Obama-tribe-and-cabinet-768x456.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
Bell’s theory is in turn an innovation of [[Critical Theory]], which was developed by Marxist thinkers of the [[Frankfurt School]] in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923. The Institute’s left-wing scholars fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, relocating to [[Columbia University]] in New York. Critical Theory, which discredits all aspects of Western society, we know today as [[political correctness]]. One of its most famous purveyors was the Frankfurt School’s [[Herbert Marcuse]], longtime associate of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]’s [[Julian Bond]]. Marcuse invented the concept of “partisan tolerance,” that is, [[tolerance]] for leftist ideas and [[intolerance]] of all others. The Southern Poverty Law Center applied Marcuse's strategy in developing its “Hate Watch” list, and ''[[Rules for Radicals]]'' author [[Saul Alinsky]] used it in his own life's work.

The “racist” narrative was turbocharged with the concept of “White Privilege,” the notion that whites—the dominant [[demographic]] group in capitalist America—are irretrievably racist, [[sexist]], [[homophobic]], [[xenophobic]], [[imperialist]]ic oppressors who exploit everyone. Whites are the only true [[evil]] in the world and should be exterminated. “Dr. Kamau Kambon, who taught Africana Studies 241 in the Spring 2005 semester at North Carolina State University, also said this needs to be done ‘because white people want to kill us.’”<ref>''[https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/activist-exterminate-white-people/ Activist: exterminate white people],'' by Jon Sanders, Carolina Journal, Oct. 21, 2015.</ref>

The “White Skin Privilege” idea was created in 1967 by [[Noel Ignatiev]],<ref>Fernando, Ivan (November 18, 2013). [http://diversitychronicle.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/progressive-professor-urges-white-male-students-to-commit-suicide-during-class/ "Progressive professor urges white male students to commit suicide during class"]. Diversity Chronicle website.</ref> an acolyte of Derrick Bell and professor at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. Ignatiev was a member of the [[Communist Party USA]]’s most radical wing, the Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party from 1958–66. The Provisional Organizing Committee was the intellectual forerunner to the [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]], a [[Vanguardism|vanguard]] group. Writing under the alias Noel Ignatin, Ignatiev co-authored a [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) pamphlet with fellow radical Ted Allen titled, ''White Blindspot''. In 1992 he co-founded ''Race Traitor: Journal of the New Abolitionism''. Its first issue coined the slogan “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” Its stated objective was to “abolish the white race.” More specifically, the ''New Abolitionist'' newsletter declared:
{{quotebox-float|The way to abolish the white race is to challenge, disrupt and eventually overturn the institutions and behavior patterns that reproduce the privileges of whiteness, including the schools, job and housing markets, and the criminal justice system. The abolitionists do not limit themselves to socially acceptable means of protest, but reject in advance no means of attaining their goal.<ref>https://capitalresearch.org/article/blm-roots/</ref>}}
===Racist travel ban===

Regime chief propagandist [[Jen Psaki]] refused to answer questions about Biden's racist travel ban on Africans travelling from Black African countries. When Simon Ateba, a black African reporter with ''Today News Africa'', attempted to question Psaki about the racist motivations behind the travel ban on black Africans, Psaki ignored Ateba in favor of a sympathetic white liberal reporter.<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/news/psaki-repeatedly-shuts-down-today-news-africa-reporter-for-shouting-questions-about-omicron-at-briefing/</ref> Ateba was persistent, and wanted to know why with no cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant in [[Zimbabwe]], [[Namibia]], [[Lesotho]], and [[Mozambique]], what justified the travel ban on countries with zero cases of the variant. Ateba asked, “What would you say to those who believe that this is a racist ban, that it is only on African and black African nations?”<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/african-reporter-confronts-jen-psaki-on-bidens-racist-covid-travel-ban/</ref>

Psaki couldn't answer the question and scolded Ateba about decorum, telling him to learn his place by watching his white counterparts.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/african-reporter-that-psaki-scolded-about-decorum-says-biden-is-disrespecting-africa-which-is-mostly-brown-black/</ref> According to ''Fox News'', Ateba said,
[[File:Ateba Psaki.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Psaki made rude and disparaging comments toward Simon Ateba of ''Today Africa News''.]]
{{quotebox-float|"The travel ban was built on a lie. The president on November 26 [2021] banned 8 African countries. Only 2 of those countries had any case of the omicron variant.”

Ateba, a native of [[Cameroon]] according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, went on to question the supposed [[science]] behind Biden’s ban, pointing to Namibia, a small country on the continent’s Atlantic coast. The nation of 2.5 million people registered only 400 cases of COVID-19 since the virus’ inception, he said, but yet Biden essentially punished them anyway.

“There’s total chaos: People can’t travel to Namibia, Zimbabwe [or] Mozambique, yet they have zero cases. So I don’t believe I was the one being disrespectful. I think Africa was disrespected, by banning countries based on a lie,” he said, referencing claims by Psaki he was being disrespectful of his fellow White House reporters."<ref>https://rumble.com/vq7lll-african-journalist-biden-is-disrespecting-africa-with-a-travel-ban-based-on.html</ref>}}
===Mandatory vasectomies===
Rep. Mickey Dollens of Oklahoma introduced a bill to mandate vasectomies for boys when they reach [[puberty]].<ref>https://youtu.be/9IIOskpHGpA</ref>

==Ideology==
The Democratic party's failed [[Trump-Russia collusion hoax]] destroyed the American people's faith in [[mainstream media]] news coverage and brought a cloud over the perception of the American system of government throughout much of the world.

In 2020, elected Democrat mayors and governors threatened with arrest citizens going to church, funerals, graduation parties, or even playing with their children in public parks while giving license to violent leftwing mobs to riot, loot, burn down churches and shopping districts in minority communities, take taxpayers hostage in broad sections of a city, and to murder innocent people, including the police. When an armed mob of leftist insurrectionists took over and occupied a seven square block area of [[Seattle]], local and state elected Democrat officials did not respond to requests from citizens and taxpayers to protect property and liberate from oppression 8,000 residents held hostage. The DNC partners with the [[Antifa]] [[terrorist]] organization for fundraising.<ref>https://noqreport.com/2020/07/19/action-network-bonds-antifa-blm-riots-and-dnc-at-the-hip/</ref>

The party is pro-infanticide, pro-[[illegal immigrant]] rights over American citizens,<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/07/03/fareed-zakaria-current-immigration-crisis-caused-people-gaming-asylum-laws/</ref> [[pro-abortion]], anti-capitalist and anti-[[free enterprise]], supports confiscatory taxation, resource redistribution, wealth transfer from American citizens to illegal immigrants,<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2018/02/26/how-american-citizens-finance-health-care-for-undocumented-immigrants/#2185177612c4</ref> abuse of asylum laws,<ref>https://www.westernjournal.com/hermancain/pelosi-deeply-disappointed-deal-mexico-reduces-abuse-u-s-asylum-laws/</ref><ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/06/20/democrats-have-zero-tolerance-for-illegal-immigration-solutions/</ref> [[single party]] [[socialism]], election cheating, rigged nomination and election process, dictatorial regulation by unelected partisan [[Civil service system|civil servants]], anti-First, Second, Fourth and Fifth Amendments opposing [[due process]] rights of the accused, and a dictatorial central controlling government. Democrats are anti-free speech, religion, the Constitutional electoral process, [[separation of powers]], and advocate court-packing. Elected Democrat officials have refused to protect the lives and property of citizen taxpayers who voted for them, paid for emergency police, fire, and medical services, and pay their salary.

Democrats have become [[radical]]ized, [[elitism|elitist]], have abandoned the interests of working people, and their leaders have endorsed violence to promote "change." By contrast, the [[Republican Party]] is generally [[pro-life]] and pro-free enterprise, supporting lower taxes, gun rights, individual liberty, small responsible government,<ref>http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican#Role_of_Government</ref> tolerance, the two party system, and the free, open exchange of ideas.

===Marxist takeover===
[[File:BLM terrorist incidents.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|A ''[[Time magazine]]'' survey found 570 far-left insurrections in 220 cities across the United States between May 24, 2020 and August 22, 2020.<ref>https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/</ref>]]
:{{See also|Cancel culture}}
In March 2021 when a slate of [[Democratic Socialists of America]] took over the leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, sweeping all five party leadership positions, the party's executive director, staff, consultants, and every other employee resigned.<ref>https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nevada-democratic-party-dsa/</ref>

The national party has won the praise of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America|Communist Party USA]]<ref>Varney, James (June 19, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/19/communist-party-usa-praises-democrat-policy-shifts/ Communist Party, USA praises Democrats' policy shifts ahead of centennial celebration]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved June 19, 2019. See also:
*Chumley, Cheryl K. (January 29, 2015). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/29/communist-party-usa-working-with-the-democratic-pa/ Communist Party USA: 'Working with the Democratic Party' is key]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved September 26, 2019.</ref> and is dominated by [[progressive]] [[Millennial]]s indoctrinated with [[Cultural Marxism]] from [[public school]]s and state universities.<ref>https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5439334O</ref> [[Violence]], [[Anti-Semitism]], [[intolerance]], [[gender psychosis]], [[infanticide]], promoting [[racial]] divisiveness, pandering, [[patronage]], [[censorship]], eliminating beef from the American diet, and tearing down America's automobile and airline infrastructure have replaced justice, fairness, tolerance and economic wellbeing as priority issues. The party rejects God and claims [[science]] is the ultimate determiner of truth yet rejects the scientific fact that medical treatment cannot turn a man into a woman. The party has adopted the [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] position that [[reparations|slave reparations]], a [[universal basic income]], and [[single payer|single payer healthcare]] will reduce [[global warming|carbon emissions]].<ref>See [[Green New Deal]].</ref> [[Labor union]]s, which once formed the backbone of the [[New Deal]] and [[Great Society]] coalitions, have been decimated by [[globalism]]. Working peoples' jobs have been shipped overseas to promote "[[equality]]" with the "[[Third World]]."<ref>If "Third World" is a "racist code word" as some progressives contend, it was coined by liberal academics, United Nations experts, and globalists during the [[Cold War]].</ref> Formerly industrious working families have been pacified by [[big government]] and taxpayer-supported narcotic addiction with [[opioid]]s, which Democrats claim to be a fundamental "human right."

Political observers and news sources have referred to the Democrat Party as more of a criminal organization (and in at least one case, even a domestic terrorist organization<ref>[https://drhurd.com/2020/06/07/the-democratic-party-is-now-a-terrorist-organization/ The Democratic Party is Now a Terrorist Organization]</ref>)
than an actual political party because of its history of corruption, racism, hate, lawlessness (including their ignorance of the Constitution except where convenient to them), anti-Americanism (including collusion with anti-American foreign and domestic enemies), lack of regard for life, lack of regard for civil rights (except where and when convenient to them alone) and fomentation of anarchy and insurrection against the United States,<ref>Multiple sources:
*[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/a_criminal_enterprise_aka_the_democratic_party.html A Criminal Enterprise, a.k.a. the Democratic Party] at the American Thinker
*[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/the_democrats_a_corrupt_insane_posse_masquerading_as_a_political_party.html The Democrats: A Corrupt, Insane Posse Masquerading as a Political Party] at the American Thinker
*[https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/michael-walsh/2016/08/16/the-democrats-a-criminal-organization-n47572 The Democrats: A Criminal Organization...]
*[https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/democratic-party-is-a-criminal-corrupt-organization Democratic Party is a criminal corrupt organization] at Fellowship of the Minds
*[https://www.wnd.com/2012/07/ex-time-editor-dem-party-criminal-organization/ Ex-Time editor: Dem Party 'criminal organization'] at WorldNetDaily
*[http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/caruba/131017 A criminal enterprise called the Democratic Party]
*[https://canadafreepress.com/article/a-citizens-indictment Democratic Party has become a Continuing Criminal Enterprise] at Canada Free Press
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJJBdN2QgA The Democratic Party is America's largest criminal organization] at Josh Bernstein YouTube channel
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypr11PvaCpI Glen Beck identifies largest criminal organization in US history, the National Democrat Party] at DrWrongPaul YouTube channel
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w994YjfJbqk Democrats are a Criminal Organization | The Andrew Klavan Show Ep. 938] at the Daily Wire YouTube channel
*[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-biden-harris-democrats-pro-criminal Tucker Carlson accuses Biden, Harris of embracing 'the Democratic Party's new pro-criminal agenda'] at Fox News</ref> and have criticized the Democrats as a whole for their refusal to take any responsibility for their actions and [[liberal projection|to accuse the Republican Party and its supporters]] of exactly what the Democrats are guilty of, including playing the [[historical revisionism]] card with the American public<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/ Whitewashing the Democratic Party’s History] at the National Review</ref><ref>[https://ammo.com/articles/jim-crow-laws-democrat-party-century-of-racist-history Democrats & Jim Crow: A Century of Racist History the Democratic Party Prefers You'd Forget]</ref> and using a willing and complicit [[liberal media]] to do so. Even President [[Donald Trump]] has referred to the Democrats as the party of crime because of its support for defunding (and in some cases, abolishing) local police forces and giving domestic terrorist groups such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter free reign to engage in violent rioting, commit crimes against the public and basically do as they please with impunity.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhwBo9_8Qn8 "Democrats have become the party of crime!" President Trump]</ref><ref>[https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-immigration/democratic-party-domestic-terrorist-organization-dnc-connections-china-terrorists-and-cartels-part The Democratic Party Is a Domestic Terrorist Organization-DNC Connections to China, Terrorists and the Cartels (Part 3)]</ref>

[[File:Racist Democrats.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|[[Marxist]] [[white supremacist]]s defaced the Monument to the all-volunteer Black 54th Massachusetts Regiment of Union Soldiers in the [[Civil War]].]]

===Leftwing violence===

:{{See also|Leftwing violence under the Biden junta|Anti-Asian hate crime}}
[[Kamala Harris]] referred to the BLM/Anifa violence over the Summer of 2020 leaving many dead, tens of millions of dollars in property damages and businesses and livelihoods destroyed as “brilliant” and “an essential component or mark of a real [[democracy]]."<ref>https://nypost.com/2020/09/26/kamala-harris-blasted-for-praising-blm-as-essential-and-brilliant-amid-violence/</ref> Many of the alleged "peaceful protesters" of the 2020 insurrectionary riots were indeed convicted criminals,<ref>https://meaww.com/will-gaige-grosskreutz-maurice-freeland-and-ziminski-be-charged-after-rittenhouse-verdict</ref> including persons convicted of child rape, domestic abuse, firearms violations, arson, residential burglary and other crimes.<ref>https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/2021/03/12/kenosha-shooting/</ref>

[[Connor Betts]], dressed in all black, killed 9 people including several [[African American]]s and injured 27 in a [[Dayton shooting|shooting at a Dayton, Ohio restaurant]]. He described himself on his Twitter account page as "leftist / i’m going to hell and i’m not coming back.” He wrote on Twitter that he would happily vote for Democrat [[Elizabeth Warren]], praised [[Satan]], was upset about the [[2016 presidential election]] results, and added, “I want [[socialism]], and i’ll not wait for the idiots to finally come round to understanding.” The Greene County Board of Elections lists his party as “Dem.”<ref>https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-betts/</ref>

Patrick Crausius, a 21 year old registered [[Democrat]]<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/leftists-change-shooter-patrick-crusiuss-mylife-page-after-saturday-shooting-from-democrat-to-republican/</ref> [[El Paso Walmart shooting|killed 20 people and injured 26 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas]]. The shooter was a supporter of universal healthcare, universal basic income, racist, [[environmentalist]] and [[zero sum]] anti-corporate anti-[[economic growth]] policies. In a manifesto the shooter wrote,<ref>[https://www.paypervids.com/alleged-el-paso-texas-walmart-shooter-manifesto/ ]</ref>
[[File:2021 crime increases in Democrat cities.jpg|right|</ref>300px|thumb|]]
:*''"The inconvenient truth is that our leaders, both Democrat AND Republican, have been failing us for decades. They are either complacent or involved in one of the biggest betrayals of the American public in our history. The takeover of the United States government by unchecked corporations."''
:*''"America will have to initiate a basic universal income to prevent widespread poverty and civil unrest as people lose their jobs.."''
:*''"Achieving ambitious social projects like [[universal healthcare]] and [[UBI]] would become far more likely to succeed if tens of millions of dependents are removed."''
:*''"immigration will make one of the biggest issues of our time, [[automation]], so much worse. Some sources say that in under two decades, half of American jobs will be lost to it."''
:*''"our lifestyle Is destroying the environment of our country. The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations. Corporations are heading the destruction of our environment by shamelessly overharvesting resources."''
:*''"Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste.... We even use god knows how many trees worth of paper towels just wipe water off our hands. ... The government is unwilling to tackle these issues beyond empty promises since they are owned by corporations. Corporations that also like immigration because more people means a bigger market for their products. ... So the next logical step is to decrease the number of people in America using resources."''
:*''"This will also make the elites that run corporations realize that it’s not in their interest to continue piss off Americans. Corporate America doesn’t need to be destroyed, but just shown that they are on the wrong side of history."''
:*''"the idea of deporting or murdering all non-white Americans is horrific. Many have been here at least as long as the whites, and have done as much to build our country. The best solution to this for now would be to divide America into a confederacy of territories with at least one territory for each race. "''
:*''"I know that the media will probably call me a white supremacist anyway and blame Trump’s rhetoric. The media is infamous for [[fake news]]. Their reaction to this attack will likely just confirm that."''

Republican Rep. [[Steve Scalise]] and five others were shot by [[Bernie Sanders]] volunteer James Hodgkinson prior to a congressional charitable event. Hodgkinson had a list of names of the Republican lawmakers he wanted to [[murder]].<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/16/scalise-shooter-had-list-lawmakers-names-in-his-pocket.html Scalise shooter James Hodgkinson had list of Republican lawmakers' names]. ''Fox News''. June 16, 2017. Retrieved June 18, 2017.</ref> After the shooting, a Democrat strategist created the hashtag #HuntRepublicanCongressmen and voiced hate statements against Republicans.<ref>Shaw, Adam (June 17, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/17/dem-strategist-devine-launches-huntrepublicancongressmen-scalise-shooting/ Dem Strategist James Devine Launches Hashtag #HuntRepublicanCongressmen After Steve Scalise Shooting]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 18, 2017.</ref><ref>Chasmar, Jessica (June 21, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/21/jim-devine-dem-strategist-behind-huntrepublicans-r/ Dem strategist behind #HuntRepublicans tweets about Handel victory: ‘Time for hunting’]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved June 22, 2017.</ref> Republican Rep. [[Claudia Tenney]] received an email threat that read, “One down, 216 to go,” shortly after the shooting.<ref>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/216-new-york-rep-threatened-shooting-article-1.3247736</ref>

Black people represented a massive share of murder victims in six major cities through the first six months of 2021 compared to 2020, which itself saw a large crime surge, according to data analyzed by the ''Daily Caller News Foundation''.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/homicides-have-skyrocketed-in-these-six-democratic-cities-black-people-are-disproportionately-the-victims-data-shows_3872643.html</ref>

===Support for terrorism===
Pamela Keith unsuccessfully ran for Florida’s 18th Congressional district in the 2018 midterms and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate in the Florida Senate race of 2016. Keith tweeted during commemorations for the 2,977 murdered American victims in the 9/11 terror attacks, “On 1/6/2021, 9/11/2001 ceased being the worst thing that happened to America in my lifetime. It’s really weird and painful to process and say that. But it’s the truth. And quite frankly… it’s not even close.”<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/09/11/democratic-congressional-candidates-tweet-on-911-not-even-close-that-1621-worse-than-91101-n2595729</ref>

===Democrat racism, intolerance and bigotry===

:{{See also|Blexit}}
The Democrat Party has normalized<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/07/democratic-party-has-normalized-anti-semitism/ The Democratic Party Has Normalized Anti-Semitism], David Harsany, ''The Federalist'', March 7, 2019.</ref> and become the home of modern anti-Semitism in America.<ref>Murphy, James (March 8, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/31685-do-democrats-have-an-anti-semitism-problem Do Democrats Have an Anti-Semitism Problem?] ''The New American''. Retrieved March 8, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.jns.org/opinion/anti-semitism-has-a-history-in-the-democratic-party/ Anti-Semitism has a history in the Democratic Party], Diane Bederman, Jews News Syndicate, March 20, 2019.</ref> After making statements critical of the [[Obama]] and Trump administration's handling of migrants,<ref name="ushmm.org">https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/statement-regarding-the-museums-position-on-holocaust-analogies</ref> Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] was condemned by the United States Holocaust Museum for mocking the deaths of [[Nazi]] [[holocaust]] victims.<ref name="ushmm.org"/><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/24/holocaust-museum-comparisons/</ref>
[[File:Farrakhanclinton.jpg|left|350ox|thumb|Democrats push anti-Semitism into the mainstream. [[Al Sharpton]], [[Jesse Jackson]] and [[Bill Clinton]] appear on stage with notorious anti-Semite [[Louis Farrakhan]], September 2018. Within a month, America suffered the worst mass killing of Jews in its history at the Tree of Life synagogue in [[Pittsburgh]].<ref>https://www.jta.org/2018/09/07/news-opinion/bill-clinton-shared-stage-louis-farrakhan-aretha-franklins-funeral</ref>]]
Ettie Kryksman writing in the ''Times of Israel'' noted:
{{quotebox-float|"there is scant protest coming from within the Democratic Party of Democratic Officials and activists, who see no shame in hobnobbing with avowed [[antisemite]]s. The Democratic Party that condones this behavior either vocally or tacitly in their silence, is no longer a welcoming place for [[Jew]]s. Where are the voices of the Leftist Jews condemning the antisemitism that has hijacked the Democratic Party? Are Jewish [[Democrat]]s willing to tolerate and excuse the rise of antisemitism in their party? Has [[Judaism]] for them become so politicized that it has been replaced by [[Liberalism]]? The distinction between the two is lost when Jews ignore the antisemitism that has invaded the Democratic Party's leadership. The widespread antisemitism in the Democratic Party, has manifested itself... [Linda] Sarsour was later championed by Democratic Senator [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] who thought Sarsour was a wonderful role model for all women. Democratic rallies shout anti Israel slogans against the "[[apartheid]] state of [[Israel]]." Pro Israel speakers are shouted down at college campuses by [[progressive]] [[leftist]]s, who refuse to allow them to speak. Events are canceled as event organizers yield to [[bullying]].<ref>[https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/antisemitism-and-the-democratic-party-time-for-jews-to-wake-up/ Antisemitism and the Democratic Party: Time for Jews to Wake Up], Ettie Kryksman, ''Times of Israel'', April 10, 2018.</ref>}} The [[U.S. State Department]] has on its website as part of its definition of anti-Semitism: {{quotebox-float| Making mendacious, dehumanizing, [[demonizing]], or [[stereotype|stereotypical]] allegations about [[Jew]]s as such or the power of Jews as [[collective]] — such as, especially but not exclusively, the [[myth]] about a world Jewish [[conspiracy]] or of Jews controlling the [[media]], [[economy]], [[government]] or other societal institutions.<ref>https://www.state.gov/s/rga/resources/267538.htm</ref>}}
[[File:Trump-antisemitic-3.jpg|right|350px|thumb|A blatantly [[anti-Semitic]] cartoon depicting [[Israel]]i [[Prime Minister]] [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] as a guide dog with a [[Star of David]] collar leading a blind [[President Trump]] wearing a skullcap. The cartoon accompanied an op-ed published 4/25/19 in the International Edition of the ''New York Times''.<ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/440957-ny-times-opinion-apologizes-for-cartoon-depicting-anti-semitic-tropes</ref> Two days later, a Trump-hater shot up a California [[synagogue]], killing one and injuring several. The shooter left a manifesto calling President Trump a “Zionist, Anti-White, Traitorous, C*********.”<ref>http://archive.is/9rV3Y</ref>]]
DNC Vice Chair Keith Ellison met with the antisemitic [[UK]] [[Labour party]] leader [[Jeremy Corbyn]].<ref>https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/1146183139506708480</ref> The Democratic-controlled [[House of Representatives]], under [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]], refused to pass a resolution rebuking Rep. Ilhan Omar for a persistent pattern of anti-Semitic statements.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-resolution-indirectly-calling-out-omars-anti-semitic-comments-without-mentioning-her-name</ref><ref>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/house-democrats-anti-hate-resolution-anti-semitism-islamophobia-ilhan-omar.html</ref> Omar received support from [[Ku Klux Klan]] Grand Wizard and former Democrat presidential candidate [[David Duke]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/07/david-duke-ilhan-omar-important-congress/</ref> The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] ignored the anti-Semitic [[hate speech]] by Democrat members of Congress. Imam Omar Suleiman, who has called for the destruction of the State of Israel, was invited to deliver the noon prayer in the House of Representatives. The imam had been invited by Rep. [[Eddie Bernice Johnson]] of Texas. (D–TX).<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/15/democrats-behest-terrorist-friendly-imam-gives-prayer-congress/</ref> [[Valerie Plame]] announced her candidacy for the House. Plame promoted anti-Semitic materials on Twitter, a scandal that forced her resignation from the Ploughshares Fund.<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/13/coverage-valerie-plames-run-congress-ignores-anti-semitism/ Coverage Of Valerie Plame’s Run For Congress Ignores Her Anti-Semitism], By Warren Henry, ''The Federalist'', May 13, 2019.</ref>

Georgia Democrat house minority leader Erica Thomas claimed a white man told her to "Go back where you came from" while standing in a supermarket express lane. The man, a [[Cuba]]n American, loyal Democrat straight party line voter who hates Trump, supports [[the Squad]], and once Tweeted that Trump should go back to Germany, denied the accusation. Thomas later recanted her claim.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxbH13jn3NY</ref><ref>Nieto, Phillip (July 21, 2019). [https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/21/georgia-lawmaker-caught-lying-racist-encounter/ Georgia Democratic Lawmaker Appears To Be Caught Lying About Alleged Racist Encounter]. ''The Daily Caller''. Retrieved July 21, 2019.</ref><ref>Bufkin, Ellie (July 21, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/georgia-state-rep-erica-thomas-backtracks-on-racism-accusations Georgia state Rep. Erica Thomas backtracks on racism accusations]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved July 21, 2019.</ref><ref>Nolte, John (July 22, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/22/nolte-media-blame-trump-for-grocery-store-spat-between-two-democrats/ Nolte: Media Blame Trump for Grocery Store Spat Between Two Democrats]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 22, 2019.</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGC7y9BtHA</ref> A store clerk employee then came forward alleging Thomas herself told the Cuban to go back to where he came from.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOEW-XDMzg</ref>

Some Democrat politicians elected to Congress in 2018 were vocal in ridiculing Christians.<ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (December 13, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/30918-the-democratic-party-s-new-face-congressional-muslims-who-ridicule-christians-and-more The Democratic Party’s New Face: Congressional Muslims Who Ridicule Christians and More]. ''The New American''. Retrieved December 13, 2018.</ref><ref name="breitbart.com">Pollak, Joel B. (December 15, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/15/ilhan-omar-trolls-mike-pence-jesus-take-the-wheel/ Ilhan Omar Trolls Mike Pence: ‘Jesus Take the Wheel’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 16, 2018.</ref> A man was arrested for burning several historically Black churches in [[Louisiana]]. The suspect was heavily involved in anti-Christian music, [[satanism]] and [[paganism]]. In a [[Colorado]] high school shooting, a [[gender confusion|gender-confused]] registered Democrat and Barack Obama fan killed one person and injured nine others in deranged rampage.<ref>https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/devon-erickson-devin/</ref> A Democrat charged with pedophilia won a primary vote against an incumbent who supported [[Virginia]]'s racist Democrat Governor Ralph Northam.<ref>[https://freebeacon.com/politics/virginia-democrat-charged-with-sex-with-a-minor-wins-primary-for-state-senate/ Virginia Democrat Who Was Charged With Sex With a Minor Wins Primary]</ref> The national Democratic Governors Association (DGA) contributed over $6 million to Northam's campaign and praised him after near universal calls for his resignation.<ref>https://twitter.com/DemGovs/status/1149367001363701761</ref> Travis County [[Texas]] Municipal Judge Sarah Eckhard mocked a disabled person in a wheelchair at a leftist gathering in the capital city of Austin; Texas Gov.[[Greg Abbott]] was paralyzed when a tree fell on him, and pretending to be an [[environmentalist]], Judge Eckard joked "Abbott hates trees cause one fell on him."<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/28/texas-democrat-forced-to-apologize-for-saying-gov-greg-abbott-hates-trees-because-one-fell-on-him/</ref> In [[Pennsylvania]], a Democrat state representative streamed on [[social media]] his harassment of a woman senior citizen praying outside an abortion clinic.<ref>https://www.tmn.today/2019/05/democrat-rep-harasses-elderly-woman-praying-outside-planned-parenthood/</ref>

In [[Kentucky]], voters overwhelmingly rejected the Democrats' racist agenda, electing the state's first black [[Attorney General]] and first Republican in 70 years, [[Daniel Cameron]]. Four years earlier, Kentucky voters elected conservative Republican Jenean Hampton as the state's first black statewide elected official, and the Republican governor they elected, [[Matt Bevin]], had adopted four children from Ethiopia.

===Anti-semitism===
:{{See also|Left-wing Anti-Semitism}}
[[File:New logo for the Democratic party.PNG|175px|right|thumb|]]
Rep. [[Rashida Tlaib]] supports the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions|BDS movement]].<ref>Chasmar, Jessica (December 4, 2018). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/4/rashida-tlaib-newly-elected-democrat-endorses-anti/ Democratic Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib endorses anti-Israel BDS movement]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 5, 2019.</ref> Tlaib made a [[Liberal bigotry|bigoted]] tweet accusing Jewish-Americans of having divided loyalties, an attack frequently made by anti-Semites.<ref>Multiple references:
*Starr, Penny (January 7, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/07/democrat-rashida-tlaib-blasted-for-antisemitic-tweet-accusing-dual-loyalty-israel-bds/ Democrat Rashida Tlaib Blasted for Antisemitic Tweet: ‘They Forgot What Country They Represent’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
*Re, Gregg (January 7, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rashida-tlaib-accused-of-anti-semitic-slur-days-after-profane-anti-trump-tirade Rashida Tlaib accused of anti-Semitic slur, days after profane anti-Trump tirade]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 8, 2019.</ref> She wrote at least one op-ed on [[Louis Farrakhan]]'s website.<ref>Multiple references:
*Caruso, Justin (February 11, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/11/report-rashida-tlaib-wrote-op-ed-for-antisemite-louis-farrakhans-website/ Report: Rashida Tlaib Wrote Op-Ed for Antisemite Louis Farrakhan’s Website]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
*Mikelionis, Lukas (February 12, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rashida-tlaib-once-wrote-column-for-nation-of-islams-publication-reprinting-farrakhans-anti-semitic-comments Rashida Tlaib wrote column for Louis Farrakhan publication in 2006]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
*Kirkwood, R. Cort (February 12, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/31469-tlaib-published-in-farrakhan-newspaper-with-omar-still-has-committee-assignments Tlaib Published in Farrakhan Newspaper, Still Has Committee Assignments]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 12, 2019.</ref> Tlaib did a selfie with a [[Hezbollah]]-praising activist to also denied Israel's right to exist.<ref>Multiple references:
*Klein, Philip (January 14, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/democrat-rep-rashida-tlaib-photographed-with-pro-hezbollah-activist-who-says-israel-has-no-right-to-exist Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib photographed with pro-Hezbollah activist who says Israel has no right to exist]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
*Richardson, Valerie (January 14, 2018). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/14/pro-hezbollah-activist-posts-photos-rashida-tlaib/ Pro-Hezbollah activist posts photos with Rashida Tlaib at swearing-in ceremony]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
*Brest, Michael (January 14, 2019). [https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/14/israel-palestine-tlaib-picture-extremist-abbas-hamideh/ Anti-Israel Extremist Says He was At Tlaib's Private Dinner After Swearing In]. ''The Daily Caller''. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
*Danan, Deborah (January 15, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/01/15/democrat-rep-rashida-tlaib-poses-with-pro-hezbollah-rabid-anti-israel-activist/ Rashida Tlaib Poses with Pro-Hezbollah Activist]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 15, 2019.</ref> ''New York Magazine'' named her one of 10 activists who may become the future of the Democratic Party as the "new Obama."<ref>[http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-woman-congress-shes-also-palestinian-869782483 Middle East Eye, Multimedia 'Staying out of the ring is not an option’: Palestinian woman runs for Congress], Ali Harb Friday 23 March 2018</ref> Tlaib was sworn in surrounded by a group that included Sarsour and Nihad Awad as her special guests.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/new-muslim-congresswoman-invites-linda-sarsour-and-cair-representative-as-her-guests-to-congressional-ceremony/</ref>

Rep. [[Ilhan Omar]] is known for her anti-Semitism,<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/17/ilhan-omar-tweet-controversy/2603030002/</ref> insensitivity and mocking remarks about [[Christian]]s,<ref name="breitbart.com"/> and [[homophobic]] comments directed against colleagues.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-ilhan-omar-accused-of-breathtaking-bigotry-after-saying-lindsey-graham-is-compromised</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/17/rep-ilhan-omar-furthers-homophobic-conspiracy-that-lindsey-grahams-compromised/amp/</ref> Omar tweeted "[[Israel]] has hypnotized the world, may [[Allah]] awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel." Omar supports BDS.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/01/18/cnn-not-know-question-ilhan-omars-conspiracy-theories-anti-semitism/</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/269488770066313216</ref><ref>Pollak, Joel B. (January 28, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/28/zoa-slams-adl-for-accepting-ilhan-omar-non-apology-for-antisemitism/ ZOA Slams ADL for Accepting Ilhan Omar’s Non-Apology for Antisemitic Rhetoric]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 28, 2019.</ref> Omar claims congressional support for Israel is "All about the Benjamins baby," a reference to the Ben Franklin $100 bill, implying members of Congress are paid off by [[AIPAC]]. Despite this, Democrats gave her a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<ref>Tapscott, Mark (January 21, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/gop-punishes-steve-king-anti-semitic-dem-gets-choice-committee_2774145.html GOP Punishes Steve King, Anti-Semitic Dem Gets Choice Committee]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved January 21, 2019.</ref>

The fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, Rep. [[Hakeem Jeffries]], defended Tlaib and Omar as "thoughtful colleagues." Tlaib is a member of a [[Facebook]] group that posts anti-Semitic videos and memes. ''The Daily Caller'' reported that a key fundraiser for Tlaib posted a [[Holocaust denial]] video.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-lawmaker-defends-house-freshmen-accused-of-anti-semitism-as-thoughtful-colleagues</ref>

===Women's rights===
In March 2021 Joe Biden told Clinton operative [[George Stephanopoulos]] that New York Gov. [[Andrew Cuomo]] should resign if an investigation confirms claims by seven women that the governor sexually harassed them or made inappropriate advances. Biden accuser [[Tara Reade]], whose allegations against Biden were ignored by Senate investigators and mainstream media, told Fox News, "Joe Biden got away with sexually harassing and assaulting me in 1993 and other women have also come forward with similar complaints. Joe Biden ascended to the Presidency anyway."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/media/tara-reade-biden-cuomo-abc-news-interview</ref>

===Blexit, WalkAway and Jexodus===

''[[USA Today]]'' reported that President Trump's popularity among African Americans is higher than any Republican president in decades.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/08/16/trump-approval-rating-african-americans-rasmussen-poll/1013212002/</ref> This is not surprising given that Blacks have suffered most from illegal immigration. Since Democrats established the entitlement dole, Blacks' income and employment have been stepped over by [[Korea]]n and [[Vietnam]]ese war refugees and virtually all [[immigrant]] groups. ''Conservative News and Views'' reported,
[[File:Pro-Palestinian rally.PNG|right|250px|thumb|A [[Nazi]] flag appears at a Pro-Palestinian rally during the [[2021 Gaza War]].<ref>https://gellerreport.com/2021/05/nazis-flags-at-pro-terror-palestinian-demo.html/</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|Just as [[Candace Owens]] has spearheaded the “[[Blexit]]” movement, Bawer writes, inspiring “black Americans to recognize the damage done to them by the [[Great Society]] and its aftermath [and to] leave the [[Democratic plantation]], so has [[Brandon Straka]] led other [[gay]]s to see that they’ve been “served a bill of goods by the [[mainstream media]] and Democratic Party and is now heading his [[WalkAway]] campaign.” But what about the Jews?

Well, whaddaya know? Here comes Elizabeth Pipko, a 23-year-old Jewish figure skater-turned-model who, in an effort to aid a “mass Jewish exodus from the Democratic party,” has popularized the “JEXODUS” movement” initiated by Republican activist Jeff Ballabon.

"Right now," Ms. Pipko said, "as a Jewish person, you cannot support the Democratic Party and support the Jewish people at the same time."<ref>https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2019/03/13/news/anti-semitism-parade-everything-old-new/</ref>}}

==History==
:{{See also|Racism and the Democratic Party|History of Democrat racism|U.S. "Party-switch" myth}}
'''First Party System'''
[[File:Dem-leaders.jpg|right|450px|thumb|A contemporary watercolor of Democratic presidents. Clockwise from far left: Presidents Jimmy Carter, John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, Andrew Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt. Jackson is considered the founder of the party. Jackson, who implemented the Indian Removal Act, is slated to have his picture removed from the $20 bill in 2026.]]
Democrats claim that [[Thomas Jefferson]] founded their party in 1792 at the start of the [[First Party System]]. The [[Republicans (Jeffersonian)|Jeffersonian Republicans]] was a political party established under the leadership of Jefferson and [[James Madison]]. At the time, it was generally called the Republicans, but it had no relationship to today's Republican Party, founded in 1854. The 1816 election was the last occasion when the Federalist Party nominated a presidential candidate. In the 1820s, the Jeffersonian Republicans split into several fractions. [[Andrew Jackson]] emerged as the candidate of one of these groups and was elected president in 1828. Well into the 21st century, Jefferson and Jackson have been regularly honored by local Democrat parties with an annual Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinner.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/us/jefferson-jackson-dinner-will-be-renamed.html|title=Jefferson-Jackson Dinner Will Be Renamed|date=August 8, 2015|work=New York Times|accessdate=|first=Ashley|last=Southhall}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2015/11/16/colorado-democratic-party-considers-renaming-annual-jefferson-jackson-dinner/123835/|title=Colorado Democrats consider renaming Jefferson Jackson dinner|work=The Denver Post|first=John|last= Frank|date=November 16, 2015|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/jefferson_jackson_renamed_loui.html|title=As state Democratic parties rename their Jefferson-Jackson dinners, will Louisiana change 'J-J?'|work=The Times Picayune|first=Kevin |last=Litten|date= July 23, 2015|accessdate=}}</ref>

Most historians regard Jackson's 1832 campaign organization as the beginning of today's Democratic Party. The Democratic Party itself traces its origin to Jefferson's Republicans and the Whisky Rebellion.<ref>World Book</ref> The leadership of the Jeffersonian Republicans, including [[John Quincy Adams]] and [[Henry Clay]], created the National Republican Party. Adams supporters called themselves National Republicans, antecedents of the merchant class Whig and later the Republican parties.<ref name="presidents">William DeGregorio, ''The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents'', Gramercy 1997</ref>
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The modern Democratic party was formed during 1828–34, under the national leadership of Jackson and Van Buren, with organizations in all the states comprised of local political leaders. This became the era of [[Jacksonian Democracy]]. The Jacksonians resembled the [[Jeffersonian Democracy|Jeffersonians]] especially in terms of anti-elite rhetoric of opposition to "aristocracy" (that is, wealthy old families), distrust of banks (and paper money), they were "yeoman farmers" or "hillbillies", with faith in "the people." By his extensive use of federal [[Spoils system|patronage]], President Jackson removed old office-holders to make way for party loyalists. The U.S. Postal Service was the federal government's largest employer. With the emergence of the merchant or middle class Whig Party, the nation now had a new party system, the [[Second Party System]], which lasted until 1854.

The party held its first national convention in 1832 to choose a new running mate for Jackson; it nominated Martin Van Buren for vice president and endorsed the reelection of Jackson. Jackson easily defeated Clay in 1832. In the political realignment of 1828–32, some of Jackson's supporters from the election of 1828, especially businessmen and bankers, switched to the opposition Whig Party as Jackson crusaded against the [[Second Bank of the United States]]. The name "Democratic Party" became common by the mid-1830s.

=== Jacksonian Democracy===
[[image:donk1837.jpg|thumb|1837 cartoon shows Democratic Party as donkey]]
The new party dominated the [[Second Party System]] (as political scientists call it; historians call it "Jacksonian Democracy", 1832–54). After 1832, the Democratic Party drew support from a cross-section of the country. The vast majority of rich merchants, bankers, and [[plantation]] owners were Whigs, as were most evangelical Protestants. The party was strongest among traditionalistic farmers, frontiersmen, unskilled workers, Irish Catholics, and local or state political leaders. It was weakest in [[New England]], where industrialization turned most factory workers and white-collar workers into Whigs, but was dominant in all other regions. The key issues it promoted were opposition to elites and aristocrats, popular democracy (in terms of voting rights and access to government patronage jobs) and opposition to the Bank of the United States (Jackson vetoed its charter renewal in 1832). The policies were known as [[Jacksonian Democracy]]. [[Image:Jackson1832.jpg|thumb|300px|left]]

Banking and tariffs were the central domestic policy issues from 1828 to 1852. The Democrats favored the [[Mexican-American War]]; Whigs opposed it. Democrats attracted Catholic Irish and German immigrants and denounced anti-immigrant nativism. Both the Democrats and Whigs were divided on the issue of slavery.

In the 1830s the Loco-Focos in New York City were radically democratic, anti-monopoly, and proponents of [[laissez-faire]]. Their chief spokesman was writer [[William Leggett]]. At this time labor unions were few; some were loosely affiliated with the party.

The economy went sour in the late 1830s with Van Buren getting the blame; he lost reelection as president in 1840 to the Whig [[William Henry Harrison]]. The Democrats gained the White House back in 1844 with [[James K. Polk]]. He had a successful term, then retired. The Democratic National Committee was created in 1848 at the convention that nominated General [[Lewis Cass]], who lost to General [[Zachary Taylor]] of the Whigs. In state after state, the Democrats gained small but permanent advantages over the Whigs, until by 1852 the Whig Party was fatally weakened by divisions regarding the issue of slavery and they soon vanished.

The Democratic party dominated the North from the 1840s to 1854. Northern Democrats opposed banks, criticized corporate practices, and preached the ideals of a free society. They called for rapid territorial expansion of the United States, saying that in territorial expansion lay a means for thwarting the pretensions of the [[Slave Power]].

[[Franklin Pierce]] of New Hampshire was elected president in 1852, followed by [[James Buchanan]] of Pennsylvania in 1856. They proved poor presidents who lost control of the slavery issue, and the party, as the nation broke apart and fought the [[American Civil War]].

====Racist and segregationist traditions====

:''See also [[Trail of Tears]], [[Ethnic cleansing]] and [[Dred Scott decision]]''
The 21st Congress was controlled by the Jacksonian Democrats. The first major bill they passed was the [[Indian Removal Act]], authorizing the removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminoles from the South, primarily Georgia and Florida, to a territory west of the Mississippi River which became [[Oklahoma]]. The bill was controversial, opposed by many Christians and Northerners. During the first stage of the Choctaws’ forced migration begun in 1831, thousands died during the journey. Each successive stage was marred by a lack of food, shelter, and protection from the elements. Diphtheria and typhoid were rampant. Over the decade, more than 46,000 Native Americans experienced these conditions.

Historian John Toland maintains that the [[Nazi Party]]'s segregation and deportation of [[Jew]]s into ghettos and concentration camps were derived from the Democratic Party's segregation and deportation of Native Americans to reservation land.<ref>https://jewishjournal.com/culture/food/182867/honoring-native-american-voices-recognizing-tragic-history-and-praising-brave-spirits/</ref>
[[File:Trail of Tears.png|right|350px|thumb|Andrew Jackson not only founded the Democratic Party, but he also founded the infamous Trail of Tears.]]
In the 31st Congress, the Democrats had a majority in the Senate and a large plurality in the House, while the [[Free Soil Republican]]s held only 9 seats. The [[Whig]]s held the second largest contingent as well as the White House. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which penalized local and state officials in free states who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave on demand of a slave owner. Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing food or shelter was subject to six months' imprisonment and a fine. Slave owners needed only to supply a sworn affidavit to a U.S. Marshal to capture an escaped slave. Since a suspected slave had no [[Jury trial|right to trial]], the law resulted in the kidnapping of free blacks by bounty hunters and conscription into slavery in both free states and slave states, as suspected fugitive slaves were denied the right to a legal defense. The law's passage ultimately led to the demise of the Whigs and rise of Free Soil-Republicans.

Jackson had appointed his [[Attorney General]], [[Roger B. Taney]], to fill the seat of retiring Chief Justice [[John Marshall]]. In 1846, [[Dred Scott]], an African-American slave living in Missouri, filed suit against his master for his own freedom. Scott argued that he had legally gained freedom in the 1830s, when he had resided with a previous master in the free state of Illinois and a portion of the Louisiana Territory where slavery was banned. After a series of legal battles lasting over a decade, the case made its way to the Supreme Court.

Democrat President [[James Buchanan]] said in his inaugural address that the issue of slavery would soon be "finally settled" by the Supreme Court.<ref>Simon (2006), pp. 117–120</ref> Taney sought to permanently remove slavery as a subject of national debate. All the Democratic appointees on the Court were outraged over what they saw as "Northern aggression" towards slavery, an institution they believed was critical to "Southern life and values."<ref>McPherson171174</ref> In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the Taney Court ruled that persons of African descent could not be, nor were ever intended to be, citizens under the U.S. Constitution. Taney wrote that the framers of the Constitution believed that blacks “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect;" and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. The court also declared the [[Missouri Compromise]] unconstitutional (the Missouri Compromise of 1819 allowed for admission of new states to the Union on a one-for-one basis, one free state for every one slave state), thus permitting slavery in all territories of the westward expansion.

The ''Dred Scott'' decision received strong criticism and bolstered the growing popularity of the [[Republican Party]]. Republicans rejected Taney's legal reasoning and argued that the [[Declaration of Independence]] showed that the [[Founding Fathers]] favored the protection of individual rights for all free men, regardless of race.<ref>Simon (2006), pp. 138–139</ref> Many Republicans accused Taney of being part of a conspiracy to legalize slavery throughout the United States.<ref>Simon (2006), pp. 155–156</ref>

===Civil War and aftermath===
During the [[Third Party System]] (1854-1896) the Democrats became the minority in the face of the newly formed Republican Party (formed by former Whigs and Free Soil [[abolition]]ists), which controlled nearly all northern states by 1860, bringing a solid majority in the Electoral College. A powerful Republican issue was the allegation that northern Democrats, including "Doughfaces" like Pierce and Buchanan, and advocates of [[popular sovereignty]] like [[Stephen A. Douglas]] and [[Lewis Cass]], were accomplices to the [[Slave Power]]. The Republicans meant by Slave Power the conspiracy of slaveholders to seize control of the federal government and block the "progress of liberty."
[[File:371px-Scourged back by McPherson & Oliver, 1863, colourised.jpg|right|275px|thumb|''Another definition of [[Progressive|Progressivism]]:'' Prior to the end of slavery and suppressing the vote for 100 years, then later keeping Blacks dependent on [[entitlement]]s, Democrats used the whip to keep Blacks in line.]]
The Republican Party was beginning a 50-year era of dominance (1858-1910). During the war, Northern Democrats divided into two factions, [[War Democrats]], who supported the military policies of President Lincoln, and [[Copperheads]], who strongly opposed them. Historian Kenneth Stampp has captured the Copperhead spirit in his depiction of Democratic Congressman Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana:
{{quotebox-float|There was an earthy quality in Voorhees, "the tall sycamore of the Wabash." On the stump his hot temper, passionate [[partisan]]ship, and stirring eloquence made an irresistible appeal to the western Democracy. His bitter cries against [[Protectionism|protective]] [[tariff]]s and national banks, his intense [[race prejudice]], his suspicion of the eastern Yankee, his devotion to personal liberty, his defense of the Constitution and state rights faithfully reflected the views of his constituents. Like other Jacksonian agrarians he resented the political and economic revolution then in progress. Voorhees idealized a way of life which he thought was being destroyed by the current rulers of his country. His bold protests against these dangerous trends made him the idol of the Democracy of the Wabash Valley.<ref>Stampp, 211.</ref>}}
[[File:Leaders of the Democratic Party.jpg|left|300px|thumb| Leaders of the Democratic Party. The Butcher Forrest is [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]], founder of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. ''Library of Congress''<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661705/ Leaders of the Democratic Party : The rioter Seymour ... The butcher Forrest ... The pirate Semmes ... The hangman Hampton ...], Thomas Nast, 1868. Library of Congress.</ref>]]
In 1860 the Democrats were unable to stop the election of Republican [[Abraham Lincoln]], even as they feared his election would lead to civil war. The party was divided between North and South. The northern wing nominated Douglas, and the southern wing nominated Vice President [[John C. Breckinridge]]. Douglas campaigned across the country and came in second in the popular vote, but carried only Missouri. Breckinridge carried 11 slave states.

The heart of Democrat Resistance in the North resided in New York. The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863) were the largest civil and racially-charged insurrection in American history, aside from the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] itself. Initially intended as a protest against the draft, it turned into a race riot. Workers feared free black people would compete for jobs. Black people throughout the city were attacked. 120 people were killed, public buildings, churches, homes of various abolitionists or sympathizers, and many black homes were ransacked or destroyed. The Colored Orphan Asylum was burnt to the ground.

Only a fraction of Union troops occupied the South after the war, and the balance mustered out according to length of service. Because blacks were not admitted into ranks until the middle of the war, they were retained at a higher rate, making the occupying force "blacker" than the one that won the war. The roughly 200,000 black Americans who served in the Union Army comprised an estimated 10 percent of the North's total fighting force. But by the last quarter of 1865, blacks made up about one-third of the occupation army. Many Southerners took this as a deliberate Republican insult.<ref>https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/02/what-reconstruction-and-its-end-meant-for-black-americans-who-had-fought-for-the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms.html</ref>

The Democrats lost consecutive presidential elections from 1860 through 1880 (but 1876 was in dispute); 1884 was their next victory. The Democrats were weakened by "The Cause" in the Civil War but benefited from resentment toward Republicans for its effort to promote equality for blacks in Reconstruction. The Republicans received the eternal hatred and hostility of Democrats, and shied away from social issues for the next 150 years, focusing instead on its original purpose of preserving the Union through national security, and on economic issues. The [[Redeemers]] gave the Democrats control of every Southern state. [[Ku Klux Klan|Democratic terrorism]] at first was focused on Republicans; once the Republicans had been chased out, the [[lynching]] of Blacks peaked about 1892 with over 150 victims, or about one every two days.

Across [[the South]] Republican parties were formed by African Americans. Black people were the original Republicans in the South.
The Republican Party in [[Texas]] was founded on the 4th of July 1867 in [[Houston, Texas]] by 150 African Americans and 20 whites. Two of the first three statewide Republican chairman were African American. The first 42 Black legislators elected in Texas were all Republican.
The first 112 Black legislators elected in [[Mississippi]] were all Republican. The first 190 Black legislators elected in [[South Carolina]] were all Republicans. The first 41 Black legislators in [[Georgia]] were Republicans. The first 127 Black legislators in [[Louisiana]] were Republicans.

====Birth of the Klan====

:{{See also|Reconstruction}}
In 1866 [[Democrat]]s formed the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Its purpose was to take control and return Democrats to power. The Ku Klux Klan started attacking Black Republican conventions. At the Republican convention in Louisiana, the Klan joined with [[New Orleans]] police and New Orleans' Democrat mayor. The New Orleans Republican convention was attacked. 40 Blacks and 20 whites were killed. Another 150 were wounded.
[[File:Kkk-carpetbagger-cartoon.jpg|left|300px|thumb|A cartoon threatening that the that Democrat donkey and KKK will [[lynch]] scalawags (left) and [[carpetbagger]]s (right) on March 4, 1869, the day President Grant takes office. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Independent Monitor, September 1, 1868. A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman (2015).<ref>Hubbs, Guy W. (May 15, 2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KIVoCQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman"]. University Alabama Press.</ref>]]
In 1868 the Democrats put out push cards in South Carolina listing what they called the 'radical' members of the South Carolina legislature. A push card is about the size of a baseball card. The cards had the pictures of 63 legislators they wanted to kill. 50 of the legislators were Black and 13 were white. All 63 were Republicans. On the back of the was the name of the legislator.

In 1872 Congress held hearings on the Klan. Democrat leaders from Democrat States admitted under oath unequivocally that the Klan belonged to the Democrat party and their propose was to restore control in Southern states to the Democratic party. The Congressional Hearings make up 13 volumes. Black congressmen John Roy Lynch and Richard Cain went to Congress armed for fear of Klan attacks. Blacks testified that they instructed by the Klan and Democrats that, if they would stop voting the Republican ticket and would agree to vote the straight Democrat ticket, all the violence against Blacks would stop.
[[File:No-negro-equality-l.jpg|right|300px|thumb|'''No Negro Equality!''' Democratic ticket from Ohio in 1867. Allen G. Thurman later ran as Democrat [[Grover Cleveland]] running mate.<ref>https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/sultan-knish/the-racist-origins-of-president-trumps-impeachment/2021/02/22/</ref> Cleveland passed the [[United States Civil Service Commission|Civil Service Act]] which ended the spoils system and returned Democrats to power after their Civil War defeat.]]
The Coushatta massacre of 1874 was the result of an attack by the White League, a [[paramilitary]] organization composed of Democrats, on Republican officeholders and African Americans in Red River Parish, [[Louisiana]]. They murdered six white Republicans and 20 Blacks who were witnesses.<ref>[http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-01/reconstruction.html Danielle Alexander, "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of Reconstruction", ''Humanities'', January/February 2004, Vol.25/No.1. Her article says 20 freedmen were killed.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916095443/http://neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-01/reconstruction.html |date=2008-09-16 }}</ref><ref>Nicholas Lemann, ''Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War'', New York, [[Farrar, Straus & Giroux]], 2006, p.76-77. His book says five freedmen were killed.</ref>

The White League had organized to restore [[white supremacy]] by driving Republicans out of Louisiana, disrupting their political organizing, and intimidating or murdering [[freedmen]].<ref>Eric Foner, ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877'', New York: Perennial Classics, 2002, p.550</ref> Like the Red Shirts and other "White Line" organizations, they were described as "the military arm of the Democratic Party."

On election day, November 3, 1874, an [[Alabama]] chapter of the White League repeated actions taken earlier that year in Vicksburg, Mississippi. They invaded Eufaula AL, killing at least seven black Republicans, injuring at least 70 more, and driving off more than 1,000 unarmed Republicans from the polls.<ref>Mary Ellen Curtin, ''Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900,'' University Press of Virginia, 2000, p. 55</ref> The group moved on to Spring Hill AL, where members stormed the polling place, destroying the ballot box, and killing the 16-year-old son of a white Republican judge in their shooting.<ref>Curtin (2000), ''Black Prisoners'', pp. 55-56.</ref>

The White League refused to count any Republican votes cast. But, Republican voters reflected the black majority in the county, as well as white supporters. They outnumbered Democratic voters by a margin greater than two to one. The League declared the Democratic candidates victorious, forced Republican politicians out of office, and seized every county office in Barbour County, Alabama.<ref name="Curtin 2000 p. 56">Curtin (2000), ''Black Prisoners'', p. 56</ref> Such actions were repeated in other parts of the South in the 1870s, as Democrats sought to regain political dominance in states with black majorities and numerous Republican officials. In Barbour County, the Democrats auctioned off as "slaves" (for a maximum cost of $2 per month), or otherwise silenced all Republican witnesses to the events. They were intimidated from testifying to the coup if the case went to federal court.<ref name="Curtin 2000 p. 56"/>

Jim Crow and the disenfranchisement of black voters in most of the South took place 1890–1900. Nonwhites were excluded from the Democratic Party in 1890.<ref>Brown and Stentiford, ''Jim Crow: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic'', Greenwood, 2014, p. xviii</ref> From 1880 to 1960 the "[[Solid South]]" voted Democratic in all presidential elections (except 1928). After 1900 the key election in southern states were white-only caucuses;<ref>The system remained in place until the [[McGovern-Fraser Commission]], which unseated white big city Democrat bosses at the national convention.</ref> victory in that primary was "tantamount to election."

GAR veteran 2nd Lieut. Nathaniel Grigsby of Company G, 10th Indiana Cavalry died at the age of 79 in 1890. Grigsby's brother was married to Abraham's Lincoln's sister. Grigsby had this written on his tombstone:
{{quotebox-float|Through this inscription I wish to enter my dying protest against what is called the Democratic party. I have watched it closely since the days of Jackson and know that all the misfortunes of our nation has come to it through this so called party. Therefore beware of this party of [[treason]].<ref>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/grave-statement-2/</ref>}}

Though Republicans continued to control the White House until 1912 (except 1884 and 1892), the Democrats remained competitive in the states, especially in the mid-Atlantic and lower Midwest, and controlled the House of Representatives for most of that period. In the election of 1884, [[Grover Cleveland]], the conservative Democratic Governor of New York, won the presidency, a feat he repeated in 1892, having lost in the election of 1888.

====Civil service replaces Reconstruction and the spoils system====
:{{See also|Civil service system}}
While the Democratic party lost the Civil War, it won the battle to control the United States Civil Service [[bureaucracy]].<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state Trump vs the Deep State], Evan Osnos, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', May 14, 2018</ref> Since the end of Reconstruction in 1876 and passage of the 1882 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, the Democratic party is no longer dependent on the spoils system and winning elections to maintain its power.
[[File:Lynch.jpg|thumb|450px|left|The first victims (yellow line) were Republican [[carpetbagger]]s; once they were driven out the Democrats turned on Blacks (blue line). Source: Historical Statistics of the U.S., and is based on the 1952 Negro year Book.]]
With the defeat of the Democrats and the South, to the victors went the spoils. Republicans immediately stripped [[white]] [[male]]s who engaged in rebellion against the [[United States]] of the [[vote]], and gave it to Blacks. Newly freed Blacks held local, state and federal elected and non-elected positions as Republicans. The white males who were deprived of the vote were also barred from holding any civil service position and were universally Democrats. This disenfranchisement created enormous resentment among Democrats, so they formed the [[Ku Klux Klan]] to engage in voter intimidation and suppression.

By 1876, the situation had become ungovernable for Republicans.<ref>"the Compromise of 1877, which resolved the disputed presidential election of 1876 by awarding the presidency to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes (who had lost the popular vote) in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South after the Civil War (which benefitted Democrats, who wished to end Reconstruction and return white supremacy to southern state governments)." [https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-gilded-age/gilded-age/a/gilded-age-politics-patronage Gilded Age politics: patronage]. khanacademy.org</ref> The Republicans had been able to pass the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments which guaranteed Blacks basic equality and civil rights, but eventually had to declare an amnesty for whites who engaged in rebellion. Reconstruction ended, and Republicans withdrew from [[social engineering]] which had divided the country so deeply and stirred up such bitterness and hatred among Democrats toward both Blacks and Republicans. Reconstruction earned Republicans the undying [[hatred]] of Democrats.<ref>See for example [https://youtu.be/-yY7g2jOquM James O'Keefe debate with Hairy Hillbilly Hippie] for an example of a partisan Democrat who votes against his own economic interests.</ref><ref>See excerpt from [[Dinesh D'Souza]]'s, ''[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dinesh-dsouza-the-secret-history-of-the-democratic-party Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party]'', Regnery Publishing, July 18, 2016.</ref>

African Americans in the South were left to the mercy of increasingly hostile state governments dominated by white Democratic legislatures; neither the legislatures, law enforcement or the courts worked to protect freedmen.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties|author=Finkelman, Paul|year=2006}}</ref> As [[Democrats]] regained power in the late 1870s, they struggled to suppress black voting through intimidation and fraud at the polls. [[Paramilitary]] groups such as the [[Red Shirts]] acted on behalf of the Democrats to suppress black voting. From 1890 to 1908, 10 of the 11 former Confederate states passed disfranchising constitutions or amendments,<ref>{{cite book|title=Democracy's Privileged Few|author=Chafetz, Joshua Aaron|year=2007}}</ref> with provisions for [[poll tax]]es,<ref name="Klarman, Michael J. 2004">{{cite book|title=From Jim Crow to Civil Rights|author=Klarman, Michael J.|year=2004}}</ref> residency requirements, [[literacy test]]s,<ref name="Klarman, Michael J. 2004"/> and [[grandfather clause]]s that effectively disfranchised most black voters and many poor white people. The disfranchisement also meant that black people could not serve on juries or hold any political office, which were restricted to voters; those who could not vote were excluded from the political system.

Cleveland was the leader of the [[Bourbon Democrats]], the [[bourgeois]] wing of the party. They represented business [[elitism|elites]], supported banking and railroad goals, promoted capitalism, opposed the annexation of [[Hawaii]], fought for the [[gold standard]], and opposed [[Bimetallism]]. They strongly supported ending Republican spoils with the [[Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act|Civil Service Reform Act]] and opposed corruption of city bosses, leading the fight against the Tweed Ring. The leading Bourbons included [[Samuel J. Tilden]], David Bennett Hill and William C. Whitney of New York, Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland, Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, William L. Wilson of West Virginia, [[John Griffin Carlisle]] of Kentucky, William F. Vilas of Wisconsin, J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, John M. Palmer of Illinois, Horace Boies of Iowa, L.Q.C. Lamar of Mississippi, and railroad builder James J. Hill of Minnesota. A prominent intellectual was pro-segregationist [[Woodrow Wilson]]. The Bourbons were in power when the [[Panic of 1893]] hit; it was a deep depression and they took the blame. A fierce struggle inside the party ensued, with catastrophic losses for both the Bourbon and agrarian factions in 1894, leading to the showdown in 1896.

===Bryan and anti-Semitism===

[[Grover Cleveland]] led the [[bourgeois]] [[Bourbon Democrat]]s but as the [[Panic of 1893|depression of 1893]] deepened his enemies multiplied. The Panic of 1893 started in February 1893, a full month before Cleveland became president. Convinced that the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, passed under the administration of [[Benjamin Harrison]], was largely responsible for the alarming drain on federal gold, President Cleveland called Congress into special session to urge its repeal. Congress consented, but only after bitter debate that divided the Democratic party into two hostile camps-the eastern "goldbugs" and the silver wing of the West and South that was to propel young [[William Jennings Bryan]] to the fore in 1896.<ref name="presidents" />

At the 1896 convention, the silverite-agrarian faction repudiated the president and nominated the crusading orator [[William Jennings Bryan]] on a platform of inflation through "free" silver. The idea was that minting huge numbers of silver dollars would flood the economy with cash and end the depression. Eastern Democrats, unable to accept the party's free-silver platform and unwilling to support McKinley for his tariff views, nominated their own candidate, John M. Palmer of Illinois and called themselves the National, or Gold, Democrats.<ref name="presidents" /> The [[Gold Democrats]] attracted prominent figure such as segregationist [[Woodrow Wilson]] and historian [[Frederick Jackson Turner]] , known for ignoring the contributions of minorities and who refused to vote Republican.
[[Image:Dead-dem1880.jpg|thumb|425px|right|In 1880 when General Hancock (right) became the presidential nominee of the Democrats, Republican cartoonists showed the Democratic party history as a horror chamber featuring atrocities in the Civil War era; the donkey" shows the party as a coalition of the rear end of the South joined to the rear end of the North]]
Bryan became an overnight sensation among Democrats with his "Cross of Gold" speech: {{Cquote|"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQ0AjqzFxQ</ref>}} Implicit was his assertion that the religious group responsible for the death of Christ was also the source of the United States’ economic woes.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mJLHrb-o5E0C&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=You+shall+not+press+down+upon+the+brow+of+labor+this+crown+of+thorns,+you+shall+not+crucify+mankind+upon+a+cross+of+gold.%27%27+The+antisemitism+evoked+by&source=bl&ots=fp9QYcxY3W&sig=ACfU3U3zQFaSOMeeKxu8DlnOdXz5RdWb7A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjyyr_4tYfgAhXL5YMKHQ5_DKgQ6AEwDnoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=You%20shall%20not%20press%20down%20upon%20the%20brow%20of%20labor%20this%20crown%20of%20thorns%2C%20you%20shall%20not%20crucify%20mankind%20upon%20a%20cross%20of%20gold.''%20The%20antisemitism%20evoked%20by&f=false Antisemitism in America], Leonard Dinnerstein, Oxford University Press, Nov 2, 1995, p. 50.</ref> Crisscrossing the Midwest and East by special train, he gave over 500 speeches to audiences in the millions. In St. Louis he gave 36 speeches to workingmen's audiences all over the city, all in one day. Most Democratic newspapers were hostile (except [[William Randolph Hearst]]'s ''New York Journal'') but Bryan seized control of the media by making the news every day, as he hurled thunderbolts against "Eastern monied interests," a codeword for "Jewish bankers."<ref>https://twitter.com/jdickerson/status/788461796772446208</ref> Using [[fraud]] and [[violence]], and rallying support by appealing to white supremacy, the Democrats held on to their power in Southern states. Many Democrats refused to endanger [[white supremacy]] by voting against the Democratic Party.<ref>https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_populist.html</ref> Ethnic Democrats, (especially Germans and Irish), however, were alarmed and frightened by Bryan.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=XpCgCNZwpvoC</ref> The middle classes, businessmen, newspaper editors, factory workers, railroad workers, and prosperous farmers generally rejected Bryan's crusade.

Bryan was overwhelmed by [[William McKinley]] in the most exciting race in national history.<ref>Refuting Bryan's charges, historians have discovered there was little coercion of workers.</ref> McKinley promised a return to prosperity based on the gold standard, support for industry, railroads and banks, and pluralism that would enable every group to move ahead. Bryan did, however, win the hearts and minds of a majority of Democrats. The election of 1896 was a political realignment. The victory of the Republican Party marked the start of the "Progressive Era," from 1896 to 1932, in which the GOP usually was dominant.

===Wilson and the KKK===
:{{See also|Plessy v. Ferguson}}
[[Melville Fuller]] was appointed Chief Justice by President [[Grover Cleveland]] in 1888. Fuller managed Democrat [[Stephen A. Douglas]]'s campaign in the [[1860 presidential election]] against Abraham Lincoln. He was known as a Copperhead Democrat. In 1896, a Fuller Court decision declared that racial segregation does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment so long as the "separate but equal" doctrine is followed. The decision allowed the continued existence of Jim Crow laws for another six decades.

The [[Fourth Party System]] began with the 1896 election, a realignment during which the GOP controlled the presidency for 28 of 36 years. The GOP dominated most of the Northeast and Midwest, and half the West. Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, or GAR, became the GOP. One of the consequences of the Democratic victories in the South was that many Southern Congressmen and Senators were almost automatically re-elected every election. Due to the importance of seniority in the U.S. Senate, Southerners were able to control most of the committees and kill any civil rights legislation.<ref>https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_democratic.html</ref> [[William Jennings Bryan]], with a base in the South and Plains states, was strong enough to get the nomination again in 1900 (losing to McKinley) and 1908 (losing to Taft). [[Theodore Roosevelt]] dominated the first decade of the century—and to the annoyance of Democrats "stole" the trust issue by crusading against trusts.
When [[Booker T. Washington]]'s autobiography, ''Up From Slavery'', was published in 1901, it became a bestseller and had a major impact on the African American community, and its friends and allies. Washington in 1901 was the first African-American ever invited to the White House as the guest of President Theodore Roosevelt – white Democrats complained loudly, although Washington remained as an advisor to Roosevelt.<ref>Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, "A Patriot's History of the United States" (2007)</ref>

Anti-Bryan conservatives controlled the convention in 1904, but they faced a [[Theodore Roosevelt]] landslide. Bryan dropped his free silver and anti-[[imperialism]] rhetoric and supported mainstream [[progressive]] issues, such as the income tax, anti-trust, and direct election of Senators. He backed Woodrow Wilson in 1912, was rewarded with the State Department, then resigned in protest against Wilson's non-pacifistic policies in 1916. Northern Democrats were progressive on most issues, but generally opposed prohibition, were lukewarm regarding [[women's rights]], and were reluctant to undercut the "boss system" in the big cities.
[[File:320px-Birth of a Nation theatrical poster.jpg|left|200px|thumb|'''Birth of a Nation''' released in 1915 depicted the history of the Democratic Party after the Civil War. In 1992, the [[Library of Congress]] deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.]]
Taking advantage of a deep split in the GOP, the Democrats took control of the House in 1910 and elected the Northern segregationist Woodrow Wilson as president in 1912 and 1916. In his first year in office, Wilson permitted his Treasury and the Post Office to begin efforts to [[segregate]] the federal workforce, particularly in the Columbia District. It was often carried out surreptitiously. Yet Wilson condoned it and tried to duck its implications in a manner we would describe today as slimy. Wilson ordered [[Jim Crow]] segregation in all federal government facilities in Washington DC, wiping out 50 years of social progress that African-Americans made under Republicans. No longer could blacks and whites work together in government offices, eat in the same cafeterias, our use the same bathrooms. The Wilson administration went a step further. Through the Treasury Department's Office of the Architect, the bureau charged with construction and maintenance of federal buildings, federal buildings throughout the nation were ordered to furnish segregated bathrooms, even in Northern states were practices as such were virtually unknown.<ref>''American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow'', Jerrold M. Packard, St. Martin's Press, 2003, pp. 124-125</ref>

Wilson also curtailed minority appointments to executive, diplomatic, and judicial positions. Those latter numbers weren't large — about 30 — but they were posts traditionally reserved for black Americans. The signal was terrible, even if it's unclear that those black appointments would have met approval from a Senate controlled by Southern Democrats. Estimates reckon that between 15,000 and 20,000 black civil service employees, 6% of the federal workforce, were impacted by the administration's actions.<ref>https://www.nysun.com/national/princetons-purge-of-wilson-follows-a-change/91174/</ref> Wilson successfully led Congress to a series of [[Progressive]] laws, including a reduced tariff, stronger antitrust laws, the [[Federal Reserve System]], hours-and-pay benefits for railroad workers, and outlawing of child labor, raising wages for adults. Furthermore, constitutional amendments for prohibition and woman suffrage were passed in his second term. In effect, Wilson laid to rest the issues of tariffs, money and antitrust that had dominated politics for 40 years.

In 1915 the epic [[Hollywood]] film, ''Birth of a Nation'' was released with its portrayal of black men, many played by white actors in blackface, as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] (KKK) as an heroic force.<ref>[http://www.moviejustice.com/vault/index.php?p=getitem&db_id=4&item_id=27 MJ Movie Reviews – Birth of a Nation, The (1915) by Dan DeVore] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707194449/http://www.moviejustice.com/vault/index.php?p=getitem&db_id=4&item_id=27 |date=July 7, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://themovingarts.com/revered-and-reviled-d-w-griffiths-the-birth-of-a-nation/|first=Eric M.|last=Armstrong|title=Revered and Reviled: D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation'|work=The Moving Arts Film Journal|date=February 26, 2010|accessdate=|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529224316/http://themovingarts.com/revered-and-reviled-d-w-griffiths-the-birth-of-a-nation/|archivedate=2019-01-31|df=mdy-all}}</ref> It was the first American motion picture to be screened inside the [[White House]], viewed there by President [[Woodrow Wilson]], members of his cabinet, and their families.<ref>{{harvnb|Stokes|2007|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=fGJFpiTjbKwC&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=%22operators+wearing+full+evening+dress+utilized%22&source=bl&ots=AOFjf60Rc_&sig=GJ-f9FVH8MfOtgnzIJLQV_3l-DU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_m5hUMf9JI-whAfz6oCQAg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22operators%20wearing%20full%20evening%20dress%20utilized%22&f=false 111]}}</ref> In a letter to the White House press secretary the author of ''The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan'' which the film is based,<ref name="Franklin pages 417-434">Franklin, John Hope "''The Birth of a Nation'': Propaganda as History" pages 417–434 from ''The Massachusetts Review'' Volume 20, No. 3, Autumn 1979 page 421.</ref> wrote: {{cquote|"The real purpose of my film was to revolutionize Northern sentiments by a presentation of history that would transform every man in the audience into a good Democrat...Every man who comes out of the theater is a Southern partisan for life!"<ref name="Franklin_430">Franklin, John Hope "''The Birth of a Nation'': Propaganda as History" pages 417–434 from ''The Massachusetts Review'' Volume 20, No. 3, Autumn 1979 page 430.</ref>}} In a letter to President Wilson, Thomas Dixon Jr., who authored the book and screenplay, boasted: {{cquote|"This play is transforming the entire population of the North and the West into sympathetic Southern voters. There will never be an issue of your segregation policy".<ref name="Franklin_430"/>}}

Dixon was alluding to the fact that Wilson upon becoming president in 1913 had imposed segregation on federal workplaces in Washington D.C. while reducing the number of black employees through demotion or dismissal.<ref>Yellin, Eric S. (2013). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Mx-NiOJ3n-AC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127 Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207065000/https://books.google.com/books?id=Mx-NiOJ3n-AC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127 |date=February 7, 2018 }}''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. p. 127. {{ISBN|9781469607207}}</ref>

Wilson was re-elected in 1916 on the slogan, "He kept us out of war!", the caldron that was inflaming Europe since 1914. Upon inauguration, Wilson promptly took the United States to war to save [[British]] [[Imperialism]]. Great Britain had been the United States principal foreign enemy since its founding, in the [[Revolutionary War]] and [[War of 1812]]; the Confederacy could not have fought without the assistance of British arms. Many Americans could not understand how the United States could come to the aid of Great Britain, which had tried to destroy the Union three times since its inception.
[[File:1924 DNC convention.jpg|right|300px|thumb|1924 Democratic Convention.]]
[[World War I]] left the U.S. with a staggering [[national debt]]. Wilson turned his attention to building trade alliances and foreign affairs. He wrote parts of the [[Versailles Treaty]], especially the new [[League of Nations]]. But in 1919 Wilson's political skills faltered, and suddenly everything turned sour. The Senate rejected Versailles and the League, a nationwide wave of strikes and violence caused unrest, and Wilson's health collapsed. With the rise of the leftist [[Soviet Union]] and [[Communist International]] [[conspiracy]], the world had not been made safe for democracy. The GOP came roaring back in a landslide in 1920, as [[Warren G. Harding]] defeated a Democratic ticket memorable for having [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] as the vice presidential nominee.

====1924 Klanbake====
At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, the big fight was over a resolution denouncing by name the [[Ku Klux Klan]]; it was pushed by New York governor [[Al Smith]] and Alabama Senator Oscar W. Underwood in order to embarrass the front-runner, William McAdoo of California. Party elder statesman and three-time presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan, spoke for two hours in opposition to the plank condemning the Klan by name.<ref>https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/240629convention-dem-ra.html</ref>

After furious debate, the resolution failed by a vote of 542.85 in favor to 546.15 opposed.<ref>[http://armored-column.com/the-democratic-klanbake-1924/ Democratic "Klanbake" Convention]</ref> The soaring temperatures gave the convention the name, the Klanbake. At its peak in the mid-1920s, the KKK claimed to include about 15% of the nation's eligible voters, approximately 4–5 million people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2730 |title=Ku Klux Klan in the Twentieth Century |author=Lay, Shawn |website=New Georgia Encyclopedia |publisher=Coker College }}</ref> The Klan split in the party over cultural issues, especially [[Prohibition]], facilitated Republican landslides in 1920, 1924 and 1928. However [[Al Smith]] did build a strong Catholic base in the big cities in 1928, and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s election as Governor of New York that year brought a new leader to center stage.

=== New Deal coalition of liberals and segregationists ===
:{{See also|Economic planning}}
The [[stock market crash of 1929]] and the ensuing [[Great Depression]] set the stage for a more progressive government and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] won a landslide victory in the [[United States presidential election, 1932|election of 1932]], campaigning on a platform of "Relief, Recovery, and Reform." This came to be termed "[[New Deal|The New Deal]]" after a phrase in his acceptance speech. The Democrats also swept to large majorities in both houses of Congress, and among state Governors. Roosevelt altered the nature of the Party, away from laissez-faire capitalism, and towards the [[administrative state]] and [[entitlement]]s. Conservative Democrats were outraged; led by [[Al Smith]] they formed the [[American Liberty League]] in 1934 and counterattacked. They failed and either retired from politics or joined the GOP. A few of them, such as [[Dean Acheson]] found their way back to the Democratic Party.
[[File:Students pledging allegiance to the American flag with the Bellamy salute.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Elementary school children giving the fascist salute while reciting the [[Pledge of Allegiance]] during the New Deal.]]
After making gains in Congress in 1934 Roosevelt moved left and embarked on a big spending program called "The Second New Deal." It was characterized by building a voting bloc of labor unions, nationalizing welfare by the [[WPA]] (with 2 million unemployed men), setting up [[Social Security]] and raising taxes on "economic royalists."

Roosevelt's [[New Deal]] created an Alphabet soup of government programs. They imposed strong regulations on the banking and financial system, transportation, communications, stock markets, labor-management relations and housing. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) imposed restrictive covenants on mortgage underwriters to discourage government-backed home loans in areas "infiltrated" by "inharmonious racial or nationality groups."<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-new-deal-as-raw-deal-for-blacks-in-segregated-communities/2017/05/25/07416bba-080a-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html The New Deal as raw deal for blacks in segregated communities], Charles Lane, ''[[Washington Post]]'', May 25, 2017.</ref> Restrictive covenants were legal documents to ensure that blacks could not buy homes in white neighborhoods. These covenants forbade the owners and their heirs from selling their property to blacks and other racial and ethnic minorities. Because of these covenants, if the owners sold to a minority, the neighborhood property association had the right to sue in court to ensure that property and homes did not change hands and became the property of minorities.

Roosevelt built up the "[[New Deal Coalition]]", a diverse coalition of voters and special interest groups often with conflicting interests. Key components included corrupt big city political machines and labor unions. Key voter groups included traditional white segregationists, Southerners, Catholics, Jews, and liberals, as well as some Northern blacks. Southern New Dealers did not allow Blacks to vote. The big-city machines, largely controlled by immigrant leaders and unions, as well as blacks, were all tied to the party whose existence was maintained by a venomously, anti-Catholic, anti-labor and racist power center - the Southern Bourbon Democrats. The other keystone of the alliance was the [[Communist Party]] and other leftists, who played a crucial role in allying with Roosevelt and the Democrats to ensure that workers did not transcend trade unionism into political action independent of the Democratic Party. This voter base allowed Democrats to be elected to Congress and the presidency for much of the next 30 years.

After a sweeping landslide reelection in 1936—losing only Maine and Vermont—Roosevelt stunned the nation, and his party, by calling for legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court by five new members after the court found illegal and unconstitutional many of Roosevelt's first term programs. A firestorm of opposition erupted, led by his own vice president [[John Nance Garner]]. Roosevelt was defeated by an alliance of Republicans and conservative Democrats, who formed a coalition that managed to block nearly all socialist planning. (Only a minimum wage law got through.) Angry with dissenters in his own party, Roosevelt tried to destroy them. In 1938, he actively campaigned against five incumbent conservative Democratic senators; all five senators won re-election. In 1940, after rejecting DNC chair James Farley as his successor because Farley was [[Catholic]],<ref>John Flynn, ''The Roosevelt Myth'', 1948, p. 179.</ref> Roosevelt broke with tradition and sought a third term as president. The decision was controversial - Democrat Governor [[Strom Thurmond]] supported his third term while his own vice president John Nance Garner quit over the matter while.<ref>https://www.americanheritage.com/content/what-trent-meant</ref>

On the eve of [[World War II]], Roosevelt appointed [[Joseph P. Kennedy]], father of John Kennedy, [[Bobby Kennedy]], and [[Ted Kennedy]] as Ambassador to [[Great Britain]]. Joe Kennedy was a notorious [[anti-Semite]] and [[Nazi]] sympathizer. At the time of the [[Kristallnacht]], the ''New York Times'' reported Kennedy had a solution to the problems of German Jews: ship them all to [[Africa]].<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-kennedys-answer-to-the-jewish-question-ship-them-to-africa?ref=home?ref=home</ref>

====FDR's Southern Strategy====
[[File:LynchinginAmerica-6ngpoajqm9pq7z40qd21q4ejl9fx6zrggi1pq7r5bic.png|right|300px|thumb|FDR's Southern Strategy: FDR always opposed federal [[anti-lynching legislation]], first introduced by Republicans.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/12/07/is-it-time-for-progressives-to-stop-venerating-fdr/?utm_term=.2b894a27cc04</ref>]]
To win election, FDR forged a coalition of Northern Democrats and Southern segregationists by placing [[John Nance Garner]] of Texas on the ticket as his running mate. The Democrats won an overwhelming majority in the House, picked up 97 seats, bringing the total to 313. On the Republican side the first African-American in the 20th century, and the first since Reconstruction, Rep. [[Oscar De Priest]] was re-elected. The Democratic chairman of the new Congress' Committee on Accounts, Rep. Lindsay Warren, ordered a De Priest staffer and his son to be thrown out of the House's whites-only cafeteria. There was a separate facility for blacks in the basement. De Priest introduced a resolution calling for an investigation. On the House floor, De Priest refuted Warren's claim that African-Americans had always been banned from the restaurant, recalling that he and other black patrons had frequented the House cafeteria. De Priest implored his colleagues to support the resolution, remarking, {{quotebox-float|“If we allow segregation and the denial of constitutional rights under the Dome of the Capitol, where in God’s name will we get them? If we allow this challenge to go without correcting it, it will set an example where people will say Congress itself approves of segregation.”<ref>https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/D/DE-PRIEST,-Oscar-Stanton-(D000263)/</ref>}}
The effort to desegregate the Democrat-controlled House cafeteria was defeated. Civil rights were not on the party agenda. FDR always opposed the federal anti-lynching law as part of FDR's Southern Strategy. Anti-lynching bills were first introduced by Republicans. The Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill was introduced in 1934, calling on the Roosevelt administration to take an active role in ending [[lynching]] in the United States. Senators Edward Costigan of Colorado and Robert Wagner of New York sponsored the bill. Under its provisions, any state officer who failed to exercise diligence in protecting a person under their care from a lynch mob or who neglected to arrest persons involved in a lynching, could themselves be subject to federal imprisonment for five years and a $5,000 fine. In 1935 attempts were made to persuade Roosevelt to speak out in support of the bill. However, Roosevelt refused. He argued that the white voters in the South would never forgive him if he supported the bill and he would, therefore, lose the next election.

Even the appearance in the newspapers of the lynching of Rubin Stacy failed to change Roosevelt's mind on the subject. Six deputies were escorting Stacy to Dade County jail in Miami on July 19, 1935, when he was taken by a white mob and hanged by the side of the home of Marion Jones, the woman who had made the original complaint against him. ''The New York Times'' later revealed that "subsequent investigation revealed that Stacy, a homeless tenant farmer, had gone to the house to ask for food; the woman became frightened and screamed when she saw Stacy's face."<ref>https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-costigan-wagner-act/</ref> The Costigan-Wagner Bill had wide support; however, the bill was defeated in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938 and 1940.
[[File:Hugo black kkk.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Not until after the Democrat Senate approved FDR's appointment of Hugo Black to a lifetime appointment to the bench, was a conservative journalist able to reveal Black was a Klan member.]]
Ever since the Draft Riots of 1863, New York was the bastion of Democratic Resistance in the North. It was a Republican mayor however who made the first efforts to coax traditional black Lincoln Republicans into the New Deal coalition. Fiorello La Guardia was a [[RINO]], or Republican New Dealer. Roosevelt provided federal funds to La Guardia and withheld support from La Guardia's opponents. After the 1935 Harlem riot, La Guardia decreed that African-Americans were not to be arrested for anything, and that police patrolling [[Harlem]] could not carry nightsticks.<ref>[https://vault.fbi.gov/.../Eleanor%20Roosevelt%20Part%2016%20of%2040 Eleanor Roosevelt Part 16 of 37 - FBI — The Vault, p. 46]</ref>

President Roosevelt excluded 4-time gold medalist [[Jesse Owens]] from the customary [[White House]] visit by [[Olympics|Olympic]] athletes. As Jesse Owens later explained:<ref>https://fee.org/articles/hitler-didn-t-snub-me-it-was-our-president/</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"[[Hitler]] didn’t snub me; it was our president [[FDR]] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send a telegram."}}

In 1937 FDR appointed Alabama Senator [[Hugo Black]] to the Supreme Court. Black was a member of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and built his career campaigning at Klan meetings. Black was well known for his anti-[[Catholic]] viewpoints.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WX2LcraS1EgC&pg=PA219 The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States]</ref> In ''Korematsu v. the United States'', Black voted to uphold [[President Roosevelt]]'s mass arrests and incarceration of [[Japanese]] men, women, and children based on [[race]].

President Roosevelt called Democrat klansman Sen. [[Theodore Bilbo]] "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ New Deal . . . Conservatives?] ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> Bilbo claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the New Deal."<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ A History of Liberal White Racism, Cont.] ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> In a 1938 filibuster against anti-[[lynching]] legislation, Bilbo said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]” by encouraging Black men to rape white women.<ref>https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html</ref>

Not until the presidential election of 1960 when John Kennedy intervened for the release of Martin Luther King, who was jailed by local Democrats two weeks before the election in Atlanta following a non-violent protest, did the majority of Blacks begin voting Democratic ''en bloc''. The transition was solidified four years later when anti-Vietnam war candidate Barry Goldwater defied Republican Congressional leadership and voted with Southern Democrats to oppose the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Franklin Roosevelt's Georgia Warm Springs Polio Rehabilitation Center, founded by Roosevelt in the 1920s before he became president, maintained a Whites-only admission policy. This discrimination was sustained by a [[scientific]] argument about polio itself - that Blacks were not susceptible to the disease.<ref>''[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1854857/#!po=67.8125 Race and the Politics of Polio: Warm Springs, Tuskegee, and the March of Dimes]'', Naomi Rogers, PhD. American Journal of Public Health, May 2007.</ref> The center continued to practice [[racial discrimination]] into the 1960s until it was finally struck down by a federal Appeals Court ruling and changes made in the [[Civil Rights Act]].

====White privilege relief efforts====
:{{See also|New Deal and Fascism}}
New Deal relief efforts targeted FDR's white Democrat voter base. A Black Republican congressman attached a non-discrimination amendment, however Democrats put a ten percent quota system on Blacks who were suffering from higher incidence of poverty and unemployment than whites or the population in general. In more prosperous times 30 years later the War on Poverty was the New Deal in reverse, targeting Blacks with the assumption that all Blacks were poor and uneducated. Both the New Deal and Great Society were predicated on Marxist [[class warfare]].

Journalist John Flynn reported on a Senate investigation into cronyism and corruption in New Deal programs in Kentucky. Similar abuses were found throughout the nation. {{quotebox|"The WPA foremen were given a sheet upon which they had to report on the standing of the reliefers in the political campaign. It became a part of [[Harry Hopkins|Mr. [Harry] Hopkins]]' [[WPA]] organization in Kentucky to learn how many of the down-and-out had enough devotion to Franklin D. Roosevelt to be entitled to eat. It was not sufficient for an indigent Kentuckian to be just down and out and hungry. He had to believe that the President of the United States was his redeemer and had to be ready to register that belief at the polls. The reliefers were asked to sign papers pledging themselves to the election of the senior senator from Kentucky. They were given campaign buttons and told to wear them and there were instances where, if they refused, they were thrown off the WPA rolls. All this, of course, was in a Democratic primary where only Democrats could vote. But there were a lot of poor Republicans in Kentucky who couldn't vote in the Democratic primary so long as they were Republicans. So they were told to change their registration and become Democrats, or no WPA jobs for them.}}

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was born of pure [[progressive]] intentions and modeled after [[Hitler Youth]] programs ongoing in [[Germany]]: employment of young men for conservation work on public lands. Republican Rep. Oscar DePriest, the only black member of Congress, made sure that the 1933 legislation that established the CCC banned [[discrimination]] based on “race, color, or creed." Black enrollment in the CCC was capped at ten percent of total recruits–roughly equivalent to the proportion of blacks in the U.S. in 1930, but nowhere near proportional to the number of blacks eligible for relief during the [[Great Depression]]. Tens of thousands were turned away.

The U.S. Army controlled CCC camp administration and operations, and the [[Wilsonian]] policy of racial segregation transferred over to the new civilian workforce. Most of the CCC's quarter million African-American enrollees served in segregated companies and were unable to attain positions of authority.<ref>The Progressive Republican states of Wisconsin and Minnesota had integrated camps.</ref> Some Southern states categorically excluded blacks, arguing that they were needed for growing and harvesting cotton.<ref>[https://livingnewdeal.org/just-way-segregation-ccc-2/ Just the way society was.” Segregation in the CCC], December 28, 2014.</ref>

====Tuskegee syphilis experiment====
:{{See also|Tuskegee syphilis experiment}}
[[File:Tuskegee experiment.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Tuskegee experiment during the New Deal.<ref>https://ghionjournal.com/tuskegee-institute-study-2-0-targeting-african-americans/</ref>]]
The study was initially funded by the private Rosenwald Fund. However, The Fund ended its involvement due to lack of matching state funds, and the federal government under the heavily [[Democratic party|Democrat]] 73rd Congress took over the funding.<ref>https://www.slu.edu/law/academics/journals/health-law-policy/pdfs/issues/v1-i2/menikoff_article.pdf</ref> According to the 1995 Abstract to ''The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: [[biotechnology]] and the [[administrative state]]:''
{{quotebox-float|"The central issue of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was [[property]]: property in the body and [[intellectual property]]. Once removed from the body, tissue and body fluids were not legally the property of the Tuskegee subjects. Consequently, there was not a direct relationship between a patient and research that used his sera. The Public Health Service (PHS) was free to exercise its property right in Tuskegee sera to develop serologic tests for syphilis with commercial potential. To camouflage the true meaning, the PHS made a distinction between direct clinical studies and indirect studies of tissue and body fluids. This deception caused all reviews to date to limit their examination to documents labeled by the PHS as directly related to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. This excluded other information in the public domain. Despite the absence of a clinical protocol, this subterfuge led each to falsely conclude that the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment was a clinical study. Based on publications of indirect research using sera and cerebrospinal fluid, this article conceives a very history of the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment. Syphilis could only cultivate in living beings. As in [[slavery]], the generative ability of the body made the Tuskegee subjects real property and gave untreated syphilis and the sera of the Tuskegee subjects immense commercial value. Published protocols exploited the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to invent and commercialize biotechnology for the applied science of syphilis [[serology]].<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7869408/</ref>}}
Jinbin Park of Kyung Hee University reports,<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Jinbin-Park-2137382871</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"the growing influence of [[eugenics]] and [[racial]] pathology at the time reinforced discriminative views on minorities. [[Progressivism]] was realized in the form of domestic reform and imperial pursuit at the same time. Major medical journals argued that [[blacks]] were inclined to have certain defects, especially [[sexually transmitted diseases]] like syphilis, because of their prodigal behavior and lack of hygiene. This kind of racial ideas were shared by the PHS [Public Health Service] officials who were in charge of the Tuskegee Study. Lastly, the PHS officials believed in continuing the experiment regardless of various social changes. They considered that black participants were not only poor but also ignorant of and even unwilling to undergo the treatment. When the exposure of the experiment led to the [[Senate]] investigation in 1973, the participating doctors of the PHS maintained that their study offered valuable contribution to the medical research. This paper argues that the combination of the efficiency of military medicine, [[progressive]] and imperial racial [[ideology]], and [[discrimination]] on [[African-American]]s resulted in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.}}

====Housing discrimination becomes law====
The [[Federal Housing Administration]] (FHA) was created by the Democratic congress in 1934 to insure loans for construction and repairs of homes. White middle-class families could buy suburban homes with little or no down payments and extended 30-year amortization schedules and their monthly charges were often less than rents the families had previously paid to housing authorities or private landlords. But the FHA had an explicit policy of not insuring suburban mortgages for African-Americans, according to writer Richard Rothstein on the ''The American Prospect'' website. In suburban New York's Nassau County, just east of Queens, Levittown was built in 1947 containing 17,500 mass-produced two-bedroom houses, requiring nothing down and monthly payments of about only $60. At the FHA's insistence, developer William Levitt did not sell homes to Blacks, and each deed included a prohibition of such resales in the future.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america</ref>

====Communist infiltration====

:{{See also|Students for a Democratic Society|Progressives for Obama}}
The New Deal was infiltrated with [[Russia]]n controlled [[Communists]] from the beginning. The [[Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy]] reported in 1996 "The first fact is that a significant Communist conspiracy was in place in Washington, New York, and Hollywood."<ref>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/appa6.html Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, Appendix A 6. The Experience of The Bomb]; the report also included, "At this distance it is difficult to conceive the intensity of Communist conviction in the 1930s....Looking back, however, we see more clearly the dilemma ... By 1950... the United States Government possessed information which the American public desperately needed to know: proof that there had been a serious attack on American security by the [[Soviet Union]], with considerable assistance from what was, indeed, an “enemy within.” The fact that we knew this was now known to, or sufficiently surmised by, the Soviet authorities. Only the American public was denied this information. [http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/appa7.html Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, Appendix A 7. The Cold War]</ref> [[Hayden Peake]],<ref>[http://intellit.muskingum.edu/alpha_folder/P_folder/peake.html Hayden B. Peake]</ref> curator of [[Central Intelligence Agency]]’s (CIA) Historical Intelligence Collection observes "[[Venona]] makes absolutely clear that they had active agents in the U.S. State Department, Treasury Department, Justice Department, Senate committee staffs, the military services, the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS), the [[Manhattan Project]], and the [[White House]], as well as wartime agencies. No modern government was more thoroughly penetrated." <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060820054409/http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/review/2000/summer/re2-su0.htm ''The Venona Progeny''], Hayen B. Peake, Naval War College Review, Summer 2000, Vol. LIII, No. 3.</ref> Of a handful of presidential assistants whose job was to read and summarize information coming in from all the departments and agencies of the U.S. government for the presidents' daily briefing in wartime, two - [[Lauchlin Currie]] and [[David K. Niles]] - were KGB agents.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/rooseveltandhopk006306mbp/page/n227 ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS AN INTIMATE HISTORY], by ROBERT E.SHERWOOD, 1948, p. 228.</ref> So thorough was [[KGB]] penetration of the Roosevelt Administration, that when [[Army Signals Intelligence]] cryptographer [[Meredith Gardner]] extracted the names of [[Hans Bethe]], [[Niels Bohr]], [[Enrico Fermi]], Harold Urey, [[Edward Teller]] and 11 other scientists working on the [[Manhattan Project]] from a December 2, 1944 KGB encipherment,<ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/venon00014.cfm Venona 1699 New York to Moscow, December 2, 1944].</ref> KGB agent [[William Weisband]] watched him do it.<ref>''VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957'', Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds., (Wasghington, D.C.: [[National Security Agency]], Central Intelligence Agency, 1996) [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/preface.htm]; The ''Baltimore Sun'' (Laura Sullivan, "SPY'S ROLE LINKED TO US FAILURE ON KOREA," 6/29/00) reported that a report newly declassified by the US National Security Agency (NSA) shows that William Weisband alerted the Soviets to extensive US eavesdropping in 1948, resulting in a complete blackout of information from the communist bloc for more than two years. This crippled the NSA's intelligence gathering efforts in the late 1940s and begins to explain why the US was caught unprepared for the [[DPRK]]'s 1950 invasion of the [[ROK]]. NSA historian David A. Hatch, who authored the report, said, "This report answers several significant questions. Up until now, there has been a great lack of knowledge surrounding some of these events ... and this should help sharpen [the public's] understanding." [Ed. note: This article was included in the US Department of Defense's Early Bird news service for June 29, 2000.] [http://www.nautilus.org/archives/napsnet/dr/0006/JUN29.html#item8]</ref>

As early as Roosevelt's first 100 days, [[Harold Ware]] was a [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) official in the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] (AAA) and founded the [[Ware group]]. The group consisted of young lawyers and economists, had about 75 members in 1934 and was divided into about eight cells. The AAA was later found [[unconstitutional]], but by that time the Communist operatives had established jobs in the [[civil service system]] and were simply reassigned elsewhere in government. [[Alger Hiss]], [[Lee Pressman]], [[John Abt]], [[Charles Kramer]], [[Nathan Witt]], [[Henry Collins]], [[George Silverman]], [[Marion Bachrach]], [[John Herrmann]], [[Nathaniel Weyl]], [[Donald Hiss]] and [[Victor Perlo]] were all members. [[Harry Dexter White]], who was involved in the most auspicious policy [[subversion (political)|subversion]] as Director of the Division of Monetary Research in the [[Treasury Department]], was also affiliated with the group. The Ware group was the CPUSA's covert arm at this time. Each of these agents not only provided classified documents to Soviet intelligence, but was involved in political influence operations as well.

In 1934, a Congressional Investigation was held to examine statements by Dr. William A. Wirt, who headed the Office of Education which later became the [[Department of Education]]. Dr. Wirt had attended a dinner party with several [[Brain Trust]]ers at the home of his secretary, [[Alice Barrows]].<ref>A June 1945 [[Venona project]] decryption of Soviet [[KGB]] wartime cables from the Washington D.C. KGB Office to Moscow's Eighth Department, the political intelligence wing, relayed information on matters regarding Attorney General Francis Biddle. KGB agent [[Charles Kramer]], who served on the staff of several U.S. Senate Subcommittees, and Barrows are the sources of the information. ''Venona 3706 KGB Washington to Moscow, 29 June 1945.'' Mary Van Kleek who headed the Russell Sage Foundation and also served on the Board of the National Council, visited Washington weekly to meet with Barrows and [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]].

During [[World War II]] Barrows was the Executive Secretary of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. This organization was declared in 1953 to be a [[Glossary of espionage terms#Fronts and cutouts|Communist front]] organization by the [[Subversive Activities Control Board]] (SACB). In its Findings of Fact, the SACB said the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, "advances positions...markedly pro-Soviet and...anti-United States Government...is a Communist-action organization which has as its primary purpose to advance the objectives of the world Communist movement under the [[hegemony]] of the Soviet Union; it has the policy to support and defend the Soviet Union under any and all circumstances...We conclude that the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., is substantially directed, dominated, and controlled by the Communist Party of the United States...and is primarily operated for the purpose of giving aid and support to...the Soviet Union, a Communist foreign government." ''[http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=usfexec;cc=usfexec;q1=Barrows;rgn=full%20text;idno=81242.0001.001;didno=81242.0001.001;view=image;seq=511;page=root;size=s;endseq=3;frm=frameset Reports of the Subversive Activities Control Board.]'' Washington. United States Government Printing Office. 1966. Vol. 1, p. 501.</ref>
Barrows began working for the Office of Education in 1919 and was a member of the CPUSA, which advocated the violent overthrow of the United States Government. Several of the Brain Trusters present revealed to Wirt they were CPUSA members. Wirt testified,
[[Image:Fbisilvermasterfilevol15p4.JPG|right|300px|thumb|[[CPUSA]] defector [[Louis Budenz]] testified he could name 400 individuals involved in the [[CPUSA#Secret apparatus|Communist conspiracy]];<ref>[http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb15t&chunk.id=d0e6193&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e4718&brand=eschol FBI Headquarters File 100-63, Louis Francis Budenz, Internal Security—C, Serial 122.]</ref> others testified there may have been over 1000.<ref>Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations ([https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/McCarthy_Transcripts.htm McCarthy Hearings 1953-54]).</ref> The [[Silvermaster group]] infiltrated 27 high level Stalinist [[KGB]] operatives into government jobs in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, including the first General Secretary of the [[United Nations]], the first head of the [[International Monetary Fund]], the head of the [[Manhattan Project]] as well as speech writers and staff assistants for both the President and Vice President.<ref>[http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster015.pdf FBI Silvermaster file Vol. 15, pg. 4 pdf.]</ref> ]]
{{Cquote|I was told they believe that by thwarting our then evident economic recovery, they would be able to prolong the country’s destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the Government must operate business and commerce. By propaganda, they would destroy institutions making long term capital loans—and then push Uncle Sam into making these loans. Once Uncle Sam becomes our financier, he must also follow his money with control and management.<ref>Hearings, House Select Committee To Investigate Certain Statements of Dr. William Wirt, 73rd Congress, 2nd Session, April 10 and 17, 1934.</ref><ref>''Dr Wirt faces the cameras and tells all'', Literary Digest v. 117 (April 21, 1934) p. 7.</ref><ref>FBI Silvermaster file [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster053.pdf Volume 53 June 1946], p. 78 pdf.</ref>}}
Outside government, the [[far-left]] was exerting considerable influence in the labor movement. It dominated the new [[Congress of Industrial Organizations|CIO]], and was building a network of membership organizations. The [[American League Against War and Fascism]] was formed in 1933 and, in 1937, became the American League for Peace and Democracy. There followed the [[American Youth Congress]], 1934; League of American Writers, 1935; National Negro Congress, 1936; and the American Congress for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, 1939. All had significant [[Stalinist]] connections, and fought furious battles with the anti-Communist left.<ref>

Leuchtenburg (1963) 281-3; Irving Howe, Lewis A. Coser, and Julius Jacobson, ''The American Communist Party: a critical history, 1919-1957'' (1957); James R. Barrett, ''William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism'' (2002).</ref> [[Joseph Berger]], a speechwriter for the Democratc National Committee, also was a KGB agent.<ref>[http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI Verona Files]</ref>

While the [[D-Day]] landings were happening, Vice President [[Henry Wallace]] undertook a mission to the Far East for the [[Office of War Information]] and was accompanied by [[Owen Lattimore]] and [[John Carter Vincent]] of the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR).<ref>''Yalta Betrayal'', Wittmer, 1953, pg. 58. Retrieved from GELO.com [http://www.ogleo.com/search/ogleo-History_of_CzechoslovakiaHistory of Czechoslovakia] 05/08/07.</ref> Wallace and his delegation were given a tour of the Magadan concentration camp at Kolyma. Lattimore wrote a travelogue for the ''[[National Geographic]]'' describing this Siberian [[gulag]] as a combination of the Hudson's Bay Company and the [[TVA]], gushing about how strong and well-fed the inmates were and ascribing to camp commandant Feliks Nikishov “a trained and sensitive interest in art and music and also a deep sense of civic responsibility.”<ref>Paul Johnson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aXm-lKKztywC&pg=PA1&dq=the+survival+of+the+adversary+culture&sig=NBsLl97lMC2A-i-gpuvRZdkewDA#PPA180,M1 ''The Survival of the Adversary Culture'' (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1988) ISBN 1560005548, p. 180]</ref> Upon his return from the Siberian journey Wallace was hailed by leftist [[mainstream media]] "as the conscience of the world" in "the century of the common man." Nobel Laureate [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] wrote years later in ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]'' that the entire city of Magadan was founded as a Soviet Gulag, and would never have come into existence for any other reason than as a Communist slave camp for dissidents and the politically incorrect undesirables of Soviet society.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944884,00.html?promoid=googlep Islands of Slavery],, ''[[Time magazine]]'', June 24, 1974.</ref><ref>[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/10/31/jordan_peterson_reads_foreward_to_the_gulag_archipelago_50th_anniversary.html Jordan Peterson Reads New Foreward to The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary Edition], October 31, 2018. realclearpolitics.com</ref> Commentator Cal Thomas wrote in 2007, {{Cquote|While many Westerners recall Nazi-run death camps like [[Auschwitz]] and [[Buchenwald]], few remember Soviet death camps named Kolyma and Magadan. True, Alexander Solzhenitsyn mentioned them in "The Gulag Archipelago" as did Varlam Sjalamov in "Tales from Kolyma," but as the late Swedish journalist Andres Kung wrote, "There are people who have still not heard of these communist [[democide|extermination]] camps -- even though the communists preceded the [[Nazi]]s in creating such camps and killed an even larger number of people in their camps.<ref>[http://www3.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20070612-085222-1017r.htm Monument to murder], By Cal Thomas, ''Washington Times'', June 13, 2007.</ref>}}
The [[American Labor Party]] provided the necessary votes to overcome the [[Republican]] lead over the [[Democrat]]s. By 1944 the [[Communist]]s had taken over the American Labor Party completely. In the election of 1944, [[Republican]] Presidential nominee [[Thomas E. Dewey]] got nearly half a million votes more on the Republican ticket than Roosevelt got on the Democratic ticket,<ref>[http://www.therealitycheck.org/GuestColumnist/tbrewton010306.htm The (Socialist) Empire Strikes],
by Thomas E. Brewton, ''The RealityCheck.org''. Retrieved August 1, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801534,00.html?promoid=googlep The Side Issues], [[Time magazine]], Nov. 13, 1944.</ref> but Roosevelt was the candidate of two other parties - the American Labor Party of the Communists <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Ch. 10, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040626062741/https://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Ten___Politics__Disease_.htm ''Politics, Disease and History'']</ref> and the [[Liberal Party]] which consisted of technocrats, [[economic planners]] and American non-Stalinist Communists.<ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 2, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/cgi-bin/framed/2767/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Two___The_White_House_G.htm ''The White House Goes into Business''], Flynn, 1948.</ref> In New York State Roosevelt won 47 electoral votes with a majority of 317,000.<ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 9, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Nine___The_Great_Confere.htm ''The Great Conferences''], Flynn, 1948,</ref> Of these 825,000 votes came from the American Labor Party dominated by the Communists, which had also nominated FDR and he had accepted, and the American Liberal Party. The same thing was true in Illinois, in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and other large industrial states, although the fact was not so obvious because the radicals operated inside the Democratic party where they could not be so easily identified. [[Strom Thurmond]] also supported FDR's decision to seek a fourth term.<ref>[http://www.kevinbaker.info/c_wtm.html What Trent Meant], Kevin Baker.</ref>

Several liberal New Deal economists in the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]] fled to [[Maoist]] [[China]] to experiment with their real ambitions after being hindered by [[democracy]], law, and the [[Constitution]].<ref>Unlike the landlords of sharecroppers, these former American civil servants turned Chinese Communist civil servants simply outlawed "landlordism," and exterminated the landlords, saving the state treasury billions in agricultural subsidies.</ref> Their time in China is memorialized in history as the [[Three Years of Disasters]].<ref>Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that "coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the foundation of the [[Great Leap Forward]]" and it "motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history". Dikötter, Frank (2010). pp. x, xi. ISBN 0-8027-7768-6</ref> The death toll of this [[socialist]] experiment is estimated at 55 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2011/06/17/la-chine-creuse-ses-trous-de-memoire_743211|title=La Chine creuse ses trous de mémoire|last=|first=|date=|website=La Liberation|publisher=|language=fr|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>

After [[World War II]], [[Moscow]] ordered all American communists to go underground and join the Democratic party. The story of [[Frank Marshall Davis]], Barack Obama's mentor,<ref>http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/main/AboutHFP/tabid/64/Default.aspx</ref> is intertwined with the Hawaii Democrats' rise to power.<ref>http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-frank-marshall-davis-network-in-hawaii/</ref> Communists controlled the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), the ILWU controlled the Hawaii Democratic Party, and in 1954, union-based election campaigns launched the Hawaii Democrats into control of the state legislature. Hawaii's first Democratic Governor Jack Burns said,
{{Cquote|Every guy in the ILWU was at one time or another a member of the Communist Party of America. This is where they got their [[community organizing|organizational information]] and how to organize, and how to bring groups together and how to create cells and how to make movements that are undetected by the bosses.}}
In 1959 Hawaii became a state.<ref>http://hawaii.gov/statehood/history</ref> when Burns captured the governor's office in 1962 the Democrats created a [[single party control]]led state unbroken for four decades until the election of [[Republican]] Governor [[Linda Lingle]] in the aftermath of the [[9/11 attacks]] in 2002. During those decades in some sessions sat as few as one Republican legislator. In 1976 the Democratic-controlled Hawaii State Legislature passed a resolution honoring [[Koji Ariyoshi]], a lieutenant of [[Mao Zedong]], the single biggest mass murderer of all time. Herbert Romerstein,<ref>[http://education-research.org/CSR/romerstein.htm The Education and Research Institute], Washington, DC.</ref><ref>[http://intellit.org/alpha_folder/R_folder/romerstein.html Herbert Romerstein], ''The Literature of Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with Essays, Reviews, and Comments'', J. Ransom Clark Emeritus, Muskingum University, New Concord, Ohio. Published in 2007: J. Ransom Clark, Intelligence and National Security: A Reference Handbook (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International Reference, 2007. [http://www.greenwood.com/psi/book_detail.aspx?sku=C9298])</ref> formerly head of the office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the United States Information Agency (USIA) commented, "this was the atmosphere that young Barack Obama grew up in...We honor Soviet spies."<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Transcript_May_22_edited_version.pdf ''The Stealth Candidate''], Edited Transcript May 22, 2008, Briefing on Barack Obama's Communist Connections Featuring Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein. Accuracy in Media.</ref><ref>Mao and Ariyoshi were Soviet operatives prior to the death of Stalin and the [[Sino-Soviet split]].</ref>

[[Michael Whitney Straight]] became a Communist Party member in the Stalin era and worked as a speechwriter for President Roosevelt. After WWII Straight took over as publisher of his family-owned ''[[The New Republic]]'' magazine, the liberal movement's flagship publication, where he hired former [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]] and 1948 Progressive Party presidential candidate [[Henry A. Wallace]] as the magazine's editor. Straight later served as the deputy chairman of the Great Society [[National Endowment for the Arts]] program from 1969 to 1977 handing out taxpayer cash and federal grants to [[politically correct]] [[Cultural Marxist]] recipients.

====Immigration and refugees====

After [[Kristallnacht]] in November 1938, many Jews within Germany decided that it was time to leave. The ''S.S St. Louis'' carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jewish, set sail from Hamburg to [[Cuba]] on May 13, 1939. In Cuba the passengers were denied entrance without posting a $500 bond. A few dozen passengers disembarked. The ship set sail for Florida.

Once in Florida waters, Sec. of State [[Cordell Hull]] advised President Roosevelt to deny the Jews [[asylum]]. The [[U.S. Coast Guard]] and planes followed the ''St. Louis'' to prevent it from landing.<ref>https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-tragedy-of-s-s-st-louis</ref>
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Many Jews had fled to Central and South America to escape [[Nazi]] persecution. When war broke out, these [[Latin America]]n countries did not want German Jews. They were deported to the United States where the Roosevelt administration was willing to hold them as German citizens in America [[concentration camp]]s. The Roosevelt administration traded them back to Germany in exchange for American civilians held in detention in Germany. The fate of these Jews is unknown.<ref>https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/internment-of-germans.html</ref>

In 1943, Roosevelt told French military leaders at the Casablanca Conference that "the number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions" in liberated North Africa "should be definitely limited", lest there be a recurrence of "the understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews in Germany."<ref>http://new.wymaninstitute.org/2013/08/a-presidents-private-thoughts-about-jews/</ref>

====Mass incarceration of minorities====
Wikipedia states that Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt set up "[[concentration camp]]s" during World War II while the United States was at war with [[Nazi Germany]]:
{{quotebox-float|"Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. This order authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans in U.S. [[concentration camps]]."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066</ref>}}
====Supreme Court====
Franklin Roosevelt nominated [[James F. Byrnes]] to the Supreme Court and was confirmed by the Democrat Senate in 1941. The NAACP opposed his confirmation in a telegram to the White House:
{{quotebox-float|“If Senator Byrnes at any time in his long public career failed to take a position inimical to the human and citizenship rights of 13 million American Negro citizens, close scrutiny of his record fails to reveal it.”}}
As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate for more than two decades, Byrnes personally blocked a Senate investigation of a South Carolina lynching and opposed federal anti-lynching legislation, insisting that “rape is responsible, directly and indirectly, for most of the lynching in America.”

Byrnes later held the office of Secretary of State under President Harry Truman. He remained a vocal opponent of integration throughout his term as South Carolina governor from 1951 to 1955. In his inaugural address, Byrnes proclaimed,
{{quotebox-float|“Whatever is necessary to continue the separation of the races in the schools of South Carolina is going to be done by the white people of the state. That is my ticket as a private citizen. It will be my ticket [as governor].”}}
A building and a professorship at the University of South Carolina bear his name, as do Byrnes Auditorium at Winthrop University, Byrnes Hall dormitory at Clemson University, and James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, South Carolina.<ref>https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html</ref>

===Truman to Kennedy: 1945–1963===

Harry Truman took over unexpectedly in 1945, and the rifts inside the party that Roosevelt had papered over began to emerge. Former Vice President [[Henry A. Wallace]], a progressive, denounced Truman as a war-monger for his anti-Soviet programs, the [[Truman Doctrine]], [[Marshall Plan]], and [[NATO]]. By cooperating with internationalist Republicans, Truman succeeded in defeating isolationists on the right and pro-Soviets on the left to establish a [[Cold War]] program that lasted until the fall of Communism in 1991. Wallace supporters and fellow travelers of the far left were pushed out of the party and the CIO in 1946-48 by young anti-Communists like [[Hubert Humphrey]], [[Walter Reuther]], and [[Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.]]. [[Hollywood]] emerged in the 1940s as an important new base in the party, led by movie-star politicians such as [[Ronald Reagan]], who at this point in time strongly supported Roosevelt and Truman. Reagan was elected president of the [[Screen Actors Guild]] and left the party over communist infiltration of his union.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=I4-UBnd20K4C&pg=PA155 Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics]</ref>

By October 1946, the G.I. Bill had placed 6,500 former soldiers in nonfarm jobs in Mississippi; 86 percent of the skilled and semiskilled jobs were filled by whites, 92 percent of the unskilled ones by Blacks. In New York and northern New Jersey, fewer than 100 of the 67,000 mortgages insured by the G.I. Bill supported home purchases by nonwhites. Discrimination continued as well in elite Northern colleges. The University of Pennsylvania, along with Columbia the least discriminatory of the Ivy League colleges, enrolled only 46 Black students in its student body of 9,000 in 1946. The traditional Black colleges did not have places for an estimated 70,000 Black veterans in 1947. At the same time, white universities were doubling their enrollments and prospering with the infusion of public and private funds, and of students with their G.I. benefits.<ref>https://atlantablackstar.com/2015/02/04/9-ways-franklin-d-roosevelts-new-deal-purposely-excluded-blacks-people/5/</ref>

On the right, the Republicans blasted Truman's domestic policies. "Had Enough?" was the winning slogan as Republicans recaptured Congress in 1946. Many party leaders were ready to dump Truman, but they lacked an alternative. The party was split three ways. [[Henry Wallace]], who Roosevelt threw off the ticket in 1944 ran as a [[Progressive]] while [[J. Strom Thurmond]], who remained a staunch supporter of FDR split off and ran as a [[Dixiecrat]]. Republican overconfidence led to many failing to show up at the polls and Truman was reelected in a stunning surprise. However, all of Truman's Fair Deal proposals, such as universal health care were defeated by the [[Conservative Coalition]] in Congress. His [[nationalization]] of the steel industry was reversed by the Supreme Court.
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In foreign policy, Europe was occupied but divided between the Western alliance and the Communist bloc as troubles mounted in Asia. American troops were now facing down the New Deal's Stalinist allies in the streets of Berlin. Kuomintang China, a major ally in the war against [[Japan]], fell to the Stalinist communist bloc in 1949. Truman, under the [[UN]] banner, entered the [[Korean War]] without formal Congressional approval—the last time a president would ever do so. When the war stalemated in 1951 because of Truman's reluctance to use nuclear weapons, he fired General [[Douglas MacArthur]], a hero to conservatives. Republicans blasted Truman's failure to stop Communist gains in Asia. A series of petty scandals among friends and buddies of Truman further tarnished his image, allowing [[Dwight Eisenhower]] and the Republicans in 1952 to crusade against "Korea, Communism and Corruption." Truman dropped out of the presidential race early in 1952, leaving no obvious successor. The convention nominated [[Adlai Stevenson]] in 1952 and 1956, only to see him overwhelmed by two Eisenhower landslides. Stevenson, a New Deal liberal, adopted the traditional Democratic Southern Strategy of choosing a Southern white male for vice president in both elections to appeal to Southern voters, who regularly would not allow African Americans to register to vote.

====Voter suppression and election fraud====
Two term New Dealer Sen. Theodore Bilbo faced three primary challengers running for a third term and told a group of supporters,
{{quotebox-float|“I’m calling on every red-blooded American who believes in the superiority and integrity of the white race to get out and see that no n***** votes.”}}
In true Democrat tradition, Bilbo won the rigged primary election with 51% in a four-way contest. The Republicans won back control of the Senate that year in the 1946 general election and refused to seat Bilbo as his comments about Democrat [[voter suppression]] to rig the election became more widely known. He died 7 months later, unable to take his seat, while the Senate was still investigating.<ref>http://www.mississippihistory.org/sites/default/files/bilbo.pdf</ref>

In 1948, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] won an election for [[U.S. Senate]] from the state of [[Texas]] by [[Democrat election fraud#1948 Texas Senate|stealing the election]], according even to historians sympathetic to him. Johnson ran against former governor [[Coke Stevenson]]; neither candidate won a majority of the votes in the election, which under Texas law forced a runoff between Johnson and Stevenson. Johnson then claimed an 87-vote victory over Stevenson in the runoff, which was fraudulent.<ref>See eg Robert A Caro Master of the ''Senate Means of Assent''</ref> Johnson's partner in [[crime]] in the election theft, [[Abe Fortas]], whom Johnson later appointed to the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] and was confirmed by a two-thirds majority of the Democrat Senate, is the only Supreme Court Justice to have resigned over corruption charges.

====Brown vs. Board of Education====
:{{See also|Brown vs. Board of Education}}
The election of a Republican for the first time in 20 years was momentous. Eisenhower appointed Republican California Governor [[Earl Warren]] as [[Chief Justice]] of the Supreme Court. All the other members had been appointed by Roosevelt and Truman who believed courts should defer to the policymaking prerogatives of the White House and Congress. Warren convened a meeting of the justices and presented to them the simple argument that the only reason to sustain segregation was a deep-rooted belief in the inferiority of African-Americans. In ''[[Brown v. Topeka Board of Education]]'', Warren produced a unanimous decision that said: {{quotebox|"Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group…Any language in contrary to this finding is rejected. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”}}
In Congress, the powerful duo of House Speaker [[Sam Rayburn]] and Senate Majority leader [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] held the party together, often by compromising with Eisenhower. After the Little Rock Crisis of 1957, the party made dramatic gains in the 1958 midterms and seemed to have a permanent lock on Congress. Indeed, Democrats had majorities in the House every election from 1930 to 1992 (except 1946 and 1952). Most southern Congressmen were conservative Democrats, however, and they usually worked with conservative Republicans. The result was a [[Conservative Coalition]] that blocked practically all socialist domestic legislation from 1937 to the 1970s, except for a brief spell 1964–65, when Johnson neutralized its power.
[[File:John Kennedy texas.png|left|300px|thumb|John Kennedy was elected using the same Southern Strategy FDR did by putting a Texan on the ticket.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23535517?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents John F. Kennedy's Southern Strategy, 1956-1960], Guy Paul Land, ''The North Carolina Historical Review'', Vol. 56, No. 1 (January, 1979), pp. 41-63.</ref>]]
The nomination of [[John F. Kennedy]] in 1960 energized the Catholic population, which jammed motorcades and turned out in heavy numbers (over 80% voted for Kennedy), while also causing a backlash among white Protestants (over 70% of whom voted for Republican candidate [[Richard Nixon]]). Reaching beyond the traditional Irish, German, Italian and Polish Catholic ethnics, Viva Kennedy set out to mobilize the previously passive Latino vote, and it perhaps provided the margin of victory for Kennedy in Texas and New Mexico. His brother, [[Robert Kennedy]], who managed the campaign, opposed the outreach to Black voters and sided with traditional Southern racists of the New Deal coalition.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kLspqSlNjfYC&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=three+Southern+governors+told+us+that+if+Jack+supported+Jimmy+Hoffa,+Nikita+Khrushchev,+or+Martin+Luther+King,+they+would+throw+their+states+to+Nixon&source=bl&ots=9PCWxfix0P&sig=ACfU3U2rlCOdSQJLr7w1x8AhpeJODSmG6w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj58fD9uIngAhWMoYMKHRY0CPAQ6AEwCnoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=three%20Southern%20governors%20told%20us%20that%20if%20Jack%20supported%20Jimmy%20Hoffa%2C%20Nikita%20Khrushchev%2C%20or%20Martin%20Luther%20King%2C%20they%20would%20throw%20their%20states%20to%20Nixon&f=false Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero], [[Chris Matthews]], Simon and Schuster, Nov 6, 2012, p. 309.</ref> Bobby Kennedy was furious with campaign aides for talking with King, and felt it would cost them the election.

Kennedy's victory reinvigorated the party. His youth, vigor and intelligence caught the popular imagination. In foreign policy he was strongly anti-Communist, and promptly launched an invasion of Castro's Cuba; it failed badly. A few new programs like the Peace Corps provided pacifists with an alternative to two years of military service in the peacetime draft. In terms of civil rights legislation, his proposals were all cautious and incremental. In three years he was unable to pass any significant civil rights legislation.

Kennedy's election did mark the coming of age of the Catholic component of the New Deal Coalition. After 1964 middle-class Catholics started voting Republicans in the same proportion as their Protestant neighbors. Except for the Chicago of [[Richard J. Daley]], the last of the Democratic machines faded away. His involvement in Vietnam proved momentous, for his successor Lyndon Johnson decided to stay, and double the investment, and double the bet again and again until over 500,000 American soldiers were fighting in that small country.

====Southern Manifesto====
:{{Main article|Southern Manifesto}}
The Southern Manifesto was a document issued in response to the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'', which integrated public schools. School segregation laws were some of the most enduring and best-known of the [[Jim Crow]] laws that characterized the American South at the time. All but twenty-eight of the 138 southern Democrat members of Congress signed this Southern Manifesto, including 19 of the Majority Democrat Senators.<ref>https://d1lexza0zk46za.cloudfront.net/history/am-docs/southern-manifesto.pdf</ref> [[John Sparkman]], 1952 Vice Presidential candidate as part of the Democrat's Southern Strategy, [[J. William Fulbright]] mentor of Bill Clinton, Richard Brevard Russell of the [[Warren Commission]], [[Sam Ervin]] of the [[Watergate]] Committee, [[Hale Boggs]] (the father of [[NPR]]'s Cokie Roberts), and [[Wilbur Mills]] were all signatories. It reads in part: {{quotebox|"This unwarranted exercise of power by the Court, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion in the States principally affected. It is destroying the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through 90 years of patient effort by the good people of both races. It has planted hatred and suspicion where there has been heretofore friendship and understanding....We commend the motives of those States which have declared the intention to resist forced integration by any lawful means."}} [[File:Little Rock Nine.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Republican President Dwight Eisenhower called out the 101st Airborne to protect Black school children from Democrat protesters after a Democrat governor refused to implement a desegregation order written by the Republican Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.]]

The Southern Manifesto was signed on a large mahogany conference table in Sen. [[John Stennis]]' office which Stennis used as his desk and referred to as "the flagship of the [[Confederacy]]." The table was used by segregationist and co-signer of the Southern Manifesto Sen. [[Richard Russell]] before his retirement. When Stennis retired in 1988, Sen. [[Joseph Biden]] took over Stennis' office, including the conference table. When Sen. Biden was elected vice president in 2008, Biden had the flagship of the Confederacy moved into the Vice President's residence.

One of the first challenges to ''Brown v. Board of Education'' occurred when Democrat Governor [[Orval E. Faubus]] ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African-American students from enrolling at [[Little Rock]] Central High School. Central High was an all-white school. Faubus ordered the troops to "accomplish the mission of maintaining or restoring law and order and to preserve the peace, health, safety and security of the citizens." A force of 289 soldiers was assembled. The commander told nine black students, six girls and thee boys ages 15–17 years old who were attempting to enter the school, to return home. The standoff continued for three weeks. Little Rock Democrat mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann appealed to President Eisenhower to help end the deadlock. Eisenhower sent the [[101st Airborne Division]] to federalized the entire 10,000-member Arkansas National Guard. The students were allowed to enroll.

Faubus was re-elected in 1958 with 82.5% of the vote over a Republican challenger. Faubus ordered the closure of four public high schools that year, preventing both black and white students from attending school while seeking a two and a half year delay on de-segregation until January 1961 in Federal Court when there would be a possibility of a Democratic president.

====1957 Civil Rights Act====
:{{See also|Civil Rights Act of 1957}}
Republican Attorney General [[Herbert Brownell]] originally proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Democrat Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had Judiciary chairman Sen. [[James Eastland]] drastically water-down the House version, removing stringent voting protection clauses.<ref>https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1951-2000/The-Civil-Rights-Act-of-1957/</ref><ref>Caro, Robert, ''Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson'', Chapter 39</ref> The bill passed 285–126 in the House with Republicans providing the majority of votes 167–19 and Democrats 118–107.<ref>HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. PASSED. YEA SUPPORTS PRESIDENT'S POSITION. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/h42</ref> It then passed 72–18 in the Senate, with Republicans again supplying the majority of votes, 43–0 and Democrats voting 29–18. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who later ran for president, voted against it.<ref>[https://kennedysandking.com/reviews/the-kennedys-and-civil-rights-how-the-msm-continues-to-distort-history-part-2 The Kennedys and Civil Rights: How the MSM Continues to Distort History, Part 2], James DiEugenio, 07 October 2018. "Kennedy sided with the [[segregation]]ists on a complicated procedural matter that watered down that bill. (p. 58) Even for Levingston, this is sorry. What watered down the bill was the removal of something that Kennedy voted ''for''. This was called Title III.</ref> Kennedy's 1957 book, ''Profiles in Courage'', celebrated the vote of Sen. [[Edmund Ross]] to acquit Pres. [[Andrew Johnson]], the first step in ending Republican [[Reconstruction]] reforms and paving the way for the Democrat era of [[Jim Crow]] laws and the [[segregation]] era.<ref>https://brewminate.com/andrew-johnson-impeachment-and-reconstruction/</ref>

The 1957 Civil Rights Act was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Johnson told Sen. [[Richard Russell]], {{quotebox|"These Negroes, they're getting pretty [[uppity]] these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."<ref>Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=HS9aAAAAYAAJ ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream''] (1977), by Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York: New American Library, p. 155.</ref>}}

====Bull Connor====
[[Bull Connor]] was first elected to the Alabama House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1934.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/connor.html|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Connor|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref> Connor remained a Democrat throughout his career and life. In 1936 he was elected Commissioner of Public Safety of Birmingham, Alabama and served in that position for the better part of three decades. A [[white supremacist]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Eugene "Bull" Connor|url=http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1091|access-date=2021-12-01|website=Encyclopedia of Alabama|language=en}}</ref> Connor enforced racial segregation laws passed by the Democratic party-controlled state legislature and denied [[civil rights]] to black citizens. He is notorious for directing the use of fire hoses and police attack dogs against civil rights activists in the early 1960s, including against children supporting the protests.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Meet the Players: Other Figures {{!}} American Experience {{!}} PBS|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/meet-players-other-figures/|access-date=|website=PBS|language=en}}</ref> National media broadcast these tactics on television, horrifying much of the world. The outrages served as catalysts for passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].

===Johnson, war and riots===
:{{See also|Johnson administration}}
The New Deal Coalition began to fracture as union and religious leaders demanded support for [[civil rights]], upsetting the party's traditional base of Democrat segregationists who themselves became dependent on government largess. In 1948 the party platform for the first time in its history showed some support for civil rights. The Republicans passed civil rights legislation with the [[13th Amendment]], [[14th Amendment]], [[15th Amendment]], [[Emancipation Proclamation]], the Civil Rights Act of 1875, and first passed anti-lynching legislation in 1922, which Democrats killed by [[filibuster]]s.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/05/party-civil-rights-kevin-d-williamson/</ref>
[[File:Lyndon Johnson showing scars.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A new level crudeness: Johnson shows off scars from gallbladder surgery to photographers and the world. Johnson is said to have given instructions to staff and press interviews while sitting on the toilet.<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4617681/toilet-time-lbj</ref> Johnson regularly used the "N" word.]]
The party's reversal on civil rights culminated with Democratic President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] finally signing the [[bi-partisan]] [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], which he called "the N****r Bill."<ref>http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism</ref> In lobbying fellow Democrats for the bill, Johnson said,
{{quotebox-float|"I'll have them n*gg*rs voting Democratic for two hundred years."<ref>Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-''Air Force One'' steward Robert MacMillan as quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=lJz-yIZNE2sC ''Inside the White House''] (1996), by Ronald Kessler, New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 33.</ref>}} Democrats tried to block passage by filibustering for 75 hours, including a 14-hour and 13-minute speech by the Exalted Cyclops, Sen. [[Robert Byrd]],<ref>Sen. Theodore Bilbo, whom Byrd swore his Klan oath to, said in 1949 on ''Meet the Press'', "Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux."</ref> who later became Senate Democrat Leader in the Reagan era. The filibuster failed when the Senate invoked cloture for only the second time since 1927.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Civil_Rights_Filibuster_Ended.htm|title=Civil Rights Filibuster Ended |work=Art & History Historical Minutes|publisher=United States Senate|accessdate=}}</ref> The law was intended to block Republican gains in the South followed by buying off Blacks with [[Great Society]] [[welfare]] and [[affirmative action]] programs. According to LBJ biographer Robert Caro, Johnson told his chauffeur:
{{Quotebox-float|"Let me tell you one thing, n*gg*r. As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your g*dd*mn name. So no matter what you are called, n*gg*r, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a g*dd*mn piece of furniture."<ref>https://slate.com/culture/2002/05/lbj-s-alleged-compassion.html</ref>}}

African-Americans formed an anomalous coalition with low-income white Democrat racists who were dependent on New Deal and Great Society [[welfare]] programs.<ref>"Chicago 1969: Assumed to be natural enemies, these groups united in their calls for [[economic justice]]." [http://theconversation.com/chicago-1969-when-black-panthers-aligned-with-confederate-flag-wielding-working-class-whites-68961 When Black Panthers aligned with Confederate-flag-wielding, working-class whites], Colette Gaiter, ''The Conversation'', January 8, 2017.</ref> Both African Americans and racist Democrats opposed Republican efforts to maintain fiscal and budgetary sanity. The coalition gave cover to bigoted Democrats to hide their racism, while accusing Republicans who wanted to balance the budget of prejudice. [[Malcolm X]] described it this way: {{quotebox-float|"The white Liberal differs from the white Conservative only in one way; the Liberal is more [[deceit]]ful, more hypocritical, than the Conservative. Both want power, but the White Liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor and by winning the friendship and support of the Negro, the White Liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or a weapon in this political football game, that is constantly raging, between the White Liberals and the White Conservatives. The American Negro is nothing, but a political "football game" that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YmjWW9tx4</ref>}}
Contrary to popular Democrat mythology, Democrat Governor [[George Wallace]] won [[the South]] in 1968 in a three-way contest against Nixon and Humphrey. There was no Nixon "[[Southern Strategy]]." The South continued to reject Yankee liberals (Humphrey in 1968, McGovern in 1972, Mondale in 1984, Dukakis in 1988, Kerry in 2004). At the state and local level, the Republicans made slow but steady gains. As racism in the South declined, Republicans in the South increased.<ref>https://youtu.be/ol7OMGBDMao</ref>

The South became competitive in presidential politics as early as the 1920s and by 1980 gave strong support to Republican Ronald Reagan, rejecting northern liberal candidates.<ref>https://www.prageru.com/videos/why-did-democratic-south-become-republican</ref> Democrats responded with a new Southern Strategy - putting Southerners at the top of the ticket - Carter in 1976 and 1980, Clinton in 1992 and 1996, Gore in 2000, and calling Yankee Republicans "racist."

By the 1990s the GOP was competitive at the state and local level throughout the South. The Democrats made gains in the west through [[illegal immigration]],<ref>https://cis.org/Report/Injustice-All-Excerpt-Sellout-Inside-Story-President-Clintons-Impeachment</ref> converting [[California]] to a Democratic stronghold and gaining in fast-growing Arizona and Nevada. The Northeast became more and more a Democratic enclave, especially after 2006 when numerous Republican moderates were defeated for reelection. The Midwest remained a battleground. The Democrats made strong gains in Illinois but slipped a little in Minnesota.

====1964 Convention: Mississippi Freedom Party====
:{{See also|Black history}}
The Mississippi Freedom Party was organized by African Americans to challenge the establishment Democratic Party, which allowed participation only by whites. The party ran a slate of delegates with close to 80,000 people casting ballots.<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/tim/tim63b.htm#1963msballot Freedom Ballot in MS] ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans</ref> The party hoped to replace the Regular Democrats as the official Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

At the convention the party challenged the Regular Democrats' right to be seated, claiming that the Regular Democrats were illegally elected in a segregated process that violated both party regulations and [[federal law]].<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/disc/mfdp.htm The Mississippi Movement & the MFDP] ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans</ref> The Equal Protection Clause had been on the books for nearly 100 years already. The Democratic Party referred the challenge to the credentials committee,<ref>{{cite book
| last = Branch
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| date = 1998}}</ref> which televised its proceedings and allowed the nation to see and hear the moving testimony of several delegates and the retaliation inflicted on them by Democrats for attempting to vote.<ref>Carmichael, Stokely, and Charles V. Hamilton. ''Black Power: The Politics of Liberation,'' (New York: Random House, 1967), p. 90.</ref>

After that, most observers and pundits thought the credentials committee were ready to unseat the Regular Democrats and seat the Freedom Party delegates in their place. But some Democrats from other states threatened to leave the convention and bolt the party if the Regular Democrats were unseated. President Johnson wanted a united convention and feared losing support. To ensure his victory in November, Johnson maneuvered to prevent the Mississippi Freedom Democrats from replacing the all-white Regular Democrats.

Two future Democrat Presidential nominees, [[Hubert Humphrey]] and [[Walter Mondale]], denied Blacks [[equal protection]] and made a mockery of the [[civil rights movement]].<ref>https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2011/05/sad-story-humphreys-role-1964-democratic-convention/</ref> Johnson held a private meeting with Humphrey, Mondale, Roy Wilkins, [[Andrew Young]], [[United Auto Workers]] President [[Walter Reuther]] and [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] A plan was hatched to offer the Freedom Democrats two non-voting ''At-Large'' seats with observer status, rather than replace the all-white delegation which had been undemocratically and illegally elected.<ref>Mills, Kay, ''This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer,'' (New York: Plume, 1994), p. 5.</ref> Johnson arrogated to himself the right to pick which two, and Johnson chose one white and one black. Johnson dispatched Humphrey and Mondale and ordered them to make sure that “that illiterate woman," Fannie Lou Hamer would never be a delegate. Dr. King protested and was told by Reuther to shut up.

The offer was rejected, but Humphrey and Mondale remained powerhouse liberals in the Democratic party for another 20 years.

====Great Society====
:{{See also|War on Poverty}}
By the 1960s, the [[Preamble]] clause of the [[Constitution]], "to promote the general welfare," was re-interpreted to justify massive [[welfare|wealth transfer]] programs under the rubric of "Welfare." This creeping [[Marxist dialectic]] and [[communism]] was accredited to [[Michael Harrington]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ |title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty |work=Washington Post |date=January 8, 2014 |quote="Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book [The Other America] (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda" }}</ref> founder of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]],<ref>''[http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/dsa/1973/1000-dsoc-dl006.pdf Newsletter of the Democratic Left]'', October 1973, page 3</ref><ref>Democratic Left, Sep. 1975, page 2</ref> and adopted by Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Congress as the focal point of law, government social spending, and [[affirmative action]] programs.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kurtz|first=Stanley|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2010|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=David|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2006|pages=85}}</ref>
[[File:Democrat coalition of 1960s.jpg|left|300px|thumb|The Democrat coalition of the 1960s. Racist whites who benefited from New Deal welfare programs now aligned with Blacks who were beneficiaries of the [[War on Poverty]]. Republicans who wanted to cut off vote buying out of the public treasury and balance the budget were unjustly accused by both of "racism."]]
African Americans, who were excluded from many New Deal programs, now were the direct targets of the [[Great Society]]. Single Black women could receive cash payments to have children outside wedlock.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/20/us/breakup-of-black-family-imperils-gains-of-decades.html</ref> Johnson and the Democrat's intended to capture the nation's 20 million African-Americans as a dependent and loyal voting bloc within the Democratic party, now that a bi-partisan majority of Republicans and Democrats smashed the Democratic party's stranglehold on the South, which had denied Black voter participation for a century. Great Society programs had a devastating impact on Black families and communities in the following decades.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262726/how-liberal-welfare-state-destroyed-black-america-john-perazzo</ref>

The term, "poverty" became a [[dog whistle]] for "black," and the term "rich" became a codeword for "white." [[Class warfare]] and [[Cultural Marxism]] became the focus in [[public education]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/25/us/education-the-mainstreaming-of-marxism-in-us-colleges.html</ref>

Dr. [[Thomas Sowell]] observed that "despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws and "war on poverty" programs of the 1960s, the cold fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87% in 1940 to 47% by 1960."<ref>[https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/11/14/a-legacy-of-liberalism A Legacy of Liberalism], By Dr. Thomas Sowell, November 18, 2014.</ref> The war on poverty increased the percentage of mothers and children dependent on the federal government to keep them above the poverty line. Although the number of dependent people had been declining for decades before the "war on poverty" began, this downward trend reversed itself and had a devastating effect on the black family structure, and black communities overall. Fathers were driven out of the home so that females could meet eligibility requirements, young males' marriage and family prospects precipitously dropped, out of wedlock births and street gangs, crime, and violence proliferated in coming decades.

Overall federal spending on programs for the poor escalated as eligibility rules for [[welfare]] and [[Social Security]] were loosened, the size of benefits was increased, and unemployment insurance was made more available to more people, and for longer periods of time. The number of people receiving [[public assistance]] more than doubled from 1960 to 1977. The dollar value of public [[housing]] rose nearly five-fold in a decade and the amount spent on [[food stamps]] rose more than ten-fold. All government-provided in-kind benefits increased about eight-fold from 1965 to 1969 and more than twenty-fold by 1974. Federal spending on such social welfare programs not only rose in dollar terms and in real terms, but also as a percentage of the nation's gross national product, going from 8 percent of GNP in 1960 to 16 percent by 1974. A classic example of income transfer or "redistribution of wealth".

As for urban ghetto [[riot]]s, they raged across the country during this era. [[Newark]] Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio (D) called for a federal investigation of the city's anti-poverty agency which received Great Society funding to determine if it had, in any way, contributed to the city's riots in which 26 persons were killed.<ref>https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal67-1313423</ref> More funding was approved anyway. Later, the strife declined sharply after the beginning of the Nixon administration, which opposed the whole ‘war on poverty’ approach and eventually abolished the Office of Economic Opportunity, which had been the spearhead of this program. Still later, during the eight years of the Reagan presidency–supposedly the nadir of neglect–major urban riots became virtually extinct.

Eventually, however, even official poverty began to rise, so that a larger number of people were in poverty in 1992 than were in poverty in 1964, when the "war on poverty" began.<ref>n21 U.S. Bureau of Census, Current Population Records, Series P60-185 (Washington, D.C. General Printing Office 1993) p.ix. (p. 13-14)</ref> By 1992, more than half of all [[black]] adults had never been married, quite aside from an additional 16 percent who had been either [[divorce]]d or [[widow]]ed. By contrast, only 21 percent of [[white]] adults had never been married. More than half of all black children–57 percent–were living with only one parent and another 7.5 percent were not living with either parent. Thus, only a little more than a third of black children were living in traditional two-parent households. Of 190,000 black children whose parents were currently still teenagers, only 5,000 were living with both parents.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/06/25/out-of-wedlock-black-children-draw-a-community-together/7c431555-27fa-483a-acdb-0ee09ea4acbe/</ref> As street gangs and crime proliferated, Democrats responded with mass incarceration of Blacks.

====Civil disturbances====
[[File:View-of-moratorium-demonstrators-p.jpg|thumb|190px|Democrats protested the war they started. [[North Vietnam]]ese and Cuban communist flags can be seen in the image.]]
After the chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, where [[Hubert Humphrey]] did not appear on any primary ballot but took the nomination amid protests and riots, the Democratic party attempted to reform its nomination process.

With the assassination of [[Robert Kennedy]] who was a leading critic of [[President Johnson]]'s war policy, Humphrey was regarded as a war hawk who would continue President Johnson's [[Vietnam War]] policy. Johnson dropped out of the race due to growing unpopularity of himself and the war. Sen. [[George McGovern]] made himself heir of Bobby Kennedy's dovish stance. Most states at the time used closed caucuses and state conventions, controlled by New Deal segregationist “party regulars” and insiders to select national delegates. Machine caucuses in several states accumulated enough delegates for Humphrey to win nomination without appearing on any primary ballot. In the aftermath of the loss to [[Richard Nixon]], Humphrey agreed to a reform commission and appointed one of his lieutenants, Donald Fraser, to co-chair the [[McGovern-Fraser Commission]].

Chairman George McGovern wanted to "open up" the process of delegate selection and strip figures like [[Chicago]] Mayor [[Richard J. Daley]]<ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj9TkjL87Rk Ribicoff vs Daley at the Democratic Convention 1968] youtube.com</ref> of their ability to select delegates for the upcoming 1972 convention. Daley felt particularly betrayed, having stuffed the ballot box for the Democrats and the Kennedy's to rob Richard Nixon of the presidency in 1960,<ref>[http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=425967 Did Daley rob Nixon of the Presidency in 1960?]</ref> to then be accused by [[liberal]] Democrats of "gestapo tactics" in the streets of Chicago.

McGovern was critical of the insider establishment's way of choosing a nominee and wanted to switch over to primaries. Donald Fraser was a lieutenant in the [http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsfmc Humphrey & Mondale Democratic Farmer-Labor (DFL) machine] which dominated [[Minnesota]] where caucuses are popular. So a compromise was sought. The general feeling was that party insiders such as Mayor Daley and Southern Democrat bosses controlled too much power and through state party caucuses and conventions were able to impose their candidates on a national convention.

Shortly after [[Sen. Richard Russell]]'s passing, the Democrat Senate renamed the Senate Office Building the Russell Office Building in commemoration of the man who was instrumental in their fight to keep [[segregation]] alive during his five decades of leadership in the Democrat party.

===Desegregation: the McGovern/Biden era===
:{{See also|Civil Rights in the Biden era}}
In [[Nixon]]'s landslide 49 state re-election of 1972, [[Massachusetts]] was the only state that remained solidly in the Democratic camp. Black parents filed a desegregation lawsuit the same year, and the [[NAACP]] argued the case. According to ''Politico'', nowhere did the sentiment of people opposed to desegregation play out more dramatically than in [[Boston]]. In mid 1974, a federal judge found that 20 years after ''Brown v. Board'', Boston officials deliberately kept the schools segregated, and that the city must integrate at once. He drew up a busing plan. Black students from Roxbury would attend South Boston High School, while Irish Americans from Southie would board buses to Roxbury.

The first buses rolled through Boston in September 1974—and racial violence engulfed the city. White mobs hurled bricks at school buses with terrified black children inside. Then, on October 7, a [[Haiti]]an immigrant was beaten savagely by a white mob in South Boston. In the coming months, the list of casualties would grow. The city became a cauldron of racial hatred.

Each year after passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act up until 1977, the Democratic controlled House passed at least one new law designed to restrain school integration—often in the guise of anti-busing legislation. Until 1974, the Senate rejected those bills. But as white resistance to busing escalated in many cities across the country, the House Democrats anti-busing majority began to pull more Democratic senators to their side.

In 1975, Sen. [[Joseph Biden]] proposed an amendment that gutted Title VI of the [[1964 Civil Rights Act]], which enabled the federal government to cut off funding to school districts that refused to integrate. ''[[Politico]]'' writes of the whole sordid affair, {{quotebox|Biden morphed into a leading anti-busing crusader—all the while continuing to insist that he supported the goal of school desegregation, he only opposed busing as the means to achieve that end. This stance, which many of Biden’s liberal and moderate colleagues also held, was clever but disingenuous. It enabled Biden to choose votes over principles, while acting as if he was not doing so....In a seminal moment, the Senate thus turned against desegregation. The Senate had supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act, [[1965 Voting Rights Act]] and 1968 Fair Housing Act....the Senate remained the last bastion for those who supported strong integration policies. Biden stormed that bastion...<ref name="politico.com">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968_full.html</ref>}} A Boston NAACP leader said, “An anti-busing amendment is an anti-desegregation amendment, and an anti-desegregation amendment is an anti-black amendment.” Republican Sen. [[Edward Brooke]], the first black senator ever to be directly elected, called Biden's amendment “the greatest symbolic defeat for [[civil rights]] since 1964.” Brooke accused Biden of leading an assault on integration.

[[File:Democratic voter suppression.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Democratic voter suppression, 1963.]]
====Voter suppression====
The McGovern-Fraser Commission required state parties to develop written rules and post uniform statewide notification of the date, time, and location of precinct caucus meetings or party primary elections. There was a common practice in some Southern states such as Mississippi were all-white local party bosses held meetings in obscure locations so that Black majorities in a county or district were unaware of the time and place of party elections. Although many provisions the commission brought about were undone in the early 1980s by Walter Mondale and Ted Kennedy, several provisions have remained. Prior to McGovern-Fraser, several states had no written guidelines governing party conventions, caucuses, and the delegate selection process at each level, and were based mostly on local tradition, which often meant cronyism, discrimination, voter suppression and the boss's rule. The system had been used effectively by Democrats in their [[voter suppression]] of Blacks for over 100 years.

The Commission rewrote the rules to rig McGovern's nomination. The 1972 Credentials Committee at the convention under the McGovern-Fraser reforms replaced Daley's contingent of the [[Illinois]] delegation with a group sent by [[Jesse Jackson]]<ref>See U.S. Supreme Court ''[https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/419/477/ Cousins v. Wigoda]'', 419 U.S. 477 (1975)</ref> and also replaced a delegation from [[Mississippi]] with another group.

After the 1972 election, Congresswoman [[Barbara Mikulski]] was asked by the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC) to chair the [[Mikulski Commission]] to review and make recommendations on how effective the pre-convention McGovern-Fraser reforms rules were. According to [[CNN]], the commission
{{quotebox-float|replaced the demographic quotas of 1972 with [[affirmative action]] requirements to increase participation by women, blacks and other minorities. (However, this specific plan had the OPPOSITE effect, decreasing the proportion of women from 38% in 1972 to 36% in 1976. The proportion of blacks declined from 15% in 1972 to 7% in 1976. After 1976, quotas for women delegates were reimposed.) PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, the distribution of delegates among candidates to reflect their share of the primary or caucus vote, was mandated by party rules.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/rules/index.shtml All Politics, CNN Time, Facts.] Sources: ‘’The National Journal’’, August 23, 1980; ‘’Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections’’; also quoted in ‘’Democratic party convention rule changes’’, academic.regis.edu , below.</ref>}}

The Mikulski Commission went further than McGovern-Fraser, proposing to bind rules on state parties which would restrict delegate selection in primaries or caucuses to "Democratic voters only who publicly declare their [[party affiliation|party preference]] and have that preference publicly recorded" (Rule 2A). This required a party registration process before being able to vote in a Democratic primary. The new rule put pressure on parties to close their primaries to outside participation and brought about "same-day registration"<ref>See for example Kansas rules. [https://www.sos.ks.gov/forms/elections/Voting_Rules_for_Primary_Elections.pdf Voting Rules for Primary Elections]. www.sos.ks.gov</ref> in states with open primaries mandated by state law. The DNC incorporated these recommendations into the Delegate Selection Rules for the 1976 Convention. A temporary exemption where state legislatures had no party identification requirement to participate in a primary election was included. Opponents and dissenters felt this new rule violated the integrity of the secret ballot at public polling stations.

The Mikulski Commission did away with the secret ballot and required a public declaration in front of the election judges or on registration forms and a party-specific ballot given to the voter to cast.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_elections_in_the_United_States#Types_of_primaries]</ref> Now in most states a non-partisan primary voter who wishes to vote for a Democrat for President and a Republican for Senate experiences voter suppression and denial.

====Biden Amendment repeal of portions of the Civil Rights Act====

:{{See also|Segregation|Systemic racism}}
In 1972 Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden re-cycled the [[John C. Calhoun#positive good|racist rhetoric of John C. Calhoun]], arguing that school segregation was a "positive good" for Blacks. Calhoun famously laid out his doctrine of separation of the races as a civilizing force among Blacks which became Democrat talking points before the [[Dred Scott]] decision, throughout the [[Civil War]], [[Reconstruction]], the [[Jim Crow]] era, and the [[New Deal]]. In a Democrat [[filibuster]] on the floor of the [[Senate]], Calhoun famously said:
[[File:Biden segregation.png 1718483346.png|left|350px|thumb|Biden called segregation "a matter of Black pride" and pushed for a [[Constitutional Amendment]] to outlaw Court ordered de-segregation.<ref name="politico.com">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968_full.html</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|"I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good—a positive good."}}
Biden resurrected the idea that segregation was "for their own good" and that Blacks were grateful for it.
{{Quotebox-float|“I think the concept of busing … that we are going to [[integrate]] people so that they all have the same access and they learn to grow up with one another and all the rest, is a rejection of the whole movement of black pride, a rejection of the entire black awareness concept, where black is beautiful, black culture should be studied; and the cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity, their own individuality.”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/read-the-transcript-of-the-october-1975-npr-interview-with-sens-joe-biden-and-edward-brooke</ref>}}
In the 21st century Biden tried to separate himself from his previous racist statements on school integration:
{{quotebox-float|"Poor kids are just as smart as white kids."}}
Biden led a coalition of segregationists that was opposed by Republican Sen. [[Edward Brooke]], the first [[African American]] senator elected since Democrats forced the end of [[Reconstruction]] after the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. National Public Radio's David Ensor asked Biden, "What about a constitutional amendment? Isn’t that what you’re gonna have to end up supporting if you want to stop court ordered busing, too?" Biden responded,
{{Quotebox-float|"That would clearly do it. I’m hopeful, and I have — now that I have some sort of new allies in this area, it’s become respectable now for [[liberal]]s to at least say publicly what they’ve been saying in private, that busing doesn’t work. We are trying to figure out whether or not we can come up with an innovative piece of legislation which would limit the remedy, and I don’t — honestly don’t know whether we can come up with something constitutional. And if we can’t, I will not in an attempt to eliminate busing violate the Constitution. I won’t do that. The only way, if I’m gonna go at it, I’m gonna go at it through a Constitutional Amendment if it can’t be done through a piece of legislation."}}
Ensor reported that Biden proposed renewing segregation because busing "wasn't working" ("wasn't working" to the electoral advantage of Democrats and not necessarily to the cause of equal rights for Blacks), and Biden was afraid that older liberal colleagues were blind to how Black separatists felt about their children being bused to [[white]] schools.
[[File:Biden racial jungle.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Biden: "My children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle."<ref>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-racial-jungle-quote/</ref>]]
{{Quotebox-float|"There are those of we [[social experiment|social planner]]s who think somehow that if we just [[subrogate]] man’s individual characteristics and traits by making sure that a presently heterogeneous society becomes a totally homogeneous society, that somehow we’re going to solve our social ills. Quite to the contrary."}}
Title VI of the [[1964 Civil Rights Act]] prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance.<ref>https://quizlet.com/45411923/ethical-and-legal-issues-2-flash-cards/</ref> By 1975, Biden authored an amendment to gut Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ''[[Politico]]'' writes of the whole sordid affair,
{{quotebox-float|Biden morphed into a leading anti-busing crusader—all the while continuing to insist that he supported the goal of school desegregation, he only opposed busing as the means to achieve that end. This stance, which many of Biden’s liberal and moderate colleagues also held, was clever but disingenuous. It enabled Biden to choose votes over principles, while acting as if he was not doing so....In a seminal moment, the Senate thus turned against desegregation. The Senate had supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act, [[1965 Voting Rights Act]] and 1968 Fair Housing Act....the Senate remained the last bastion for those who supported strong integration policies. Biden stormed that bastion...<ref name="politico.com">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968_full.html</ref>}}
Sen. James Abourezk of [[South Dakota]] related how Biden reacted when Abrourezek tried to block the amendment:
{{quotebox-float|‘Abourezk, you **********, if I ever vote for another one of your bills, it'll be a cold day in hell.'

‘Calm down, Joe,' I told him, ‘You're eventually gonna thank me for doing this.'

‘Like hell I will you dirty *******.'

A few days later, Biden came into the scheduled committee meeting, this time with a broad, friendly grin aimed directly at me.

‘Jesus, Abourezk, you were right,' he said. ‘I am gonna thank you. You should see the Delaware newspapers—big front-page headlines saying, ‘Biden Battles Liberals in Washington.' He was unabashedly elated. ‘They love me back home, how did you know this would happen?'<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-exploded-at-dem-colleague-over-busing-called-him-dirty-bastard/</ref>}}
''The New York Times'' published a lengthy story on Biden's advocacy of segregation. In a 1977 congressional hearing related to anti-desegregation orders, Biden emphasized,
{{quotebox-float|"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/us/politics/biden-busing.html</ref>}}
Republican Sen. [[Edward Brooke]], the first black senator ever to be popularly elected, called Biden's amendment “the greatest symbolic defeat for [[civil rights]] since 1964.” Brooke accused Biden of leading an assault on integration.

Prof. Ronnie Dunn said opposition to busing was motivated by [[racism]] and that without the court-ordered policy Biden probably would not have become vice president in 2009. “What I find ironic is that [Biden] was the vice president under a president who, if it hadn’t been for the social interaction that occurred during the era of busing, I argue we likely would not have seen the election of Barack Obama." Dunn, an Urban Studies professor at Cleveland State University and author of the book ''Boycotts, Busing, & Beyond'', said Biden made the case in favor of maintaining segregation. "That was an argument against desegregation.” Dunn said Biden must address the issue if he runs for president. “People have to be held accountable."<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/joe-biden-embraced-segregation-in-1975-claiming-it-was-a-matter-of-black-pride</ref>
[[File:Carter and Maddox (cropped).PNG|left|300px|thumb|Jimmy Carter and [[Lester Maddox]].]]
Biden's opposition to integration didn't stop there. ''HuffPo'' reported:
{{quotebox-float|In 1977, two black men nominated for key Justice Department posts by [[President Jimmy Carter]] easily won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee. After confirmation by the full Senate, Drew Days III became the nation’s first black head of the department’s civil rights division and Wade McCree became the second black solicitor general. Only one member of the committee voted against them. It wasn’t segregationists [[Strom Thurmond]] (R-S.C.) or [[James Eastland]] (D-Miss.). It wasn’t even former [[Ku Klux Klan]] member [[Robert Byrd]] (D-W.Va.). The lone Judiciary Committee vote against the two men was Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.).<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-busing-nominees_n_5ca3c03de4b03174b92904f7</ref>}}
In 1981 Biden said in a Senate hearing, “sometimes even [[George Wallace]] is right about some things.” Wallace is famous for saying in 1963, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/09/biden-sometimes-even-george-wallace-is-right/</ref> Biden read the "N" word into the Congressional Record during an open hearing in 1986.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/exclusive-newly-uncovered-transcripts-reveal-joe-biden-said-n-word-public-senate-hearing-1986/</ref> In a farewell address to retiring Democrat segregationist Sen. John Stennis Biden said:
{{quotebox-float|"To think that I would be one day on the floor of the United States Senate, being paid such accolades by such a man of character and courage as John Stennis is beyond my wildest dreams. And I mean that sincerely."<ref>https://youtu.be/9X6Y2CLqgDM</ref>}}
When Biden announced his candidacy ''Politico'' attempted to poo-poo and explain away Biden and liberal Democrat racism with a back-handed slap at [[school vouchers]] for minority students, which liberal elites have strenuously opposed ever since the Biden Amendment passed:
[[File:LesterMaddox.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Lester Maddox (pointing gun) and his son (waving axe handle) try to prevent a Black protester from entering his restaurant.<ref>[https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1278395843322789889 Historian Michael Beschloss.]</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|School desegregation, as part of a broader suite of civil rights reforms, was once as a vital component of the Democratic Party platform. Yet since the 1970s, Democrats, in the face of concerted white backlash, have largely accommodated themselves to increasing segregation in public schools across the nation. Party leaders, even the most progressive among them, rarely propose serious solutions to this vexing problem. A sincere critique of Biden’s busing record would require a broader reckoning of the Democratic Party’s—and by extension the nation’s—abandonment of this central goal of the [[civil rights movement]]. And it’s hard to see that happening anytime soon.<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/05/joe-biden-busing-problem-226791</ref>}}
Sen. [[Cory Booker]] of [[New Jersey]] condemned the [[2020 Democrat primary]] frontrunner at the [[Juneteenth]] annual commemoration of [[Republican]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] ending [[slavery]] in the United States.
{{quotebox-float|You don’t joke about calling black men 'boys'...frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should.<ref name="zerohedge.com">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-20/biden-doubles-down-after-reminding-everyone-democrats-owned-slaves</ref>}}

===Carter, stagflation and human rights===
More than four decades of [[Keynesian]]ism, deficit spending, and [[big government]] created an era of stagnant growth only kept afloat by the printing presses of the Federal Reserve Board. Each round of [[new spending]] by the Democratic Congress prompted the Federal Reserve to print more money, causing an increase in the cost of living, resulting in calls by Democrats for more government stimulus spending, more inflation, more price increases, higher costs, taxes on business and less new job creation. While wages and prices continued to spiral upward, no new jobs or increase in goods and services were created to meet the demands of a growing population.
[[File:Jimmy Carter.jpg|left|175px|thumb|[[Jimmy Carter]] was elected in 1976 and defeated in 1980.]]
The Democratic party split five ways in 1968 and became a minority party in presidential elections for decades; after 1964 they won a national majority of the popular presidential vote only in 2008. However, the Democrats won a plurality of the popular vote in 1976, 1992, 1996 and 2000 - all years where Democrats employed their own version of a Southern Strategy to appeal to racist white Democrats. After the fiasco and riot that was the 1968 convention, the [[McGovern-Fraser Commission]] was appointed to reform the nominating process. Sen. [[George McGovern]] of South Dakota used the commission to rig his own nomination in 1972. McGovern's forces at the national convention ousted Mayor [[Richard J. Daley]] and the entire Chicago delegation, replacing them with insurgents led by [[Jesse Jackson]]. After it became known that McGovern's running mate, Thomas Eagleton, had received psychiatric and electro-shock treatment, McGovern said he supported Eagleton "1000%" but he was soon forced to drop him and find a new running mate. With his campaign stalled for several weeks, McGovern finally selected [[Sargent Shriver]], a Kennedy-in-law who was close to Mayor Daley. On July 14, 1972, McGovern appointed his campaign manager, Jean Westwood as the first woman chair of the Democratic National Committee. McGovern emulated an earlier populist Plains preacher, William Jennings Bryan, with his antiwar sentiment and redistributive politics. He was defeated in a landslide by incumbent [[Richard Nixon]], winning only Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.. With the Marxist encroachment in the Democrat party which had spent the later half of the 1960s and early 1970s rioting, looting, and burning American cities, a Gallup Poll revealed a staggering 33% of Democrats and 57% of blue-collar workers voted for Nixon.<ref>[http://presidentelect.org/art_cooper_e1972an.html An Interpretation of the 1972 Presidential Election Landslide], by CRAIG W. COOPER, 1975.</ref>

The [[Watergate affair]] of 1973-74 made mistrust of government a central issue, especially after [[Gerald Ford]] pardoned Nixon in September 1974. Returning servicemen from Vietnam and termination of the draft created large unemployment, marking the end of the centerpiece of the Great Society's unemployment program. Nixon however was blamed for the bad economy, and the Democrats made major gains in the 1974 off-year elections. Racism and segregation remained a common thread binding white Democrats together. In 1975, [[Delaware]] Sen. [[Joseph Biden]] led a coalition of liberals and former [[George Wallace]] supporters to oppose racial integration of schools, and went so far as to consider a [[Constitutional Amendment]].<ref>https://soundcloud.com/user-391839060/npr-1975-interview-with-sen-joe-biden</ref>

In 1976 Ford was narrowly defeated by [[Jimmy Carter]], a former governor of Georgia. Carter, a [[Trilateral Commission|Trilateralist]], posed as a total outsider who promised honesty in government. He had served as a naval officer, a farmer, a state senator, and a one-term governor. His only public profile in federal politics was when he chaired the Democratic National Committee's congressional and gubernatorial elections in 1974. Carter's "consolidation" of governmental agencies resulted in the creation of two new cabinet-level bureaucracies, the [[United States Department of Energy]] and the [[United States Department of Education]]. Carter began deregulation of the trucking, airline, rail, finance, communications, and oil industries, raised [[social security]] taxes, and appointed record numbers of women and minorities to significant government and judicial posts, including [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] as head of the Great Society [[boondoggle]], the Legal Service Corporation. He also enacted more environmental legislation, through the expansion of the [[National Park Service]] in [[Alaska]], adding 103 million acres of parkland. In foreign affairs, Carter negotiated the [[Camp David Accords]], the Panama Canal Treaties, the creation of full diplomatic relations with the [[People's Republic of China]], and the [[SALT II]] Treaty.

Carter failed to implement national health care and raised Social Security taxes. The [[Congressional Black Caucus]] year after year submitted bills for the Martin Luther King holiday, but despite Democrat control of the House, Senate, and White House, their proposals were repeatedly rejected by racist Democrats. Not until Ronald Reagan and the Republican Senate of the 1980s was the holiday adopted. Stagflation with limited job opportunities were on the rise.

In 1980, Carter defeated liberal champion [[Edward Kennedy]] to gain renomination but lost to conservative [[Ronald Reagan]] by a landslide. The Democrats lost 12 Senate seats, and for the first time since 1954, the Republicans controlled the Senate. The House, however, remained in Democratic hands.

Jimmy Carter was elected by campaigning on the Misery Index - adding the [[inflation]] rate and [[unemployment]] rate together, which then stood at 13.4%. By 1980 when Carter sought reelection, the Misery index ratcheted up to 21%. After "twelve years of neglect" as Bill Clinton referred to [[Reaganomics]] it in 1992, the Misery Index stood at 9.2%. Clinton's racist [[dogwhistling]] brought enough racist Democrats home to win a 42% plurality in a three-way contest.

====Progressive Kool-Aid drinkers====
:{{See also|Progressivism|San Francisco values|Peoples Temple Agricultural Collective}}
[[File:Jim Jones and the Democrat party.jpg|right|400px|thumb]]
[[Willie Brown]], later mayor of [[San Francisco]] and [[Kamala Harris]]'s mentor, compared [[Jim Jones]] to [[Martin Luther King]] and [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. Brown endorsed Jones as “a close personal friend and a highly trusted brother in the [[National liberation struggle|struggle for liberation]]."<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/how-san-franciscos-democrats-made-jim-jones-and-then-made-his-memory-vanish</ref> [[Dianne Feinstein]] joined the rest of the San Francisco board of supervisors in honoring Jones “in recognition of his guidance and inspiration” in furthering “humanitarian programs.” Gov. [[Jerry Brown]] spoke at the [[People's Temple]]. At its peak, the Temple boasted 20,000 members.

Following the San Francisco mayoral election of 1975, the San Francisco District Attorney asked Timothy Stoen, a Temple member,<ref name="Lindsay, Robert 1978">Lindsay, Robert. "How Rev. Jim Jones Gained His Power Over Followers." ''New York Times''. 26 November 1978.</ref> to lead a special unit to investigate [[election fraud]] charges.<ref>Taylor, Michael, "Jones Captivated S.F.'s Liberal Elite", San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 1998</ref> Shortly thereafter Stoen was hired as an assistant district attorney.<ref>Reiterman, Tim and John Jacobs. ''Raven (book)|Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People''. Dutton, 1982. ISBN|0-525-24136-1. p. 270.</ref><ref>Kinsolving, Kathleen and Tom. [http://www.culteducation.com/reference/jonestown/jonestown43.html "Madman in Our Midst: Jim Jones and the California Cover Up."] 1998.</ref> Stoen found no evidence of fraud, but Temple members later alleged that the Temple brought "busloads" of members from Redwood Valley who were not registered to vote in San Francisco, to vote in the San Francisco election.<ref>Crewdson, John, "Followers Say Jim Jones Directed Voting Frauds", New York Times, December 16, 1978</ref> It was Willie Brown who brought George Moscone and Jim Jones together.<ref>Reiterman, Tim, and John Jacobs. ''Raven (book)|Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People''. Dutton, 1982. ISBN|978-0-525-24136-2. page 266.</ref><ref>http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/</ref> Moscone, who owed his position as mayor to Jones in a tight race, appointed Jones chairman of the city's Housing Commission Authority, effectively making Jones the city's largest landlord. Moscone's press secretary stated that Jones "made his followers available to support [[progressive]] [[Democratic]] candidates."<ref>Los Angeles Herald Examiner, "The Political Pull of Jim Jones", November 21, 1978</ref>

Moscone's press spokesman explained it was "common knowledge that if you were going to run for office in San Francisco, and your constituency included the black, the young or the poor, you'd better have Jones in your corner." Of particular interest to politicians was the Temple's ability to produce 2,000 people for campaign work or attendance at an event with only six hours notice.
<ref name="Lindsay, Robert 1978"/> Moscone's aide stated that Jones offered thousands of "foot soldiers" willing to walk precincts and get out the vote, which was "an offer no politician in his right mind could refuse." Similarly, San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos stated that "If you were having a rally for a presidential candidate, you needed to fill up the crowd, you could always get busloads from Jim Jones' church."<ref>Richardson, James, [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft0m3nb07q;brand=ucpress ''Willie Brown A Biography''], University of California Press, 1996, p. 250 {{webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybRDHsI?url=http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft0m3nb07q;brand=ucpress |date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref> The chairman of the county Democratic Central Committee, the governing body of the Democratic Party in San Francisco, referred to the Temple as "a ready-made volunteer workforce," and Jones was "a man who touched a component of the consensus power forces in the city, such as labor and ethnicity groups....here was a guy who could provide workers for causes progressives cared about."<ref>Taylor, Michael, "Jones Captivated S.F.'s Liberal Elite", San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 1998.</ref>

Herb Caen, a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner for the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', acted as a hype-generator for Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. [[Jane Fonda]] joined other celebrities in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of [[ethics]] and [[morality]].” <ref>Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27309 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 1023."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University. {{cite web |url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q1023.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=|deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5wTIpY0di?url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q1023.html |archivedate=2019-01-30|df= }} The concept often loosely mixed tenets of socialism. The Temple openly preached to established members that "religion is an opiate to the people." (Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27318 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 1053."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.) Accordingly, "those who remained drugged with the opiate of religion had to be brought to enlightenment{{spaced ndash}}socialism." (Layton 1999, page 53). In that regard, Jones also openly stated that he "took the church and used the church to bring people to atheism." (Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27580 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 757."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University). Jones often mixed those concepts, such as preaching that "If you're born in this church, this socialist revolution, you're not born in sin. If you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born with a big d***o in sin. But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin."(Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27318 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 1053."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.) {{cite web |url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q757.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=|deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5wTIqQUvL?url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q757.html |archivedate=2019-01-30|df= }}</ref> The Peoples Temple and the [[Nation of Islam]] held a joint event in the Los Angeles Convention Center in 1976 . Thousands packed the Civic Center. Two time [[CPUSA]] [[Vice President]]ial candidate [[Angela Davis]], along with the Lieutenant Governor and Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley attended the event. In speaking at the event Jones stated "We are grateful for this symbolic merging of our two movements . . . If the Peoples Temple and the Nation of Islam can get together, anyone can."

[[Rosalynn Carter]] called Jones at candidate Jimmy Carter's behest. She held a private dinner with him and had the Peoples Temple leader introduce her at the 1976 grand opening of the San Francisco Democratic Party Headquarters. Jimmy Carter's running mate, Walter Mondale, met with Jones on the tarmac in San Francisco during the campaign.<ref>When Deputy Minister Ptolemy Reid traveled to Washington, D.C. in September 1977 to sign the [[Panama Canal Treaties]], Mondale asked him, "How's Jim?", which indicated to Reid that Mondale had a personal interest in Jones' well being, p. 173. Moore, Rebecca. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=16581 ''American as Cherry Pie''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029130010/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=16581 |date=October 29, 2014 }}, Jonestown Institute, San Diego State University</ref> Jones dined with Rosalynn Carter at the head table at the Democratic National Convention.<ref>Layton, Deborah. ''Seductive Poison''. Anchor, 1999. ISBN|978-0-385-48984-. p. 53.</ref> Jones wrote to Carter requesting aid for [[Fidel Castro]], whom Jones had earlier met with in [[Cuba]].<ref>Reiterman, Tim, and John Jacobs. ''Raven (book)|Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People''. Dutton, 1982. ISBN|978-0-525-24136-2. page 305.</ref> In a handwritten letter to Jones on White House stationery, the [[First Lady]] wrote "Your comments on Cuba have been helpful. I hope your suggestion can be acted on in the near future." Carter also wrote that "I enjoyed being with you during the campaign -- and do hope you can meet Ruth soon", referring to her sister-in-law, Ruth Carter Stapleton.<ref>LA Times November 21, 1978</ref> Mondale stated regarding the Temple that "knowing the congregations deep involvement in the major social and constitutional issues of our country . . . is a great inspiration to me."<ref>"First Lady Among Cult's References" {{cite news|work=Los Angeles Times |title=First Lady Among Cult's References; Mondale and Califano also listed |date= November 21, 1978}}</ref> [[Health and Human Services]] Secretary Joseph Califano stated "your humanitarian principles and your interest in protecting individual liberty and freedom have made an outstanding contribution to furthering the cause of human dignity." President Carter sent a representative to a dinner at the Temple at which Jones and Gov. Jerry Brown spoke.<ref>Mehren, Elizabeth, "Politicians Defend Associations With Jones", Oakland Tribune, November 21, 1978</ref>

Jones procured land in [[Guyana]] where nearly 1,000 of his followers settled in Jonestown, clearing the land, planting crops, and listening to him preach the gospel according to [[Karl Marx]]. “I call [[capitalism]] the [[devil]],” Jones said from the pulpit, “and [[socialism]] is [[God]].” A former member of the Indianapolis Human Rights Commission, Jones often quoted Marx's dictum, "From each as he is able, to each according to his need." One member said the Temple moved to Jonestown because "what we saw in the United States was creeping [[fascism]]. It was apparent that corporations, or the multinationals, were getting much larger, their influence was growing within the government, and the United States is a racist place."<ref>Tim Carter. [http://www.opb.org/radio/archives/2007/04/there_was_no_ch_1.php ''There was no choice in Jonestown that day...''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426000000/http://www.opb.org/radio/archives/2007/04/there_was_no_ch_1.php |date=April 26, 2007 }} Oregon Public Broadcasting Radio interview. 9 April 2007. {{cite web |url=http://www.opb.org/radio/archives/2007/04/there_was_no_ch_1.php |title=Archived copy |accessdate=|deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5wTJ4uKgA?url=http://www.opb.org/radio/archives/2007/04/there_was_no_ch_1.php |archivedate=2019-01-30|df= }}</ref>

Up to $65,000 in monthly [[welfare]] payments from [[New Deal]] and [[Great Society]] programs to Jonestown residents were signed over to the Temple.<ref>{{Harvnb|Layton|1998|p=103}}</ref> Officials from the U.S. embassy in Georgetown interviewed [[Social Security]] recipients on multiple occasions to inquire if they were being held against their will.<ref>Pear, Richard. "State Explains Response to Cult Letters." ''Washington Star News''. November 26, 1978.</ref> None of the 75 people interviewed, according to the embassy, said they were being held captive, were forced to sign over welfare checks, or wanted to leave Jonestown.<ref>Wessinger, Catherine. ''How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate''. 2000. ISBN|978-1-889119-24-3.</ref> Civil rights lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane, who represented [[James Earl Ray]], depicted Jonestown as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media.
[[File:The Jimmy Carter Jonestown Massacre.jpg|left|350px|thumb|'''Socialist paradise in Guyana.''' Lack of beef and living off of jungle plants is said to have added to the mass irrationality. Its leader, a community organizer named Jim Jones, was very active in Democratic party politics.]]
As reports seeped back of people who wanted to leave Guyana, [[Harvey Milk]] – the first openly gay elected official who was endorsed by the Temple for San Francisco city councilman – wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter defending Jones "as a man of the highest character," and stating that Temple defectors were trying to "damage Rev. Jones' reputation" with "apparent bold-faced lies".<ref>Milk, Harvey [http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg ''Letter Addressed to President Jimmy Carter, Dated February 19, 1978''] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybbC0i4?url=http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg |date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref> The Temple claimed that "reactionary forces were trying to destroy his [Jones] image because he is the most persistent [[Social justice warrior|fighter for social justice]].<ref>Peoples Temple, [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/3VictimConspirBrochure.pdf ''Victims of Conspiracy Brochure''], Jonestown Alternative Considerations, San Diego State University {{cite web |url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/JTResearch/opposition/3VictimConspirBrochure.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2019-01-31 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybVUjVl?url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/JTResearch/opposition/3VictimConspirBrochure.pdf |archivedate=January 24, 2011 |df= }}</ref>

Russian dignitary Feodor Timofeyev visited Jonestown for two days to gave a speech.<ref>Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27428 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 352."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094827/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27428 |date=March 4, 2016 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref> Jones introduced him saying, "For many years, we have let our sympathies be quite publicly known, that the United States government was not our mother, but that the Soviet Union was our spiritual motherland." Timofeyev opened the speech stating that the [[Soviet Union]] would like to send "our deepest and the most sincere greetings to the people of this first socialist and communist community of the United States of America, in Guyana and in the world". Both speeches were met by cheers and applause. Angela Davis addressed the crowd by shortwave radio saying, "when you are attacked, it is because of your progressive stand, and we feel that it is directly an attack against us as well."<ref>{{cite web|title=Statement of Angela Davis (Text)|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19027|publisher=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple|accessdate=}}</ref>

Hearing allegations of abuse, Congressman [[Leo J. Ryan]] led a fact-finding mission to [[Jonestown]] which included in his group a staff member and future congresswoman, [[Jackie Speier]]. Ryan and four others were murdered when they attempted to leave. After the killings, Jones herded his followers into the camp's main pavilion and ordered them all to drink [[cyanide]]-laced Kool-Aid. 909 bodies, including 304 children, were found by Guyana police in following days. Some of the bodies had gunshot wounds.

Three survivors claimed they were given an assignment before the suicides began. They were given luggage containing $550,000 in U.S. currency, $130,000 in Guyanese currency, and an envelope, which they were told to deliver to the Soviet embassy in Georgetown, Guyana. The envelope contained two [[passport]]s and three instructional letters, the first of which was to Timofeyev, stating:
[[Image:Iran.jpg|thumb|198px|right|Carter's shift away from anti-communism to supposed "human rights" as the focus of U.S. [[foreign policy]] brought the [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] to power, and the enlistment of child soldiers - some as young as 4 years old - to clear minefields for the Iranian Army. Iran, once a U.S. ally, now pursues nuclear weapons.]]
:''Dear Comrade Timofeyev, The following is a letter of instructions regarding all of our assets that we want to leave to the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Enclosed in this letter are letters which instruct the banks to send the cashiers checks to you. I am doing this on behalf of Peoples Temple because we, as communists, want our money to be of benefit for help to [[oppression|oppressed peoples]] all over the world, or in any way that your decision-making body sees fit.''<ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/letter_toFeodorTimofeyev.pdf "Letter to Feodor Timofeyev."] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5ryfcXgSk?url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/PrimarySources/financialLetters/letter_toFeodorTimofeyev.pdf |date=August 14, 2010 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref>

The letters included listed accounts with balances totaling in excess of $7.3 million to be transferred to the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].<ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_1.pdf "Letter from Annie McGowan."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205012201/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_1.pdf |date=February 5, 2015 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref><ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_2.pdf "Another Letter from Annie McGowan."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205014539/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_2.pdf |date=February 5, 2015 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref> Jonestown was the greatest loss of American civilian lives in a non-natural disaster until the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]]. Progressivism suffered a devastating blow in the eyes of most Americans. Not until the rise of Barack Obama did it recover.

====Human rights and the Ayatollah Khomeini====

Abroad, for the first time since Harry Truman, Carter shifted the focus of U.S. foreign policy from Russia to "human rights." The [[Shah of Iran]] came to power in 1941 and was an ally of Western powers in the war against [[Adolf Hitler]]. During the [[Six Day War]] in 1967, the Shah aided Israel by keeping [[Saddam Hussein]] out of the war. The Shah did not participate in the 1973 [[Yom Kippur War]] or [[OPEC]] oil embargo. He had been a loyal Western ally in the [[Cold War]] for the better part of four decades.

Carter supported the [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] over the Shah of Iran whom Soviet intelligence and Western media portrayed as a greedy capitalist oppressor. William Miller, chief of staff on the US Senate Intelligence Committee, said America had nothing to fear from Khomeini since he would be a [[Progressivism|progressive]] force for human rights. U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan compared Khomeini to [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. The mainstream media and State Department called him the "Iranian Mandela." The fall of the Shah and rise of the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]] set back [[women's rights]] centuries.

Once installed under Carter's human right's policy, the Ayatollah created the ''Basij Mostazafan'', a movement of young people under age 17. When the Iran-Iraq War started in 1980, Khomeini issued a promise of paradise to the children and they were incorporated into the Iranian military. The Iranian clergy called for the young people from age 9 years old and up to move forward in human wave attacks, to clear minefields so the regular Army could pass.<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), ''Iraqi Retreats, 1982-84''], Globalsecruity.org, retrieved 20 March 2007.</ref> Matthias Küntzel quotes an Iraqi officer's description of one such encounter in the summer of 1982.

:''“They come toward our positions in huge hordes with their fists swinging...You can shoot down the first wave and then the second. But at some point the corpses are piling up in front of you, and all you want to do is scream and throw away your weapon."'' <ref>[http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/ahmadinejads-demons ''Ahmadinejad's Demons: A Child of the Revolution Takes Over''], Matthias Küntzel, The New Republic, 24 April 2006 .</ref>

Other reports appeared in the Iranian daily newspaper, ''Ettelaat'', and later an eyewitness gave an account to the German newspaper ''Frankfurter Allgemeine'' in 2002. Some 100,000 children were killed fulfilling Carter's human rights policy this way.

Iranian students attacked the American embassy in [[Teheran]] and took Americans hostage for 444 days. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979 and the progressive Kool-Aid drinkers weakened the perception Americans had of Carter.

Carter was forced to admit his error in downplaying the focus on Russian intentions in January 1980 with his [[Carter Doctrine]], declaring the Persian Gulf a vital [[national security]] interest which was later used as the long-standing [[foreign policy]] basis of the 1992 [[Gulf War]] and the 2003 [[Iraq War]]. The loss of the Shah as an ally in 1979 led to the rise of the [[theocratic]] Iranian Islamic Republic, the world's leading state sponsor of terror. The Islamic Republic's pursuit of nuclear weapons would become a lingering problem for the United States in coming decades and the early 21st century.

===Battling Raygun===
[[File:Carter mondale 1200.JPG|left|300px|thumb|Democratic nominee Walter Mondale on the campaign trail with Jimmy Carter in 1984.]]
Carter was re-nominated in 1980. In a spirit of unity Willie Nelson, who later hit the top of the ''Billboard'' charts with a song celebrating public lynchings,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psmag.com/news/country-hits-are-getting-more-misogynistic-according-to-new-research?fbclid=IwAR0L2NbDN6gHqxr8vnsjPyB6GZFuMbUxIjh-k9uFn74tSrvx9y-U_xc_OAk|title=COUNTRY HITS INCREASINGLY OBJECTIFY WOMEN AND GLORIFY WHITENESS|last=Jacobs|first=Tom|date=May 7, 2019|website=Pacific Standard|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> sang the national anthem at the Democratic National Convention. Instrumental in the election of Republican [[Ronald Reagan]], were many who felt abandoned by the Democrats embrace of socialism. Among legislators, one of the most prominent of these conservative Democrats was Georgia congressman and second chairman of the [[John Birch Society]], [[Larry McDonald]], who was a passenger on [[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] shot down by the Soviets near [[Moneron Island]] on September 1, 1983.

To oppose Reagan, Senate Democrats elected the [[Exalted Cyclops]] of Ku Klux Klan, Sen. [[Robert Byrd]] to lead them. Byrd once wrote,
{{quotebox-float|"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."<ref>https://www.ocregister.com/2012/05/09/walter-williams-most-racists-were-democrats/</ref>}}

The "Reagan Democrats" were Democrats before the Reagan years, and afterward, but they voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and for [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1988), producing landslide victories. Jesse Jackson became the first African-American to win states in a major party primary election for president in 1984. But vote rigging by [[Superdelegate]]s at the convention sabotaged his efforts.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/20/us/disparity-between-jackson-s-vote-and-delegate-count-vexes-party.html DISPARITY BETWEEN JACKSON'S VOTE AND DELEGATE COUNT VEXES PARTY], by DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, ''New York Times'', May 20, 1984.</ref> Reagan Democrats were mostly white ethnics in the Northeast who were attracted to Reagan on issues such as jobs, abortion, and his strong foreign policy. Stanley Greenberg, a Democratic pollster analyzed white ethnic voters, largely unionized auto workers, in suburban Macomb County, Michigan, just north of Detroit. The county voted 63 percent for Kennedy in 1960 and 66 percent for Reagan in 1984. Restrictive oil drilling, high energy prices, unrestricted Japanese auto imports, and 17% auto loans caused by federal deficits and inflation destroyed their jobs. Greenberg concluded that many working families no longer saw Democrats as champions of their interests. Bill Clinton resuscitated racist dog whistles with considerable success in 1992 and 1996.

[[File:Ted and Brezhnev.jpeg|right|200px|thumb|Sen. Ted Kennedy colluding with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to interfere in the 1984 Presidential election.]]
====The global warming hoax to counter capitalism====
Democratic party leaders, officially and unofficially, [[collude]]d with the [[KGB]] to interfere in American elections and affect U.S. [[foreign policy]]. A 1983 KGB memo<ref>[http://sweetness-light.com/archive/kgb-letter-details-ted-kennedys-offer-to-help-ussr Kennedy collusion with the KGB].</ref> describes a meeting between former KGB officials and former Democratic Sen. John Tunney (Sen. Kennedy's confidant) in Moscow. Tunney asked the KGB to convey a message to [[Yuri Andropov]], the Soviet leader, proposing a campaign in which Kennedy would visit [[Moscow]] to offer talking points to Andropov and Soviet officials on how to attack Reagan's policies to U.S. audiences. According to the memo, Kennedy, through the intermediary, offered to help facilitate a media tour in a proposed visit by Andropov to the United States. Kennedy's hope was to hurt Reagan politically on foreign policy at a time when the economic recovery was working in his favor.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30980 Jamie Glazov; ''Ted Kennedy and the KGB'' FrontPageMagazine.com (Thursday, May 15, 2008)]</ref>

In 1984, 10 Democratic lawmakers — including the House Democratic Majority Leader and Intelligence Committee chairman – sent a letter to Nicaraguan Communist leader [[Daniel Ortega]] known as the "Dear Comandante" letter. In it, the lawmakers criticized Reagan's policy toward [[Nicaragua]] and whitewashed the record of violence and murder by the [[Sandinista]] communists.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/5-times-democrats-undermined-republican-presidents-with-foreign-governments</ref> [[Bernie Sanders]] was a frequent visitor to Nicaragua at this time, singing the praises of communism.

In response to Reagan's defense build-up and missile defense initiative,<ref>http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/nuclear-winter/</ref> which bankrupted the Soviet Union and ended the specter of Mutually Assured Destruction, many Democrats adopted the [[KGB]] line of a nuclear freeze and [[global warming]] targeting America's manufacturing and economic base. [[Barack Obama]] expounded the [[Brezhnev]] era doctrine in an essay entitled ''Breaking The War Mentality'' published in Columbia University's weekly magazine, ''The Sun Dial.''<ref>https://2012election.procon.org/sourcefiles/obama-article-sun-dial-columbia-breaking-war-mentality.pdf</ref> Anti-capitalists in the United States and Europe began attacking the booming auto manufacturing,<ref>The legacy of the global [[Cold War]] economy can be seen in that the loosers of [[World War II]] - [[Germany]] and [[Japan]] - as of 2019 remain the world's largest auto manufactures. Germany and Japan were allowed to rebuild their economies around the automobile - provided the two refrained from competing in the global aircraft industry. World War II proved the military doctrine of the superiority of airpower - whoever controls the skies controls the ground. While Germany and Japan do produce aircraft, including military aircraft, it is strictly for their domestic markets and not for export. Germany and Japan certainly have the manufacturing and technical capabilities to compete with Boeing, AirBus, Northrup Grumman and others, but by previous trade agreements are prohibited. By contrast, the United States, [[UK]], [[France]], [[Italy]] and others have ceded much of their domestic auto markets to German and Japanese manufactures. The fraud of the global warming hoax can be seen in the disproportionate lack of pressure on Germany and Japan to cease auto exports, as has been applied throughout the rest of the West.</ref> oil drilling and refining industries as responsible for the destruction of the planet. The Soviet [[KGB]], known for its [[propaganda]] campaigns such as the [[AIDS]] virus invented by the [[Pentagon]], mounted one last ditch effort to save [[communism]] and fight [[capitalism]]. This [[leftwing]] socialist sentiment was taught in schools and universities, where faculty salaries are dependent on [[statist]] largesse. These Russian-manufactured hoaxes on [[climate change]] were widely embraced by public sector unions in schools and universities to argue against cuts to [[Great Society]] programs.

In a limited way, the communists were successful; the global warming scare was a factor in the de-industrialization and transfer of Western factories to the [[Third World|developing world]] where environmental and labor laws were less strict. The [[free trade]] movement and [[globalization]] was partly justified by the politization of science and global warming.

====As the South became less racist, it became more Republican====
[[File:2000px-ElectoralCollege1980.png|left|thumb|325px|Reagan's 1980 landslide|By 1980, racism ebbed in the Old South as the South began voting like much of the rest of the country. Only the staunchest Democrat racist areas held out. The Republicans then passed the Martin Luther King Holiday, which the Democrat Congress and Jimmy Carter repeatedly rejected.]]
In the century after the Republicans efforts for Black equality and the end of [[Reconstruction]] in 1877, the white South identified with the Democratic Party. The Democrats' lock on power was so strong, the region was called the [[Solid South]]. The Republicans only controlled parts of the Appalachian mountains, but they sometimes did compete for statewide office in the border states. Before Lyndon Johnson's [[War on Poverty]] - an effort to extend big government social spending on Blacks which the New Deal failed to do<ref>https://youtu.be/rLMh3O-4aNA</ref> - the southern Democrats saw their party as the defender of the southern way of life, which included a respect for states' rights and an appreciation for traditional southern "values" (including [[segregation]] of blacks). They repeatedly warned against the aggressive designs of Republicans and Northern liberals, as well as civil rights activists whom they denounced as "outside agitators."

However, between 1928 and 2004, the Democratic Party's lock on the South was broken.<ref>https://youtu.be/UiprVX4os2Y</ref> The long-term cause had to do with the South becoming more like the rest of the nation. It could no longer stand apart in terms of racial segregation. Modernization had brought factories, national businesses, and larger, more [[cosmopolitan]] cities to the South, as well as millions of migrants from the North and more opportunities for higher education. Meanwhile, the cotton and tobacco economy of the traditional rural South faded away, as former farmers commuted to factory jobs. As the South became less racist, it became more Republican.
[[File:The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 20 Sep 1987, Sun Page 79.PNG|right|250px|thumb|"we [Delawareans] were on the South’s side in the Civil War.” - Joe Biden, ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', 20 Sep 1987, Page 79.<ref>''Presidential hopeful Biden faces an image problem'', [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=28178299&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE2OTgzNDI0OCwiaWF0IjoxNjIwMDAwOTY5LCJleHAiOjE2MjAwODczNjl9.Qis6deAMX2ZszubFmWmV75o-sSIRnJfvNYg4W9pJF3A The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 20 Sep 1987, Sun Page 79.]</ref>]]
Integration and the civil rights movement caused enormous controversy in the white South, with many attacking it as a violation of states' rights. When segregation was outlawed by Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices and by the [[bi-partisan]] Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element of Democrats resisted integration, led by Democrats [[Orval Faubus]] of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, [[Al Gore, Sr.]] of Tennessee, [[J. William Fulbright]] of Arkansas and [[George Wallace]] of Alabama. These racists appealed to a less-educated, blue-collar electorate that on economic grounds favored [[New Deal]] [[white privilege]] and opposed desegregation. After 1965 most Southerners accepted integration, with the exception of public schools in an effort led by Sen. [[Joseph Biden]].<ref name="politico.com">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968_full.html</ref> Just as the Republican, Martin Luther King had promised, integration had brought about a new day in Southern politics, freeing both blacks and whites from old hatreds and fears.

President Johnson's [[big government]] giveaways and [[affirmative action]] programs attracted Blacks for the first time, and they began supporting Democratic candidates, producing leaders such as [[Julian Bond]] and [[John Lewis]] of Georgia, and Barbara Jordan of Texas.

Using issues of cultural conservatism, especially opposition to abortion and homosexuality and support for school prayer, Republicans attracted strong majorities among evangelical Christians. They were nationwide, but strongest in the South; before the 1980s they were largely apolitical. Exit polls in 2004 showed that Bush led Kerry by 70-30% among Southern whites, who comprised 71% of the voters. Kerry had a 90–9 lead among the 18% of Southern voters who were black. One third of the Southern voters said they were white evangelicals; they voted for Bush by 80–20%.<ref>See the exit polls at {{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.3.html |date=2004-11-02\|accessdate=|title=U.S. PRESIDENT / REGION: SOUTH / EXIT POLL}}</ref>

In 1988, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), after decades of running their own presidential candidates, with the loss of Russian funding stopped running presidential candidates and has endorsed every Democratic presidential nominee since.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pjFfE1MNFk Communists, the Democrat Party and Snopes]</ref><ref>[http://aun-tv.com/2015/08/did-the-communist-party-usa-take-over-democratic-party-in-1988/ Did The Communist Party USA Take Over Democratic Party in 1988?]</ref> Since the end of the [[Cold War]],<ref>[https://youtu.be/JVkkLDAm8I4 KGB Bezmenov 1985 - Four Steps to Subversion of a Nation], youtube.</ref> communists began rising in Civil Service and elected office as Democrats.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ZXLuqQe8DqQ Deep State Unmasked: State Dept on Hidden Cam "Resist Everything" "I Have Nothing to Lose"], ''Project Veritas''.</ref>

====Racist smear campaign====
In 1991, Republican President George H.W. Bush appointed an African American, [[Clarence Thomas]], to the Supreme Court to replace the retiring Justice [[Thurgood Marshall]]. Racist Democrats were outraged that a conservative Black, who refused to pledge to uphold ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' which legalized the murder of millions of unborn Blacks, would become a role model for Black youth. [[Anita Hill]], a [[lesbian]] staffer who worked for Thomas was pushed forward, against her will, to testify publicly about unverified comments she made to FBI background investigators alleging sexual harassment in the work place, essentially jokes circulating among office employees. Hill's name was illegally [[leak]]ed by Senate Democrat staffers and Chairman [[Joseph Biden]] then subpoenaed Hill, compelling her to testify in public under oath in an effort to derail the nomination and permanently scar Thomas. In an unprecedented step, Biden delayed the final vote and held extended public hearings.

Hill worked for Thomas at the Dept. of Education, and when Thomas left the Dept. of Education to work at the EEOC, Thomas invited her to come along and she followed. Hill never reported the alleged sexual harassment.

After nationally televised hearings consisting largely of a discussion of African American body parts, Thomas was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with a majority of Americans in public opinion polls believing Thomas over Hill. A fringe minority of partisan [[gay rights]] activists, [[feminists]], liberals, and [[mainstream media]] journalist are said to have believed Hill.

===Clinton, Biden and the New Jim Crow===
[[File:Clinton gore.png|right|275px|thumb]]
In the 1990s the Democratic Party revived itself, in part by distancing itself from [[Jesse Jackson]] and the [[Rainbow Coalition]].<ref>http://www.blackcommentator.com/46/46_cover.html https://ofamerica.wordpress.com/tag/democratic-leadership-council/</ref> Jackson was the first African-American to win a major party primary in 1988. Blacks were getting a little too [[uppity]] in the eyes of the Clintons and Democratic party leadership.<ref>[http://prospect.org/article/crisis-working-majority-0 From Crisis to Working Majority], Stan Greenberg, ''The American Prospect'' 2, no. 7 (September 1991). Republished 24 May 2005</ref> Clinton defeated the incumbent [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1992, was the beneficiary of reduced defense spending with the end of the Cold War and a balanced federal budget. Clinton proposed [[welfare reform]] (cutting benefits and requiring many recipients to take jobs). Labor unions, which had been steadily losing membership due to [[globalization]] since the 1960s, found they had also lost political clout inside the Democratic Party: Clinton enacted the [[NAFTA]] free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico accelerating globalization and job loss over the strong objection of these labor unions.

Every year for twelve years, Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, who both always had at least one house of Congress controlled by Democrats, asked in their State of the Union addresses for Congress to create Enterprise Zones - special tax breaks for start-ups and businesses to relocate to blighted areas, predominantly black, inner-city urban areas - to create jobs and deliver services. Democrats didn't want Republicans to be seen as helping blacks. However, in President Clinton's first 100 days, with a Democrat House and Senate, Democrats finally delivered Enterprise Zones after making African Americans wait 12 years to finally participate in the prosperity begun in the 1980s. [[Bill Clinton]] attacked [[Nancy Reagan]]'s anti-drug "Just Say No" campaign as "twelve years of neglect" and ratcheted up deaths caused by illegal drug use from 10,000 per year to 70,000.<ref>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1996/06/clinton-s-drug-war.html</ref> The [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] took control of both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate after the 1994 midterm election.
[[File:Bill-clinton-orval-faubus-1991.jpg|left|275px|thumb|Bill Clinton with a trusted advisor, [[Orval Faubus]] in 1991. Faubus sent over 200 National Guardsmen to block 7 Black children from registering at a white school in 1957.<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-15/news/vw-739_1_orval-faubus</ref>]]
Under the Clintons and the 1994 Biden Crime Bill, more than 250,000 [[African American]]s were imprisoned in the [[United States]] than under President Reagan,<ref>http://www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp?ID=320</ref> Both Hillary Clinton and Joseph Biden took credit for mass incarceration.<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/</ref> Cumulatively since the Clinton's passed the Biden Crime Bill, 2.5 million adult black males—more than 10% of the population—were incarcerated, splitting up black families.<ref name="prisonpolicy.org">http://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/incarceration_rates_growth_causes/</ref> [[Barack Obama]], [[Louis Farrakhan]] and [[Al Sharpton]] led the [[Million Man March]] on Washington to protest.<ref>http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/wright-obama-helped-organize-march-with.html</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100502040630/https://www1.chicagoreader.com/obama_reader/what_makes_obama_run/?q=012009K</ref>

In a eulogy loaded with racist [[dog whistle]]s, here's what Bill Clinton said at the grave of his mentor, Sen. J. William Fulbright: {{quotebox-float|"We come to celebrate and give thanks for the remarkable life of [[J. William Fulbright]], a life that changed our country and our world forever and for the better. . . . In the work he did, the words he spoke and the life he lived, Bill Fulbright stood against the 20th century’s most destructive forces and fought to advance its brightest hopes.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/</ref>}} So spoke President William J. Clinton in 1995 of a man who was among the 99 Democrats in Congress to sign the “[[Southern Manifesto]]” in 1956. The Southern Manifesto declared the signatories’ opposition to the Supreme Court's decision in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' and their commitment to segregation forever. Fulbright was also among those who [[filibuster]]ed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]]. That filibuster continued for 83 days.

When the [[Democratic Leadership Council]] (DLC) assumed leadership of the party and its direction, some liberals and progressives felt alienated, believing the party gave in to capitalism and was unconcerned with left-wing issues in general. Some moderates challenged the validity of such critiques, citing the Democratic role in pushing the gay and progressive agendas.

=====Biden Crime Bill of 1994=====

:{{See also|The New Jim Crow|Biden Crime Bill}}
In the wake of the Central Park jogger attack, [[Joseph Biden]] boasts as one of his greatest legislative achievements was passage of the 1994 Crime bill which locked up 10% of the Black adult male population of the United States.<ref name="prisonpolicy.org"/><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/us/politics/joe-bidens-role-in-90s-crime-law-could-haunt-any-presidential-bid.html</ref>

When [[President George H.W. Bush]] asked for a record increase in funding to fight the [[War on Drugs]], Biden told a TV interviewer
{{Quotebox-float|"In a nutshell, the President's plan does not include enough police officers to catch the violent thugs, enough prosecutors to convict them, enough judges to sentence them or enough prison cells to put them away for a long time."<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-06/news/mn-1646_1_drug-war</ref><ref>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/first-step-act-skepticism.html</ref>}}
[[File:1994 Superpredator Act.jpg|left|350px|thumb|The Biden Crime Bill of 1994. Feinstein, Kerry and Biden are clearly visible with President Clinton. The bill is known for its sentencing disparities which led to mass incarceration of Blacks.<ref>https://fair.org/home/senate-crime-bill-unscrutinized-by-the-press/</ref>]]
Biden, [[Ted Kennedy]], and [[Strom Thurmond]] worked on proposals that raised maximum penalties, removed a directive requiring the US Sentencing Commission to take into account prison capacity, and created the cabinet-level “drug czar” position. In 1984, they passed the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, which, among other things, abolished [[parole]], imposed a less generous cap on “good time” sentence reductions, and allowed the Sentencing Commission to issue more punitive guidelines.

Biden bragged on the Senate floor that it was under his and Thurmond's leadership that Congress passed a law sending anyone caught with a rock of cocaine the size of a quarter to jail for a minimum of five years - the notoriously racist hundred-to-one sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. In the same speech Biden took credit for [[civil asset forfeiture]] and seizure laws, and demanded to know why [[Papa Bush]] hadn't sentenced more drug dealers to life in prison or exercise the [[death penalty]] once Congress had given him that power.<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?18528-1/violent-crime-control-act-1991</ref>

Biden's version of a new crime bill added more than forty crimes that would be eligible for the [[death penalty]]. Biden boasted “we do everything but hang people for jaywalking.”<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=AK_DAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA141&dq=we%20do%20everything%20but%20hang%20people%20for%20jaywalking&pg=PA141#v=onepage&q=we%20do%20everything%20but%20hang%20people%20for%20jaywalking&f=false The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America]'', Naomi Murakawa, Oxford University Press, Jul 10, 2014, p. 141.</ref> The [[NAACP]] and other groups lobbied against the bill.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/27/us/civil-libertarians-go-after-crime-bills.html</ref> Although the 1991 crime bill was defeated by Republicans, the 1994 Biden/Clinton crime bill was passed.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=SGUJBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT142&dq=biden%20strongly%20believes%20the%20administration%20needs%20to%20seize%20control%20of%20the%20issue%20by%20upping%20the%20ante&pg=PT142#v=onepage&q=biden%20strongly%20believes%20the%20administration%20needs%20to%20seize%20control%20of%20the%20issue%20by%20upping%20the%20ante&f=false The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America]'', Naomi Murakawa.</ref>

By 2001, the United States had the highest rate of incarceration in the world. [[Human Rights Watch]] reported that in seven states, African Americans constituted 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders even though they were no more likely than whites to use or sell illegal drugs. Prison admissions for drug offenses reached a level in 2000 for African Americans more than 26 times the level they had been under [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>[https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/ Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote], Michelle Alexander, ''The Nation'', February 10, 2016</ref> Biden's "social planning" had proven effective.

The Leftist ''Jacobin'' magazine summed up Biden's record:
{{Quotebox-float|"It’s not as if Biden didn’t know what he was doing.... He just didn’t care. Biden had made a calculated decision that the elections he would win were worth the damage he inflicted.... But even if Biden has subsequently learned the error of his ways, the rank cynicism and callousness involved in his two-decade-long championing of carceral policies should be more than enough to give anyone pause about his qualities as a leader, let alone a [[progressive]] one."<ref>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/biden-crime-mass-incarceration-police-prisons</ref>}}
[[File:Epstein-bill-clinton-1200x630.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Bill Clinton with Clinton Foundation co-founder Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was a frequent visitor to the Clinton White House as an honoured guest.]]

=====Impeachment: lying under oath is not a crime=====
Clinton was impeached in a scandal involving [[sexual crime]]s in 1998 and acquitted in 1999 when Democrats considered that a sitting president who lies under oath to a federal judge was not a crime. Impeachment caused extreme partisan divisions within the country; however a healthy economy, with the lower mortgage interest rates due to reduced defense spending and the end of the Cold War, no one wanted to upset the apple cart. Democrats themselves were not keen on the idea of Al Gore becoming president, either.

Hollywood mogul and Democrat megadonor [[Harvey Weinstein]] was a founder of the Clinton Legal Defense Fund to defend Bill Clinton against sexual assault charges; after Senate Democrats exonerated President Clinton, Weinstein himself faced sexual assault charges from at least 97 women over the next twenty years.

=====Globalization=====
One of the first actions to promote globalization was when the Clinton administration purchased berets for Army Rangers made in China. Plans were quickly drawn up to outsource the manufacture of army boots, fatigues, and other military apparel to China. This of course would destroy American jobs in American textile plants.

Since the New Deal, tales were legendary how the large military force assembled by America led to full employment in American factories, with the soldiers wives and girlfriends working in arms factories, and mothers and grandmothers employed in textile plants to make clothing and boots for soldiers. This basic economic concept was engraved in the conscience of the World War II generation, particularly loyal Democrat voters proud of the New Deal. Outsourcing American jobs related to national defense and national security to foreigners, particularly a non-democratic and potentially hostile foreign power, seemed like total insanity to older loyal Democrat voters and Republicans, as well.

The argument that "cheaper is better", since it would destroy American jobs and the U.S. welfare system existed as a safety net, didn't carry much weight. But Democrat voters re-elected Clinton anyway. Globalists made clear that eventually items such as medical supplies and pharmaceuticals, items also related to national security should a [[pandemic]] ever erupt, could also be safely entrusted to the Chinese communists.

====Godhatesfags.org====
[[File:Al gore fred phelps (1).jpg|thumb|390px|right|[[Nobel Prize]] winner and former Vice President Al Gore with [[Fred Phelps]] and their wives at a [[Westboro Baptist Church]] fundraiser for Gore. Westboro is the home of the godhatesfags website.]]
The Rev. [[Fred Phelps]] of the notoriously [[homophobic]]<ref>https://shadowproof.com/2007/05/26/fred-phelps-on-baby-samuel-cheney/</ref> [[Westboro Baptist Church]] ran for governor of [[Kansas]] as a Democrat in 1990, 1994, and 1998.<ref name="ref4">[https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/05/kansas.results/ 1998 Kansas Primary Results. Compiled by Congressional Quarterly.]</ref> Phelps received 31% of the vote in Kansas's 1992 Democrat Party primary for [[U.S. Senate]].<ref>[http://www.kssos.org/elections/elections_statistics.html State of Kansas Secretary of State Website]</ref> In 1993 and 1997,<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21229 The "God Hates Fags" [[Left]]], By Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMagazine.com, February 09, 2006.</ref><ref>[http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1128/kansas-anti-gay-church-embarrasses-topekans Kansas anti-gay church embarrasses Topekans], November 7, 2002. Retrieved from ReligionNewsBlog.com, October 11, 2007.</ref> Phelps ran for mayor of [[Topeka]]. He supported [[Al Gore]] in the 1988 primaries. Phelpsbecame an extremely vocal critic of [[President George W. Bush]] and former Vice President [[Dick Cheney]], calling Bush "A Bible pervert." Of the Cheney family Phelps said, "They know the iniquity they’ve wrought, but they’re not at all ashamed of it...God hates the Cheneys."<ref>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8194338250744686470#</ref>

===Election of 2000: Florida recount===

During the presidential election of 2000, the Democrats chose Vice President [[Al Gore]] to be the party's candidate for the presidency. Gore and [[George W. Bush]], the Republican candidate and son of former President George H.W. Bush, disagreed on a number of issues, including abortion, gun control, environmentalism, gay rights, tax cuts, foreign policy, public education, global warming, judicial appointments, and affirmative action. Gore told the [[NAACP]] that his father, Sen. [[Al Gore Sr.]], had lost his Senate seat because he voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964-a total fabrication.

Gore won a plurality of over 500,000 votes but lost the electoral college by four votes. Gore asked for a recount in [[Florida]], re-opening the divisions caused by Clinton's impeachment.

Gore's affiliation with Clinton and the racist DLC machine<ref>http://www.blackcommentator.com/46/46_cover.html</ref> caused critics—Green Party progressive candidate [[Ralph Nader]] in particular—to assert that Bush and Gore were too similar, especially on free trade, reductions in social welfare, and the death penalty. "We want to punish the Democrats, we want to hurt them, wound them," Nader's closest advisor said.<ref>Harry G. Levinem "Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber." ''The Village Voice'' May 3, 2004 at [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0418,levine,53179,1.html]</ref> Some Democrats blamed Nader's third-party spoiler role for Gore's defeat.

Afterward, Gore made millions of dollars with a film preaching progressive climate change eschatology, asserting that life on the planet would come to an end by the year 2013, sold his leftist propaganda radio network for hundreds of millions of dollars to [[Al Jazeera]], was accused of sexual assault, and disappeared into obscurity.

Despite Gore's close defeat, the Democrats gained five seats in the Senate (including the election of [[Hillary Clinton]] in New York), to turn a 55–45 Republican edge into a 50–50 split (with a Republican vice president breaking a tie). However, when Republican Senator [[Jim Jeffords]] of Vermont decided in 2001 to become an independent and caucus with the Democrats, the majority status shifted along with the seat, including control of the floor (by the Majority Leader) and control of all committee chairmanships. However, the Republicans regained their Senate majority with gains in 2002 and 2004, leaving the Democrats with only 44 seats, the fewest since the 1920s.

====2001: Progressives allied with jihadis====
[[File:C9Pak4-W0AIldKy (1).jpg|right|350px|thumb|Email to Hillary Clinton: '''"Al Qaeda is on our side."''' Al Qaeda murdered 3,000 Americans in the [[9/11 attacks]].<ref>http://theduran.com/wikileaks-drops-syria-bomb-email-to-hillary-clinton-assures-her-aq-al-qaeda-is-on-our-side-in-syria/</ref>]]
In the aftermath of the [[9-11 Attacks]], the nation's focus was on issues of national security. All but one Democrat<ref>Longtime [[CPUSA]] operative Rep. [[Barbara Lee]] of Texas</ref> joined the Republicans to authorize the use of force in Afghanistan and overthrow the Taliban. House leader [[Richard Gephardt]] and Senate leader [[Thomas Daschle]] pushed Democrats to vote for the [[USA PATRIOT Act]] and the 2003 [[AUMF]] in Iraq. [[Progressive]]s sympathized with terrorists who wanted to destroy [[Western Civilization]]. More rational Democrats expressed concern over the domestic effects, including potential government abuses of civil rights and civil liberties with the PATRIOT Act. Senator [[Russ Feingold]] was the only Senator to vote against the act; it received more resistance when it came up for renewal, but was renewed in 2006.

In the wake of the [[Enron scandal]], Congressional Democrats pushed for an overhaul of business accounting.<ref>See [[Andrew Weissmann]].</ref> This led to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002.

Typically, an incumbent president loses seats in Midterm elections. However, in the aftermath of 19 terrorists entering the US during the Clinton administration as part of the [[multicultural]] experiment, who then murdered 3,000 Americans in the 9/11 attacks, Democrats lost seats in the House, Senate, and governorships in the 2002 midterms. Democrats flipped gubernatorial seats in New Mexico ([[Bill Richardson]]) and Arizona ([[Janet Napolitano]]) where Clinton [[cronyism|cronies]] were elected and Wyoming (Dave Freudenthal), it was offset by Democrats losing seats in South Carolina (Jim Hodges), Alabama ([[Don Siegelman]]) and, for the first time in more than a century the Democrats' Southern Strategy failed with the loss of Georgia (Roy Barnes).

Republican gains in [[The South]] had nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with Democrats' willingness to sacrifice national security for open immigration and [[diversity]]. It led to another round of soul searching about the future of the party's increasingly radicalized base. The party's miseries mounted in 2003, when a voter recall unseated their unpopular governor of California, [[Gray Davis]], and replaced him which a charismatic liberal Republican [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]. By the end of 2003, the four largest states had Republican governors: California, Texas, New York and Florida.

While the Gallup poll showed 72% public support for the [[War in Iraq]],<ref>https://news.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-americans-support-war-against-iraq.aspx</ref> and with the party establishment drastically weakened, a handful of dissident anti-American and progressive protesters gathered in Chicago's Federal Plaza to hear an Illinois state senator named Barack Obama speak. Obama was one of the few, if not only, elected official in the country willing to express openly his lack of concern about the jihad against Western civilization. The protest was organized by the Communist party.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100811115415/http://www.noiraqwar-chicago.org/?page_id=2</ref>

===Pelosi era===
[[File:Pelosi poop map.jpg|left|350px|thumb|The City of San Francisco official "poop map" of reports of human feces on the street covers Nancy Pelosi's entire 12th Congressional district.<ref>https://www.mrctv.org/blog/new-report-shows-nancy-pelosis-district-seat-piled-high-dirty-needles-and-human-feces</ref>]]
{{See also|Climate Crisis Committee}}
In 2002, after [[Richard Gephardt]] resigned as minority leader to seek the Democratic nomination in the [[2004 presidential election]], Rep. [[Nancy Pelosi]] was elected to replace him, becoming the first woman to lead a major party in the House of Representatives. Pelosi's father was a Congressman from [[Maryland]] and later the Mayor of [[Baltimore]]; when Pelosi graduated from college in 1962 she didn't remain in Baltimore to serve her community but rather joined the white flight to California<ref>https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/10/07/family-dynasty-may-boost-pelosi-to-head-of-house-2/amp/</ref> where [[blacks]] were fewer in number.<ref>https://qz.com/393128/white-flight-decimated-baltimore-businesses-long-before-rioters-showed-up/amp/</ref> By the 1980s she became a protégé of the progressive [[Willie Brown]].

A poll conducted by [[Fox News]] released in October 2007 found that 1 in 5 Democrats – nearly 10 million voters – thought the world would be better off if the [[United States]] were to lose the [[War in Iraq]].<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299374,00.html Nearly 1 in 5 Democrats Say World Will Be Better Off if U.S. Loses War], FOX News Poll, October 04, 2007.</ref> The poll found this sentiment 3 to 4 times higher among Democrats than among moderate, centrist, and Republican voters.

According to its 2008 platform, the Democratic Party claimed to have the objective of strengthening America, yet Democrat leaders did nothing while the Obama administration allied itself with jihadis.<ref>[http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=22045 "Democrats, ACLU Outraged Over Traveler Terrorism Screening Program"] C. Johnson, Associated Press</ref><ref>[https://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/01/smn.19.html CNN Saturday Morning News] Transcript: December 1, 2001</ref> In 2010 the Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.) said "Democrats have been sedulously rewriting history for decades."<ref>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/26/whitewashing_the_democratic_partys_history_127132.html</ref> The Exalted Cyclops passed away shortly afterward and was solemnly eulogized by Speaker Pelosi and Democrat Leader Schumer.

The Democratic Party favored free trade agreements, environmental regulation and so-called "trade impact assistance" or government handouts after trade agreements destroy private sector, taxpaying jobs.

At the Democratic National Convention in July 2016, no American flags were present while several attendees flew the Palestinian flag.<ref>Kassam, Raheem (July 25, 2016). [https://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/07/25/old-glorys-old-news-palestinian-flag-flown-dnc-delegates/ Old Glory’s Old News To The New Democrats As The Palestinian Flag Flies At The DNC]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 31, 2018.</ref><ref>Prestigiacomo, Amanda (July 26, 2016). [https://www.dailywire.com/news/7811/so-uh-guess-how-many-american-flags-were-dnc-amanda-prestigiacomo So, Uh, Guess How Many American Flags Were at The DNC.] ''The Daily Wire''. Retrieved May 31, 2018.</ref> The [[CPUSA]] urged people not to vote for Donald Trump even if they disliked Hillary Clinton (an indirect endorsement of Clinton).<ref>Although there are still some very substantial differences between communists and Democrats/liberals, the line between communists/Democrats/liberals continues to blur in the United States.</ref><ref>Ironically, the leading communist country in the world, [[Communist Party of China|communist China]], has moved farther away from communism and now has a mixed economy of [[capitalism]] and state-owned enterprises. [China's The Most Viciously Free Market Economy On The Planet Right Now], Forbes, 2015</ref> Democrats blamed Russia for Hillary Clinton's loss. Obama evidently did nothing to prevent it.

====John Kerry: the Hippies last stand====
[[Image:437px-The New Soldier.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Kerry's book, ''The New Soldier'' with [[VVAW]] activists flying the American flag upside down. By the time Democrats did start flying the American flag, they flew it upside down.]]
The 2004 campaign began in late 2002, when Gore said he would not run again. [[Howard Dean]], former Governor of Vermont, a war protester and critic of the Democrat establishment, was the front-runner leading into the Democratic primaries. Dean had immense progressive support, especially from the [[far left]] wing of the party. Massachusetts Senator [[John Kerry]], a [[Vietnam war]] veteran turned [[hippie]] who had heavy support from the Clinton Machine and DLC, was nominated because he was seen as more "electable" than Dean. Under [[Leader Pelosi]], Democrats moved to populist [[Trumpian]] positions that denounced free trade and the [[NAFTA]] agreement.

[[Babyboomer]]s - children born in the post-[[World War II]] "baby boom," despite their large numbers in the American electorate, were always wracked by political division stemming from the Vietnam war. The election of 2004 highlighted those divisions - Kerry the supposed "war hero" who then turned on the war, and Bush the "patriot" who used family privilege to duck the draft and served in the reserves.
[[File:John-edwards-mug-shot.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Vice-Presidential candidate [[John Edwards]]' mugshot. Edwards was charged and booked in a fundraising scheme.]]
In the end, Kerry lost both the popular vote (by 3 million out of over 120 million votes cast) and the [[Electoral College]]. Republicans also gained four seats in the Senate and three seats in the House of Representatives, and for the first time since 1952, the Democratic leader of the Senate lost re-election. In the end, there were 3,660 Democratic state legislators across the nation to the Republicans' 3,557. Democrats netted governorships in Louisiana, New Hampshire and Montana. However, they lost the governorship of Missouri and a legislative majority in Georgia, which had long adhered to the Democratic racist tradition.

There were many reasons for the defeat. After the election, most analysts concluded that Kerry was a poor campaigner.<ref>Evan Thomas and Staff of Newsweek,''Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in the Future''(2005)</ref> A group of Vietnam veterans opposed to Kerry called the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" undercut Kerry's use of his military past by citing Kerry's Congressional testimony where he called fellow Vietnam veterans war criminals.<ref>See [[Jerome Corsi]].</ref> Kerry was unable to reconcile his support for the [[Iraq War]] with his opposition to the war in 2004, or manage the deep split in the Democratic Party between [[Patriot]]s and protesters of the war. Republicans ran thousands of television commercials to argue that Kerry had flip-flopped on Iraq. When Kerry's home state of Massachusetts' judicial system legalized radical progressive [[same-sex marriage]], the issue split liberal and conservative Democrats and independents. Kerry publicly stated throughout his campaign that he opposed same-sex "marriage," but favored [[civil union]]s. Ballot initiatives appeared in 11 states that brought citizens of both parties to the polls in large numbers; all 11 initiatives passed. [[Proposition 8]] in California won by a wide margin, but California Attorney General [[Kamala Harris]] bowed to [[LGBT]] groups and refused to defend citizen referendums in court. Some Democrats argued that flaws in vote-counting systems may also have played a role in Kerry's defeat in Ohio. Other factors include a healthy job market, a rising stock market, strong home sales due to [[FNMA|government subsidized interest rates]], and low unemployment.

After the 2004 election, prominent Democrats began to rethink the party's direction, and a variety of strategies for moving forward were voiced. Some Democrats proposed moving towards the right; others demanded that the party move more to the left and become a stronger opposition party. Rethinking the party's position on gun control became a matter of discussion, brought up by [[Howard Dean]], [[Bill Richardson]], [[Brian Schweitzer]] and other Democrats who had won governorships in states where Second Amendment rights were important to many voters.

====Pelosi and the Progressive takeover====
[[File:Pelosi Logan Act (2).jpeg|right|250px|thumb|Speaker Nancy Pelosi, an Assad apologist, violating the Logan Act.]]
These debates were reflected in the 2005 campaign for Chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]], which [[Howard Dean]] won. As a progressive, Dean was the first to shepherd civil unions through the Vermont legislature. He sought to move the Democratic strategy away from the establishment, and bolster support for the party's state organizations, even in Red states.

When the 109th Congress convened in 2005, [[Harry Reid]], the new Senate Minority Leader, tried to convince the Democratic Senators to vote more as a bloc on important issues; he forced the Republicans to abandon their push for privatization of retirement insurance and leave the collectivist model in place. In 2005, the Democrats retained their governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, electing [[Tim Kaine]] and [[Jon Corzine]], respectively. However, the party lost the mayoral race to [[Michael Bloomberg]] in New York City, a Democratic stronghold, for the fourth straight time.

The cost of fighting two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq simultaneously allowed the [[Peoples Republic of China]], which was granted [[most favored nation]] trading status in 2001, to rush ahead in economic development and military modernization unchecked by American competition. Cheap Chinese made goods flooded the country, while American manufacturing jobs were exported to China. Negative public opinion on the war in Iraq, along with widespread dissatisfaction among conservatives dragged President Bush's job approval ratings down to the lowest levels of his presidency. To win control the Democrats had to add 15 seats in the House (they added 30), and 6 in the Senate. In 2006, with [[lobbying]] scandals engulfing the Republicans, the Democrats used the slogan "culture of corruption."

The Democratic Party's electoral success in the 2006 midterms was attributed to running relatively moderate Democrats in close seats, such as the Senate races in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Montana.<ref>Dewan Shaila and Anne E. Kornblut, "In Key House Races, Democrats Run to the Right," ''New York Times,'' 2006-10-30; but compare Rick Perlstein, "Who deserves credit for the Democratic comeback?" ''The New Republic'' 2006-11-08 at [https://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml?i=w061106&s=perlstein110806]</ref> Exit polling suggested that corruption was a key issue for many voters.<ref>CNN, "Corruption named as key issue by voters in exit polls," 2006-11-08 at [https://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/election.exitpolls/]</ref> Democrats gained a majority of governorships and made gains in many state legislatures. No Democratic incumbent was defeated in any major race.

Senate Democrats promoted Harry Reid to Majority Leader. House Democrats chose Rep. [[Nancy Pelosi]] of California for Speaker, the first woman ever, but rejected her choice for House Majority Leader, electing [[Steny Hoyer]] instead of [[John Murtha]]. Members of Pelosi's own Democratic Caucus warned failure to deliver on their promises to clean up corruption could be damaging.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/4014.html Democrats divided on lobbying reform], Josephine Hearn and Jeff Patch, May 15, 2007. Retrieved from [[Politico]] 06/01/07.</ref> Twenty freshmen Democrats asked for legislation to establish an independent ethics commission within the [[legislative branch]] to investigate future ethical lapses by fellow members.<ref>Alexander Bolton, [https://thehill.com/leading-the-news/dems-press-pelosi-for-ethics-panel-2007-04-18.html''Dems press Pelosi for ethics panel''], The Hill, April 19, 2007.</ref> Pelosi resisted the reform.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7hE4HX-Cwo&NR=1 The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same], ''[[ABC News]]'', April 25, 2007.</ref>

===Obamunism===
[[File:Barack-Hussein-Obama-mit-Louis-Farrakhan-528x524.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Barack Obama with the notorious [[anti-Semite]], [[Louis Farrakhan]]. Farrakhan called [[Jews]] "pigs and dogs." The [[Anti-Defamation League]] identified Farrakhan as the nation's “leading anti-Semite."<ref>[https://www.adl.org/resources/profiles/the-nation-of-islam The Nation of Islam], Anti-Defamation League.</ref>]]
:{{See also|History of the Democrat party under Barack Obama|Vice Presidency of Joe Biden (2009–2017)|}}
From 1919 to 1992 the global communist movement, headquartered in [[Moscow]], sought to destabilize and [[subversion (political)|subvert]] the [[bourgeois]] regimes of the planet. The collapse of communism in [[Eastern Europe]] in ended the 45-year-long [[Cold War]]. [[Russia]] caved in, became [[capitalist]], joined the [[International Monetary Fund]] and qualified for [[World Bank]] loans. American leftists momentarily were in danger of losing their ideological direction. A group of academics and organizers called the [[Committees of Correspondence of Democratic Socialism]] (CoC) relocated the center of the global Marxist movement from the [[Kremlin]] to [[Berkeley]], [[California]] and kept the movement alive.<ref>https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/committees-of-correspondence-for-democracy-and-socialism-ccds/</ref> Despite what some journalists and pundits speculated as "the end of history" with the widely reported "fall of communism," within 15 years communists had captured the [[White House]].

Led by [[anti-war|anti-War on Terror]] radicals and jihadi sympathizers schooled in the Cold War era notion of Marxist "[[national liberation movement]]s," the Democratic party roared back with major gains in 2006, which it expanded in 2008 to sweep control of the national government and leave the GOP in a state of confusion and decline.

The GOP reunited in 2009, with near-unanimous opposition to the Democrats' socialist agenda and contentious policies, especially stimulus spending and Obamacare. Polls show Obama's popularity began to erode after his [[Barack Obama approval ratings#Declines after the Gates flap|anti-police stance]] became apparent in the summer of 2009.

For the first two years of the Obama administration, the Democrats held a veto-proof Congress and the White House, ramming through unpopular legislation, with no bipartisan support, such as [[Obamacare]]. In the [[2010 midterm elections]], Democrats received a "shellacking" for defying popular sentiment. In 2009 moderate [[Bluedog Democrat]]s boasted 44 [[centrist]]s, but by 2011 it had only 8 members. A [[centrist]] core in the House was destroyed by [[progressive]]s who dominated the party. Progressive communists tended to come from so-called "safe seats," whereas moderates, centrists, and Bluedogs came from competitive districts, and were sacrificed on the altar of ideological purity by Marxists in search of [[single party control]]. Suburbs and rural areas remained in Republican hands.<ref>[http://www.multistate.com/Site.nsf/Elections2006PostMaps?OpenPage Multistate.com] Post-Election 2006 Maps</ref> Voters in 2010, 2014, and 2016 rejected Democratic Party candidates at the local, state and national levels in record-setting proportions.

====Fascist national security state====

Under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic party has been transformed into the party of war and the national security surveillance state. Anyone who does not toe the party line is smeared as a Russian agent.<ref>https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1185988329742798848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw</ref> The party establishment attacks critics of [[regime change]] wars with Hinduphobia and as "Russian" bots and assets. Party operatives regularly ignore [[4th Amendment]] and due process rights - including congressional committee chairmen conducting a supposed "[[impeachment inquiry]]" which was never voted on and authorized by the [[House of Representatives]].

Author Max Blumenthal, senior editor of ''The Grayzone'', observed:
{{Quotebox|This whole narrative would blow back on [[the left]] and would be used to enforce conformity on issues of war and peace, in support of the former against the latter. When we're seeing that play out in real time, with Hillary Clinton's attacks on [[Tulsi Gabbard]]. It was clear to me as soon as Tulsi Gabbard got into the race that even though she has absolutely no connection to Russia at all, she was going to be smeared this way because this is the McCarthyite venomous poison that Hillary Clinton has brought into the Democratic Party, along with the [[national security]] state figures like [[John Brennan]] and [[James Clapper]]. They have turned principled resistance against Trump and Trumpism into a collection of spooks, dupes, and Cold War cooks, and our worst warnings are being fulfilled. Tulsi Gabbard has been smeared as a Russian asset. She's been basically accused of committing a crime, that could hold the [[death penalty]], by someone with a multi-million dollar sleaze operation. Hillary Clinton and her sleaze network, her corporate funded sleaze network which really grew out of her campaign where she just had so much [[Wall Street]] money, and defense industry money....this is their way of destroying an emergent trend in the party, which is somewhat non-partisan. But is also anti-war, which reflects the sentiments of Americans across the country including a lot of the working-class people who are following Trump into the Republican Party. It was coordinated.... 
The rhetorical basis for Hillary Clinton smear was established during the past two years when anyone who challenged the imperatives of the national security state in places like [[Syria]] or [[Venezuela]], where the proxy war is playing out between the US and Russia although you know it's not purely a proxy war but it's seen that way in Washington, is accused of echoing [[Kremlin]] [[propaganda]]. And so we saw that narrative weaponized against Tulsi Gabbard after the last debate. I've never seen such a meltdown among you know Beltway and Democratic establishment hacks over a minor protest candidate who's polling at 2%, as the one I saw against Tulsi Gabbard. Susan Glasser from ''Politico'', who's just the quintessential centrist hack, who's married to Peter Baker - the ''New York Times'' White House correspondent, said that Tulsi Gabbard was echoing Russian and Syrian talking points by condemning regime change wars. This is something that only the reel cranks of the Republican Party would have said about opponents of the [[Iraq war]]. Now it's coming out of the political center. Josh Marshall, and founder of ''Talking Points Memo'' which all of the Democratic wonks wake up every morning and read, said "the only thing that Tulsi Gabbard can do is shut the F up." That was his response to her. It's like this. She inspires this kind of visceral outrage by condemning regime change wars, and one after another they accuse her of echoing Russian talking points. So now championing the cause of peace, withdrawing US troops, withdrawing US bases from a hinterland in northern Syria, it's the Russian agenda. And this is something I've never heard in my lifetime since I was kind of like a sentient being following politics. But it's something that I read about in books about [[McCarthyism]]. And it really appears to have so infested the mainstream of the Democratic Party that we're going to be living with it for the rest of our lives.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRp7iEVZD6c</ref>}}

Critics have noted that the Democratic party has morphed into a branch of the CIA not unlike the origins of the [[East German]] [[Stasi]] government.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/will-democratic-party-exist-after-2020-election</ref> The all consuming [[Russiagate]] insanity began when the FBI launched its counterintelligence probe after learning that a Trump campaign aide, [[George Papadopoulos]], was offered “dirt” on Hillary Clinton from an FBI plant named [[Joseph Mifsud]], and after Papadopoulos told Australian diplomat [[Alexander Downer]] about it. Australian officials then tipped off their American counterparts to Papadopoulos’ remarks, after which the FBI flew agent [[Peter Strzok]] to [[London]] to interview Downer about his interactions with Papadopoulos, igniting what the FBI called operation “[[Crossfire Hurricane]],” they claim began on July 31, 2016.

Aside from now fired FBI agent Peter Strzok and his also ousted FBI secret lover [[Lisa Page]] being exposed for their political bias in text messages to have created an “Insurance Policy” to damage Trump if he was elected, and Alexander Downer having funneled $25 million to [[Clinton Foundation]], the central pivot person of the entire Russiagate [[conspiracy theory]] revolved around Mifsud, who works for the UK Cabinet Office Security Vetting Appeals Panel and trains NATO intelligence personnel and diplomats at Link Campus University in Rome that's described as a finishing school for British spies, along with FBI agents who have also both taught and have trained at the school.<ref>https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/04/all-russiagate-roads-lead-to-london-as-evidence-emerges-of-joseph-mifsuds-links-to-uk-intelligence/</ref>

====Incremental socialism====
[[File:Maria-and-Che.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A Democrat organizer sports a poster of communist [[mass murder]]er [[Che Guevara]] at Obama campaign headquarters.]]
The [[2008 presidential election]] campaign featured a duel between [[Barack Obama]]—a black candidate, and [[Hillary Clinton]], a woman contender. Obama won with his oratory skills and a highly efficient fund-raising and strong organization in the caucus states, while Clinton appealed to [[feminist]]s and [[white supremacist]]s.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uWu0nSsg7w Hillary Clinton in Black History], youtube.</ref> The contest between Obama and GOP nominee [[John McCain]] showed Obama being the clear favorite, with the vast majority of polls (with the exception of early September) depicting Obama as the clear favorite.

The [[Obama Administration]] got off to a fast start taking on more government debt to finance massive bailouts to banks, increased regulation, and deep intervention in the automobile industry. All those policies failed to reverse the decline from the [[Recession of 2008]]. After Democrats passed the Economic Recovery Act of 2009, [[unemployment]] increased from below 7% to 10%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm|title=Employment Situation Summary|work=Bureau of Labor Statistics|date=August 1, 2014|accessdate=}}</ref>

Democratic leaders endorsed various [[Democratic Health Care Plans]]; the question in 2009 was whether to allow "a crisis to go to waste." Many Democrats advocated a minimum wage increase; the Democrat Congress failed to act but Obama signed an [[executive order]] imposing a $15 minimum wage on federal contractors, a meaningless gesture as few federal contracts have minimum wage workers.

Democrats talked about increased taxpayer funding of higher education, particularly for scientific research, land-grant colleges, community colleges and historically black colleges. Obama established a White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-historically-black-colleges-and-universities|title=Executive Order 13532 -- Historically Black Colleges and Universities|date=February 26, 2010|accessdate=}}</ref> Democrats subsidized the interest rate out of the federal treasury for Stafford loan voters by cutting the rate to 3.4% and eliminated private banks as middlemen in federal student loans.<ref name=ed>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education|title=Higher Education|accessdate=}}</ref>

The Democratic Party felt the sting from the opposition and many Democrats began questioning their own leadership. Liberals were disenchanted with Obama's escalation of the [[Afghanistan War]]. American deaths more than doubled in Obama's first few years compared with the preceding eight years.<ref>Chesser, S.G. (2012, July 12). [http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41084.pdf Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians - CRS Report for Congress]. Pg. 3. ''Congressional Research Service'''.</ref> The health care reform that consumed most of 2009 remained unsettled, as public opinion turned against it. Environmentalists seemed resigned to the failure of [[carbon tax]]es and a [[cap and trade]] program to reduce [[greenhouse gases]]. Most of the recession dragged on. The stimulus bill was passed quickly in February 2009 over almost unanimous GOP opposition, but despite promises of "shovel ready" projects, most of the money was never spent to relieve unemployment, job creation and [[economic growth]] remained dtagnant for years.

The elections in November 2009 in New Jersey and Virginia went badly for the Democrats, as the GOP gained both governorships and many local races, not to mention the Democrats' fifth straight loss for the mayoralty of New York City.

In the [[2010 Midterm Elections]], the Republican Party gained 63 Representatives in the House (one of the largest amounts in its history and surpassing the 1994 landslide), almost gained a majority in the Senate, and gained a majority of governorships and state legislatures in one of its best election results in its history.

Although the Democrats had the opportunity to reverse the massive GOP gains in 2014 midterms, they completely failed and allowed the GOP to make even larger victories. Even when the GOP held a majority of governorships so large that it would be difficult to hold them all, they actually gained two states, expanding their majority to 31 out of 50.

====Marxists crawl out of the closet====
Within the first six months of the new administration, Obama White House Communications Director [[Anita Dunn]] told a high school graduating class that communist [[mass murder]]er [[Mao Zedong]] - the biggest mass murderer in history by far - was her favorite "political philosopher."<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/10/17/obama-debate-advisor-anita-dunn-mao/ Obama Debate Coach Named Mao as Favorite Political Philosopher] by Ben Shapiro, Breitbart News, 2012</ref> [[Van Jones]], a self-proclaimed communist, was appointed Green Czar to indoctrinate young people schooled in the [[global warming hoax]] into the communist movement. When Jones' communist background and connections became public he was immediately fired and hired as an analyst for [[CNN]].

[[Bernie Sanders]], a leading candidate in the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nomination has a history of involvement with [[Marxism|Marxist]] organizations.<ref>[http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/ Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist], New York Post by [[Paul Sperry]], New York Post,January 16, 2016</ref><ref name="IS BERNIE SANDERS A COMMUNIST">[https://www.wnd.com/2016/01/is-bernie-sanders-a-communist/ IS BERNIE SANDERS A COMMUNIST?] by Joseph Farah, WND, 2016</ref><ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-d-ackerman/history-lesson-bernie-san_b_9355082.html History Lesson: Bernie Sanders is no 'Communist,' and 'Democratic Socialists' are as American as Apple Pie], Huffington Post, 2012</ref> Sanders had on the wall of his Senate office a flag of the [[Soviet Union]], a regime which [[democide|exterminated]] more than 50 million of its own peoples.<ref>[http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/ Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist], New York Post by Paul Sperry, New York Post, January 16, 2016</ref>

In the 21st century, the Democratic Party dropped all pretense of advocacy for Human Rights in favor of forced [[collectivization]].

====Uranium One scandal====
:{{Main article|Uranium One scandal}}
Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration colluded with Vladimir Putin to sell Russia 20% of American uranium reserves. The Clinton Foundation received $150 million from investors. The Clinton campaign knew that Hillary's Russia collusion by approving the sale of Uranium One (U1) from Clinton Foundation board member Frank Giustra to Russia's state owned nuclear energy company Rosatom in 2010-2011 was a problem, so they set out from at least April 2015 to smear whoever she was up against as “weak on Russia” or “Kremlin Trolls”.

====Obama war crimes====
:{{Main article|Obama war crimes}}
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama illegally overthrew the government of Libya. The African [[slave trade]] was revived after the overthrow.

====Political spying====
Not wanting a crisis - the [[Financial Panic of 2008]] - to go to waste, which won the Democrats a veto proof Congress and the White House, the Democrats went full bore single party socialist and communist with the passage of Obamacare, ignoring public opinion and opposition within their own party. While subsequent elections repealed much of Obamacare, the Democrats and Obama administration plunged ahead with the communist agenda of outlawing and criminalizing political opposition and free speech. It began with the [[IRS scandal]], and when exposed shifted to [[FISA abuse]] and persecution of journalists who printed negative stories. Blackmail and pollical spying on opposition candidates and campaigns became the hallmark of Obama's second term. The cover up of the [[Muellergate timeline 2019|Muellergate scandal]] was used by Democrats to surreptitiously win back the House in 2018 and bring about the phony [[impeachment scam]].
[[File:112 2016 b4-napo-comey-hoove8201 c0-389-1420-1216 s885x516 (1).jpg|right|300px|thumb|In the Comey era, the FBI returned to the use of sexual innuendo and domestic spying on political opponents.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/19/comey-trump-cnn-news-hook/</ref>]]
With Obama's harassment of political opponents, first with the [[IRS scandal]], then through illegal surveillance and [[FISA abuse]],<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/08/doj-political-surveillance-from-the-irs-in-2011-to-the-fisa-court-in-2016/ DOJ Political Surveillance – From the IRS in 2011 to the FISA Court in 2016], Posted on March 8, 2020 by sundance. theconservativetreehouse.com</ref> Obama won re-election in [[2012 United States Presidential Election|2012]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EULOYZ-mAG0</ref> even though the Republican Party held on to all its 2010 gains.

This early self-deception by Democrats repeated in mainstream media after the election of Obama - that America had shifted its historic roots from center-right to center-left, had disastrous results in the coming decade. The repression of free speech in media in favor of a pro-communist line contributed to a deterioration in race relations based on communist lies and [[propaganda]]. The [[Obama riots]] destroyed Black communities, and the [[2020 Leftwing insurrection]], led by Marxist whites in the name of "social justice", overestimated the willingness of the American people to embrace Marxist [[revolution]], cast off [[capitalism]], and abrogate their constitutional rights to a single party [[totalitarian]] regime governed by unelected Democrat bureaucrats and [[civil servants]]. An entire generation of Americans grew up in the Obama years, where opportunity to improve one's own economic wellbeing was virtually non-existent, [[brainwash]]ed by Marxist doctrine in [[public school]]s and educational institutions, to resort to [[violence]] and attempt to tear down the whole system.

While most Blacks looked for the freedom and opportunity America promised, a generation of dangerous and [[intolerant]] white youth walked the streets, looking to violently maim and destroy anyone who opposed their Marxist agenda.

====Obamagate scandal====
[[File:Obama post election strategy Blame Russia start WW3.jpg|right|300px|thumb]]
:{{See also|Obamagate timeline|FBI scandal|Ukrainian collusion|Trump-Russia collusion hoax}}
In 2016 the party [[collude]]d with Russia and the Ukraine to interfere in the United States presidential election.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/16/horowitz-report-confirms-john-solomons-scoop-fbi-spreadsheet-regarding-steele-dossier/</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/europe/ukraine-paul-manafort.html</ref> The DNC has been sued for [[civil rights]] violations of [[Carter Page]] for the DNC-funded fraud against the FISA court.<ref>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/480678-carter-page-files-lawsuit-against-democratic-national-committee-over</ref>

More than 27 Obama appointees and Democrat operatives were fired, removed, demoted or reassigned in the criminal attempt to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and later the [[coup]] plot against President Trump.

The Mueller Report produced no evidence whatsoever that Russia hacked the DNC. Neither Special Council Robert Mueller, nor the FBI, nor the DOJ, nor the Dept. of Homeland Security, nor the NSA, nor the CIA, nor the mainstream media, nor the Clinton campaign ever investigated DNC servers.

====The New McCarthyism====
In 2016, Russian hackers attempted, and failed, to hack into state election board computers. No federal facilities, as far as is known, were attempted. However, no federal law enforcement agency, not the FBI, CIA, [[Department of Homeland Security]] or any other federal, state, or municipal law enforcement agency ever investigated an alleged hack of the Democratic National Committee. The confluence of these two events - attempted hacking of state election boards and the publication of leaked emails from the DNC by [[WikiLeaks]] - coupled with the Obama administration's [[FISA abuse]] were melded by CIA Director John Brennan into the Russia collusion hoax.

The debunked Trump-Russia [[fake news]] morphed itself into a [[xenophobic]] reaction against Russian bots and anything Russian to explain all the Democratic party's self-inflicted misfortunes. These Russianbot [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] inspired some of the most absurd conjecture to explain social phenomenon and justify the most venomous hatred, in the spoken word of Democrat leaders, media elites, and violent actions of the [[extreme left]].

====Primary rigging====
{{See also|United States presidential election, 2016}}
Again, in 2016, the Democrats performed very poorly, allowing the GOP to win the presidency with [[Donald Trump]],<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/08/first-polls-close-in-2016-race-trump-projected-to-win-ind-ky-clinton-wins-vt.html Trump wins presidency, defeats Clinton in historic election upset]. ''Fox News''. November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> to maintain their House and Senate majorities,<ref>Bresnahan, John (November 9, 2016). [https://www.politico.eu/article/republicans-on-cusp-of-keeping-the-senate/ Republicans hold the Senate in a stunner]. ''Politico''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref><ref>Hughes, Siobhan (November 9, 2016). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-are-confident-about-retaining-control-of-the-house-1478634160 Democrats Gain Seats in House, But GOP Retains Majority]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> to win the largest amount of governorships since 1922,<ref>Lieb, David A. (November 9, 2016). [https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2016-11-09/republicans-expand-control-of-governorships-legislatures Republicans governorships rise to highest mark since 1922]. ''U.S. News & World Report''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> and to win the most state legislative chambers in history.<ref>Bosman, Julie & Davey, Monica (November 11, 2016). [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/republicans-expand-control-in-a-deeply-divided-nation.html Republicans Expand Control in a Deeply Divided Nation]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved November 14, 2016.</ref> The Democrats held a record low amount of party trifectas in the states.<ref>Greenblatt, Alan (November 9, 2016). [http://www.governing.com/topics/elections/gov-republicans-add-dominance-state-legislatures.html Republicans Add to Their Dominance of State Legislatures]. ''Governing''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref><ref>Siegel, Josh (November 9, 2016). [http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/09/republicans-maintain-strong-control-of-state-capitols-what-that-means/ Republicans Maintain Strong Control of State Capitols. Here’s What That Means.] ''The Daily Signal''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> Democrats lost 1,042 seats—including U.S. House, Senate, state governorship, and state legislative seats—during the eight years of [[Barack Obama]]'s tenure as U.S. president.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/27/democrats-lost-over-1000-seats-under-obama.html?refresh=true Democrats lost over 1,000 seats under Obama]. ''Fox News''. December 27, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016.</ref>
[[File:Sethrich-e1494948876256.jpg|left|275px|thumb|Seth Rich (1989-2016) was an IT specialist at DNC headquarters in Washington DC. His bullet-ridden body was found on a dark street two weeks before the convention that nominated Hillary Clinton.]]
The Democratic primaries were rigged against Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton, and the party was shown to be helping Clinton behind the scenes.<ref>Griffin, Andrew (November 9, 2016). [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/bernie-sanders-us-election-president-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-democrats-primary-results-a7408451.html Donald Trump won election because Democrats rigged system to have Clinton beat Bernie Sanders, says WikiLeaks]. ''The Independent''. Retrieved November 11, 2016.</ref><ref>Hoft, Jim (October 18, 2016). [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/obama-lectures-media-integrity-elections-forgets-democrats-just-rigged-primary-bernie/ Obama Lectures Trump on "Rigged" Elections — Forgets That Democrats Just Rigged Primary Against Bernie]. ''The Gateway Pundit''. Retrieved November 11, 2016.</ref> The DNC tagged the [[Jewish]] Vermont Senator in the Bible Belt as an "[[atheist]]", hoping to give her another advantage in the early Southern Democratic primaries. Hillary won the endorsement of the [[Ku Klux Klan]].<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kkk-grand-dragon-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president</ref> The DNC scheduled the Democratic primary debates during days of the week when most Americans wouldn't watch, such as Friday and Saturday nights. This was done to keep interest in the Democratic primary debates low and with Mrs. Clinton obviously having more name recognition, would have an early advantage over her lesser-known opponents. Even the leftist website [[Salon Media Group|Salon]]<ref>Demoro, Roseann (March 30, 2016). [https://www.salon.com/2016/03/30/10_ways_the_democratic_primary_has_been_rigged_from_the_start_partner/ 10 ways the Democratic primary has been rigged from the start]. ''Salon''. Retrieved November 11, 2016.</ref> and, later, [[Elizabeth Warren]]<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41850798 Elizabeth Warren agrees Democratic race 'rigged' for Clinton]. ''BBC News''. November 3, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2017.</ref> believed the primary was rigged against Sanders.

[[Donna Brazile]], the interim DNC Chair, shared Democrat town hall meeting questions with the Clinton campaign in order to help her win.<ref>Shaw, Adam (March 17, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/17/brazile-admits-forwarded-debate-questions-to-clinton-camp.html Brazile admits she forwarded town hall questions to Clinton camp]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved March 17, 2017.</ref><ref>Ernst, Douglas (March 17, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/17/donna-brazile-admits-leaking-debate-questions-to-c/ Donna Brazile admits leaking debate questions to Clinton camp: ‘A mistake I will forever regret’]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved March 17, 2017.</ref> She continued to deny this fact through February 2017<ref>Scarry, Eddie (March 17, 2017). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/donna-brazile-finally-admits-she-shared-debate-questions-with-clinton-campaign/article/2617742 Donna Brazile finally admits she shared debate questions with Clinton campaign]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved March 17, 2017.</ref> and blamed [[Russia]] for the ordeal.<ref>Hudson, Jerome (March 18, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/18/donna-brazile-admits-to-sharing-debate-questions-with-clinton-camp-blames-russia/ Donna Brazile Admits to Sharing Debate Questions With Clinton Camp, Blames Russia]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved March 18, 2017.</ref> Later, in November 2017, Brazile revealed that not only did Obama leave the DNC deeply in debt due to his 2012 re-election campaign,<ref>Boyer, Dave (November 2, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/2/brazile-says-obama-left-dnc-deep-debt-clinton-camp/ Brazile says she found DNC deep in debt from Obama, controlled by Clinton a year before nomination]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.</ref> but the Clinton campaign effectively controlled the DNC as early as 2015, and the DNC worked to keep Sanders from winning the nomination.<ref>Multiple references:
*Brazile, Donna (November 2, 2017). [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774 Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC]. ''Politico Magazine''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
*Pappas, Alex (November 2, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/02/donna-brazile-found-proof-dnc-rigged-nomination-for-hillary-clinton.html Donna Brazile: I found 'proof' the DNC rigged the nomination for Hillary Clinton]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
*Neuman, Scott (November 3, 2017). [https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/03/561768006/book-reveals-clinton-campaign-effectively-controlled-dnc-as-early-as-2015 Book Reveals Clinton Campaign Effectively Controlled DNC As Early As 2015]. ''NPR''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
*[https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Did-the-Democratic-Party-have-an-anti-Sanders-bias-513279 Did the Democratic Party Have an Anti-Sanders Bias?] ''The Jerusalem Post''. November 4, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
The incident highlighted the growing divisions in the party:
*[https://www.voanews.com/a/democrats-cry-foul-rigged-primary-election/4098967.html Democrats Cry Foul Over 'Rigged' Primary Election]. ''Voice of America''. November 3, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
*O'Reilly, Andrew (November 3, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/03/donna-brazile-allegations-highlight-mounting-schism-within-dnc.html Donna Brazile allegations highlight mounting schism within DNC]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
*Nolan, Lucas (November 3, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/03/bitter-hillary-supporters-blast-brazile/ Bitter Hillary Supporters Blast Donna Brazile, Elizabeth Warren on Twitter over Rigged Primary Revelation]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
The mainstream media avoided these revelations:
*Flood, Brian (November 3, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/03/big-three-networks-skip-donna-brazile-bombshell-that-dnc-was-rigged-for-clinton.html Big Three Networks skip Donna Brazile bombshell that DNC was rigged for Clinton]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
Brazile walked back from what she revealed soon after:
*Crookston, Paul (November 3, 2017). [https://freebeacon.com/politics/brazile-backtracks-clinton-dnc-claims-never-said-hillary-rigged-election/ Brazile Backtracks on Clinton-DNC Claims: ‘Never Said Hillary Rigged Election’]. ''The Washington Free Beacon''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.</ref>

The release of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails provided to [[Wikileaks]] by Seth Rich<ref>https://youtu.be/Kp7FkLBRpKg</ref> showed clear [[collusion]] between Clinton, [[mainstream media]] outlets, and the DNC to smear [[Bernie Sanders]]. Millennials felt betrayed by the Democratic party. DNC Chair [[Debbie Wasserman Schultz]] was forced out on the eve of the convention, less than 24 hours after dozens of emails were published showing her and her staff rigging the primary elections for Hillary Clinton.

The [[Whistleblower Statutes|whistleblower]] Seth Rich was gunned down execution-style in early July 2016, two weeks before the convention. Wikileaks founder [[Julian Assange]] offered $20,000 cash reward for the arrest and conviction of Seth Rich's killers or killer. Hillary Clinton said of Assange, "Can't we just drone this guy?"<ref>http://truepundit.com/under-intense-pressure-to-silence-wikileaks-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-proposed-drone-strike-on-julian-assange/</ref> In October WikiLeaks released a transcript of Hillary's private paid speech to [[Goldman Sachs]]. To silence Assange, Wikileaks internet access was cut within the [[Ecuador]] embassy, where he was granted asylum. Wikileaks Director, Prof. Gavin Macfayden, was found dead the following week. Macfayden's death was the third of a close associate of Assange in 6 months.<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/790004642038050816/photo/1</ref>


''[[USA Today]]'' reported a [[The indictment of 12 Russian nationals, 13 July 2018#Use of Organization 1|37-page indictment]] from special counsel [[Mueller office|Robert Mueller's investigation]] shows that Russians worked to boost the campaign of [[Bernie Sanders]] to damage [[Hillary Clinton]]. Mueller's indictment reads the Russians “engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders."<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/17/indictment-russians-also-tried-help-bernie-sanders-jill-stein-presidential-campaigns/348051002/</ref>

Sanders hired [[Paul Manafort]] partner Tad Devine of Devine Mulvey Longabaug as his chief strategist.<ref>http://dmlmessage.com/about/</ref> Devine and Manafort worked for the election of [[Putin]] [[crony]] [[Victor Yanukovich]] as President of the [[Ukraine]] in 2010.<ref>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/bernie-sanders-strategist-tad-devine-paul-manafort-files-mueller</ref> In February 2019 Sanders entered the [[2020 presidential election]] and re-hired Devine's company, of which Devine is president.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-hires-top-civil-liberties-advocate-faiz-shakir-as-campaign-manager</ref>

Sanders reminisced about his drunken honeymoon to ''[[Time magazine]]'' in his beloved [[USSR|Soviet Russia]]: {{quotebox|"on our honeymoon, I took Jane to [[Russia]], back when it was still known as the Soviet Union. Russia was an incredible place back then, before the billionaires ruined everything. Who needs 30 different types of deodorant anyway? In the glory days of the [[Soviet Union]], there was one brand, it was called “Deodorant,” and you had to wait four hours in line for it. By the time you got your hands on one, you were sweating so badly, not even the greediest billionaire’s fanciest deodorant could mask the stench. Or as I call it: The sweet smell of [[equality]]!"<ref>https://www.trumprussiaconspiracy.com/2019/01/29/bernie-sanders-and-wife-on-their-honeymoon-in-russia-singing-this-land-is-your-land-with-their-russian-comrades/</ref><ref>https://medium.com/the-haven/bernie-sanders-reminisces-about-honeymoon-in-soviet-union-bcbe3537e06c</ref>}} Vladimir Putin commented on the glory days of the Soviet Union:
{{quotebox-float|"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."}}

====Guantanamo Bay====
:{{See also|Guantanamo Bay}}
For all it's moralizing, when the Democratic party enjoyed a veto-proof Congress and the occupied the White House, they refused to override a Presidential declaration of a national emergency, cut off funding and shut down the alleged [[human rights]] abuses occurring at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Suddenly the issue became "too complex," after years of demagoguery.

===115th Congress===
:{{See also|115th United States Congress|Left-wing violence in the Trump era|Kavanaugh hearings insurrection}}

====Democrat IT scandal====
:{{Main article|Democrat IT scandal}}
On February 2, 2017 ''Politico'' reported 5 House IT staffers, including 3 brothers later identified as Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan, were relieved of access to House computers and had been under criminal investigation since late 2016.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-staffers-investigation-equipment-234586</ref> The brothers managed office information technology for Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee handling matters on war and [[terrorism]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/exclusive-house-intelligence-it-staffers-fired-in-computer-security-probe/#ixzz4b5enE6c9</ref> Imran Awan worked for ex-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz,<ref>https://observer.com/2017/02/imran-awan-democrat-debbie-wasserman-schultz-criminal-investigation/</ref> had access to her iPad and password,<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/09/suspect-in-house-it-security-probe-also-had-access-to-dnc-emails/n</ref> took $100,000 in cash from an [[Iraq]]i company,<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/20/exclusive-house-dem-it-guys-in-security-probe-secretly-took-100k-in-iraqi-money/</ref> and was a suspect in the [[leak]]ing of DNC emails to Wikileaks. Despite verbose allegations of "Russian hacking," the DNC never allowed the FBI to examine its servers to determine if indeed the DNC had been hacked, or did the leaks come from an inside source.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/09/suspect-in-house-it-security-probe-also-had-access-to-dnc-emails/</ref> The suspects may have been involved in a leak of information that lead to the ambush and death of Navy SEAL William Ryan Owen.<ref>http://www.americanow.com/story/society/2017/02/06/muslim-spy-ring-linked-navy-seals-death</ref> Furthermore, because the suspects were [[Muslim]],<ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-01/house-democrats-delayed-dismissal-it-staff-hackers-because-they-were-muslim-american</ref> their activities were covered up and they were not fired until after the death of Owen. Even then, they were initially relieved of duties without their names being released, two weeks later fired,<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-staff-criminal-investigation-234714</ref> and three weeks after that in a series of press leaks identified as prime suspects in what the media called the "Russian hacking" scandal.

On May 18, 2017, Wasserman Schultz threatened the Capital police chief for impounding evidence in the [[Awan investigation]]. The Awan brothers were former IT specialists working for Wasserman Schultz with access to DNC data, and for House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/05/24/wasserman-schultz-threatened-police-chief-for-gathering-evidence-on-her-it-staffers-alleged-crimes/</ref>

On May 24, 2017, federal prosecutor Beranton J. Whisenant Jr. was found murdered in Florida with a bullet in his head.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/beranton-whisenant-jr-federal-prosecutor-found-dead-on-florida-beach/</ref><ref>http://www.wptv.com/news/state/federal-prosecutor-beranton-j-whisenant-jr-found-dead-on-hollywood-florida-beach</ref><ref>http://yournewswire.com/voter-fraud-investigator-murdered/</ref><ref>https://steemit.com/chainbb-general/@stevescoins/additional-information-possibly-connected-to-the-whisenant-murder</ref> Curiously, the local police handled the investigation. Ordinarily, in the murder of a federal official, the FBI should investigate.<ref>http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article152629589.html</ref> Whisenant's body was found on a beach in the home congressional district that Wasserman Schultz represents in Congress.

===116th Congress===
[[File:Dnc-tweet-july-4th-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The Official Twitter account of the [[Democrat Party]] made a post alleging that a [[4th of July]] celebration was "[[white supremacy]]".<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/29/rubicon-crossed-dnc-official-2020-position-celebrating-july-4th-equals-white-supremacy/</ref>]]
:{{See also|116th United States Congress}}
====U.S. Color Revolution====
{{See also|U.S. Color Revolution}}

===Biden putsch===
:{{See also|Democrat election fraud|Biden Putsch}}
At 2:30 AM EDT of the 4th of November 2020, TV broadcasts reported that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada and Georgia decided to cease vote counting operations and would continue the following day. This unanimous decision to initially and intentionally stop counting by all five battleground states was unprecedented, and it demonstrates prior coordination by election officials for time to assess how many ballots were needed to manufacture and stuff the ballot box in battleground states.

====Biden junta====

:{{See also|Sedition|}}
As of November 2020 [[Peter Neffenger]] was chairman of the [[corrupt]] [[voter fraud|ballot-stuffing]] and [[election fraud|election-rigging]] [[Dominion Voting Systems#Smartmatic|SmartMatic]] corporation.<ref>https://www.smartmatic.com/us/about/board-of-directors/detail/peter-neffenger/</ref> Neffenger was appointed to the [[Biden junta]] organizational team.<ref>https://www.air.tv/watch?v=ir00pXx9QsKbvSdjsCy3nQ</ref>

Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia,<ref>https://cybersummitusa.com/2017/06/navid-nia/</ref> with 35 years experience performing technical assessment, mathematical modeling, cyber-attack pattern analysis, and
security [[counterintelligence]] linked to foreign intelligence service operators, including [[China]], [[Iran]], [[North Korea]], and [[Russia]] and who has worked as a consultant and subject-matter expert supporting the [[Department of Defense]], [[FBI]] and US [[Intelligence Community]] (USIC) agencies such as the [[DIA]], [[CIA]], [[NSA]], NGA [National Geospatial Agency], and the [[DHS]] I&A [Office of Intelligence and Analysis] supporting counterintelligence, and [[law enforcement]] investigations and whom the ''[[New York Times]]'' describes as the "always the smartest person in the room,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/sunday/garrison-courtney-spies-contracts.html</ref> testified under oath Smartmatic and its role in the [[2020 Presidential election]] thusly:
{{quotebox-float|"In my expert opinion, the DVS [ [[Dominion Voting Systems]] ] Democracy Suite, [[Scytl]]/SOE Software/eClarity and Smartmatic have not produced auditable results in the 2020 election. It is evident that ballots were not properly validated, system records were not kept, and the system experience considerable instability even several days prior to November 4, 2020 that require DVS to implement software changes at the last minute. In addition, the disparity in data distribution after 4:30 AM on November 4, 2020 indicates significant systemic anomalies that were widespread among all battleground states. The evidence is both extensive and persuasive and indicates large-scale [[fraud]] by remote operators.

"I conclude that a combination of lost cryptographic key contained on stolen USB memory cards, serious exploitable system and [[software]] vulnerabilities and operating system backdoor in DVS, Scytl, SOE Software/eClarity and Smartmatic created the perfect environment to commit widespread fraud in all states where these systems are installed. My analysis of the 2020 Election from ''NY Times'' data shows statistical anomalies across the battleground state votes. These failures are widespread and systemic - and sufficient to invalidate the [[vote]] counts.

"I conclude with high confidence that the election 2020 data were altered in all [[swing states|battleground states]] resulting in a hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for [[President Trump]] to be transferred to [[Vice President Biden]]. These alterations were the result of systemic and widespread exploitable vulnerabilities in DVS, Scytl/SOE Software and Smartmatic systems that enabled operators to achieve
the desired results. In my view, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible."<ref>https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.1.19.pdf</ref>}}

====Foreign collusion====
On September 12, 2018, by President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 13848 entitled, “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.”<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/</ref> In that executive order President Trump declared a national emergency and the 2020 presidential election was conducted under this state of emergency. The order states that people and organizations located, in part, outside the [[United States]] are known to be able to, {{quotebox|“interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of [[election]] and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of [[propaganda]] and [[disinformation]].” The EO further states that this foreign interference in U.S. elections, “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the [[national security]] and [[foreign policy]] of the United States.”}}
Di Dongsheng, a vice-dean at the School of International Relations at Renmin University in Beijing, made public statements before a large audience on November 28, 2020:
{{Quotebox-float|"We know that the Trump administration is in a trade war with us, so why can’t we fix the Trump administration? Why did China and the US used to be able to settle all kinds of issues between 1992 and 2016?" he asked. "I’m going to throw out something maybe a little bit explosive here. It’s just because we have people at the top. We have our old friends who are at the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence."

"During the US-China trade war, [[Wall Street]] tried to help, and I know that my friends on the US side told me that they tried to help, but they couldn’t do much. But now we’re seeing Biden was elected, the traditional elite, the political elite, the establishment, they’re very close to Wall Street, so you see that, right?"

"Trump has been saying that Biden’s son has some sort of global foundation. Have you noticed that? Who helped [Hunter] build the foundations? Got it? There are a lot of deals inside all these."<ref>[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/12/08/top_chinese_intellectual_boasts_about_old_friends_who_are_at_the_top_of_americas_core_inner_circle_of_power_and_influence.html#! Chinese Scholar Boasts About "Old Friends At The Top Of America's Core Inner Circle Of Power And Influence"], December 8, 2020. realclearpoitics.com</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/lyQUtPEBBSA</ref><ref>https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-tucker-carlson-exposes-how-media-democrats-have-been-working-on-behalf-of-china/</ref>}}

==Symbols==
[[Image:HammerAndSickle.png|right|100px|thumb|Displaying the hammer and sickle is illegal in some parts of the world because of its [[genocidal]] history.]]
The most common symbol for the party is the donkey, although the party itself never officially adopted this symbol.<ref>[http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/06/history_of_the.php History of the Democratic Donkey].</ref> Some historians suggest the jackass was born 1828 when Jackson was sometimes called a jackass by his opponents as a play on his name. A political cartoon depicting Jackson riding and directing a donkey (representing the Democratic Party) was published in 1837. A political cartoon by [[Thomas Nast]] in 1870 revived the donkey as a symbol for the Democratic Party. Cartoonists ever since have followed Nast and used the donkey to represent the Democrats, and the elephant to represent the Republicans.

In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in many states was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican eagle.

There is no official color, but since election night 2000 blue has become the identification color of the Democratic Party for maps, while the red has become the color of the Republicans. Increasingly blue is used by Democrats for promotions (e.g. BuyBlue, BlueFund) and by the party itself, which in 2006 unveiled the "Red to Blue Program" to support Democratic candidates running against Republican incumbents in the 2006 midterm election.

The song ''Happy Days Are Here Again'' is the unofficial song of the Democratic Party. It was used prominently when Roosevelt was nominated for president at the 1932 Democratic National Convention and remains a sentimental favorite for Democrats today. During the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] era, the Fleetwood Mac song "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" became a popular song at Democratic events, reflecting the growing prominence of Baby Boomers in the party.

Some critics refer to the group disparagingly as the [[Democrat Party]].
==Misinformation==
The Democratic Party official website claims that it has "led the fight for civil rights, health care, Social Security, workers’ rights, and women's rights" for over 200 years.<ref>https://democrats.org/who-we-are/our-history/</ref> Not only were all three Reconstruction Amendments approved and ratified during a time when both houses of Congress were Republican-majority,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38th_United_States_Congress</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_United_States_Congress</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_United_States_Congress</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_United_States_Congress</ref> as well as the Nineteenth (giving women the right to vote),<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/66th_United_States_Congress</ref> but the Democratic Party was founded in 1828, making their website's statement incorrect until January 8, 2028.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)</ref>

==Democratic Presidents==
* [[Andrew Jackson]] (1829–1837)
* [[Martin Van Buren]] (1837–1841)
* [[James K. Polk]] (1845–1849)
* [[Franklin Pierce]] (1853–1857)
* [[James Buchanan]] (1857–1861)
* [[Grover Cleveland]] (1885–1889, 1893–1897)
* [[Woodrow Wilson]] (1913–1921)
* [[Franklin Roosevelt]] (1933–1945)
* [[Harry S Truman]] (1945–1953)
* [[John F. Kennedy]] (1961–1963)
* [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (1963–1969)
* [[Jimmy Carter]] (1977–1981)
* [[Bill Clinton]] (1993–2001)
* [[Barack Obama]] (2009–2017)
* [[Joe Biden]] (2021–present) (disputed)

==See also==
*[[Racism and the Democratic Party]]
*[[Fifth Column]]
*[[Election shenanigans]]
*[[List of political parties in the United States]]
*[[Clinton Foundation conflicts of interest]]
*[[Ukrainian collusion timeline]]
*[[Democratic party (disambiguation)]]
*[[Previous Breaking News/Democrats|Articles about '''Democrats''' from previous "Breaking News"]]
*[[Democrats (Brazil)]]
*[[Essay:History of racism and the Democrats]]

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*Sabato, Larry J. ed. ''The Sixth Year Itch: The Rise and Fall of the George W. Bush Presidency'' (1907), in-depth essays by scholars on key states in 2006
* Sabato, Larry J., and Howard R. Ernst, eds. ''Political Parties and Elections'' (2007), 540pp; an encyclopedia with 450 entries by scholars; focus is 1945 to present
* Sabato, Larry J. and Bruce Larson. ''The Party's Just Begun: Shaping Political Parties for America's Future'' (2001) textbook.
* Shafer, Byron E. and Anthony J. Badger, eds. ''Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000'' (2001), long essays by specialists on each time period
* Shafer, Byron and Richard Johnston. ''The End of Southern Exceptionalism'' (2006), uses statistical election data & polls to argue GOP growth was primarily a response to economic change
===Historical===
* ''American National Biography'' (20 volumes, 1999) covers all politicians no longer alive; online and paper copies at many academic libraries.
* Jensen, Richard. ''Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters, 1854-1983'' (1983) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/grass-roots-politics-parties-issues-and-voters-1854-1983-by-christopher-c-gibbs-richard-j-jensen-steven-l-piott.jsp online edition]; survey by conservative scholar, with primary sources
* Kennedy, David M. ''Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945'' (2001), synthesis by leading scholar; Pulitzer prize [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=52284041 online edition]
* Kleppner, Paul et al. ''The Evolution of American Electoral Systems'' (1983), essays by scholars (some of them conservatives), 1790s to 1980s.
* Kleppner, Paul. ''The Third Electoral System 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures'' (1979), analysis of voting behavior, with emphasis on region, ethnicity, religion and class. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=24451028 online edition]
* Ling, Peter J. ''The Democratic Party: A Photographic History'' (2003).
* Patterson, James T. ''Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974'' (1997) synthesis by leading scholar. [https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Expectations-United-1945-1974-History/dp/0195117972/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211911625&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Patterson, James T. ''Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore'' (2005) synthesis by leading scholar. [https://www.amazon.com/Restless-Giant-United-Watergate-History/dp/0195305221/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211911625&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Ritchie, Donald A. ''Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932'' (2007) [https://www.amazon.com/Electing-FDR-Campaign-Presidential-Elections/dp/0700615504/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195784762&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Rutland, Robert Allen. ''The Democrats: From Jefferson to Clinton'' (1995).
* Shafer, Byron E. and Anthony J. Badger, eds. ''Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000'' (2001), most recent collection of new essays by specialists on each time period:
**includes: "State Development in the Early Republic: 1775–1840" by Ronald P. Formisano; "The Nationalization and Racialization of American Politics: 1790–1840" by David Waldstreicher; "'To One or Another of These Parties Every Man Belongs;": 1820–1865 by Joel H. Silbey; "Change and Continuity in the Party Period: 1835–1885" by Michael F. Holt; "The Transformation of American Politics: 1865–1910" by Peter H. Argersinger; "Democracy, Republicanism, and Efficiency: 1885–1930" by Richard Jensen; "The Limits of Federal Power and Social Policy: 1910–1955" by Anthony J. Badger; "The Rise of Rights and Rights Consciousness: 1930–1980" by James T. Patterson, Brown University; and "Economic Growth, Issue Evolution, and Divided Government: 1955–2000" by Byron E. Shafer
* Schlisinger, Galbraith. ''Of the People: The 200 Year History of the Democratic Party'' (1992)
* Sundquist, James L. ''Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States'', (1983) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=29223022 online edition]
* Wilentz, Sean. ''The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln'' (2005), detailed synthesis by a leading liberal scholar. [https://www.amazon.com/Rise-American-Democracy-Jefferson-Lincoln/dp/0393058204/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195784940&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Witcover, Jules. ''Party of the People: A History of the Democrats'' (2003)
* Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr. ed. ''History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2000'' (various multivolume editions, latest is 2001). For each election includes a short history by a leading scholar and a selection of primary documents.

==References==
{{Reflist|colwidth=35em}}

==External links==
*[http://www.democrats.org/ Democratic Party Official Site]
*[https://youtu.be/ou2SAbSqyHg We Are Democrats]
*[https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialistvoice/democrats20.html Democratic Party: Disaster for Blacks], by Sy Landy, ''Socialist Voice No. 20 (Winter 1984)''.
*[http://www.demconvention.com/assets/downloads/2008-Democratic-Platform-final.pdf 2008 Democratic Platform (pdf download)]
*[https://www.mintpressnews.com/beyond-the-dnc-leaks-hacks-and-treason/247674/ George Eliason: Beyond the DNC - Leaks, Hacks, and Treason], August 14, 2018.
*[http://bertschlossberg.blogspot.com/2012/11/lawrence-patton-mcdonald-b_15.html A Forgotten Man: Congressman Larry McDonald]
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Democratic Party

2022-08-15T04:17:06Z

Theocon: The previous description was way too over-the-top, I made a more brief list. Feel free to re-edit it, though.

{{AmericanPoliticalParty
| party_name=Democratic Party
| party_articletitle = Democratic Party (United States)
| party_logo = [[Image:democraticpartyusalogo.png|200px]]
| website = [http://www.democrats.org www.democrats.org]
| headquarters = 430 South Capitol Street SE (next to the [[Murder of Seth Rich|Seth Rich bike rack]])<ref>[https://www.swpm.us/crowd-chants-justice-seth-rich-outside-dnc/ CROWD CHANTS ‘JUSTICE FOR SETH RICH!’ OUTSIDE DNC], By Alicia Powe and Chelsea Schilling, ''The Front Line'', July 11, 2017.</ref> [[Washington, D.C.]] 20003
| chairman = [[Jaime Harrison]]
| houseleader = [[Nancy Pelosi]]
| senateleader = [[Chuck Schumer]]
| foundation = 1828
| ideology = [[Liberalism|State Liberalism]] [[Cultural Marxism]] Pink Fascism [[Fake News|Mediocracy]] White Guilt [[Feminism]] ([[Misandry]]) [[Homosexual Agenda]] [[Statism]] Historically: [[White Supremacy]] [[Segregation|Racial Segregation]] [[New Deal]]
| fiscalpolicy = [[Inflation]]ary
| socialpolicy = [[Lawless]]
| international =
| colors = Blue (unofficial) formerly Red prior to the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]]
| footnotes =
}}
<center>''This article is about the Democratic Party of the United States. For parties named "Democratic Party" in other countries, see [[Democratic party (disambiguation)]]. For the grammatically-correct name of the party, see [[Democrat Party]]''</center>
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The '''Democratic Party'''<ref>This is the official name of the party.[https://www.democrats.org/about/our-party/party-organization]. Some refer to it as the Democrat party, implying the party is not democratic. The term is said to grate on Democrats' ears.</ref> ('''D''') is a [[leftwing]] [[fascist]] [[totalitarian]] organization and one of two major political [[parties]] in the [[United States of America]].<ref>Multiple sources: [https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/the-democratic-party-has-officially-gone-full-fascist-op-ed The Democratic Party Has Officially Gone Full Fascist], By Seth Connell, ''The Federalist Papers'', June 29, 2016. [https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/02/left-wing_totalitarianism_in_america.html Left-wing Totalitarianism in America], By Richard Winchester, ''American Thinker'', February 17, 2014. [https://archive.is/nOTAl Democrats open door to Marxist totalitarian rule through attacks on police, history and institutions], By Andy Biggs, ''Washington Times'', June 23, 2020.</ref> The Democratic party seeks to outlaw and smash any political opposition.<ref>[https://archive.is/wip/Bzvtb A vote for Biden is a vote for a one-party state], ''The Washington Post'', Op-Ed by Marc Theissen, September 23, 2020.</ref> Slavery, segregation, and controlling minorities remain one of its founding principles, which the GOP was founded to oppose.<ref> Since its formation, Democrats have held the position that some lives are disposable. The party was, therefore against the abolition of slavery. The same view supports abortion as they view the unborn baby as disposable. https://www.coursehero.com/file/p5gmsch/Core-principles-The-opposing-party-to-the-Democrats-party-is-the-republicans/ The rights and dignity of the individual remain the core principal of the Republican party, be it opposition to slavery, abortion, big government, or high taxes.</ref> The party claims as part of its legacy of the [[Jim Crow]] era a long history of [[Democrat election fraud]],<ref>https://theredelephants.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/try.mp4?_=2</ref> election tampering, [[voter suppression]], and ballot box stuffing at the polls that continues to this very day.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/09/from-hanging-chads-to-ballot-creep-democrats-are-perfecting-post-election-heists/</ref> It was founded in 1828 by [[Andrew Jackson]] and [[Martin Van Buren]], and its governing body is called the "'''Democratic National Committee'''" ('''DNC'''). The party is currently controlled by international [[globalism|globalist]]s whose principle aim is the overthrow of American [[democracy]] and free elections and the destruction of America as a [[republic]], a [[constitutional republic]].<ref>[Collapse Of American Democracy Is Packaged As Its Triumph], ''Oriental Review'', 14/11/2020.</ref>

A core tenet of the Democratic party is opposition to the principle of "one person, one vote", be it the original insistence on a [[Three-Fifths Compromise|3/5's rule]] for minorities among its early promulgators or fractional vote rigging in the [[2020 Presidential election]].<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436 'Online and vulnerable': Experts find nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems connected to internet], By Kevin Monahan, Cynthia McFadden and Didi Martinez, [[NBC News]], JAN. 10, 2020.</ref> As [[Candace Owens]] pointed out, [[illiteracy]] was used to control slaves and illiteracy among black males in many Blue state [[public school]] systems today is as high as 75%. In the 2020 presidential primaries, Democrats fielded a black man, a black woman, Hispanic-American, a [[Samoa]]n, a fake [[Native American]], the first openly [[gay]] candidate, a male socialist and a female socialist, and settled on an a mentally incompetent corrupt old rich white guy to represent their party. An August 2021 poll of registered Democrats showed 59% supported [[communism]].<ref>https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/majority-registered-democratic-voters-prefer-socialism-to-capitalism-fox-news-poll</ref> Communism has murdered at least 100 million people in the past 100 years.<ref>https://www.hudson.org/research/13994-100-years-of-communism-and-100-million-dead</ref>

In late 2021, a small group of traditional Democrats, some of whom still believed in [[God]], [[Western civilization]], [[America]], legal regulated immigration, capitalism, a two-party system and other traditional American values attempted to separate themselves from the [[insanity]] and [[crime|criminality]] gripping the Democratic party and its leadership by organizing themselves under the rebranded name of "Normal Democrats."<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/moderate-democrats-rebrand-normal-012159375.html</ref>

In January 2022, well in advance of the [[2022 midterm elections]], socialist leader Joe Biden proclaimed that failure of the Democrats to win the [[2022 midterms]] would make the elections illegitimate.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/biden-midterm-election-voter-rights-legitimate/index.html</ref>

On May 13, 2022 Democrat Congressional leader [[Steny Hoyer]] announced on the floor of the House of Representatives, "We're at war" without informing the American people or having a congressional vote.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA6PXKYis2U</ref> The Democrats doubled the size of the [[IRS]], hiring armed agents willing to use deadly force.

==117th Congress==
{{cquote|When people who spent four years role-playing as "the Resistance" against a "stolen election" suddenly start telling us dissent and resistance are treason that will be punished without mercy, we know exactly what's going on. It's a grim story repeated throughout human history..|||John Hayward, ''[[Breitbart News]]''<ref>https://www.bookwormroom.com/2021/07/28/john-hayward-says-what-needs-to-be-said-about-the-jan-6-show-trial/</ref>}}
:{{See also|117th United States Congress}}
As the 117th Congress was sworn in, one thing was certain and obvious to the American people: the Democratic party no longer had any regard or respect for [[democracy]] and the [[human rights]] of other people. The Democratic party organization, from poll workers, to members of the [[civil service system]], to elected officials, had rejected the fundamental tenets of a [[two-party system]] and embraced full-fledged [[single party control|single party]] [[communism]] and [[totalitarianism]], including rigged elections, [[censorship]], lack of [[due process]] rights, a rejection of the right of free association, a perverted [[law enforcement]] and [[judicial]] system, wholesale domestic spying, a [[globalism|globalized]] and [[collectivist]] [[planned economy]], a rejection of [[God]] and [[religion]], and an attack on the rights of armed citizens to defend themselves.

Political scientist LaShonda Brenson, who tracks diversity on Capitol Hill, said only 14 percent of high-ranking positions in House members’ offices were held by people of color in 2018. According to ''Roll Call'' magazine, Brenson said there are reasons to hope. "This year’s crop of new lawmakers, who are mostly Republicans, have so far filled 23 percent of their top staff positions with people of color."<ref>https://www.rollcall.com/2021/02/25/where-am-i-black-staffers-describe-capitol-hill/</ref>

Democrats shot down a bill to prohibit U.S. corporations from using [[forced labor|slave labor]] in the [[Peoples Republic of China]].<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/18/217-house-democrats-torpedo-bill-prohibiting-corporate-cooperation-with-chinese-slave-labor/</ref> Apple and [[Nike Inc]] increased their donations to Democrats by more than 400% to fight the Republican introduced Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act barring imports of products from Chinese slave labor.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/30/apple-nike-coca-cola-lobby-to-preserve-slavery-of-uighurs-by-communist-china/</ref> Rep. [[Eric Swalwell]], who sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence with access to the nations top secrets, was reported as having a close relationship with Christine Fang, a Chinese spy. Fang compromised several Democrat politicians, including Swalwell, for whom she assisted in fundraising.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/china-suspected-spy-slept-with-mayors-yearslong-intelligence-campaign-axios-2020-12</ref> Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to remove Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee.<ref>https://dailyjournalonline.com/opinion/columnists/the-democrats-eric-swalwell-problem/article_d11d7172-35b0-5d7f-a4d5-466101da76b6.html</ref>

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest lobbying group in the United States, said that the socialist Democrat Party 2022 budget reconciliation bill “poses an existential threat to the US economy”.<ref>https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/democrats-reconciliation-bill-threaten-us-economy-chamber-of-commerce</ref>

Democrat supreme leader Joe Biden, who boasted of having once placed a dead dog on the doorstep of someone "not of the same political persuasion as me,"<ref>https://youtu.be/PWy7ZrJRobs</ref> has been fully compromised by the Chinese communist government.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/27/biden-family-whistleblower-joe-biden-is-compromised-by-communist-china/</ref>

===Pro-inflation===
The party is pro-inflation and advocates printing money, massive government spending, and adding to the national debt supposedly as a means to prosperity. Additionally, the party advocates regulation to discourage production, job creation, and distribution of goods and services. The party advocates taxation and seizure of wealth as a means to increase the livelihood and wellbeing of bureaucrats while disenfranchising the poor and increasing the number of homeless and destitute.

[[Inflation]] destroys hope, economic opportunity, and the physical and spiritual wellbeing of people in poverty more than any other group.

===Racist vaccine mandate===
African Americans were the group with the highest number of unvaccinated people against the [[CCP virus]].<ref>https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-by-race-ethnicity/</ref> In September 2021 Joe Biden issued a [[Biden's vaccine mandate|covid vaccine mandate]] which would require anyone refusing the vaccine to be fired from their job.<ref>https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/09/major-companies-demand-biden-clarify-covid-vaccine-mandate/</ref> Black Lives Matter called the vaccine mandate racist.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-blm-leader-promises-national-uprising-over-racist-vaccine-mandates-similar</ref> Blacks historically have been targeted by Democrat administrations for medical experiments.<ref>https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2020/11/04/americas-forgotten-history-of-forced-sterilization/</ref>

Democrats killed The COVID-19 Origin Act.

===Defund the Police===
:{{See also|Defund the Police}}

Raheem Kassam and Gatewaypundit exposed [[Black Lives Matter]] as a [[money laundering]] scheme for the Democratic National Committee.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/exclusive-donations-including-international-funding-blacklivesmatter-com-go-directly-dnc-money-laundering/</ref> On the BLM homepage, which features a “[[Defund The Police]]” petition front and center, if a user chooses to donate, they’re rerouted to a site hosted by [[ActBlue]], the DNC's official payment portal.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=C00401224&cycle=2020</ref> ActBlue claims to be tax exempt organization and all donations to it are tax-deductable. The terms and conditions also link to ActBlue and mention “Campaign Finance Laws”.<ref>https://secure.actblue.com/content/fineprint</ref> [[Joe Biden]] is a top beneficiary of the ActBlue’s fundraising efforts.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/biden-black-lives-matter-defund-the-police/</ref>
ActBlue contributions comprise 99.64 percent of all funds raised for the “[[Biden for President]]” entity and the total is nearly 773 times greater than the group with the second-highest donation sum. As of May 21, 2020, the organization has donated $119,253,857 to the “Biden for President” effort.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=c00401224&cycle=2020</ref>

A one year old Black toddler was murdered while sitting in a stroller in the [[BLM]] violence.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/13/go-to-hell-gardner-family-slain-toddler-tells-killers/</ref> The Democrat-controlled Minneapolis City Council told [[citizen]]s to be ready to give up wallets and cell phones to [[criminal]]s.<ref>https://twitter.com/KyleHooten2/status/1289590875119661062</ref>

The [[murder|homicide]] rate escalated in Democrat-run cities between 33% and over 200% after the June 2020 Democrat-sponsored [[Defund the Police]] movement.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/homicide-spike-cities-chicago-newyork-detroit-us-crime-police-lockdown-coronavirus-protests-11596395181</ref> [[Nashville]] reported the biggest bump, a 233% increase. [[Baltimore]]; [[Denver]]; [[Detroit]]; New Rochelle, New York; Charleston, South Carolina; Newark, New Jersey; and Prince George's County, Maryland all had huge increases. [[New York City]] reported a 67% increase. In [[Houston]], homicides rose 68% over 2019. For the month of May alone, they've shot up 150%. [[Cincinnati]] is up 115%, [[Milwaukee]] 103%, and [[Louisville]], Kentucky 63%. In [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], where the murder rate has risen 23% since last year, more people have died from gun violence than COVID-19.<ref>https://www.insider.com/murder-rates-are-rising-in-cities-across-america-2020-5</ref>

A [[Gallup Poll]] found 81% of African Americans want more policing in their neighborhoods, not less.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gallup-poll-81-of-black-people-want-police-to-stay-in-their-neighborhoods</ref> Other polls found only 47% of Black Americans under 30 years plan to vote for Biden, 46% have anything positive to say about Joe Biden, 44% trust Democrats in Congress to do what's right for the Black community while a rising 28% trust Republicans in Congress to do what's right for the Black community.<ref>https://theconversation.com/young-black-americans-not-sold-on-biden-the-democrats-or-voting-143884</ref>

===Impeachment sham 2.0===

House Democrats in the 117th Congress tampered with evidence to bring a second sham impeachment charge against President Donald Trump.<ref>https://ifapray.org/blog/tampering-with-evidence-is-a-crime-even-in-the-senate/</ref><ref>https://clarion.causeaction.com/2021/02/11/democrats-sham-impeachment-evidence-contains-footage-by-communist-antifa-agitator-john-earle-sullivan/</ref> Chief Justice [[John Roberts]] refused to preside over what was obviously an illegal and unconstitutional abuse of power.<ref>https://www.wjr.com/news/cancel-the-unconstitutional-show-trial-against-president-trump/</ref> Democrats refused to allow the [[subpoena]] of Speaker Pelosi to testify as a witness under oath in the impeachment trial about her role in the pre-planned attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/ex-capitol-police-chief-says-pelosi-mcconnells-sergeants-at-arms-refused-security-measures-while-new-timeline-proves-trump-incitement-claims-bogus/</ref>

[[New Jersey]] Rep. [[Jeff Van Drew]] quit the party rather than vote in its second bogus impeachment sham. After voting to object to electoral certification, a [[mainstream media]] journalist with the ''Ocean City Sentinel'' left a voice mail on Van Drew's home phone:
{{quotebox-float|“As a member of the New Jersey Press Association, I will do everything in my power to ensure that you are deposed, if not dead. Anything that I can do to basically get you out of office, I will do. You are a traitor, Jeff Van Drew, and you deserve the fate of all traitors."<ref>https://therightscoop.com/wow-lib-member-of-press-leaves-death-threat-for-rep-who-switched-from-d-to-r-oh-and-published-threats-as-opeds/</ref>}}
The [[ACLU]] argued that the Democrats' new Domestic Terrorism bill to target their enemies will harm minority communities.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/02/24/new-domestic-terror-laws-will-harm-minority-communities-aclu-says-1034122/</ref> H.R. 1 and S. 1 effectively ended voter registration.<ref>https://www.dickmorris.com/hr1-effectively-ends-voter-registration-lunch-alert/</ref> That, coupled with the executive order raising the migrant refugee ceiling by 730% in the midst of the COVID pandemic effectively put an end to free and fair elections.<ref>https://twitter.com/FAIRImmigration/status/1363126347573379073</ref>

====Racist origins of sham impeachment====
The only precedent for the second [[impeachment]] of [[President Donald J. Trump]] was that of William W. Belknap, President [[Ulysses S. Grant]]’s Secretary of War during [[Reconstruction]], who was tried and acquitted by the [[U.S. Senate]] after resigning from office. An investigation into the War Department was launched. Under Belknap the [[U.S. Army]] was used in combination with the [[Justice Department]] to prosecute the [[Ku Klux Klan]], a policy opposed by most [[Democrat]]s.<ref>https://brewminate.com/the-life-of-william-w-belknap-impeached-post-resignation-in-1876/</ref> Senate Democrat Majority leader [[Chuck Schumer]] said, “The Senate convened a trial, and voted, as a chamber, that Mr. Belknap could be tried ‘for acts done as Secretary of War, notwithstanding his resignation of said office.’ The language is crystal clear, without any ambiguity,” quoting a resolution by Senator [[Allen G. Thurman]], who opposed President [[Abraham Lincoln]]’s [[Emancipation Proclamation]] and campaigned against allowing black people to vote.<ref>[https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/sultan-knish/the-racist-origins-of-president-trumps-impeachment/2021/02/22/ The Racist Origins of President Trump’s Impeachment], By Daniel Greenfield - 10 Adar 5781 – February 22, 2021. www.jewishpress.com</ref>

===DCCC===
According to ''[[Breitbart News]]:''
{{quotebox-float|The [[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]] (DCCC) tapped Dyjuan Tatro, the former “triggerman” for Albany’s Original Gangsta Killers, or OGK, street gang to help lead efforts in protecting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) slim majority in the House.

The DCCC, led by chairman [[Sean Patrick Maloney]] (D-NY), hired Tatro, a former New York [[gangbanger|gang member]], to serve as a senior adviser for “diversity and inclusion.” He served time for “shooting two rival gang members in 2006” and was also convicted in 2011, serving six years for racketeering [[conspiracy]], according to the ''[[New York Post]]''.

According to the outlet, Tatro “confessed to the shootings, and to a ‘razor slashing’ of another victim in 2002 as well as to dealing drugs,” making around $12,000 per month doing so.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/15/democrats-hire-ex-gang-member-to-lead-efforts-in-protecting-slim-house-majority</ref>}}
===Nursing home extermination campaign===
Not only were [[covid lockdown]]s an abuse of power, they also failed to protect the elderly.<ref>https://youtu.be/Wab_E1FTHJM</ref>

Gov. [[Andrew Cuomo]] of New York mandated that longterm nursing home facilities accept Covid 19-positive patients. Despite the [[scientific]] evidence, Cuomo issued the decree anyway.<ref>https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Cuomo-defends-nursing-home-policies-as-long-term-15284326.php</ref> The virus spread like wildfire among the elderly, mostly [[Babyboomer]]s, giving New York the highest death toll from the [[CCP virus]].<ref>https://apnews.com/4042f05613ee4259b7a44d4466a0a02a</ref> New York's death toll accounts for 30% of the U.S. fatality rate. ''Frontpage Mag'' reported:
{{Quotebox-float|Cuomo's Department of Health had issued an order that, "no resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19" and also prohibited requiring testing of returning patients. Sending hospitalized patients with coronavirus to the same mismanaged nursing homes was a death sentence for countless seniors in those facilities.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/1-5-coronavirus-deaths-could-have-been-prevented-daniel-greenfield/</ref>}}
The Cuomo administration then deliberately tried to coverup the extent of the carnage by undercounting deaths.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/15/new-york-coronavirus-reporting-nursing-home-deaths-undercounting/</ref>

Cuomo's order sent 6,400 COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes - the highest risk group.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/07/gov-cuomos-order-6000-coronavirus-patients-nursing-homes/</ref> More than 5,800 died. According to him, the deaths were the fault of [[Donald Trump]].<ref>[https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2020/10/20/cuomo-i-hold-trump-responsible-for-every-new-york-covid-death-n2578429 Cuomo: I Hold Trump Responsible for Every New York COVID Death]</ref>

In January 2021, the New York Attorney General's office reported that the Cuomo administration had covered up the number of nursing home murders and under-reported the figure by 50%.<ref>https://mindmatters.ai/2020/11/why-did-new-york-issue-a-policy-that-killed-elderly-patients/</ref> Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] called for an investigation into Gov. Cuomo's [[human rights]] abuses.<ref>https://twitter.com/J__Velasquez/status/1362836454116884482</ref>

In May 2020, Gov. [[Gretchen Whitmer]] of Michigan directed a dangerous policy in ordering seniors, or anyone else, who test positive for [[COVID-19]] to be transported to nursing homes that house healthy seniors,<ref>[https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2020/05/12/michigan-dem-lawmaker-sounds-off-on-whitmers-nursing-home-order-n2568678 Michigan Dem Lawmaker Sounds Off on Whitmer's Nursing Home Order]</ref> a measure criticized by even a [[Democrat]] state representative. A few days later, [[Republican]] state senator Peter J. Lucido sought an investigation into the matter.<ref>[https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/05/18/michigan-sen-peter-j-lucido-seeks-investigation-into-placing-covid-19-patients-at-nursing-homes/ Michigan Sen. Peter Lucido seeks investigation into placing COVID-19 patients at nursing homes]</ref> Whitmer's misguided directive came under heavy criticism<ref name="Whitmer Explaining">[https://100percentfedup.com/mi-gov-whitmer-has-some-explaining-to-do-20-yr-old-black-man-with-mental-issues-who-brutally-beat-77-yr-old-veteran-in-nursing-home-was-moved-to-nursing-facility-after-covid-diagnosis/ MI Gov Whitmer Has Some Explaining To Do: 20-Yr-Old Black Man With “Mental Issues” Who Brutally Beat 77-Yr-Old Veteran In Nursing Home, Was Moved To Nursing Facility After COVID Diagnosis]</ref> when in May 2020, a 75-year-old nursing home resident, an Army veteran who had been illegally seized from his apartment by Whitmer goons and sent to the residence without his relatives being notified, was brutally beaten in a racist attack<ref name="Whitmer Explaining"/> by 20-year-old Jaydon Hayden, a COVID-19 patient with mental health issues who had been sent to the same nursing home and has since been arrested and charged for the crime.<ref name="Grethcen factor">[https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/turning_nursing_homes_into_extermination_sites_the_gretchen_factor.html Turning nursing homes into extermination sites: the Gretchen factor] at the American Thinker</ref>

It was reported on June 15, 2020, that one-third of all [[coronavirus]]-related deaths in Michigan were in nursing homes.<ref>Two references:
*[https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2020-06-15/mich-requires-testing-finds-nearly-2k-nursing-home-deaths Nursing Homes, Tied to One-Third of Deaths, Ordered to Test]
*[https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/06/15/nursing-home-residents-deaths-covid-19-michigan/3175103001/ Nursing home residents account for 34% of Michigan's COVID-19-related deaths]</ref> Despite this, Whitmer's administration irresponsibly refused to consider transporting COVID-19 positive patients to vacant centers rather than nursing homes.<ref>[https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/06/20/michigan-declined-nursing-homes-idea-put-covid-19-patients-vacant-facilities/3223213001/ Michigan declined nursing home leader's idea to put COVID-19 patients in vacant centers]</ref> When later questioned on the matter, Whitmer refused to specify details about the dangerous policy.<ref>[https://townhall.com/tipsheet/reaganmccarthy/2020/06/22/whitmerscalise-n2571102 Gov. Whitmer Declines to Answer Rep. Scalise's Questions on Devastating Nursing Home Policy]</ref>

The Macomb county prosecutor advised survivors who lost loved ones to COVID as residents or staff inside nursing homes should collect the vital information about the circumstances of their death and take that to local police and make a complaint as a wrongful death. [[Criminal]] charges could be filed against the Democrat fascist governor over putting COVID patients inside nursing homes used as hubs during the pandemic.<ref>https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/macomb-county-prosecutor-says-criminal-charges-possible-against-governor-whitmer-over-nursing-home-deaths</ref>

Whitmer was appointed DNC vice chair in 2021.

As the secretary of the Pennsylvania Health Department during the CCP pandemic, Biden [[HHS]] assistant secretary [[Richard "Rachel" Levine]] ordered nursing homes that house healthy seniors to take in COVID-19 positive patients, which resulted in thousands of needless deaths.<ref>Multiple references:
*Bleau, Hannah (May 12, 2020). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/12/governor-defends-pa-health-secretary-rachel-levine-over-botched-nursing-home-policy/ Governor Defends PA Health Secretary Rachel Levine over Botched Nursing Home Policy]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
*Scolforo, Mark (June 26, 2020). [https://apnews.com/article/34a7e5f3ddac76e3b0388c017913acf8 Health secretary defends pandemic response in nursing homes]. ''Associated Press''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
*Kengor, Paul (May 29, 2020). [https://spectator.org/pennsylvanias-nursing-home-covid-19-scandal-rachel-levine/ Pennsylvania’s Nursing Home COVID-19 Scandal]. ''The American Spectator''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.</ref> By mid-May 2020, two-thirds of all coronavirus-related deaths in the state occurred in nursing homes.<ref name="Pennsylvania health official moved mother from nursing home as deaths skyrocketed">Feuerherd, Ben (May 13, 2020). [https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsylvania-health-official-moved-mother-from-nursing-home/ Pennsylvania health official moved mother from nursing home as deaths skyrocketed]. ''New York Post''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.</ref> A [[liberal hypocrite]], Levine removed his own mother from a personal care home as the deaths rose dramatically.<ref name="Pennsylvania health official moved mother from nursing home as deaths skyrocketed"/><ref>Two references:
*McKelvey, Wallace (May 14, 2020). [https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/05/health-secretary-rachel-levines-removal-of-mom-from-care-home-amid-epidemic-draws-scrutiny.html Health Secretary Rachel Levine’s removal of mom from care home amid epidemic draws scrutiny]. ''pennlive.com''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
*Hasson, Peter (May 13, 2020). [https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/13/coronavirus-pennsylvania-rachel-levine-mother-nursing-home/ PA Health Secretary Moved Mother Out Of Personal Care Home After Ordering Nursing Homes To Accept COVID Patients]. ''Daily Caller''. Retrieved January 23, 2021.</ref>

===Ukrainian Nazis===
[[File:Ukraine White Pride.PNG|right|300px|thumb|"White Pride" "Ukraine Above All!" Teenage girl at Ukrainian Nazi summer paramilitary training camp for kids.<ref>https://youtu.be/9KUe0ySMjcM</ref> In the spring of 2022, the [[Biden regime]] and Democrat Congress gave the fascist [[Kyiv regime]] $40 billion.]]
In May 2022 the Biden regime and Democrat congress voted to give $40 billion to the [[neo-fascist]] [[Kyiv regime]].

====Ukrainian biological weapons labs====
Through the executive branch, a legislative framework for funding military biomedical research directly from the federal budget was formed. Funds were raised under state guarantees from NGOs controlled by the Democratic Party leadership,<ref>https://thesaker.is/empire-of-bioweapon-lies/</ref> including the investment funds of the Clintons, Rockefellers, Soros and Biden.

The scheme involves major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and the US military-affiliated company Gilead. U.S. experts are working to test new medicines that circumvent international safety standards. As a result, Western companies are seriously reducing the cost of research programmes and gaining a significant competitive advantage.

The involvement of controlled nongovernmental and biotechnological organizations, and the increase in their revenues, allows the leaders of the Democratic Party to generate additional campaign finance and hide its distribution.

In addition to US pharmaceutical companies and Pentagon contractors, Ukrainian state agencies are involved in military bioweapons activities, whose main tasks are to conceal illegal activities, conduct field and clinical trials and provide the necessary biomaterial.

Thus, the US Department of Defense, using a virtually internationally uncontrolled test site and the high-tech facilities of multinational companies, has greatly expanded its research capabilities, not only in the field of biological weapons, but also in gaining knowledge about antibiotic resistance and the antibodies to specific diseases in populations in specific regions.<ref>https://telegra.ph/Briefing-on-the-results-of-the-analysis-of-documents-related-to-the-military-biological-activities-of-the-United-States-on-the-t-05-11</ref>

===Rape of Afghanistan===
{{See also|Rape of Afghanistan}}
[[File:Taliban flag raising.PNG‎ |right|300px|thumb|Taliban mock U.S. flag raising at [[Iwo Jima]] in their victory over America.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/taliban-mock-iwo-jima-flag-raising-pose-for-photos-with-their-trove-of-american-vehicles-weapons-equipment/</ref>]]
Pelosi commended Biden's handling of the U.S. withdrawl from [[Afghanistan]]:
{{quotebox-float|“The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and his action.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/pelosi-commends-biden-for-strong-and-decisive-action-in-afghanistan/</ref>}}
Marketwatch wrote: “In a stunning rout, the [[Taliban]] seized nearly all of Afghanistan in just over a week, despite the billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and [[NATO]] over nearly 20 years to build up Afghan security forces. Just days earlier, an American military assessment estimated that the capital would not come under insurgent pressure for a month.”<ref>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/afghan-president-flees-the-country-as-taliban-move-on-kabul-01629048671?mod=home-page&mod=article_inline</ref>

On July 8, 2021, [[Joe Biden]] said from the White House, "I trust the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped, and more competent in terms of conducting war."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/bidens-afghanistan-predictions-were-all-wrong/</ref> Afghans became fearful of the brutal regime's return.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/2021/08/16/1028016095/taliban-takeover-reminds-afghans-of-the-brutality-of-their-previous-regime Taliban Takeover Reminds Afghans Of The Brutality Of Their Previous Regime], PBS, Aug 16, 2021</ref> [[CNN]] reported that on July 12, 2021 the Taliban knocked on the door of a mother of four in a small village in northern Afghanistan. They were demanding food. The mother told them, "I am poor, how can I cook for you?" The Taliban beat her to death.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/asia/afghanistan-women-taliban-intl-hnk-dst/index.html</ref> Less than a month later, White House chief propagandists [[Jen Psaki]] said "The Taliban has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community." Her comments came as reports flowed in of Taliban fighters going door-to-door and forcibly selecting girls as young as 12 to reward as brides for the victorious jihadis.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghans-tell-of-executions-forced-marriages-in-taliban-held-areas-11628780820</ref>

The people must mark their house with an “X” if they have a girl over 12 years old, so that the Taliban can take them. If they find a young girl and the house was not marked they will execute the entire family. If a married woman 25 years or older was found, the Taliban promptly kill her husband, do whatever they want to her, and then sell her as a sex slave.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/taliban-going-door-to-door-seeking-christians-searching-through-phones-for-bible-apps-report</ref> In Takhar province, the Taliban shot and killed a woman when she went out in public without a [[burqa]].<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/08/17/taliban-kill-woman-not-wearing-burqa-after-vowing-to-honor-womens-rights/</ref>

In Kandahar, Bodies lay strewn on the streets.<ref>https://rumble.com/vl8ixd-stunning-video-people-dead-on-kandahar-streets-after-violent-taliban-takeov.html</ref> Public executions in stadiums returned.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/taliban-execute-four-afghanistan-army-police-commanders-kandahar-cricket-stadium/</ref> It was a repetition of what the Taliban had done in all the other provinces to the forces that fought alongside Americans. Taliban atrocities included executions,<ref>[https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/03/afghanistan-advancing-taliban-execute-detainees Afghanistan: Advancing Taliban Execute Detainees], HRW, Aug 3, 2021</ref> even killing kids in front of their parents.<ref>https://sambadenglish.com/taliban-militants-are-killing-children-in-front-of-their-parents/</ref>

A Gold Star mother who lost her son in Biden's botched evacuation issued a statement:
{{quotebox-float|"My son was one of the marines that died yesterday. He was 20 years and six months old, getting ready to come home to be with his wife to watch the birth of his son.

And that feckless, dementia ridden piece of crap, Biden, just sent my son to die.

I woke up at 4’o’clock this morning to US Marines at my door telling me my son was dead.

I never thought in 1 million years that he would die for nothing, for nothing because a feckless, dementia-ridden piece of crap who decided he wanted a photo-op on [[9/11 attacks|Sept. 11]] — that’s what kills me. I wanted my son to represent our country, to fight for my country. But I never thought that a feckless piece of crap would send him to his death, and smirk on television while he’s talking about people dying with his nasty smirk.

So, to have right on before me, to have to listen to that piece of crap Biden talk about diplomatic crap with Taliban terrorists who just freaking blew up my son and no, nothing, to not say anything about …"Oh my God I’m so sorry for failing.”

My son is gone, and I just want all you [[2020 Democrat election fraud|Democrats who cheated in the election]], or who voted for him legitimately, to know you just killed my son with a dementia ridden piece of crap who doesn’t even know he’s in the White House, who still thinks he’s a senator.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/listen-furious-mother-of-marine-killed-in-kabul-attack-says-dementia-ridden-biden-directly-to-blame/</ref>}}
The ''Financial Times'' wrote:<ref>[https://archive.is/JNSAP Nato allies urge rethink on alliance after Biden’s ‘unilateral’ Afghanistan exit], ''Financial Times'', Helen Warrell in London, Guy Chazan in Berlin and Richard Milne in Stockholm AUGUST 17 2021. </ref>
{{quotebox-float|"After the [[fall of Kabul]], EU defence and security officials have been strikingly critical of the US decision to send home its troops, arguing it has weakened Nato and raised questions about Europe’s security dependence on Washington."}}
Lord Peter Ricketts, the [[UK]]’s former national security adviser, said. “It looks like Nato has been completely overtaken by American unilateral decisions...The Afghanistan operation was always going to end some time, it was never going to go on forever, but the manner in which it’s been done has been humiliating and damaging to Nato.”

===Big Tech anti-trust===
In the weeks before the House Judiciary Committee voted on the antitrust legislation — aimed at [[Apple, Inc.]], [[Amazon.com]], and Alphabet’s [[Google]] — that was meant to limit the way companies organize and offer their products, Speaker Pelosi's husband who handles the family's finances exercised call options that netted the Pelosi's $5.3 million.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/08/report-pelosis-husband-secured-5-3-million-from-alphabet-options/#</ref>

===Transgenderism===
The so-called [[Equality Act]] is a bill that would eliminate the legal recognition of male and female sex, make it more difficult to bring charges of [[sexual harassment]] in the workplace, cater to gender ideology, and designate protection for the unborn as “pregnancy” discrimination. The legislation, which would rewrite civil rights law to include “sexual orientation and [[gender identity]]” as protected classes, would likely upend the national culture as Americans have known it. Ryan Anderson, president of Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC) said, “The so-called Equality Act isn’t drafted as a shield to protect vulnerable minorities from unjust discrimination, but as a sword to persecute those who do not embrace new sexual and gender ideologies.”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/19/jjoe-bidens-war-on-women-equality-act-to-end-legal-recognition-of-biological-sex/</ref>

===Immigration===

:{{See also|Illegal immigration}}
A Harvard/Harris poll produced in the summer of 2021 revealed that 80% of Americans believe that illegal immigration is a serious problem. 68% indicated they believed Biden was encouraging illegal immigration. 55% stated they believed President Trump’s immigration policies should have remained intact. Pollster Mark Penn wrote:
{{quotebox-float|“Sixty-four percent of registered voters want the [[Biden administration]] to issue new, stricter policies to reduce the flow of people across the border. Only 7% of voters could accurately call out the amount of monthly illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. with 84% underestimate the number, suggesting we should expect stronger voter reactions if the crisis evolves further. Overall, 74% of voters view the current surge in illegal immigrants as a [[crisis]] that needs to be addressed immediately, and 56% do not view climate change, racism, and [[sexism]] as root causes of migration from South and Central America.”}}
55% believed that Biden’s border policies are “increasing the flow of drugs,” into the country. 61% believed the flood of unaccompanied children surging at the southern border was the fault of the Biden administration.<ref>https://redstate.com/jeffc/2021/06/28/left-leaning-study-reveals-some-catastrophic-news-for-democrats-n403765</ref>

====Abolish ICE====

:{{See also|Abolish ICE}}
On July 12, 2018 Rep. [[Mark Pocan]] (D-Wis.) introduced H.R. 6361, in the House to abolish [[ICE]]. Eight House Democrats signed on as cosponsors: [[Pramila Jayapal]] and [[D. Adam Smith]] of Washington; [[Adriano Espaillat]], [[José Serrano]], [[Nydia Velázquez]], and [[Yvette Clarke]], all from New York; [[Earl Blumenauer]] of Oregon; and [[James McGovern]] of Massachusetts.<ref>https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6361/cosponsors?r=4</ref> Sens. [[Elizabeth Warren]] (D-Mass.), [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] (D-N.Y.), [[Bernie Sanders]] (I-Vt.), New York City Mayor [[Bill de Blasio]], and other Democrats all rallied behind the “Abolish ICE” banner.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/print-magazine/item/29715-no-borders-no-nation</ref>

Many [[Leftist]]s ran on a platform of abolishing the nation's [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement|imigration enforcement]] authority and moving toward a policy of unrestricted immigration and [[open borders]]. In November 2018 Kamala Harris compared ICE workers, more than half of which are [[Hispanic]], to the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. The suggestion sparked horror and outrage.<ref>Piccolo, Jason (November 23, 2018). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/kamala-harris-hateful-comparison-of-ice-to-the-kkk-is-even-more-unjust-than-it-seems Kamala Harris' hateful comparison of ICE to the KKK is even more unjust than it seems]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved November 23, 2018.</ref>

Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] referred to DHS detention facilities where illegal immigrants were being held as "[[concentration camp]]s" and people were being forced to drink toilet water. Motivated by AOC's rhetoric, the [[Tacoma suicide bomber attack|Tacoma suicide bomber]] attacked a detention facility housing hundreds of children.<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/13/armed-activist-hurling-molotov-cocktails-at-ice-facility-shot-killed-by-police/ Armed Activist Hurling Molotov Cocktails at ICE Facility Shot Killed by Police] See also:
*Dinan, Stephen (August 16, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/16/ice-attack-video-captures-exchange-of-gunfire-that/ ICE attack: Dramatic video captures exchange of gunfire that left anti-ICE attacker dead]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved August 16, 2019.</ref><ref>Giaritelli, Anna (August 16, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/video-shows-car-set-ablaze-by-alleged-antifa-shooter-in-attack-on-ice-detention-center Video shows car set ablaze by alleged Antifa shooter in attack on ICE detention center]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved August 16, 2019.</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90YXf5P1rE&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=1BRrxh8nJyANlPeS%3A6</ref><ref>Cheong, Ian Miles (July 14, 2019). [https://humanevents.com/2019/07/14/ice-detention-center-attacker-was-antifa-activist/ ICE Detention Center Attacker Was Antifa Activist.] ''Human Events''. Retrieved July 15, 2019.</ref><ref>Murphy, James (July 15, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/32853-antifa-linked-terrorist-shot-by-police-after-attacking-washington-ice-detention-center Antifa-linked Terrorist Shot by Police After Attacking Washington ICE Detention Center]. ''The New American''. Retrieved July 15, 2019.</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S376N3YfnP0</ref><ref>Hawkins, Awr (July 15, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/15/tacoma-ice-attacker-urges-leftists-ignore-laws-arm-themselves/ Tacoma ICE Attacker Urges Leftists to Ignore Laws, Arm Themselves]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 15, 2019.</ref><ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (July 16, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/32864-immigrant-ice-attacker-left-manifesto-warned-antifa-to-arm-for-war Immigrant ICE Attacker Left Manifesto, Warned Antifa to Arm for War]. ''The New American''. Retrieved July 16, 2019.</ref><ref>Price, Bob (July 14, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/07/14/man-who-attempted-to-blow-up-migrant-detention-center-praised-by-some-anti-ice-activists/ Man Who Attempted to Blow Up Migrant Detention Center Praised by Some Anti-ICE Activists]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 14, 2019.</ref><ref>Morton, Victor (July 15, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/15/willem-van-spronsen-manifesto-blasts-concentration/ Antifa lauds 'martyr' who attacked ICE detention center as manifesto circulates]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved July 16, 2019.</ref> AOC refused to condemn the attacks or to even speak to the media.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwL-TCkA5n4 AOC, Ilhan Omar repeatedly REFUSE to condemn Antifa attack on ICE!] at The Rebel Media YouTube channel</ref>

An [[Antifa]] supporter, [[Connor Betts]], murdered 9 people in the [[Dayton nightclub shooting]]. Betts, a registered Democrat and [[Elizabeth Warren]] backer posted to Twitter “I do not consider ICE agents to be human beings.”<ref>https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1158420694092242944</ref> and echoed Ocasio-Cortez' statement that [[ICE]] detention facilities were "[[concentration camp]]s." No less than four violent acts and shootings occurred against ICE facilites and border agents after Ocasio-Cortez's comments.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/14/gun-fired-office-makes-fourth-attack-ice-past-month/</ref><ref>https://lauraloomer.us/2019/08/13/another-ice-facility-attacked-after-aoc-stoked-tensions-with-concentration-camp-rhetoric/#.XVVuFZNKhBw</ref> Ocasio-Cortez then voted against a Democrat-sponsored bill that would have provided humanitarian relief for the border crisis and threw a fit when the Senate rejected the bill she herself voted against.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/28/ocasio-cortez-senate-mcconnell-house-border-bill-tapper/</ref>

====MS-13 and others====

By October 21, 2018, reports estimated the number of economic migrants at between 7,200 and 10,000. The numbers seemingly doubled and tripled upon entering Mexico. No further resistance was met once passed the border. Migrants from [[Haiti]], [[Congo]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Angola]], [[Cameroon]], and [[Bangladesh]] have swelled the ranks.<ref>https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1054441145886035977</ref> The crowd is mostly men, ages 16–40. There are [[MS-13]] gang members among them.<ref>https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1054481882484801538</ref> The caravan was now over two miles long.

Mexican authorities issued a warning about migrants in Guatemala who were preparing [[Molotov cocktail]]s and acquiring firearms to use against police officers. Two migrants were arrested, one a minor, after shooting at police. They were arrested carrying a loaded firearm.<ref>https://www.gob.mx/segob/prensa/detienen-a-dos-hondurenos-tras-ataque-armado-a-policias-federales</ref>

====Biden border crisis====

:{{See also|Cloward and Piven Strategy|Biden border crisis}}
On Biden's second day occupying the White House he issued a ''diktat'' which has been described as the most extreme directive in the history of modern [[law enforcement]]. Acting Secretary David Pekoske issued a memorandum on the evening of January 20, 2021 putting into place a [[deportation]] moratorium. There were narrow exceptions for terrorists and spies and none for [[criminal]]s and criminal suspects. It is estimated that about 12,000 criminal illegal aliens per month will not be deported from the United States throughout the existence of the Biden/Harris regime.<ref>https://www.newswars.com/over-12000-criminal-illegals-will-be-freed-monthly-former-trump-official-warns/</ref> These illegals can vote unchallenged under the Democrats "[[For the People Act]]".

The junta further scrapped the “public charge” rule—a government policy that sought to limit admissions of immigrants likely to become reliant on government benefits.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/biden-administration-ditches-trump-plan-limit-immigration-financially-dependent-n1260239</ref> People from [[Yemen]], [[Iran]] and [[Sri Lanka]] were crossing the border, including people on the terrorist watch list.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/15/john-katko-terror-suspects-are-part-border-surge/</ref>
[[File:Biden kids in cages.PNG|right|350px|thumb|On March 17, 2020, during a [[2020 Democrat primaries|2020 Democrat primary]] debate, Biden called for an immediate surge of illegal immigrants to the border.<ref>https://archive.is/tQq8A</ref>]]
The junta's executive order raised the refugee ceiling by 730% in the midst of the COVID pandemic.<ref>https://www.immigrationreform.com/2021/02/10/biden-intends-to-increase-refugee-numbers-by-more-than-730-percent/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/10/poll-raising-refugee-admissions-is-bidens-most-unpopular-executive-order-so-far/</ref> By the junta's seventh week [[Arizona]] border agents reported illegal immigration in 2021 already surpassed all of 2018, and was on track to surpass 2018, 2019 and 2020 combined.”

After White House chief [[propagandist]] [[Jen Psaki]] denied a border crisis existed,<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/03/09/wh-refuses-to-call-mexico-border-rush-child-detainment-a-crisis/</ref> the junta dispatched [[FEMA]] to deal with over 100,000 illegal aliens who crossed the border in February,<ref>https://justthenews.com/government/security/biden-dispatches-fema-address-growing-border-crisis</ref> 150,000 in March,<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/illegal-border-crossings-jump-to-150000-in-march_3756182.html</ref> and 178,000 in April 2021, a two decade high for a single month. 17,000 of those in April were unaccompanied children.<ref>https://justthenews.com/nation/cbp-reports-encountering-more-178000-attempting-enter-americas-southern-border-april</ref> Democrat Reps. [[Vicente Gonzalez]] and [[Henry Cuellar]] criticized the junta's mishandling of the crisis.<ref>https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/biden-pushes-back-against-border-crisis-label-as-democrats-concede-theres-a-major-problem</ref> Biden found the humanitarian crisis he created flattering.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/03/25/biden-would-be-flattered-if-migrants-are-surging-because-of-him/</ref> Texas Lt. Governor [[Dan Patrick]] told Fox News,
{{quotebox-float|"There was a little girl that drowned in the river. Kamala Harris must think that’s amusing to her. She must think that the sex offenders who are coming into this country, who are coming into communities all over this country to assault children is funny to her. This is not a laughing matter to our country or to these people or for future victims. So far they won’t call this a crisis. It’s a designed disaster. This is their plan… Sex offenders are up 1,967% in just the Del Rio sector in Texas. Sexual offenders are defined by people we already arrested for offenses against children and they’re crossing back two or three times."<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/kamala-harris-must-think-amusing-tx-lt-gov-dan-patrick-goes-off-child-sex-trafficking-1967-video/</ref>}}
A border agent described conditions in the cells to the ''[[Epoch Times]]:''
{{quotebox-float|"The family-unit holding cells smell like [[urine]] and [[vomit]]. Fights break out in the unaccompanied-minor cells. [[Scabies]], [[lice]], the [[flu]], and COVID-19 run rampant. Up to 80 individuals are squeezed into each 24- by 30-foot cell, and there aren’t enough mattresses for everyone. Sheets of plastic divide the rooms. “Any diseases that are in there, it’s being kept in there, like a petri dish. The smell is overwhelming.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-border-agent-gives-inside-account-of-overcrowded-facilities_3746058.html?amp</ref>}}
After White House chief [[propagandist]] [[Jen Psaki]] denied a border crisis existed,<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/03/09/wh-refuses-to-call-mexico-border-rush-child-detainment-a-crisis/</ref> the [[Biden junta]] put Kamala Harris in charge of managing the catastrophe.<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/03/24/biden-just-named-a-new-person-in-charge-of-the-border-youll-know-her-by-the-sound-of-her-cackle-n349562</ref> Harris previously compared [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] officials to the [[Ku Klux Klan]].<ref>https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/kamala-harris-tapped-to-fix-the-border-despite-attacking-immigration/</ref> A week into the Harris' appointment as border czar, Harris had no immigration-related meetings on her schedule and made no public statements about the border crisis.<ref>https://freedomjournalist.com/kamala-has-no-immigration-meetings-scheduled-despite-leading-crisis-response/</ref> ''Axios'' reported "If you give someone a sh***ty assignment because the president doesn’t want to do it himself, you can’t be mad when the treacherous situation looks treacherous.”<ref>https://www.axios.com/kamala-harris-trip-problems-rekindle-2020-campaign-doubts-f08f807e-c00a-432a-a562-3c2a2beaa634.html</ref>

Harris refused to visit the border for six months and laughed at the unfolding human tragedy.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/03/23/kamala-harris-bursts-out-awkward-laugh-when-asked-about-visiting-the-border-not-today-1048624/</ref> Not until President Trump announced he and Texas governor [[Greg Abbott]] would visit the border did Harris announce she would visit the border.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/06/23/kamala-harris-announces-border-visit-just-days-before-president-trump-event/</ref>

Democrat Rep. [[Henry Cuellar]], whose district was hardest hit by disaster, had been calling for months for the Biden junta to listen to the people in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, to him, and to [[law enforcement]] that is overwhelmed called Harris' visit to [[El Paso]] in the Upper Rio Rio Grande Valley a “politically safe” trip, a “check the box” kind of trip and a "joke". Harris never consulted with Cuellar, Texas governor [[Greg Abbott]], or other local people.

====Human trafficing====
The Biden junta’s reversal of Trump-era border policies gave Mexican cartels an enormous opportunity to exploit immigrants for financial gain. This criminal and inhumane system is a direct consequence of Biden’s open border policies and willful neglect of border security. Chris Farrell, director of investigations and research at [[Judicial Watch]], explained how the cartels’ control of the Mexican border is driven by profit. “When Americans hear about the humanitarian crisis at the border,” said Farrell, “they should remember that it is fueled by a sophisticated criminal enterprise that is subsidized by the Biden administration’s failure to secure our border.” An Arizona rancher explained “Nobody comes through that border illegally without their [the cartels] authorization.” Dan Cantu, a retired Border Patrol agent, said no one “freelances”—or crosses into the U.S. from the Mexican border without cartel permission. In most cases, those who try are instantly killed. “They call those [who cross on their own] ‘chapulines’ … which means grasshoppers in Spanish. It’s common knowledge that the minute they try to freelance—as soon as they do—smugglers and recruiters [for the cartels] will notice … [and] they’ll flat out kill them.” They patrol ridge lines and mountains in search of “chapulines” walking on their own. If found, the chapulin is approached by a scout and asked for a code. Those who don’t know the code are often tied to a tree and beaten, raped, or killed by cartel operatives. “The chapulines experience all kinds of torture,” Cantu emphasized, “because [the cartels] have got to send a message … there is a price for attempting to traverse the border yourself.”<ref>https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/15/no-one-comes-through-the-border-illegally-without-the-cartels-authorization-how-bidens-policies-feed-a-criminal-monopoly/</ref>

According to a veteran Department of Homeland Security law enforcement officer, “The cartel makes more money on people than they do on dope.” The Mexican cartels have a valuation greater than [[Walmart]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/24/do-mexican-drug-cartels-make-billion-year/</ref>

====Child sex trafficing====
Biden also canceled the Trump era Operation Talon which focused on deporting illegal child sex traffickers and sexual predators.<ref>https://newspunch.com/biden-cancels-trump-program-that-targeted-child-sex-traffickers-in-the-us-illegally/</ref> The order essentially shut down [[ICE]] operations. An estimated 117,000 migrants crossed the border at the going rate for smuggling humans of $10,000 each the first month, totaling well over $1.1 billion for the cartels and human trafficking networks.<ref>https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/report-admin-lacks-resources-for-the-expected-117000-unaccompanied-children-at-border-this-year/</ref> Mexican President [[Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador]] expressed concern over the junta incentivizing human trafficing and organized crime.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico-exclusive-idUSKBN2B21D8</ref> Reports indicated that human traffickers were purchasing children for $3200.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/human-trafficking-cartels-selling-kids-3200-head-joe-bidens-open-border-mexico-video/</ref><ref>https://rumble.com/vekxmd-biden-the-president-of-human-trafficking.html</ref> Drug cartels often recruit or kidnap migrants, hold them for ransom or [[murder]] them if their families don't comply with the operatives' demands.<ref>https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/biden-pushes-back-against-border-crisis-label-as-democrats-concede-theres-a-major-problem</ref>Evidence at the border suggested children were being [[rape]]d.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/video-reporter-finds-condoms-lube-and-childrens-clothes-dumped-at-the-border/</ref> @red_pill_latina said on [[Instagram]],
{{quotebox-float|"Where is [[AOC]]…where is the outrage of the media? Democrats in the Biden administration are making traffickers and cartels more powerful and dangerous than ever. If you voted for Biden, this is what you voted for. You claim to support the [[Latino]] community yet you don’t support strong border security. Latinos are the main targets/victims of human traffickers at the southern border. Especially the most vulnerable, innocent little children. If you voted for Biden this is the reality you voted for."<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/03/21/citing-border-crisis-trafficking-of-innocent-children-latino-woman-says-if-you-voted-for-biden-this-is-what-you-voted-for-1047799/</ref>}}
[[Guatemala]]n authorities rescued seven unaccompanied minors from human smugglers working inside the caravan. The smugglers were arrested and a broader investigation into [[criminal]] activity in the caravan continued.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/10/guatemalan-authorities-rescue-group-of-minors-from-human-smugglers-in-caravan/</ref>

====No covid testing====

The [[Customs and Border Protection]] (CBP) was not doing any [[covid-19]] testing on people apprehended at the border.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-testing-of-border-crossing-migrants-not-being-administered-consistently/ar-BB1eifgo</ref> The ''[[Epoch Times]]:'' described conditions in the holding cells:
{{quotebox-float|"The family-unit holding cells smell like [[urine]] and [[vomit]]. Fights break out in the unaccompanied-minor cells. [[Scabies]], [[lice]], the [[flu]], and COVID-19 run rampant. Up to 80 individuals are squeezed into each 24- by 30-foot cell, and there aren’t enough mattresses for everyone. Sheets of plastic divide the rooms. “Any diseases that are in there, it’s being kept in there, like a petri dish. The smell is overwhelming.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-border-agent-gives-inside-account-of-overcrowded-facilities_3746058.html?amp</ref>}}
The National Sheriffs Association estimated that up to 50% of all illegal immigrants were covid positive.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/up-to-50-percent-of-illegal-immigrants-estimated-to-have-covid-19-national-sheriffs-association_3737923.html</ref> Congressional [[Democrat]]s blocked a [[Republican]] bill which would require the [[Department of Homeland Security]] to test all apprehensions for covid.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/16/democrats-block-gop-bill-to-test-illegal-immigrants-for-coronavirus/</ref>
Restoration of the Obama era Catch and Release program led to the release of covid infected illegal aliens into American communities.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/psaki-cant-answer-illegal-aliens-test-positive-covid-released-actually-quarantine-video/</ref>

====Babies in cages====
[[File:Biden-cages-1.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The Biden / Harris regime kept babies in cages..]]
The junta renewed the Obama era program of locking migrant children in cages.<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2021/02/23/bidens-kids-cages-moment-carrizo-springs-facility-re-opens/</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' initially reported the junta was holding 3250 kids in "jail-like facilities"<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/03/09/nyt-nails-biden-for-holding-migrant-children-in-violation-of-law-but-they-do-a-little-spinning-in-the-process-n340404</ref> 38% longer than the law allows.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/biden-immigration-detention-increase/</ref> The figure was later revised to 9,400 in February alone,<ref>https://www.vox.com/2021/3/21/22343184/as-bidens-immigration-policy-faces-scrutiny-the-dhs-chief-says-the-border-is-closed</ref> and by the third week of March [[DHS]] said the number of babies in cages was 15,500.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-migrant-children-in-border-patrol-custody-hits-15500/</ref> The Former head of CBP said Homeland [[Commissar]] [[Alejandro Mayorkas]] "lied to the American people" about the crisis.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-administration-lied-american-border-crisis</ref>

According to [[CBS News]], children were held in overcrowded conditions, and some were having to sleep on the floor and were going hungry. One immigration lawyer representing the children said there were kids who have only showered once in seven days and weren’t allowed to shower more often. The children were not allowed outdoors and complained of not seeing the sun in days. The Donna complex which is supposed to hold only 250 people held 1,800, or 729% of its pandemic era capacity. The migrants were not able to practice any social distancing because of the massive number of people.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-children-detained-in-overcrowded-conditions/</ref> The ''New York Post'' wrote in an editorial, "While we feel Trump was wrongly vilified for these facilities, Biden deserves every knock of hypocrisy leveled against him."<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/bidens-kids-in-cages-prove-his-hypocrisy-on-immigration/</ref> ''[[Time magazine]]'' pleaded for the Dear Leader to end locking babies in cages.<ref>https://time.com/5945307/biden-end-detention-migrant-children/</ref>

''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported “[y]oung people are waiting in cramped, austere holding cells with concrete floors and benches. Lights remain on 24 hours a day, agents say, and there are few places to play.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/unaccompanied-minors-detention-cells/2021/03/10/a0d39390-81c6-11eb-bb5a-ad9a91faa4ef_story.html</ref> [[CNN]]’s Pamela Brown reported that “as the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border gets worse, the media is being kept from it despite calls of transparency from the Biden administration. Reporters and photographers were not been allowed inside the facilities where thousands of unaccompanied children are being kept in similar to jail-like conditions."<ref> https://youtu.be/FrUwXhmgLlM</ref>

When negative publicity arose, the Biden team then emptied the cages and forced children to sleep in buses overnight, according to [[NBC News]].<ref>https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/05/13/joe-bidens-america-migrant-children-stuck-overnight-on-parked-buses-for-consecutive-days-and-nights/</ref>

====Narcotics trafficing====
Prior to the junta [[open borders|opening the border]] [[bi-partisan]] experts estimated the money made on drug trafficking by the Mexican Drug Cartels at around $500 billion, or one half-trillion dollars per year. Sen. [[Sonny Purdue]] said in 2019: “At half a trillion dollars — $500 billion — that makes the cartel business and the drug traffic just in Mexico alone coming across to the United States bigger than [[Walmart]], to put it in perspective. So this is larger than our largest companies.” Democrat Sen. [[Dianne Feinstein]] quoted the same figure testifying, “The illicit drug trade is a business, valued at anywhere between $426 [billion] and $652 billion…”.<ref>https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/has-joe-biden-sold-out-america-to-the-mexican-drug-cartels/</ref>

===Racist Democrat officials===
{{See also|Liberalism and racism}}
[[File:Anthony Huber and JoJo Rosenbaum.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Anthony Huber (blue hat) and [[Joseph Rosenbaum|JoJo "Shoot me N*gga" Rosenbaum]].<ref>https://twitter.com/sirhottest/status/1458520078769528833</ref>]]
In April 2021, ''[[Twitter]]'' allowed a racist insult against Republican Sen. [[Tim Scott]] of South Carolina to "trend" on its website/platform following the GOP rebuttal to Biden's [[SOTU]] speech in which Scott debunked the liberal leftist agenda, accused Democrats of trying "to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present" and stating, "America is not a racist country."<ref>AILA SLISCO | ''Newsweek'', Read the Full Text of Tim Scott's Republican Rebuttal of Joe Biden's Joint Address to Congress, https://www.newsweek.com/read-full-text-tim-scotts-republican-rebuttal-joe-bidens-joint-address-congress-1587308, April 28, 2021</ref> Following the speech, angry leftists flooded ''Twitter'' in attempts to label the Senator "Uncle Tim" and using other racist slurs. During the rebuttal Scott stated, "I have experienced the pain of discrimination... I get called "[[Uncle Tom]]" and the N-word — by 'progressives'! By liberals!"<ref>CNN Politics, Read Republican Sen. Tim Scott's response to Biden's address to Congress, https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/28/politics/tim-scott-response-transcript/index.html, Updated 10:51 PM ET, Wed April 28, 2021</ref> The left traditionally uses the derogatory epithet and hurls it at conservatives who dare to walk off the [[Democrat plantation]]. This has long been a way for bigots to insult black people who are accused of being subservient to whites and used to send an intimidating message to others who might be thinking about leaving the plantation.<ref>Debra Heine | ''AG'' News, Twitter Allows Racist Attacks Against Tim Scott to Trend For Nearly 11 Hours, https://amgreatness.com/2021/04/29/twitter-allows-racist-attacks-against-tim-scott-to-trend-for-nearly-11-hours/, April 29, 2021</ref><ref>https://therightscoop.com/the-most-hideously-shameful-racist-rant-ever-to-air-on-cable-news-was-on-msnbc-yesterday-attacking-tim-scott/</ref>

The Biden regime spent $30 million distributing free crack pipes to achieve "racial equality."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity/</ref>

====Joe Biden====
In 1994 Joe Biden said, "if Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn't matter a whole lot."<ref>https://youtu.be/Wwf4FyA0B0M</ref> Biden referred to former chair of the [[Congressional Black Caucus]] and an Advisor to the President, [[Cedric Richmond]], as "my boy".<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/biden-calls-black-adviser-apos-183534786.html</ref> Biden has insisted Blacks do not know how to get a state-issued identification card or drivers license.<ref>https://thecitizen.com/2021/04/12/democrats-insult-millions-of-blacks-who-have-photo-ids/</ref>

Biden asserted that "poor kids are just as smart as white kids" yet repeatedly insisted minorities didn't know how to use the internet to find vaccinations sites.<ref>https://remezcla.com/culture/president-biden-infers-black-latino-communities-dont-know-use-internet/</ref><ref>https://www.opindia.com/2021/02/joe-biden-african-americans-hispanics-internet-coronavirus-vaccine/</ref><ref>https://thesource.com/2021/02/17/watch-president-biden-suggests-blacks-hispanics-cant-get-covid-vaccine-because-they-dont-know-how-to-get-online/</ref>

Since [[Biden's vaccine mandate|Biden's mandate]] to revive [[Tuskegee experiment|Tuskegee-like genetic experiments]],<ref>https://ghionjournal.com/tuskegee-institute-study-2-0-targeting-african-americans/</ref> Biden's approval rating among African Americans fell 25 percentage points.<ref>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/10/14/decline-bidens-job-approval-down-25-net-points-with-black-voters-since-august-1-n422527</ref> Biden threatened [[Blacks]] and [[Hispanic]]s with the highest unvaccinated rates<ref>https://www.stevegruber.com/2021/07/a-majority-of-the-unvaccinated-are-blacks-and-hispanics-not-trump-supporters/</ref> saying "this is not about freedom...our patience is wearing thin."<ref>https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/09/09/duh-president-biden-explains-that-his-vaccine-mandate-is-not-about-freedom-or-personal-choice-our-patience-is-wearing-thin/</ref>

As the Democratic Party nominee in the [[2020 presidential election]], he was endorsed by [[Neo-Nazi]] [[white supremacist]] [[Richard Spencer]], organizer of the June 2017 Charlottesville protests in which one person, Heather Heyer, was killed.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/24/white-supremacist-who-organized-charlottesville-race-riots-endorses-joe-biden/</ref> Biden publicly proclaimed that defenders of the [[Confederate]] flag were "many fine people".<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-praises-group-who-display-the-confederate-flag-as-fine-people-in-resurfaced-video</ref> After using California Senator Kamala Harris to exploit African American voters,<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/biden-admin-looking-dump-kamala-harris-fox-reporter-given-tip-familiarize-confirmation-process-replacing-vice-president/</ref> rumors circulated throughout [[Washington D.C.]] that racist and [[misogynist]] Democrats wanted to remove her from the vice presidency.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14/politics/kamala-harris-frustrating-start-vice-president/index.html</ref> By November 2021, Biden's approval rating among African Americans stood at a historical low for any Democrat Oval Office occupant at 52%.<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/new-poll-shows-biden-approval-among-black-voters-tanking/</ref> After the shooting of the racist pedophile [[Joseph Rosenbaum]] in [[Kenosha, Wisconsin]],<ref>https://heavy.com/news/joseph-rosenbaum/</ref> Biden slandered and defamed a Black Lives Matter supporter, Kyle Rittenhouse, as a white supremacist.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/kyle-rittenhouse-tells-tucker-carlson-005930560.html</ref>

====Sheldon Whitehorse====
[[Rhode Island]] Democrat Sen. [[Sheldon Whitehouse]] is a [[systemic racism|systemic racist]] who is a member of an all-white beach club in which his wife is a major shareholder.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/democrat-gets-cornered-over-being-a-member-of-all-white-private-elite-club/</ref><ref>https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/06/21/sen-sheldon-whitehouses-office-says-beach-club-has-had-members-of-color-doesnt-explain-why-he-said-theyre-still-working-on-it/</ref> Black Lives Matter gave Whitehorse an ultimatum to cut all ties with Spouting Rock Beach Association, also known as Bailey's Beach — or it will make his life miserable, according to [[ABC]] affiliate WLNE.<ref>https://www.abc6.com/possible-protests-against-sen-whitehouse-coming-blm-r-i-member-says/</ref> “We’ll go to his club, we’ll go to his office, we’ll go to his home — wherever we need to go,” one of the chapter’s directors vowed. BLM insisted Whitehouse’s denial was not enough to stop planned protests. “If he thinks we’re just going to forget about it, if he thinks that it’s going to get swept under the rug — it’s not.”

“This club is a proven racist club with exclusive ties to supremacy and exclusion, and that’s something that’s not gonna be tolerated by me, by my associates, my affiliates or my organization,” the spokesman said. BLM did not buy Whitehorse's claim that the club was on “the right side of pushing for improvements.” Bailey’s Beach Club is an elite private beach and club. The BLM spokesman said, “you know what type of black people he brings in.”<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/07/29/blm-gives-senator-a-deal-to-cut-ties-with-all-white-country-club/</ref>

====Brad Schneider====
The office of Illinois Democrat Rep. [[Brad Schneider]] was sued by a Black staffer for a hostile work environment and retaliation when the staffer complained. A supervisor made jokes about lynching directed toward a Black staffer during a video conference meeting of staff. The suit alleges the lynching jokes were directed at hthe Black staffer because of her race and that the office did not properly discipline the supervisor after being made aware of those actions. In addition, the staffer was retaliated against for reporting her white supervisor's behavior and subsequently was assigned a smaller work portfolio. The suit alleges the staffer was instructed to "“get a rope and put it around your neck.”<ref>https://www.rollcall.com/2021/07/15/rep-brad-schneiders-office-sued-for-hostile-work-environment-retaliation-against-black-employee/</ref>

====Ralph Northam====
[[File:Northam2.JPG|right|300px|thumb|Virginia Democrat Gov. [[Ralph Northam]] (left) in 1982. Northam was first elected as chief executive in 2018.]]
In early February 2019, it was discovered that Northam included a photo on his medical yearbook page of two people posing together, one wearing [[blackface]] and another dressed as a [[KKK]] member, although Northam implausibly denied that he was one of the two after he admitted to being one of them.<ref>Chretien, Claire (February 1, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/yearbook-page-of-virginia-gov.-who-defended-infanticide-shows-kkk-costume Yearbook photo of Virginia gov. who defended infanticide shows KKK costume]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved February 1, 2019. See also:
*Nolte, John (February 2, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/02/02/nolte-ralph-coonman-northam-medias-governor/ Nolte: Ralph ‘The Coonman’ Northam Is the Media’s Governor]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 2, 2019.</ref> Northam tried to excuse his conduct by claiming he dressed up for a [[Michael Jackson]] contest, although the clothing in the photograph was well out of style in the 1980s.

When the news broke, [[CNN]] ran a [[fake news]] chyron claiming Northam was a "Republican".<ref>https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-misidentifies-virginia-gov-ralph-northam-as-a-republican-during-coverage-of-racist-old-photo/</ref> 50% of Democrats continued to support Northam.<ref>Nolte, John (February 5, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/05/nolte-50-of-virginia-democrats-still-back-baby-killing-blackface-northam/ Nolte: 50% Of Virginia Democrats Still Back Baby-Killing, Blackface Northam]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 5, 2019.</ref>

In response, [[racist]] Democrats then tried to prevent Northam's resignation by exploiting [[sexual assault]] allegations against the [[African American]] Lt. Governor.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-party-of-virginia-says-sex-assault-claim-against-lt-gov-fairfax-of-profound-gravity</ref> Then, the [[Attorney General]] who would be third in line of succession revealed that he, too, had also appeared in blackface at a college party in the 1980s.<ref>https://www.vox.com/2019/2/6/18213902/ralph-northam-justin-fairfax-mark-herring-blackface-virginia-governor-line-of-succession</ref>

First Lady Pam Northam handed the [[African-American]] daughter of a state employee a piece of [[cotton]]. According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Leah Dozier Walker—an employee at Virginia's Department of Education—wrote a letter to lawmakers and Gov. Ralph Northam's office describing Mrs. Northam's behavior during a tour her daughter took at the Governor's mansion. Northam asked Walker's daughter and two other African American students “if they could imagine what it must have been like to pick cotton all day” after passing a cotton sample to them inside a historic kitchen on the property. “I can not for the life of me understand why the first lady would single out the African American pages for this—or—why she would ask them such an insensitive question,” Walker wrote, referring to students who had served as pages during the state Senate.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/wapo-gov-northams-wife-handed-cotton-to-black-kids-told-them-to-imagine-being-slaves</ref>

====Mazie Hirono and Tammy Duckworth====
Racist Democrat Sens. [[Tammy Duckworth]] and [[Mazie Hirono]] refused to vote for any [[white]] Biden appointee.<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/dem-sens-duckworth-and-hirono-threatened-to-vote-against-white-biden-nominees/</ref>

====Lori Lightfoot====

In May 2021 Chicago [[NBC]]5 reported mayor [[Lori Lightfoot]] refused to do interviews with white people.<ref>https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1394813036741885954</ref> The report was confirmed by Chicago [[PBS]] station WTTW.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/19/reporters-say-chicago-mayor-lightfoot-limiting-interviews-to-black-and-brown-journalists-1076308/</ref> and ''[[USAToday]]''.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/20/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-journalists-interviews/5192857001/</ref> The formal announcement said Lightfoot would only grant interviews to "Black and brown" reports. Lightfoot complained bitterly about the "whiteness and maleness" of Chicago's [[liberal media]] which had only aided in her election.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/20/lightfoot-defends-her-bigotry-slams-overwhelming-whiteness-and-maleness-of-chicago-media-outlets-1076689/</ref> ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' reporter Gregory Pratt, a [[Latino]] was granted an interview and asked the mayor’s office to lift its exclusion others. When the mayor's office refused, Pratt protested the [[racist]] policy and canceled the interview. A Chicago WGN anchor and a ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter supported the ''Tribune'''s action and called on all reporters to boycott the mayor's office racist policies.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/cancel-back-after-mayor-lightfoot-cancels-white-reporters-one-hispanic-reporter-cancels-her-in-return/</ref> The National Association of Black Journalists issued a statement: "that NABJ’s history of advocacy does not support excluding any bona fide journalists from one-on-one interviews with newsmakers, even if it is for one day and in support of activism...We have members from all races and backgrounds and diversity, equity and inclusion must be universal."<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/21/black-journalists-group-reluctantly-says-it-cannot-support-chicago-mayors-bigotry-against-white-scribes-1077398/</ref> [[Civil rights]] attorney [[Leo Terrell]] ripped Lightfoot's policy as "repugnant".<ref>https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1395396192893345797</ref> Former Rep. [[Tulsi Gabbard]] who excoriated [[Hillary Clinton]] as "the personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic party", called upon Lightfoot to resign. "I call upon [[Joe Biden|President Biden]], [[Kamala Harris]], and other leaders of our county—of all races—to join me in calling for Mayor Lightfoot's resignation.<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/05/21/tulsi-gabbard-calls-on-chicago-mayor-to-resign-over-antiwhite-racism-n2589828</ref>

Constitutional law professor [[Jonathan Turley]] weighed in: "The question is whether a race-based criteria for reporters is not just actionable but whether the media is prepared to sue Lightfoot for discriminatory policies....One of the most significant aspects of this controversy is that Lightfoot ordered staff to enforce the race-based criteria. That means that the policy was carried out with city staff and resources....The Illinois Human Rights Law states that unlawful [[discrimination]]
[[File:Lightfoot.PNG|right|175px|thumb|Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot refused to do interviews with journalists based upon skin color.]]
{{quotebox-float|“means discrimination against a person because of his or her actual or perceived: race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, order of protection status, disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or unfavorable discharge from military service as those terms are defined in this Section.”<ref>https://jonathanturley.org/2021/05/19/mayor-lightfoot-facing-media-outcry-over-race-based-access-policy/</ref>}}
Amidst a firestorm of outrage Lightfoot attempted to defend her racist and anti-male policies: “As a woman of color, as a [[lesbian]], it’s important to me that [[diversity]] is put front and center.”<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/mayor-lightfoot-defends-racist-interview-policy-woman-color-lesbian-important-diversity-put-front-center-video/</ref> Lightfoot argued that racism and discrimination will make "the [[collective]] us do better."<ref>https://therightscoop.com/bigoted-lori-lightfoot-says-excluding-whites-will-make-us-better-tucker-says-equity-is-racism-guess-who-press-is-mad-at/</ref>

The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) and [[Judicial Watch]] filed suit, alleging the Chicago mayors stated racist policy violated DNCF reporter Thomas Caenacci's [[First Amendment]] and [[Fourteenth Amendment]] rights:
{{quotebox-float|"The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, alleges that Lightfoot’s denial violates the DCNF and Catenacci’s First Amendment rights and Catenacci’s right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.

“It’s absurd that an elected official believes she can discriminate on the basis of race,” DCNF Editor-in-Chief Ethan Barton said. “Mayor Lightfoot’s decision is clearly blocking press freedom through racial discrimination.”}}
Catenacci requested an interview with Lightfoot through her office on May 20 to talk about [[coronavirus]]-related issues like Chicago's lagging vaccination rate, how she'd rate her handling of the [[pandemic]] in comparison to other cities, etc. He followed up on May 21 and May 24 and did not receive a response. “By failing to respond in a timely manner, Mayor Lightfoot has denied Plaintiff Catenacci’s request,” the complaint alleges.

Further, the DCNF alleged “on information and belief” that Lightfoot was aware that Catenacci is white, and that because of that and her newly announced policy of interviewing only “journalists of color,” he was being denied the opportunity to sit down and interview her in his [[legal capacity|capacity]] as a [[journalist]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/27/daily-caller-news-foundation-lori-lightfoot-lawsuit/</ref>

====Murial Bowser====
Bowser is a [[racist]] who complained about all the foreign refugees flooding into Washington, D.C. during the [[Biden border crisis]].<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/democrat-dc-mayor-bowser-wants-biden-regime-stop-illegal-aliens-bussed-dc-video/</ref>

When [[Cuba]]n refugees longing to be free and their oppressed masses painted "Cuba Libre" on the street in front of the Cuban embassy in Washington, Bowser ordered the message to be immediately [[censor]]ed.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-mayor-removes-unauthorized-street-sign-supporting-cubas-anti-communist-protesters</ref>

====Katie Hobbs====
[[Katie Hobbs]] is the Arizona Democrat Secretary of State who oversaw the corrupt [[Maricopa county]] election theft in 2020. Hobbs was also the Democrat frontrunner for Arizona governor in the 2022 Democrat primary. A former staffer for Hobbs, Taloyna Adams, was awarded $2.75 million in a racial discrimination lawsuit. It was the second time a federal jury agreed Adams was the victim of racial and gender discrimination. The jury also found Adams was retaliated against because she questioned why she was earning less than others who did the same work.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/arizona-gubernatorial-candidate-katie-hobbs-loses-2-75-million-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-likely-lead-democrat-race-governor/</ref>

====Jill Biden====
[[File:Jill Biden racism.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Jill Biden insulted Hispanics calling them "tacos."<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2022/07/12/abcs-gma-skips-jill-bidens-disastrous-comment-comparing-latinos</ref>]]
First Birthing Person [[Jill Biden]] insulted [[Hispanic]]s in a public forum, calling them "tacos." The National Association of Hispanic Journalists issued a stinging rebuke, "We are not tacos."

===Biden advisors===
''Politico'' reported,
{{quotebox-float|"Some of [Kamala] Harris’s advisers believed the president’s almost [[white privilege|entirely white]] inner circle did not show the vice president the respect she deserved,” Martin and Burns write. “Harris worried that Biden’s staff looked down on her; she fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious.”

At one point, Harris dispatched [incoming chief of staff Tina] Flournoy to talk to top Biden adviser [[Anita Dunn|ANITA DUNN]] to convey displeasure that White House staff was not standing up for Harris when she entered the room the way they did for Biden. “The vice president took it as a sign of disrespect,” according to the excerpt.<ref>https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2022/03/22/when-anna-wintour-pissed-off-kamala-00019368</ref>}}

===Capitol false flag attack===
[[File:Beatty and Sarsour.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Capitol insurrectionists Joyce Beatty and Linda Sarsour.]]
{{See also|United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Protests|Two-tier justice system}}
[[Congressional Black Caucus]] members [[Joyce Beatty]]<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/16/dem-congresswoman-chair-of-black-caucus-arrested-for-storming-senate-building-leading-insurgents-1104360/</ref> and [[Hank Johnson]],<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/23/another-democrat-lawmaker-arrested-on-capitol-hill-for-leading-march-into-building-so-insurrection-1107462/</ref> along with jihdist [[Linda Sarsour]],<ref>[https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/civil-rights-activist-linda-sarsour-is-being-arrested-by-a-news-photo/1328937385 Activists Demonstrate Against State Level Republicans Trying To Pass Restrictive Voting Rights Laws], July 15, 2021</ref> were arrested with mobs of insurrectionists after storming [[U.S. Capitol building]]. Sarsour declared [[jihad]] against the United States government in 2017.<ref>https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Linda-Sarsour-calls-for-jihad-against-American-government-499039</ref> In 2018, Sarsour was arrested for leading insurrectionists into the offices of the [[Speaker of the House]]<ref>https://www.theunitedwest.org/2018/03/08/linda-sarsour-arrested-at-the-us-capitol</ref> and again at the [[Kavanaugh hearings insurrection]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Sabrina|last=Siddiqui|title=[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/04/brett-kavanaugh-protests-disrupt-senate-supreme-court-hearing Brett Kavanaugh: protests disrupt Senate supreme court hearing]|date=September 5, 2018|work=The Guardian}}</ref>

The Pelosi Panel was a [[partisan]] [[witchhunt]] and [[demonization]] project formed by [[San Francisco values|San Francisco]] [[Democrat]] Rep. Nancy Pelosi when the [[United States Senate]] and Joe Biden<ref>https://www.axios.com/biden-jan-6-commission-67eb120f-5c0b-48e6-be77-08158ef94441.html</ref> rejected the idea of a [[bipartisan]] commission to investigate the [[2021 Capitol insurrection hoax]].<ref>https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-senate-votes-block-panel-probe-capitol-riot</ref> While first offering Republicans to participate, Pelosi booted off Republican members<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-rejects-jordan-and-banks-for-jan-6-committee-as-house-gop-says-it-will-launch-its-own-investigation-194806464.html</ref> and named one of her own hand-selected Republican [[NeverTrump]]ers to give it the appearance of bipartisanship. Pelosi did not want to answer questions about her own involvement in rejecting National Guard security in the days before the January 6 fiasco.<ref>https://freedomjournalist.com/it-was-a-set-up-both-dc-mayor-pelosi-turned-down-national-guard-on-jan-6/</ref>

==Political positions==
:{{See also|Democrat urban issues}}
<center>{{cquote|<big>We choose truth over facts.</big>|||[[Joseph Biden#Segregation|Segregation]]ist and former V.P. [[Joseph Biden]].}}</center>
[[File:Davell Gardner Jr.png|right|200px|thumb|1 year old Davell Gardner, Jr. was murdered by "peaceful" [[Black Lives Matter]] protesters<ref>https://youtu.be/NGBSCJ0dyyU</ref> while in his stroller after Democrats cut $1 billion from the New York Police Department.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/13/go-to-hell-gardner-family-slain-toddler-tells-killers/</ref>]]
Virtually all political positions, foreign and domestic, have been determined by how it redounds to the expansion of the civil service workforce, state and federal, and to the benefit of the existing civil service. This has been historically true since passage of the Civil Service Act in 1882, and was the basis of the Jacksonian [[spoils system]] and founding of the party. Democrat candidates campaign on, and Democrats voters vote for, government jobs and goodies and who will be called upon to hand out money from the public treasury. All policy discussion and decisions regarding national security, foreign policy, and domestic programs are based upon this basic tenet of controlling and expanding the power of the civil service workforce.

Half of all homeless persons in America live in the blue state of California, which has enacted voter suppression legislation against Republicans to keep President Trump off the ballot. Although unemployment is at record lows, blue states still lead the nation in crime and homelessness.

The Democratic party has persistently attempted to restrict gun ownership rights of blacks, Hispanics, and all other minorities at all levels, state and federal.<ref>https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1534&context=faculty_scholarship</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tOilPSHaM&list=PLuq9rBpmQwBRX_EExUHbChmECDSUf8dD0 Black Gun Owners SHRED Media Narrative About 'White Nationalist' Gun Rally]</ref> Democrats seek to disarm Blacks, where only cops and criminals have guns.

A key tenet of the modern Democratic party is, 'Diversity is our strength, provided that you are not [[Russian]].'

===Crime===
{{See also|Smash-and-grab}}
[[File:2020_leftist_insurrection.png|right|300px|thumb|Year-over-year increase in the Murder Rate in Democrat run cities during the 2020 [[U.S. Color Revolution]].]]
In Democrat-run cities crime has spiraled out control.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/news/democrat-run-cities-with-soros-backed-das-are-watching-crime-spiral-out-control/</ref> At least 16 major U.S. cities broke their annual homicide records in 2021, [[Philadelphia]], St. Paul, [[Portland]], Indianapolis, Tucson, [[Louisville]], Toledo, Baton Rouge, Austin, Columbus, Rochester, Albuquerque, [[Atlanta]], Jackson, Macon and New Haven.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/cities-record-homicides-2021</ref><ref>https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/its-like-the-purge-murder-records-are-being-shattered-all-over-america-and-next-year-could-be-even-worse/</ref> Houston, Oakland, Greensboro and Memphis are also neared record homicide highs in 2021.

New York City Council Member Antonio Reynoso (D) introduced a bill to abolish the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) gang database as gang crime reached a new high throughout the city. By October 2021, more than 100 children under 18 years old were involved in street-gang related shootings. Almost all of the children killed in gang-related violence in New York City are minorities, predominantly black. A police source told the ''New York Post'' that, “the gangs are eating these kids alive.”

In December 2020 Los Angeles District Attorney (LADA) George Gascon (D) entered office and released his plans to significantly downsize and dissolve LA County’s hardcore gangs unit. When entering office, Gascon immediately prevented his prosecutors from seeking the death penalty or issuing a cash bail for non-violent criminals. Steve Cooley, the former LADA, referred to Gascon as a “functional outlaw… basically, George Gascon is a George Soros puppet, and that is dangerous.” When Gascon’s plans coupled with two California Propositions (47 & 57) and Assembly Bill 109, the limited policing on gangs led to an immediate explosion in gang activity from prematurely-released violent gang-affiliated felons.

In 2019, Los Angeles was statistically one of the safest cities in the United States. Homicides dropped to 5 per 100,000 people, and violent crime was at 560 per 100,000. Less than a year into his tenure as District Attorney, violent crime, attacks and robberies of citizens, animal cruelty, and heightened rates of human trafficking throughout Southern California have risen. Between 2019 and 2021, homicide rose 116 percent, aggravated assault increased 19.9 percent, vehicular theft rose 24 percent, with a 224 percent increase in individuals being shot. By February 2021, gang-related homicides were up 266.7 percent and gang-related shootings increased 133.3 percent. Attacks on police officers also rose 300 percent in the first 18 days of January 2021 when compared to the same time period in 2020.

The pandemic emptied parts of San Francisco and highlighted some of its drawbacks: human and dog feces smeared across sidewalks, home and vehicle break-ins, overflowing trash cans, and a laissez-faire approach by officials to brazen drug dealing. Parents despaired as public schools stayed closed for most of 2021 as nearby districts welcomed children back to the classroom. Drug dealers carry translucent bags filled with crystal-like rocks or stand outside the public library’s main branch, flashing wads of cash while peddling heroin and methamphetamine. The number of people that died from drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2021 was nearly three times as high as the number that died from COVID.

Often, the worst criminals dress in suits and walk the halls of power. For example, a CNN producer was charged with luring a mother and her nine-year-old daughter to a rental home in Vermont for ‘sexual subservience’ training also told someone else he’d ‘trained’ girls as young as seven. John Griffin, a producer on CNN’s New Day and worked for [[Chris Cuomo]], was charged by federal prosecutors in Vermont who say he paid for sex with underage girls, including one whose mother he convinced into letting her visit him.

314 police officers were shot in 2021. Meanwhile, the mainstream media and leftist groups continue to relentlessly demonize the police, driving good people out of the profession in record numbers. A workforce survey released in June 2021 by the Police Executive Research Forum found the retirement rate in police departments nationwide jumped 45% over 2020 and 2021. And another 18% of officers resigned, the survey found, a development which coincided with nationwide social justice protests and calls to defund the police.

===Critical race theory===
:{{See also|Critical theory}}
[[Derrick Bell]],<ref>https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/derrick-bell/</ref> [[Barack Obama]]’s favorite [[Harvard]] professor, devised Critical Race Theory,<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/critical-race-theorys-toxic-destructive-impact-on-america</ref> which exemplifies Lenin’s strategy as applied to race. According to Discover the Networks:
{{quotebox-float|Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently the nation’s legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid … members of “oppressed” racial groups are entitled—in fact obligated—to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing. …}}
[[File:Rules-for-radicals-Obama-tribe-and-cabinet-768x456.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
Bell’s theory is in turn an innovation of [[Critical Theory]], which was developed by Marxist thinkers of the [[Frankfurt School]] in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923. The Institute’s left-wing scholars fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, relocating to [[Columbia University]] in New York. Critical Theory, which discredits all aspects of Western society, we know today as [[political correctness]]. One of its most famous purveyors was the Frankfurt School’s [[Herbert Marcuse]], longtime associate of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]’s [[Julian Bond]]. Marcuse invented the concept of “partisan tolerance,” that is, [[tolerance]] for leftist ideas and [[intolerance]] of all others. The Southern Poverty Law Center applied Marcuse's strategy in developing its “Hate Watch” list, and ''[[Rules for Radicals]]'' author [[Saul Alinsky]] used it in his own life's work.

The “racist” narrative was turbocharged with the concept of “White Privilege,” the notion that whites—the dominant [[demographic]] group in capitalist America—are irretrievably racist, [[sexist]], [[homophobic]], [[xenophobic]], [[imperialist]]ic oppressors who exploit everyone. Whites are the only true [[evil]] in the world and should be exterminated. “Dr. Kamau Kambon, who taught Africana Studies 241 in the Spring 2005 semester at North Carolina State University, also said this needs to be done ‘because white people want to kill us.’”<ref>''[https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/activist-exterminate-white-people/ Activist: exterminate white people],'' by Jon Sanders, Carolina Journal, Oct. 21, 2015.</ref>

The “White Skin Privilege” idea was created in 1967 by [[Noel Ignatiev]],<ref>Fernando, Ivan (November 18, 2013). [http://diversitychronicle.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/progressive-professor-urges-white-male-students-to-commit-suicide-during-class/ "Progressive professor urges white male students to commit suicide during class"]. Diversity Chronicle website.</ref> an acolyte of Derrick Bell and professor at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. Ignatiev was a member of the [[Communist Party USA]]’s most radical wing, the Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party from 1958–66. The Provisional Organizing Committee was the intellectual forerunner to the [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]], a [[Vanguardism|vanguard]] group. Writing under the alias Noel Ignatin, Ignatiev co-authored a [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) pamphlet with fellow radical Ted Allen titled, ''White Blindspot''. In 1992 he co-founded ''Race Traitor: Journal of the New Abolitionism''. Its first issue coined the slogan “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” Its stated objective was to “abolish the white race.” More specifically, the ''New Abolitionist'' newsletter declared:
{{quotebox-float|The way to abolish the white race is to challenge, disrupt and eventually overturn the institutions and behavior patterns that reproduce the privileges of whiteness, including the schools, job and housing markets, and the criminal justice system. The abolitionists do not limit themselves to socially acceptable means of protest, but reject in advance no means of attaining their goal.<ref>https://capitalresearch.org/article/blm-roots/</ref>}}
===Racist travel ban===

Regime chief propagandist [[Jen Psaki]] refused to answer questions about Biden's racist travel ban on Africans travelling from Black African countries. When Simon Ateba, a black African reporter with ''Today News Africa'', attempted to question Psaki about the racist motivations behind the travel ban on black Africans, Psaki ignored Ateba in favor of a sympathetic white liberal reporter.<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/news/psaki-repeatedly-shuts-down-today-news-africa-reporter-for-shouting-questions-about-omicron-at-briefing/</ref> Ateba was persistent, and wanted to know why with no cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant in [[Zimbabwe]], [[Namibia]], [[Lesotho]], and [[Mozambique]], what justified the travel ban on countries with zero cases of the variant. Ateba asked, “What would you say to those who believe that this is a racist ban, that it is only on African and black African nations?”<ref>https://thepoliticalinsider.com/african-reporter-confronts-jen-psaki-on-bidens-racist-covid-travel-ban/</ref>

Psaki couldn't answer the question and scolded Ateba about decorum, telling him to learn his place by watching his white counterparts.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/african-reporter-that-psaki-scolded-about-decorum-says-biden-is-disrespecting-africa-which-is-mostly-brown-black/</ref> According to ''Fox News'', Ateba said,
[[File:Ateba Psaki.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Psaki made rude and disparaging comments toward Simon Ateba of ''Today Africa News''.]]
{{quotebox-float|"The travel ban was built on a lie. The president on November 26 [2021] banned 8 African countries. Only 2 of those countries had any case of the omicron variant.”

Ateba, a native of [[Cameroon]] according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, went on to question the supposed [[science]] behind Biden’s ban, pointing to Namibia, a small country on the continent’s Atlantic coast. The nation of 2.5 million people registered only 400 cases of COVID-19 since the virus’ inception, he said, but yet Biden essentially punished them anyway.

“There’s total chaos: People can’t travel to Namibia, Zimbabwe [or] Mozambique, yet they have zero cases. So I don’t believe I was the one being disrespectful. I think Africa was disrespected, by banning countries based on a lie,” he said, referencing claims by Psaki he was being disrespectful of his fellow White House reporters."<ref>https://rumble.com/vq7lll-african-journalist-biden-is-disrespecting-africa-with-a-travel-ban-based-on.html</ref>}}
===Mandatory vasectomies===
Rep. Mickey Dollens of Oklahoma introduced a bill to mandate vasectomies for boys when they reach [[puberty]].<ref>https://youtu.be/9IIOskpHGpA</ref>

==Ideology==
The Democratic party's failed [[Trump-Russia collusion hoax]] destroyed the American people's faith in [[mainstream media]] news coverage and brought a cloud over the perception of the American system of government throughout much of the world.

In 2020, elected Democrat mayors and governors threatened with arrest citizens going to church, funerals, graduation parties, or even playing with their children in public parks while giving license to violent leftwing mobs to riot, loot, burn down churches and shopping districts in minority communities, take taxpayers hostage in broad sections of a city, and to murder innocent people, including the police. When an armed mob of leftist insurrectionists took over and occupied a seven square block area of [[Seattle]], local and state elected Democrat officials did not respond to requests from citizens and taxpayers to protect property and liberate from oppression 8,000 residents held hostage. The DNC partners with the [[Antifa]] [[terrorist]] organization for fundraising.<ref>https://noqreport.com/2020/07/19/action-network-bonds-antifa-blm-riots-and-dnc-at-the-hip/</ref>

The party is pro-infanticide, pro-[[illegal immigrant]] rights over American citizens,<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/07/03/fareed-zakaria-current-immigration-crisis-caused-people-gaming-asylum-laws/</ref> [[pro-abortion]], anti-capitalist and anti-[[free enterprise]], supports confiscatory taxation, resource redistribution, wealth transfer from American citizens to illegal immigrants,<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2018/02/26/how-american-citizens-finance-health-care-for-undocumented-immigrants/#2185177612c4</ref> abuse of asylum laws,<ref>https://www.westernjournal.com/hermancain/pelosi-deeply-disappointed-deal-mexico-reduces-abuse-u-s-asylum-laws/</ref><ref>https://thefederalist.com/2018/06/20/democrats-have-zero-tolerance-for-illegal-immigration-solutions/</ref> [[single party]] [[socialism]], election cheating, rigged nomination and election process, dictatorial regulation by unelected partisan [[Civil service system|civil servants]], anti-First, Second, Fourth and Fifth Amendments opposing [[due process]] rights of the accused, and a dictatorial central controlling government. Democrats are anti-free speech, religion, the Constitutional electoral process, [[separation of powers]], and advocate court-packing. Elected Democrat officials have refused to protect the lives and property of citizen taxpayers who voted for them, paid for emergency police, fire, and medical services, and pay their salary.

Democrats have become [[radical]]ized, [[elitism|elitist]], have abandoned the interests of working people, and their leaders have endorsed violence to promote "change." By contrast, the [[Republican Party]] is generally [[pro-life]] and pro-free enterprise, supporting lower taxes, gun rights, individual liberty, small responsible government,<ref>http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican#Role_of_Government</ref> tolerance, the two party system, and the free, open exchange of ideas.

===Marxist takeover===
[[File:BLM terrorist incidents.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|A ''[[Time magazine]]'' survey found 570 far-left insurrections in 220 cities across the United States between May 24, 2020 and August 22, 2020.<ref>https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/</ref>]]
:{{See also|Cancel culture}}
In March 2021 when a slate of [[Democratic Socialists of America]] took over the leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, sweeping all five party leadership positions, the party's executive director, staff, consultants, and every other employee resigned.<ref>https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nevada-democratic-party-dsa/</ref>

The national party has won the praise of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America|Communist Party USA]]<ref>Varney, James (June 19, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/19/communist-party-usa-praises-democrat-policy-shifts/ Communist Party, USA praises Democrats' policy shifts ahead of centennial celebration]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved June 19, 2019. See also:
*Chumley, Cheryl K. (January 29, 2015). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/29/communist-party-usa-working-with-the-democratic-pa/ Communist Party USA: 'Working with the Democratic Party' is key]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved September 26, 2019.</ref> and is dominated by [[progressive]] [[Millennial]]s indoctrinated with [[Cultural Marxism]] from [[public school]]s and state universities.<ref>https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5439334O</ref> [[Violence]], [[Anti-Semitism]], [[intolerance]], [[gender psychosis]], [[infanticide]], promoting [[racial]] divisiveness, pandering, [[patronage]], [[censorship]], eliminating beef from the American diet, and tearing down America's automobile and airline infrastructure have replaced justice, fairness, tolerance and economic wellbeing as priority issues. The party rejects God and claims [[science]] is the ultimate determiner of truth yet rejects the scientific fact that medical treatment cannot turn a man into a woman. The party has adopted the [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] position that [[reparations|slave reparations]], a [[universal basic income]], and [[single payer|single payer healthcare]] will reduce [[global warming|carbon emissions]].<ref>See [[Green New Deal]].</ref> [[Labor union]]s, which once formed the backbone of the [[New Deal]] and [[Great Society]] coalitions, have been decimated by [[globalism]]. Working peoples' jobs have been shipped overseas to promote "[[equality]]" with the "[[Third World]]."<ref>If "Third World" is a "racist code word" as some progressives contend, it was coined by liberal academics, United Nations experts, and globalists during the [[Cold War]].</ref> Formerly industrious working families have been pacified by [[big government]] and taxpayer-supported narcotic addiction with [[opioid]]s, which Democrats claim to be a fundamental "human right."

Political observers and news sources have referred to the Democrat Party as more of a criminal organization (and in at least one case, even a domestic terrorist organization<ref>[https://drhurd.com/2020/06/07/the-democratic-party-is-now-a-terrorist-organization/ The Democratic Party is Now a Terrorist Organization]</ref>)
than an actual political party because of its history of corruption, racism, hate, lawlessness (including their ignorance of the Constitution except where convenient to them), anti-Americanism (including collusion with anti-American foreign and domestic enemies), lack of regard for life, lack of regard for civil rights (except where and when convenient to them alone) and fomentation of anarchy and insurrection against the United States,<ref>Multiple sources:
*[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/a_criminal_enterprise_aka_the_democratic_party.html A Criminal Enterprise, a.k.a. the Democratic Party] at the American Thinker
*[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/the_democrats_a_corrupt_insane_posse_masquerading_as_a_political_party.html The Democrats: A Corrupt, Insane Posse Masquerading as a Political Party] at the American Thinker
*[https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/michael-walsh/2016/08/16/the-democrats-a-criminal-organization-n47572 The Democrats: A Criminal Organization...]
*[https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/democratic-party-is-a-criminal-corrupt-organization Democratic Party is a criminal corrupt organization] at Fellowship of the Minds
*[https://www.wnd.com/2012/07/ex-time-editor-dem-party-criminal-organization/ Ex-Time editor: Dem Party 'criminal organization'] at WorldNetDaily
*[http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/caruba/131017 A criminal enterprise called the Democratic Party]
*[https://canadafreepress.com/article/a-citizens-indictment Democratic Party has become a Continuing Criminal Enterprise] at Canada Free Press
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJJBdN2QgA The Democratic Party is America's largest criminal organization] at Josh Bernstein YouTube channel
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypr11PvaCpI Glen Beck identifies largest criminal organization in US history, the National Democrat Party] at DrWrongPaul YouTube channel
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w994YjfJbqk Democrats are a Criminal Organization | The Andrew Klavan Show Ep. 938] at the Daily Wire YouTube channel
*[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-biden-harris-democrats-pro-criminal Tucker Carlson accuses Biden, Harris of embracing 'the Democratic Party's new pro-criminal agenda'] at Fox News</ref> and have criticized the Democrats as a whole for their refusal to take any responsibility for their actions and [[liberal projection|to accuse the Republican Party and its supporters]] of exactly what the Democrats are guilty of, including playing the [[historical revisionism]] card with the American public<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/ Whitewashing the Democratic Party’s History] at the National Review</ref><ref>[https://ammo.com/articles/jim-crow-laws-democrat-party-century-of-racist-history Democrats & Jim Crow: A Century of Racist History the Democratic Party Prefers You'd Forget]</ref> and using a willing and complicit [[liberal media]] to do so. Even President [[Donald Trump]] has referred to the Democrats as the party of crime because of its support for defunding (and in some cases, abolishing) local police forces and giving domestic terrorist groups such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter free reign to engage in violent rioting, commit crimes against the public and basically do as they please with impunity.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhwBo9_8Qn8 "Democrats have become the party of crime!" President Trump]</ref><ref>[https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-immigration/democratic-party-domestic-terrorist-organization-dnc-connections-china-terrorists-and-cartels-part The Democratic Party Is a Domestic Terrorist Organization-DNC Connections to China, Terrorists and the Cartels (Part 3)]</ref>

[[File:Racist Democrats.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|[[Marxist]] [[white supremacist]]s defaced the Monument to the all-volunteer Black 54th Massachusetts Regiment of Union Soldiers in the [[Civil War]].]]

===Leftwing violence===

:{{See also|Leftwing violence under the Biden junta|Anti-Asian hate crime}}
[[Kamala Harris]] referred to the BLM/Anifa violence over the Summer of 2020 leaving many dead, tens of millions of dollars in property damages and businesses and livelihoods destroyed as “brilliant” and “an essential component or mark of a real [[democracy]]."<ref>https://nypost.com/2020/09/26/kamala-harris-blasted-for-praising-blm-as-essential-and-brilliant-amid-violence/</ref> Many of the alleged "peaceful protesters" of the 2020 insurrectionary riots were indeed convicted criminals,<ref>https://meaww.com/will-gaige-grosskreutz-maurice-freeland-and-ziminski-be-charged-after-rittenhouse-verdict</ref> including persons convicted of child rape, domestic abuse, firearms violations, arson, residential burglary and other crimes.<ref>https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/2021/03/12/kenosha-shooting/</ref>

[[Connor Betts]], dressed in all black, killed 9 people including several [[African American]]s and injured 27 in a [[Dayton shooting|shooting at a Dayton, Ohio restaurant]]. He described himself on his Twitter account page as "leftist / i’m going to hell and i’m not coming back.” He wrote on Twitter that he would happily vote for Democrat [[Elizabeth Warren]], praised [[Satan]], was upset about the [[2016 presidential election]] results, and added, “I want [[socialism]], and i’ll not wait for the idiots to finally come round to understanding.” The Greene County Board of Elections lists his party as “Dem.”<ref>https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-betts/</ref>

Patrick Crausius, a 21 year old registered [[Democrat]]<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/leftists-change-shooter-patrick-crusiuss-mylife-page-after-saturday-shooting-from-democrat-to-republican/</ref> [[El Paso Walmart shooting|killed 20 people and injured 26 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas]]. The shooter was a supporter of universal healthcare, universal basic income, racist, [[environmentalist]] and [[zero sum]] anti-corporate anti-[[economic growth]] policies. In a manifesto the shooter wrote,<ref>[https://www.paypervids.com/alleged-el-paso-texas-walmart-shooter-manifesto/ ]</ref>
[[File:2021 crime increases in Democrat cities.jpg|right|</ref>300px|thumb|]]
:*''"The inconvenient truth is that our leaders, both Democrat AND Republican, have been failing us for decades. They are either complacent or involved in one of the biggest betrayals of the American public in our history. The takeover of the United States government by unchecked corporations."''
:*''"America will have to initiate a basic universal income to prevent widespread poverty and civil unrest as people lose their jobs.."''
:*''"Achieving ambitious social projects like [[universal healthcare]] and [[UBI]] would become far more likely to succeed if tens of millions of dependents are removed."''
:*''"immigration will make one of the biggest issues of our time, [[automation]], so much worse. Some sources say that in under two decades, half of American jobs will be lost to it."''
:*''"our lifestyle Is destroying the environment of our country. The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations. Corporations are heading the destruction of our environment by shamelessly overharvesting resources."''
:*''"Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste.... We even use god knows how many trees worth of paper towels just wipe water off our hands. ... The government is unwilling to tackle these issues beyond empty promises since they are owned by corporations. Corporations that also like immigration because more people means a bigger market for their products. ... So the next logical step is to decrease the number of people in America using resources."''
:*''"This will also make the elites that run corporations realize that it’s not in their interest to continue piss off Americans. Corporate America doesn’t need to be destroyed, but just shown that they are on the wrong side of history."''
:*''"the idea of deporting or murdering all non-white Americans is horrific. Many have been here at least as long as the whites, and have done as much to build our country. The best solution to this for now would be to divide America into a confederacy of territories with at least one territory for each race. "''
:*''"I know that the media will probably call me a white supremacist anyway and blame Trump’s rhetoric. The media is infamous for [[fake news]]. Their reaction to this attack will likely just confirm that."''

Republican Rep. [[Steve Scalise]] and five others were shot by [[Bernie Sanders]] volunteer James Hodgkinson prior to a congressional charitable event. Hodgkinson had a list of names of the Republican lawmakers he wanted to [[murder]].<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/16/scalise-shooter-had-list-lawmakers-names-in-his-pocket.html Scalise shooter James Hodgkinson had list of Republican lawmakers' names]. ''Fox News''. June 16, 2017. Retrieved June 18, 2017.</ref> After the shooting, a Democrat strategist created the hashtag #HuntRepublicanCongressmen and voiced hate statements against Republicans.<ref>Shaw, Adam (June 17, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/17/dem-strategist-devine-launches-huntrepublicancongressmen-scalise-shooting/ Dem Strategist James Devine Launches Hashtag #HuntRepublicanCongressmen After Steve Scalise Shooting]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 18, 2017.</ref><ref>Chasmar, Jessica (June 21, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/21/jim-devine-dem-strategist-behind-huntrepublicans-r/ Dem strategist behind #HuntRepublicans tweets about Handel victory: ‘Time for hunting’]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved June 22, 2017.</ref> Republican Rep. [[Claudia Tenney]] received an email threat that read, “One down, 216 to go,” shortly after the shooting.<ref>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/216-new-york-rep-threatened-shooting-article-1.3247736</ref>

Black people represented a massive share of murder victims in six major cities through the first six months of 2021 compared to 2020, which itself saw a large crime surge, according to data analyzed by the ''Daily Caller News Foundation''.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/homicides-have-skyrocketed-in-these-six-democratic-cities-black-people-are-disproportionately-the-victims-data-shows_3872643.html</ref>

===Support for terrorism===
Pamela Keith unsuccessfully ran for Florida’s 18th Congressional district in the 2018 midterms and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate in the Florida Senate race of 2016. Keith tweeted during commemorations for the 2,977 murdered American victims in the 9/11 terror attacks, “On 1/6/2021, 9/11/2001 ceased being the worst thing that happened to America in my lifetime. It’s really weird and painful to process and say that. But it’s the truth. And quite frankly… it’s not even close.”<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/09/11/democratic-congressional-candidates-tweet-on-911-not-even-close-that-1621-worse-than-91101-n2595729</ref>

===Democrat racism, intolerance and bigotry===

:{{See also|Blexit}}
The Democrat Party has normalized<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/07/democratic-party-has-normalized-anti-semitism/ The Democratic Party Has Normalized Anti-Semitism], David Harsany, ''The Federalist'', March 7, 2019.</ref> and become the home of modern anti-Semitism in America.<ref>Murphy, James (March 8, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/31685-do-democrats-have-an-anti-semitism-problem Do Democrats Have an Anti-Semitism Problem?] ''The New American''. Retrieved March 8, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.jns.org/opinion/anti-semitism-has-a-history-in-the-democratic-party/ Anti-Semitism has a history in the Democratic Party], Diane Bederman, Jews News Syndicate, March 20, 2019.</ref> After making statements critical of the [[Obama]] and Trump administration's handling of migrants,<ref name="ushmm.org">https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/statement-regarding-the-museums-position-on-holocaust-analogies</ref> Rep. [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] was condemned by the United States Holocaust Museum for mocking the deaths of [[Nazi]] [[holocaust]] victims.<ref name="ushmm.org"/><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/24/holocaust-museum-comparisons/</ref>
[[File:Farrakhanclinton.jpg|left|350ox|thumb|Democrats push anti-Semitism into the mainstream. [[Al Sharpton]], [[Jesse Jackson]] and [[Bill Clinton]] appear on stage with notorious anti-Semite [[Louis Farrakhan]], September 2018. Within a month, America suffered the worst mass killing of Jews in its history at the Tree of Life synagogue in [[Pittsburgh]].<ref>https://www.jta.org/2018/09/07/news-opinion/bill-clinton-shared-stage-louis-farrakhan-aretha-franklins-funeral</ref>]]
Ettie Kryksman writing in the ''Times of Israel'' noted:
{{quotebox-float|"there is scant protest coming from within the Democratic Party of Democratic Officials and activists, who see no shame in hobnobbing with avowed [[antisemite]]s. The Democratic Party that condones this behavior either vocally or tacitly in their silence, is no longer a welcoming place for [[Jew]]s. Where are the voices of the Leftist Jews condemning the antisemitism that has hijacked the Democratic Party? Are Jewish [[Democrat]]s willing to tolerate and excuse the rise of antisemitism in their party? Has [[Judaism]] for them become so politicized that it has been replaced by [[Liberalism]]? The distinction between the two is lost when Jews ignore the antisemitism that has invaded the Democratic Party's leadership. The widespread antisemitism in the Democratic Party, has manifested itself... [Linda] Sarsour was later championed by Democratic Senator [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] who thought Sarsour was a wonderful role model for all women. Democratic rallies shout anti Israel slogans against the "[[apartheid]] state of [[Israel]]." Pro Israel speakers are shouted down at college campuses by [[progressive]] [[leftist]]s, who refuse to allow them to speak. Events are canceled as event organizers yield to [[bullying]].<ref>[https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/antisemitism-and-the-democratic-party-time-for-jews-to-wake-up/ Antisemitism and the Democratic Party: Time for Jews to Wake Up], Ettie Kryksman, ''Times of Israel'', April 10, 2018.</ref>}} The [[U.S. State Department]] has on its website as part of its definition of anti-Semitism: {{quotebox-float| Making mendacious, dehumanizing, [[demonizing]], or [[stereotype|stereotypical]] allegations about [[Jew]]s as such or the power of Jews as [[collective]] — such as, especially but not exclusively, the [[myth]] about a world Jewish [[conspiracy]] or of Jews controlling the [[media]], [[economy]], [[government]] or other societal institutions.<ref>https://www.state.gov/s/rga/resources/267538.htm</ref>}}
[[File:Trump-antisemitic-3.jpg|right|350px|thumb|A blatantly [[anti-Semitic]] cartoon depicting [[Israel]]i [[Prime Minister]] [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] as a guide dog with a [[Star of David]] collar leading a blind [[President Trump]] wearing a skullcap. The cartoon accompanied an op-ed published 4/25/19 in the International Edition of the ''New York Times''.<ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/440957-ny-times-opinion-apologizes-for-cartoon-depicting-anti-semitic-tropes</ref> Two days later, a Trump-hater shot up a California [[synagogue]], killing one and injuring several. The shooter left a manifesto calling President Trump a “Zionist, Anti-White, Traitorous, C*********.”<ref>http://archive.is/9rV3Y</ref>]]
DNC Vice Chair Keith Ellison met with the antisemitic [[UK]] [[Labour party]] leader [[Jeremy Corbyn]].<ref>https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/1146183139506708480</ref> The Democratic-controlled [[House of Representatives]], under [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]], refused to pass a resolution rebuking Rep. Ilhan Omar for a persistent pattern of anti-Semitic statements.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-resolution-indirectly-calling-out-omars-anti-semitic-comments-without-mentioning-her-name</ref><ref>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/house-democrats-anti-hate-resolution-anti-semitism-islamophobia-ilhan-omar.html</ref> Omar received support from [[Ku Klux Klan]] Grand Wizard and former Democrat presidential candidate [[David Duke]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/07/david-duke-ilhan-omar-important-congress/</ref> The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] ignored the anti-Semitic [[hate speech]] by Democrat members of Congress. Imam Omar Suleiman, who has called for the destruction of the State of Israel, was invited to deliver the noon prayer in the House of Representatives. The imam had been invited by Rep. [[Eddie Bernice Johnson]] of Texas. (D–TX).<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/15/democrats-behest-terrorist-friendly-imam-gives-prayer-congress/</ref> [[Valerie Plame]] announced her candidacy for the House. Plame promoted anti-Semitic materials on Twitter, a scandal that forced her resignation from the Ploughshares Fund.<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/13/coverage-valerie-plames-run-congress-ignores-anti-semitism/ Coverage Of Valerie Plame’s Run For Congress Ignores Her Anti-Semitism], By Warren Henry, ''The Federalist'', May 13, 2019.</ref>

Georgia Democrat house minority leader Erica Thomas claimed a white man told her to "Go back where you came from" while standing in a supermarket express lane. The man, a [[Cuba]]n American, loyal Democrat straight party line voter who hates Trump, supports [[the Squad]], and once Tweeted that Trump should go back to Germany, denied the accusation. Thomas later recanted her claim.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxbH13jn3NY</ref><ref>Nieto, Phillip (July 21, 2019). [https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/21/georgia-lawmaker-caught-lying-racist-encounter/ Georgia Democratic Lawmaker Appears To Be Caught Lying About Alleged Racist Encounter]. ''The Daily Caller''. Retrieved July 21, 2019.</ref><ref>Bufkin, Ellie (July 21, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/georgia-state-rep-erica-thomas-backtracks-on-racism-accusations Georgia state Rep. Erica Thomas backtracks on racism accusations]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved July 21, 2019.</ref><ref>Nolte, John (July 22, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/22/nolte-media-blame-trump-for-grocery-store-spat-between-two-democrats/ Nolte: Media Blame Trump for Grocery Store Spat Between Two Democrats]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 22, 2019.</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGC7y9BtHA</ref> A store clerk employee then came forward alleging Thomas herself told the Cuban to go back to where he came from.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOEW-XDMzg</ref>

Some Democrat politicians elected to Congress in 2018 were vocal in ridiculing Christians.<ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (December 13, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/30918-the-democratic-party-s-new-face-congressional-muslims-who-ridicule-christians-and-more The Democratic Party’s New Face: Congressional Muslims Who Ridicule Christians and More]. ''The New American''. Retrieved December 13, 2018.</ref><ref name="breitbart.com">Pollak, Joel B. (December 15, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/15/ilhan-omar-trolls-mike-pence-jesus-take-the-wheel/ Ilhan Omar Trolls Mike Pence: ‘Jesus Take the Wheel’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 16, 2018.</ref> A man was arrested for burning several historically Black churches in [[Louisiana]]. The suspect was heavily involved in anti-Christian music, [[satanism]] and [[paganism]]. In a [[Colorado]] high school shooting, a [[gender confusion|gender-confused]] registered Democrat and Barack Obama fan killed one person and injured nine others in deranged rampage.<ref>https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/devon-erickson-devin/</ref> A Democrat charged with pedophilia won a primary vote against an incumbent who supported [[Virginia]]'s racist Democrat Governor Ralph Northam.<ref>[https://freebeacon.com/politics/virginia-democrat-charged-with-sex-with-a-minor-wins-primary-for-state-senate/ Virginia Democrat Who Was Charged With Sex With a Minor Wins Primary]</ref> The national Democratic Governors Association (DGA) contributed over $6 million to Northam's campaign and praised him after near universal calls for his resignation.<ref>https://twitter.com/DemGovs/status/1149367001363701761</ref> Travis County [[Texas]] Municipal Judge Sarah Eckhard mocked a disabled person in a wheelchair at a leftist gathering in the capital city of Austin; Texas Gov.[[Greg Abbott]] was paralyzed when a tree fell on him, and pretending to be an [[environmentalist]], Judge Eckard joked "Abbott hates trees cause one fell on him."<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/28/texas-democrat-forced-to-apologize-for-saying-gov-greg-abbott-hates-trees-because-one-fell-on-him/</ref> In [[Pennsylvania]], a Democrat state representative streamed on [[social media]] his harassment of a woman senior citizen praying outside an abortion clinic.<ref>https://www.tmn.today/2019/05/democrat-rep-harasses-elderly-woman-praying-outside-planned-parenthood/</ref>

In [[Kentucky]], voters overwhelmingly rejected the Democrats' racist agenda, electing the state's first black [[Attorney General]] and first Republican in 70 years, [[Daniel Cameron]]. Four years earlier, Kentucky voters elected conservative Republican Jenean Hampton as the state's first black statewide elected official, and the Republican governor they elected, [[Matt Bevin]], had adopted four children from Ethiopia.

===Anti-semitism===
:{{See also|Left-wing Anti-Semitism}}
[[File:New logo for the Democratic party.PNG|175px|right|thumb|]]
Rep. [[Rashida Tlaib]] supports the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions|BDS movement]].<ref>Chasmar, Jessica (December 4, 2018). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/4/rashida-tlaib-newly-elected-democrat-endorses-anti/ Democratic Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib endorses anti-Israel BDS movement]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 5, 2019.</ref> Tlaib made a [[Liberal bigotry|bigoted]] tweet accusing Jewish-Americans of having divided loyalties, an attack frequently made by anti-Semites.<ref>Multiple references:
*Starr, Penny (January 7, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/07/democrat-rashida-tlaib-blasted-for-antisemitic-tweet-accusing-dual-loyalty-israel-bds/ Democrat Rashida Tlaib Blasted for Antisemitic Tweet: ‘They Forgot What Country They Represent’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
*Re, Gregg (January 7, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rashida-tlaib-accused-of-anti-semitic-slur-days-after-profane-anti-trump-tirade Rashida Tlaib accused of anti-Semitic slur, days after profane anti-Trump tirade]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 8, 2019.</ref> She wrote at least one op-ed on [[Louis Farrakhan]]'s website.<ref>Multiple references:
*Caruso, Justin (February 11, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/11/report-rashida-tlaib-wrote-op-ed-for-antisemite-louis-farrakhans-website/ Report: Rashida Tlaib Wrote Op-Ed for Antisemite Louis Farrakhan’s Website]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
*Mikelionis, Lukas (February 12, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rashida-tlaib-once-wrote-column-for-nation-of-islams-publication-reprinting-farrakhans-anti-semitic-comments Rashida Tlaib wrote column for Louis Farrakhan publication in 2006]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
*Kirkwood, R. Cort (February 12, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/31469-tlaib-published-in-farrakhan-newspaper-with-omar-still-has-committee-assignments Tlaib Published in Farrakhan Newspaper, Still Has Committee Assignments]. ''The New American''. Retrieved February 12, 2019.</ref> Tlaib did a selfie with a [[Hezbollah]]-praising activist to also denied Israel's right to exist.<ref>Multiple references:
*Klein, Philip (January 14, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/democrat-rep-rashida-tlaib-photographed-with-pro-hezbollah-activist-who-says-israel-has-no-right-to-exist Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib photographed with pro-Hezbollah activist who says Israel has no right to exist]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
*Richardson, Valerie (January 14, 2018). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/14/pro-hezbollah-activist-posts-photos-rashida-tlaib/ Pro-Hezbollah activist posts photos with Rashida Tlaib at swearing-in ceremony]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
*Brest, Michael (January 14, 2019). [https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/14/israel-palestine-tlaib-picture-extremist-abbas-hamideh/ Anti-Israel Extremist Says He was At Tlaib's Private Dinner After Swearing In]. ''The Daily Caller''. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
*Danan, Deborah (January 15, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/01/15/democrat-rep-rashida-tlaib-poses-with-pro-hezbollah-rabid-anti-israel-activist/ Rashida Tlaib Poses with Pro-Hezbollah Activist]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 15, 2019.</ref> ''New York Magazine'' named her one of 10 activists who may become the future of the Democratic Party as the "new Obama."<ref>[http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-woman-congress-shes-also-palestinian-869782483 Middle East Eye, Multimedia 'Staying out of the ring is not an option’: Palestinian woman runs for Congress], Ali Harb Friday 23 March 2018</ref> Tlaib was sworn in surrounded by a group that included Sarsour and Nihad Awad as her special guests.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/new-muslim-congresswoman-invites-linda-sarsour-and-cair-representative-as-her-guests-to-congressional-ceremony/</ref>

Rep. [[Ilhan Omar]] is known for her anti-Semitism,<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/17/ilhan-omar-tweet-controversy/2603030002/</ref> insensitivity and mocking remarks about [[Christian]]s,<ref name="breitbart.com"/> and [[homophobic]] comments directed against colleagues.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-ilhan-omar-accused-of-breathtaking-bigotry-after-saying-lindsey-graham-is-compromised</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/17/rep-ilhan-omar-furthers-homophobic-conspiracy-that-lindsey-grahams-compromised/amp/</ref> Omar tweeted "[[Israel]] has hypnotized the world, may [[Allah]] awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel." Omar supports BDS.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/01/18/cnn-not-know-question-ilhan-omars-conspiracy-theories-anti-semitism/</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/269488770066313216</ref><ref>Pollak, Joel B. (January 28, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/28/zoa-slams-adl-for-accepting-ilhan-omar-non-apology-for-antisemitism/ ZOA Slams ADL for Accepting Ilhan Omar’s Non-Apology for Antisemitic Rhetoric]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 28, 2019.</ref> Omar claims congressional support for Israel is "All about the Benjamins baby," a reference to the Ben Franklin $100 bill, implying members of Congress are paid off by [[AIPAC]]. Despite this, Democrats gave her a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<ref>Tapscott, Mark (January 21, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/gop-punishes-steve-king-anti-semitic-dem-gets-choice-committee_2774145.html GOP Punishes Steve King, Anti-Semitic Dem Gets Choice Committee]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved January 21, 2019.</ref>

The fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, Rep. [[Hakeem Jeffries]], defended Tlaib and Omar as "thoughtful colleagues." Tlaib is a member of a [[Facebook]] group that posts anti-Semitic videos and memes. ''The Daily Caller'' reported that a key fundraiser for Tlaib posted a [[Holocaust denial]] video.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-lawmaker-defends-house-freshmen-accused-of-anti-semitism-as-thoughtful-colleagues</ref>

===Women's rights===
In March 2021 Joe Biden told Clinton operative [[George Stephanopoulos]] that New York Gov. [[Andrew Cuomo]] should resign if an investigation confirms claims by seven women that the governor sexually harassed them or made inappropriate advances. Biden accuser [[Tara Reade]], whose allegations against Biden were ignored by Senate investigators and mainstream media, told Fox News, "Joe Biden got away with sexually harassing and assaulting me in 1993 and other women have also come forward with similar complaints. Joe Biden ascended to the Presidency anyway."<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/media/tara-reade-biden-cuomo-abc-news-interview</ref>

===Blexit, WalkAway and Jexodus===

''[[USA Today]]'' reported that President Trump's popularity among African Americans is higher than any Republican president in decades.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/08/16/trump-approval-rating-african-americans-rasmussen-poll/1013212002/</ref> This is not surprising given that Blacks have suffered most from illegal immigration. Since Democrats established the entitlement dole, Blacks' income and employment have been stepped over by [[Korea]]n and [[Vietnam]]ese war refugees and virtually all [[immigrant]] groups. ''Conservative News and Views'' reported,
[[File:Pro-Palestinian rally.PNG|right|250px|thumb|A [[Nazi]] flag appears at a Pro-Palestinian rally during the [[2021 Gaza War]].<ref>https://gellerreport.com/2021/05/nazis-flags-at-pro-terror-palestinian-demo.html/</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|Just as [[Candace Owens]] has spearheaded the “[[Blexit]]” movement, Bawer writes, inspiring “black Americans to recognize the damage done to them by the [[Great Society]] and its aftermath [and to] leave the [[Democratic plantation]], so has [[Brandon Straka]] led other [[gay]]s to see that they’ve been “served a bill of goods by the [[mainstream media]] and Democratic Party and is now heading his [[WalkAway]] campaign.” But what about the Jews?

Well, whaddaya know? Here comes Elizabeth Pipko, a 23-year-old Jewish figure skater-turned-model who, in an effort to aid a “mass Jewish exodus from the Democratic party,” has popularized the “JEXODUS” movement” initiated by Republican activist Jeff Ballabon.

"Right now," Ms. Pipko said, "as a Jewish person, you cannot support the Democratic Party and support the Jewish people at the same time."<ref>https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2019/03/13/news/anti-semitism-parade-everything-old-new/</ref>}}

==History==
:{{See also|Racism and the Democratic Party|History of Democrat racism|U.S. "Party-switch" myth}}
'''First Party System'''
[[File:Dem-leaders.jpg|right|450px|thumb|A contemporary watercolor of Democratic presidents. Clockwise from far left: Presidents Jimmy Carter, John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, Andrew Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt. Jackson is considered the founder of the party. Jackson, who implemented the Indian Removal Act, is slated to have his picture removed from the $20 bill in 2026.]]
Democrats claim that [[Thomas Jefferson]] founded their party in 1792 at the start of the [[First Party System]]. The [[Republicans (Jeffersonian)|Jeffersonian Republicans]] was a political party established under the leadership of Jefferson and [[James Madison]]. At the time, it was generally called the Republicans, but it had no relationship to today's Republican Party, founded in 1854. The 1816 election was the last occasion when the Federalist Party nominated a presidential candidate. In the 1820s, the Jeffersonian Republicans split into several fractions. [[Andrew Jackson]] emerged as the candidate of one of these groups and was elected president in 1828. Well into the 21st century, Jefferson and Jackson have been regularly honored by local Democrat parties with an annual Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinner.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/us/jefferson-jackson-dinner-will-be-renamed.html|title=Jefferson-Jackson Dinner Will Be Renamed|date=August 8, 2015|work=New York Times|accessdate=|first=Ashley|last=Southhall}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2015/11/16/colorado-democratic-party-considers-renaming-annual-jefferson-jackson-dinner/123835/|title=Colorado Democrats consider renaming Jefferson Jackson dinner|work=The Denver Post|first=John|last= Frank|date=November 16, 2015|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/jefferson_jackson_renamed_loui.html|title=As state Democratic parties rename their Jefferson-Jackson dinners, will Louisiana change 'J-J?'|work=The Times Picayune|first=Kevin |last=Litten|date= July 23, 2015|accessdate=}}</ref>

Most historians regard Jackson's 1832 campaign organization as the beginning of today's Democratic Party. The Democratic Party itself traces its origin to Jefferson's Republicans and the Whisky Rebellion.<ref>World Book</ref> The leadership of the Jeffersonian Republicans, including [[John Quincy Adams]] and [[Henry Clay]], created the National Republican Party. Adams supporters called themselves National Republicans, antecedents of the merchant class Whig and later the Republican parties.<ref name="presidents">William DeGregorio, ''The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents'', Gramercy 1997</ref>
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The modern Democratic party was formed during 1828–34, under the national leadership of Jackson and Van Buren, with organizations in all the states comprised of local political leaders. This became the era of [[Jacksonian Democracy]]. The Jacksonians resembled the [[Jeffersonian Democracy|Jeffersonians]] especially in terms of anti-elite rhetoric of opposition to "aristocracy" (that is, wealthy old families), distrust of banks (and paper money), they were "yeoman farmers" or "hillbillies", with faith in "the people." By his extensive use of federal [[Spoils system|patronage]], President Jackson removed old office-holders to make way for party loyalists. The U.S. Postal Service was the federal government's largest employer. With the emergence of the merchant or middle class Whig Party, the nation now had a new party system, the [[Second Party System]], which lasted until 1854.

The party held its first national convention in 1832 to choose a new running mate for Jackson; it nominated Martin Van Buren for vice president and endorsed the reelection of Jackson. Jackson easily defeated Clay in 1832. In the political realignment of 1828–32, some of Jackson's supporters from the election of 1828, especially businessmen and bankers, switched to the opposition Whig Party as Jackson crusaded against the [[Second Bank of the United States]]. The name "Democratic Party" became common by the mid-1830s.

=== Jacksonian Democracy===
[[image:donk1837.jpg|thumb|1837 cartoon shows Democratic Party as donkey]]
The new party dominated the [[Second Party System]] (as political scientists call it; historians call it "Jacksonian Democracy", 1832–54). After 1832, the Democratic Party drew support from a cross-section of the country. The vast majority of rich merchants, bankers, and [[plantation]] owners were Whigs, as were most evangelical Protestants. The party was strongest among traditionalistic farmers, frontiersmen, unskilled workers, Irish Catholics, and local or state political leaders. It was weakest in [[New England]], where industrialization turned most factory workers and white-collar workers into Whigs, but was dominant in all other regions. The key issues it promoted were opposition to elites and aristocrats, popular democracy (in terms of voting rights and access to government patronage jobs) and opposition to the Bank of the United States (Jackson vetoed its charter renewal in 1832). The policies were known as [[Jacksonian Democracy]]. [[Image:Jackson1832.jpg|thumb|300px|left]]

Banking and tariffs were the central domestic policy issues from 1828 to 1852. The Democrats favored the [[Mexican-American War]]; Whigs opposed it. Democrats attracted Catholic Irish and German immigrants and denounced anti-immigrant nativism. Both the Democrats and Whigs were divided on the issue of slavery.

In the 1830s the Loco-Focos in New York City were radically democratic, anti-monopoly, and proponents of [[laissez-faire]]. Their chief spokesman was writer [[William Leggett]]. At this time labor unions were few; some were loosely affiliated with the party.

The economy went sour in the late 1830s with Van Buren getting the blame; he lost reelection as president in 1840 to the Whig [[William Henry Harrison]]. The Democrats gained the White House back in 1844 with [[James K. Polk]]. He had a successful term, then retired. The Democratic National Committee was created in 1848 at the convention that nominated General [[Lewis Cass]], who lost to General [[Zachary Taylor]] of the Whigs. In state after state, the Democrats gained small but permanent advantages over the Whigs, until by 1852 the Whig Party was fatally weakened by divisions regarding the issue of slavery and they soon vanished.

The Democratic party dominated the North from the 1840s to 1854. Northern Democrats opposed banks, criticized corporate practices, and preached the ideals of a free society. They called for rapid territorial expansion of the United States, saying that in territorial expansion lay a means for thwarting the pretensions of the [[Slave Power]].

[[Franklin Pierce]] of New Hampshire was elected president in 1852, followed by [[James Buchanan]] of Pennsylvania in 1856. They proved poor presidents who lost control of the slavery issue, and the party, as the nation broke apart and fought the [[American Civil War]].

====Racist and segregationist traditions====

:''See also [[Trail of Tears]], [[Ethnic cleansing]] and [[Dred Scott decision]]''
The 21st Congress was controlled by the Jacksonian Democrats. The first major bill they passed was the [[Indian Removal Act]], authorizing the removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminoles from the South, primarily Georgia and Florida, to a territory west of the Mississippi River which became [[Oklahoma]]. The bill was controversial, opposed by many Christians and Northerners. During the first stage of the Choctaws’ forced migration begun in 1831, thousands died during the journey. Each successive stage was marred by a lack of food, shelter, and protection from the elements. Diphtheria and typhoid were rampant. Over the decade, more than 46,000 Native Americans experienced these conditions.

Historian John Toland maintains that the [[Nazi Party]]'s segregation and deportation of [[Jew]]s into ghettos and concentration camps were derived from the Democratic Party's segregation and deportation of Native Americans to reservation land.<ref>https://jewishjournal.com/culture/food/182867/honoring-native-american-voices-recognizing-tragic-history-and-praising-brave-spirits/</ref>
[[File:Trail of Tears.png|right|350px|thumb|Andrew Jackson not only founded the Democratic Party, but he also founded the infamous Trail of Tears.]]
In the 31st Congress, the Democrats had a majority in the Senate and a large plurality in the House, while the [[Free Soil Republican]]s held only 9 seats. The [[Whig]]s held the second largest contingent as well as the White House. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which penalized local and state officials in free states who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave on demand of a slave owner. Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing food or shelter was subject to six months' imprisonment and a fine. Slave owners needed only to supply a sworn affidavit to a U.S. Marshal to capture an escaped slave. Since a suspected slave had no [[Jury trial|right to trial]], the law resulted in the kidnapping of free blacks by bounty hunters and conscription into slavery in both free states and slave states, as suspected fugitive slaves were denied the right to a legal defense. The law's passage ultimately led to the demise of the Whigs and rise of Free Soil-Republicans.

Jackson had appointed his [[Attorney General]], [[Roger B. Taney]], to fill the seat of retiring Chief Justice [[John Marshall]]. In 1846, [[Dred Scott]], an African-American slave living in Missouri, filed suit against his master for his own freedom. Scott argued that he had legally gained freedom in the 1830s, when he had resided with a previous master in the free state of Illinois and a portion of the Louisiana Territory where slavery was banned. After a series of legal battles lasting over a decade, the case made its way to the Supreme Court.

Democrat President [[James Buchanan]] said in his inaugural address that the issue of slavery would soon be "finally settled" by the Supreme Court.<ref>Simon (2006), pp. 117–120</ref> Taney sought to permanently remove slavery as a subject of national debate. All the Democratic appointees on the Court were outraged over what they saw as "Northern aggression" towards slavery, an institution they believed was critical to "Southern life and values."<ref>McPherson171174</ref> In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the Taney Court ruled that persons of African descent could not be, nor were ever intended to be, citizens under the U.S. Constitution. Taney wrote that the framers of the Constitution believed that blacks “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect;" and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. The court also declared the [[Missouri Compromise]] unconstitutional (the Missouri Compromise of 1819 allowed for admission of new states to the Union on a one-for-one basis, one free state for every one slave state), thus permitting slavery in all territories of the westward expansion.

The ''Dred Scott'' decision received strong criticism and bolstered the growing popularity of the [[Republican Party]]. Republicans rejected Taney's legal reasoning and argued that the [[Declaration of Independence]] showed that the [[Founding Fathers]] favored the protection of individual rights for all free men, regardless of race.<ref>Simon (2006), pp. 138–139</ref> Many Republicans accused Taney of being part of a conspiracy to legalize slavery throughout the United States.<ref>Simon (2006), pp. 155–156</ref>

===Civil War and aftermath===
During the [[Third Party System]] (1854-1896) the Democrats became the minority in the face of the newly formed Republican Party (formed by former Whigs and Free Soil [[abolition]]ists), which controlled nearly all northern states by 1860, bringing a solid majority in the Electoral College. A powerful Republican issue was the allegation that northern Democrats, including "Doughfaces" like Pierce and Buchanan, and advocates of [[popular sovereignty]] like [[Stephen A. Douglas]] and [[Lewis Cass]], were accomplices to the [[Slave Power]]. The Republicans meant by Slave Power the conspiracy of slaveholders to seize control of the federal government and block the "progress of liberty."
[[File:371px-Scourged back by McPherson & Oliver, 1863, colourised.jpg|right|275px|thumb|''Another definition of [[Progressive|Progressivism]]:'' Prior to the end of slavery and suppressing the vote for 100 years, then later keeping Blacks dependent on [[entitlement]]s, Democrats used the whip to keep Blacks in line.]]
The Republican Party was beginning a 50-year era of dominance (1858-1910). During the war, Northern Democrats divided into two factions, [[War Democrats]], who supported the military policies of President Lincoln, and [[Copperheads]], who strongly opposed them. Historian Kenneth Stampp has captured the Copperhead spirit in his depiction of Democratic Congressman Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana:
{{quotebox-float|There was an earthy quality in Voorhees, "the tall sycamore of the Wabash." On the stump his hot temper, passionate [[partisan]]ship, and stirring eloquence made an irresistible appeal to the western Democracy. His bitter cries against [[Protectionism|protective]] [[tariff]]s and national banks, his intense [[race prejudice]], his suspicion of the eastern Yankee, his devotion to personal liberty, his defense of the Constitution and state rights faithfully reflected the views of his constituents. Like other Jacksonian agrarians he resented the political and economic revolution then in progress. Voorhees idealized a way of life which he thought was being destroyed by the current rulers of his country. His bold protests against these dangerous trends made him the idol of the Democracy of the Wabash Valley.<ref>Stampp, 211.</ref>}}
[[File:Leaders of the Democratic Party.jpg|left|300px|thumb| Leaders of the Democratic Party. The Butcher Forrest is [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]], founder of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. ''Library of Congress''<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661705/ Leaders of the Democratic Party : The rioter Seymour ... The butcher Forrest ... The pirate Semmes ... The hangman Hampton ...], Thomas Nast, 1868. Library of Congress.</ref>]]
In 1860 the Democrats were unable to stop the election of Republican [[Abraham Lincoln]], even as they feared his election would lead to civil war. The party was divided between North and South. The northern wing nominated Douglas, and the southern wing nominated Vice President [[John C. Breckinridge]]. Douglas campaigned across the country and came in second in the popular vote, but carried only Missouri. Breckinridge carried 11 slave states.

The heart of Democrat Resistance in the North resided in New York. The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863) were the largest civil and racially-charged insurrection in American history, aside from the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] itself. Initially intended as a protest against the draft, it turned into a race riot. Workers feared free black people would compete for jobs. Black people throughout the city were attacked. 120 people were killed, public buildings, churches, homes of various abolitionists or sympathizers, and many black homes were ransacked or destroyed. The Colored Orphan Asylum was burnt to the ground.

Only a fraction of Union troops occupied the South after the war, and the balance mustered out according to length of service. Because blacks were not admitted into ranks until the middle of the war, they were retained at a higher rate, making the occupying force "blacker" than the one that won the war. The roughly 200,000 black Americans who served in the Union Army comprised an estimated 10 percent of the North's total fighting force. But by the last quarter of 1865, blacks made up about one-third of the occupation army. Many Southerners took this as a deliberate Republican insult.<ref>https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/02/what-reconstruction-and-its-end-meant-for-black-americans-who-had-fought-for-the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms.html</ref>

The Democrats lost consecutive presidential elections from 1860 through 1880 (but 1876 was in dispute); 1884 was their next victory. The Democrats were weakened by "The Cause" in the Civil War but benefited from resentment toward Republicans for its effort to promote equality for blacks in Reconstruction. The Republicans received the eternal hatred and hostility of Democrats, and shied away from social issues for the next 150 years, focusing instead on its original purpose of preserving the Union through national security, and on economic issues. The [[Redeemers]] gave the Democrats control of every Southern state. [[Ku Klux Klan|Democratic terrorism]] at first was focused on Republicans; once the Republicans had been chased out, the [[lynching]] of Blacks peaked about 1892 with over 150 victims, or about one every two days.

Across [[the South]] Republican parties were formed by African Americans. Black people were the original Republicans in the South.
The Republican Party in [[Texas]] was founded on the 4th of July 1867 in [[Houston, Texas]] by 150 African Americans and 20 whites. Two of the first three statewide Republican chairman were African American. The first 42 Black legislators elected in Texas were all Republican.
The first 112 Black legislators elected in [[Mississippi]] were all Republican. The first 190 Black legislators elected in [[South Carolina]] were all Republicans. The first 41 Black legislators in [[Georgia]] were Republicans. The first 127 Black legislators in [[Louisiana]] were Republicans.

====Birth of the Klan====

:{{See also|Reconstruction}}
In 1866 [[Democrat]]s formed the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Its purpose was to take control and return Democrats to power. The Ku Klux Klan started attacking Black Republican conventions. At the Republican convention in Louisiana, the Klan joined with [[New Orleans]] police and New Orleans' Democrat mayor. The New Orleans Republican convention was attacked. 40 Blacks and 20 whites were killed. Another 150 were wounded.
[[File:Kkk-carpetbagger-cartoon.jpg|left|300px|thumb|A cartoon threatening that the that Democrat donkey and KKK will [[lynch]] scalawags (left) and [[carpetbagger]]s (right) on March 4, 1869, the day President Grant takes office. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Independent Monitor, September 1, 1868. A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman (2015).<ref>Hubbs, Guy W. (May 15, 2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KIVoCQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman"]. University Alabama Press.</ref>]]
In 1868 the Democrats put out push cards in South Carolina listing what they called the 'radical' members of the South Carolina legislature. A push card is about the size of a baseball card. The cards had the pictures of 63 legislators they wanted to kill. 50 of the legislators were Black and 13 were white. All 63 were Republicans. On the back of the was the name of the legislator.

In 1872 Congress held hearings on the Klan. Democrat leaders from Democrat States admitted under oath unequivocally that the Klan belonged to the Democrat party and their propose was to restore control in Southern states to the Democratic party. The Congressional Hearings make up 13 volumes. Black congressmen John Roy Lynch and Richard Cain went to Congress armed for fear of Klan attacks. Blacks testified that they instructed by the Klan and Democrats that, if they would stop voting the Republican ticket and would agree to vote the straight Democrat ticket, all the violence against Blacks would stop.
[[File:No-negro-equality-l.jpg|right|300px|thumb|'''No Negro Equality!''' Democratic ticket from Ohio in 1867. Allen G. Thurman later ran as Democrat [[Grover Cleveland]] running mate.<ref>https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/sultan-knish/the-racist-origins-of-president-trumps-impeachment/2021/02/22/</ref> Cleveland passed the [[United States Civil Service Commission|Civil Service Act]] which ended the spoils system and returned Democrats to power after their Civil War defeat.]]
The Coushatta massacre of 1874 was the result of an attack by the White League, a [[paramilitary]] organization composed of Democrats, on Republican officeholders and African Americans in Red River Parish, [[Louisiana]]. They murdered six white Republicans and 20 Blacks who were witnesses.<ref>[http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-01/reconstruction.html Danielle Alexander, "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of Reconstruction", ''Humanities'', January/February 2004, Vol.25/No.1. Her article says 20 freedmen were killed.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916095443/http://neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-01/reconstruction.html |date=2008-09-16 }}</ref><ref>Nicholas Lemann, ''Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War'', New York, [[Farrar, Straus & Giroux]], 2006, p.76-77. His book says five freedmen were killed.</ref>

The White League had organized to restore [[white supremacy]] by driving Republicans out of Louisiana, disrupting their political organizing, and intimidating or murdering [[freedmen]].<ref>Eric Foner, ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877'', New York: Perennial Classics, 2002, p.550</ref> Like the Red Shirts and other "White Line" organizations, they were described as "the military arm of the Democratic Party."

On election day, November 3, 1874, an [[Alabama]] chapter of the White League repeated actions taken earlier that year in Vicksburg, Mississippi. They invaded Eufaula AL, killing at least seven black Republicans, injuring at least 70 more, and driving off more than 1,000 unarmed Republicans from the polls.<ref>Mary Ellen Curtin, ''Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900,'' University Press of Virginia, 2000, p. 55</ref> The group moved on to Spring Hill AL, where members stormed the polling place, destroying the ballot box, and killing the 16-year-old son of a white Republican judge in their shooting.<ref>Curtin (2000), ''Black Prisoners'', pp. 55-56.</ref>

The White League refused to count any Republican votes cast. But, Republican voters reflected the black majority in the county, as well as white supporters. They outnumbered Democratic voters by a margin greater than two to one. The League declared the Democratic candidates victorious, forced Republican politicians out of office, and seized every county office in Barbour County, Alabama.<ref name="Curtin 2000 p. 56">Curtin (2000), ''Black Prisoners'', p. 56</ref> Such actions were repeated in other parts of the South in the 1870s, as Democrats sought to regain political dominance in states with black majorities and numerous Republican officials. In Barbour County, the Democrats auctioned off as "slaves" (for a maximum cost of $2 per month), or otherwise silenced all Republican witnesses to the events. They were intimidated from testifying to the coup if the case went to federal court.<ref name="Curtin 2000 p. 56"/>

Jim Crow and the disenfranchisement of black voters in most of the South took place 1890–1900. Nonwhites were excluded from the Democratic Party in 1890.<ref>Brown and Stentiford, ''Jim Crow: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic'', Greenwood, 2014, p. xviii</ref> From 1880 to 1960 the "[[Solid South]]" voted Democratic in all presidential elections (except 1928). After 1900 the key election in southern states were white-only caucuses;<ref>The system remained in place until the [[McGovern-Fraser Commission]], which unseated white big city Democrat bosses at the national convention.</ref> victory in that primary was "tantamount to election."

GAR veteran 2nd Lieut. Nathaniel Grigsby of Company G, 10th Indiana Cavalry died at the age of 79 in 1890. Grigsby's brother was married to Abraham's Lincoln's sister. Grigsby had this written on his tombstone:
{{quotebox-float|Through this inscription I wish to enter my dying protest against what is called the Democratic party. I have watched it closely since the days of Jackson and know that all the misfortunes of our nation has come to it through this so called party. Therefore beware of this party of [[treason]].<ref>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/grave-statement-2/</ref>}}

Though Republicans continued to control the White House until 1912 (except 1884 and 1892), the Democrats remained competitive in the states, especially in the mid-Atlantic and lower Midwest, and controlled the House of Representatives for most of that period. In the election of 1884, [[Grover Cleveland]], the conservative Democratic Governor of New York, won the presidency, a feat he repeated in 1892, having lost in the election of 1888.

====Civil service replaces Reconstruction and the spoils system====
:{{See also|Civil service system}}
While the Democratic party lost the Civil War, it won the battle to control the United States Civil Service [[bureaucracy]].<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state Trump vs the Deep State], Evan Osnos, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', May 14, 2018</ref> Since the end of Reconstruction in 1876 and passage of the 1882 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, the Democratic party is no longer dependent on the spoils system and winning elections to maintain its power.
[[File:Lynch.jpg|thumb|450px|left|The first victims (yellow line) were Republican [[carpetbagger]]s; once they were driven out the Democrats turned on Blacks (blue line). Source: Historical Statistics of the U.S., and is based on the 1952 Negro year Book.]]
With the defeat of the Democrats and the South, to the victors went the spoils. Republicans immediately stripped [[white]] [[male]]s who engaged in rebellion against the [[United States]] of the [[vote]], and gave it to Blacks. Newly freed Blacks held local, state and federal elected and non-elected positions as Republicans. The white males who were deprived of the vote were also barred from holding any civil service position and were universally Democrats. This disenfranchisement created enormous resentment among Democrats, so they formed the [[Ku Klux Klan]] to engage in voter intimidation and suppression.

By 1876, the situation had become ungovernable for Republicans.<ref>"the Compromise of 1877, which resolved the disputed presidential election of 1876 by awarding the presidency to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes (who had lost the popular vote) in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South after the Civil War (which benefitted Democrats, who wished to end Reconstruction and return white supremacy to southern state governments)." [https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-gilded-age/gilded-age/a/gilded-age-politics-patronage Gilded Age politics: patronage]. khanacademy.org</ref> The Republicans had been able to pass the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments which guaranteed Blacks basic equality and civil rights, but eventually had to declare an amnesty for whites who engaged in rebellion. Reconstruction ended, and Republicans withdrew from [[social engineering]] which had divided the country so deeply and stirred up such bitterness and hatred among Democrats toward both Blacks and Republicans. Reconstruction earned Republicans the undying [[hatred]] of Democrats.<ref>See for example [https://youtu.be/-yY7g2jOquM James O'Keefe debate with Hairy Hillbilly Hippie] for an example of a partisan Democrat who votes against his own economic interests.</ref><ref>See excerpt from [[Dinesh D'Souza]]'s, ''[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dinesh-dsouza-the-secret-history-of-the-democratic-party Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party]'', Regnery Publishing, July 18, 2016.</ref>

African Americans in the South were left to the mercy of increasingly hostile state governments dominated by white Democratic legislatures; neither the legislatures, law enforcement or the courts worked to protect freedmen.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties|author=Finkelman, Paul|year=2006}}</ref> As [[Democrats]] regained power in the late 1870s, they struggled to suppress black voting through intimidation and fraud at the polls. [[Paramilitary]] groups such as the [[Red Shirts]] acted on behalf of the Democrats to suppress black voting. From 1890 to 1908, 10 of the 11 former Confederate states passed disfranchising constitutions or amendments,<ref>{{cite book|title=Democracy's Privileged Few|author=Chafetz, Joshua Aaron|year=2007}}</ref> with provisions for [[poll tax]]es,<ref name="Klarman, Michael J. 2004">{{cite book|title=From Jim Crow to Civil Rights|author=Klarman, Michael J.|year=2004}}</ref> residency requirements, [[literacy test]]s,<ref name="Klarman, Michael J. 2004"/> and [[grandfather clause]]s that effectively disfranchised most black voters and many poor white people. The disfranchisement also meant that black people could not serve on juries or hold any political office, which were restricted to voters; those who could not vote were excluded from the political system.

Cleveland was the leader of the [[Bourbon Democrats]], the [[bourgeois]] wing of the party. They represented business [[elitism|elites]], supported banking and railroad goals, promoted capitalism, opposed the annexation of [[Hawaii]], fought for the [[gold standard]], and opposed [[Bimetallism]]. They strongly supported ending Republican spoils with the [[Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act|Civil Service Reform Act]] and opposed corruption of city bosses, leading the fight against the Tweed Ring. The leading Bourbons included [[Samuel J. Tilden]], David Bennett Hill and William C. Whitney of New York, Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland, Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, William L. Wilson of West Virginia, [[John Griffin Carlisle]] of Kentucky, William F. Vilas of Wisconsin, J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, John M. Palmer of Illinois, Horace Boies of Iowa, L.Q.C. Lamar of Mississippi, and railroad builder James J. Hill of Minnesota. A prominent intellectual was pro-segregationist [[Woodrow Wilson]]. The Bourbons were in power when the [[Panic of 1893]] hit; it was a deep depression and they took the blame. A fierce struggle inside the party ensued, with catastrophic losses for both the Bourbon and agrarian factions in 1894, leading to the showdown in 1896.

===Bryan and anti-Semitism===

[[Grover Cleveland]] led the [[bourgeois]] [[Bourbon Democrat]]s but as the [[Panic of 1893|depression of 1893]] deepened his enemies multiplied. The Panic of 1893 started in February 1893, a full month before Cleveland became president. Convinced that the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, passed under the administration of [[Benjamin Harrison]], was largely responsible for the alarming drain on federal gold, President Cleveland called Congress into special session to urge its repeal. Congress consented, but only after bitter debate that divided the Democratic party into two hostile camps-the eastern "goldbugs" and the silver wing of the West and South that was to propel young [[William Jennings Bryan]] to the fore in 1896.<ref name="presidents" />

At the 1896 convention, the silverite-agrarian faction repudiated the president and nominated the crusading orator [[William Jennings Bryan]] on a platform of inflation through "free" silver. The idea was that minting huge numbers of silver dollars would flood the economy with cash and end the depression. Eastern Democrats, unable to accept the party's free-silver platform and unwilling to support McKinley for his tariff views, nominated their own candidate, John M. Palmer of Illinois and called themselves the National, or Gold, Democrats.<ref name="presidents" /> The [[Gold Democrats]] attracted prominent figure such as segregationist [[Woodrow Wilson]] and historian [[Frederick Jackson Turner]] , known for ignoring the contributions of minorities and who refused to vote Republican.
[[Image:Dead-dem1880.jpg|thumb|425px|right|In 1880 when General Hancock (right) became the presidential nominee of the Democrats, Republican cartoonists showed the Democratic party history as a horror chamber featuring atrocities in the Civil War era; the donkey" shows the party as a coalition of the rear end of the South joined to the rear end of the North]]
Bryan became an overnight sensation among Democrats with his "Cross of Gold" speech: {{Cquote|"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQ0AjqzFxQ</ref>}} Implicit was his assertion that the religious group responsible for the death of Christ was also the source of the United States’ economic woes.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mJLHrb-o5E0C&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=You+shall+not+press+down+upon+the+brow+of+labor+this+crown+of+thorns,+you+shall+not+crucify+mankind+upon+a+cross+of+gold.%27%27+The+antisemitism+evoked+by&source=bl&ots=fp9QYcxY3W&sig=ACfU3U3zQFaSOMeeKxu8DlnOdXz5RdWb7A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjyyr_4tYfgAhXL5YMKHQ5_DKgQ6AEwDnoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=You%20shall%20not%20press%20down%20upon%20the%20brow%20of%20labor%20this%20crown%20of%20thorns%2C%20you%20shall%20not%20crucify%20mankind%20upon%20a%20cross%20of%20gold.''%20The%20antisemitism%20evoked%20by&f=false Antisemitism in America], Leonard Dinnerstein, Oxford University Press, Nov 2, 1995, p. 50.</ref> Crisscrossing the Midwest and East by special train, he gave over 500 speeches to audiences in the millions. In St. Louis he gave 36 speeches to workingmen's audiences all over the city, all in one day. Most Democratic newspapers were hostile (except [[William Randolph Hearst]]'s ''New York Journal'') but Bryan seized control of the media by making the news every day, as he hurled thunderbolts against "Eastern monied interests," a codeword for "Jewish bankers."<ref>https://twitter.com/jdickerson/status/788461796772446208</ref> Using [[fraud]] and [[violence]], and rallying support by appealing to white supremacy, the Democrats held on to their power in Southern states. Many Democrats refused to endanger [[white supremacy]] by voting against the Democratic Party.<ref>https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_populist.html</ref> Ethnic Democrats, (especially Germans and Irish), however, were alarmed and frightened by Bryan.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=XpCgCNZwpvoC</ref> The middle classes, businessmen, newspaper editors, factory workers, railroad workers, and prosperous farmers generally rejected Bryan's crusade.

Bryan was overwhelmed by [[William McKinley]] in the most exciting race in national history.<ref>Refuting Bryan's charges, historians have discovered there was little coercion of workers.</ref> McKinley promised a return to prosperity based on the gold standard, support for industry, railroads and banks, and pluralism that would enable every group to move ahead. Bryan did, however, win the hearts and minds of a majority of Democrats. The election of 1896 was a political realignment. The victory of the Republican Party marked the start of the "Progressive Era," from 1896 to 1932, in which the GOP usually was dominant.

===Wilson and the KKK===
:{{See also|Plessy v. Ferguson}}
[[Melville Fuller]] was appointed Chief Justice by President [[Grover Cleveland]] in 1888. Fuller managed Democrat [[Stephen A. Douglas]]'s campaign in the [[1860 presidential election]] against Abraham Lincoln. He was known as a Copperhead Democrat. In 1896, a Fuller Court decision declared that racial segregation does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment so long as the "separate but equal" doctrine is followed. The decision allowed the continued existence of Jim Crow laws for another six decades.

The [[Fourth Party System]] began with the 1896 election, a realignment during which the GOP controlled the presidency for 28 of 36 years. The GOP dominated most of the Northeast and Midwest, and half the West. Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, or GAR, became the GOP. One of the consequences of the Democratic victories in the South was that many Southern Congressmen and Senators were almost automatically re-elected every election. Due to the importance of seniority in the U.S. Senate, Southerners were able to control most of the committees and kill any civil rights legislation.<ref>https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_democratic.html</ref> [[William Jennings Bryan]], with a base in the South and Plains states, was strong enough to get the nomination again in 1900 (losing to McKinley) and 1908 (losing to Taft). [[Theodore Roosevelt]] dominated the first decade of the century—and to the annoyance of Democrats "stole" the trust issue by crusading against trusts.
When [[Booker T. Washington]]'s autobiography, ''Up From Slavery'', was published in 1901, it became a bestseller and had a major impact on the African American community, and its friends and allies. Washington in 1901 was the first African-American ever invited to the White House as the guest of President Theodore Roosevelt – white Democrats complained loudly, although Washington remained as an advisor to Roosevelt.<ref>Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, "A Patriot's History of the United States" (2007)</ref>

Anti-Bryan conservatives controlled the convention in 1904, but they faced a [[Theodore Roosevelt]] landslide. Bryan dropped his free silver and anti-[[imperialism]] rhetoric and supported mainstream [[progressive]] issues, such as the income tax, anti-trust, and direct election of Senators. He backed Woodrow Wilson in 1912, was rewarded with the State Department, then resigned in protest against Wilson's non-pacifistic policies in 1916. Northern Democrats were progressive on most issues, but generally opposed prohibition, were lukewarm regarding [[women's rights]], and were reluctant to undercut the "boss system" in the big cities.
[[File:320px-Birth of a Nation theatrical poster.jpg|left|200px|thumb|'''Birth of a Nation''' released in 1915 depicted the history of the Democratic Party after the Civil War. In 1992, the [[Library of Congress]] deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.]]
Taking advantage of a deep split in the GOP, the Democrats took control of the House in 1910 and elected the Northern segregationist Woodrow Wilson as president in 1912 and 1916. In his first year in office, Wilson permitted his Treasury and the Post Office to begin efforts to [[segregate]] the federal workforce, particularly in the Columbia District. It was often carried out surreptitiously. Yet Wilson condoned it and tried to duck its implications in a manner we would describe today as slimy. Wilson ordered [[Jim Crow]] segregation in all federal government facilities in Washington DC, wiping out 50 years of social progress that African-Americans made under Republicans. No longer could blacks and whites work together in government offices, eat in the same cafeterias, our use the same bathrooms. The Wilson administration went a step further. Through the Treasury Department's Office of the Architect, the bureau charged with construction and maintenance of federal buildings, federal buildings throughout the nation were ordered to furnish segregated bathrooms, even in Northern states were practices as such were virtually unknown.<ref>''American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow'', Jerrold M. Packard, St. Martin's Press, 2003, pp. 124-125</ref>

Wilson also curtailed minority appointments to executive, diplomatic, and judicial positions. Those latter numbers weren't large — about 30 — but they were posts traditionally reserved for black Americans. The signal was terrible, even if it's unclear that those black appointments would have met approval from a Senate controlled by Southern Democrats. Estimates reckon that between 15,000 and 20,000 black civil service employees, 6% of the federal workforce, were impacted by the administration's actions.<ref>https://www.nysun.com/national/princetons-purge-of-wilson-follows-a-change/91174/</ref> Wilson successfully led Congress to a series of [[Progressive]] laws, including a reduced tariff, stronger antitrust laws, the [[Federal Reserve System]], hours-and-pay benefits for railroad workers, and outlawing of child labor, raising wages for adults. Furthermore, constitutional amendments for prohibition and woman suffrage were passed in his second term. In effect, Wilson laid to rest the issues of tariffs, money and antitrust that had dominated politics for 40 years.

In 1915 the epic [[Hollywood]] film, ''Birth of a Nation'' was released with its portrayal of black men, many played by white actors in blackface, as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] (KKK) as an heroic force.<ref>[http://www.moviejustice.com/vault/index.php?p=getitem&db_id=4&item_id=27 MJ Movie Reviews – Birth of a Nation, The (1915) by Dan DeVore] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707194449/http://www.moviejustice.com/vault/index.php?p=getitem&db_id=4&item_id=27 |date=July 7, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://themovingarts.com/revered-and-reviled-d-w-griffiths-the-birth-of-a-nation/|first=Eric M.|last=Armstrong|title=Revered and Reviled: D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation'|work=The Moving Arts Film Journal|date=February 26, 2010|accessdate=|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529224316/http://themovingarts.com/revered-and-reviled-d-w-griffiths-the-birth-of-a-nation/|archivedate=2019-01-31|df=mdy-all}}</ref> It was the first American motion picture to be screened inside the [[White House]], viewed there by President [[Woodrow Wilson]], members of his cabinet, and their families.<ref>{{harvnb|Stokes|2007|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=fGJFpiTjbKwC&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=%22operators+wearing+full+evening+dress+utilized%22&source=bl&ots=AOFjf60Rc_&sig=GJ-f9FVH8MfOtgnzIJLQV_3l-DU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_m5hUMf9JI-whAfz6oCQAg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22operators%20wearing%20full%20evening%20dress%20utilized%22&f=false 111]}}</ref> In a letter to the White House press secretary the author of ''The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan'' which the film is based,<ref name="Franklin pages 417-434">Franklin, John Hope "''The Birth of a Nation'': Propaganda as History" pages 417–434 from ''The Massachusetts Review'' Volume 20, No. 3, Autumn 1979 page 421.</ref> wrote: {{cquote|"The real purpose of my film was to revolutionize Northern sentiments by a presentation of history that would transform every man in the audience into a good Democrat...Every man who comes out of the theater is a Southern partisan for life!"<ref name="Franklin_430">Franklin, John Hope "''The Birth of a Nation'': Propaganda as History" pages 417–434 from ''The Massachusetts Review'' Volume 20, No. 3, Autumn 1979 page 430.</ref>}} In a letter to President Wilson, Thomas Dixon Jr., who authored the book and screenplay, boasted: {{cquote|"This play is transforming the entire population of the North and the West into sympathetic Southern voters. There will never be an issue of your segregation policy".<ref name="Franklin_430"/>}}

Dixon was alluding to the fact that Wilson upon becoming president in 1913 had imposed segregation on federal workplaces in Washington D.C. while reducing the number of black employees through demotion or dismissal.<ref>Yellin, Eric S. (2013). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Mx-NiOJ3n-AC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127 Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207065000/https://books.google.com/books?id=Mx-NiOJ3n-AC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127 |date=February 7, 2018 }}''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. p. 127. {{ISBN|9781469607207}}</ref>

Wilson was re-elected in 1916 on the slogan, "He kept us out of war!", the caldron that was inflaming Europe since 1914. Upon inauguration, Wilson promptly took the United States to war to save [[British]] [[Imperialism]]. Great Britain had been the United States principal foreign enemy since its founding, in the [[Revolutionary War]] and [[War of 1812]]; the Confederacy could not have fought without the assistance of British arms. Many Americans could not understand how the United States could come to the aid of Great Britain, which had tried to destroy the Union three times since its inception.
[[File:1924 DNC convention.jpg|right|300px|thumb|1924 Democratic Convention.]]
[[World War I]] left the U.S. with a staggering [[national debt]]. Wilson turned his attention to building trade alliances and foreign affairs. He wrote parts of the [[Versailles Treaty]], especially the new [[League of Nations]]. But in 1919 Wilson's political skills faltered, and suddenly everything turned sour. The Senate rejected Versailles and the League, a nationwide wave of strikes and violence caused unrest, and Wilson's health collapsed. With the rise of the leftist [[Soviet Union]] and [[Communist International]] [[conspiracy]], the world had not been made safe for democracy. The GOP came roaring back in a landslide in 1920, as [[Warren G. Harding]] defeated a Democratic ticket memorable for having [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] as the vice presidential nominee.

====1924 Klanbake====
At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, the big fight was over a resolution denouncing by name the [[Ku Klux Klan]]; it was pushed by New York governor [[Al Smith]] and Alabama Senator Oscar W. Underwood in order to embarrass the front-runner, William McAdoo of California. Party elder statesman and three-time presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan, spoke for two hours in opposition to the plank condemning the Klan by name.<ref>https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/240629convention-dem-ra.html</ref>

After furious debate, the resolution failed by a vote of 542.85 in favor to 546.15 opposed.<ref>[http://armored-column.com/the-democratic-klanbake-1924/ Democratic "Klanbake" Convention]</ref> The soaring temperatures gave the convention the name, the Klanbake. At its peak in the mid-1920s, the KKK claimed to include about 15% of the nation's eligible voters, approximately 4–5 million people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2730 |title=Ku Klux Klan in the Twentieth Century |author=Lay, Shawn |website=New Georgia Encyclopedia |publisher=Coker College }}</ref> The Klan split in the party over cultural issues, especially [[Prohibition]], facilitated Republican landslides in 1920, 1924 and 1928. However [[Al Smith]] did build a strong Catholic base in the big cities in 1928, and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s election as Governor of New York that year brought a new leader to center stage.

=== New Deal coalition of liberals and segregationists ===
:{{See also|Economic planning}}
The [[stock market crash of 1929]] and the ensuing [[Great Depression]] set the stage for a more progressive government and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] won a landslide victory in the [[United States presidential election, 1932|election of 1932]], campaigning on a platform of "Relief, Recovery, and Reform." This came to be termed "[[New Deal|The New Deal]]" after a phrase in his acceptance speech. The Democrats also swept to large majorities in both houses of Congress, and among state Governors. Roosevelt altered the nature of the Party, away from laissez-faire capitalism, and towards the [[administrative state]] and [[entitlement]]s. Conservative Democrats were outraged; led by [[Al Smith]] they formed the [[American Liberty League]] in 1934 and counterattacked. They failed and either retired from politics or joined the GOP. A few of them, such as [[Dean Acheson]] found their way back to the Democratic Party.
[[File:Students pledging allegiance to the American flag with the Bellamy salute.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Elementary school children giving the fascist salute while reciting the [[Pledge of Allegiance]] during the New Deal.]]
After making gains in Congress in 1934 Roosevelt moved left and embarked on a big spending program called "The Second New Deal." It was characterized by building a voting bloc of labor unions, nationalizing welfare by the [[WPA]] (with 2 million unemployed men), setting up [[Social Security]] and raising taxes on "economic royalists."

Roosevelt's [[New Deal]] created an Alphabet soup of government programs. They imposed strong regulations on the banking and financial system, transportation, communications, stock markets, labor-management relations and housing. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) imposed restrictive covenants on mortgage underwriters to discourage government-backed home loans in areas "infiltrated" by "inharmonious racial or nationality groups."<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-new-deal-as-raw-deal-for-blacks-in-segregated-communities/2017/05/25/07416bba-080a-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html The New Deal as raw deal for blacks in segregated communities], Charles Lane, ''[[Washington Post]]'', May 25, 2017.</ref> Restrictive covenants were legal documents to ensure that blacks could not buy homes in white neighborhoods. These covenants forbade the owners and their heirs from selling their property to blacks and other racial and ethnic minorities. Because of these covenants, if the owners sold to a minority, the neighborhood property association had the right to sue in court to ensure that property and homes did not change hands and became the property of minorities.

Roosevelt built up the "[[New Deal Coalition]]", a diverse coalition of voters and special interest groups often with conflicting interests. Key components included corrupt big city political machines and labor unions. Key voter groups included traditional white segregationists, Southerners, Catholics, Jews, and liberals, as well as some Northern blacks. Southern New Dealers did not allow Blacks to vote. The big-city machines, largely controlled by immigrant leaders and unions, as well as blacks, were all tied to the party whose existence was maintained by a venomously, anti-Catholic, anti-labor and racist power center - the Southern Bourbon Democrats. The other keystone of the alliance was the [[Communist Party]] and other leftists, who played a crucial role in allying with Roosevelt and the Democrats to ensure that workers did not transcend trade unionism into political action independent of the Democratic Party. This voter base allowed Democrats to be elected to Congress and the presidency for much of the next 30 years.

After a sweeping landslide reelection in 1936—losing only Maine and Vermont—Roosevelt stunned the nation, and his party, by calling for legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court by five new members after the court found illegal and unconstitutional many of Roosevelt's first term programs. A firestorm of opposition erupted, led by his own vice president [[John Nance Garner]]. Roosevelt was defeated by an alliance of Republicans and conservative Democrats, who formed a coalition that managed to block nearly all socialist planning. (Only a minimum wage law got through.) Angry with dissenters in his own party, Roosevelt tried to destroy them. In 1938, he actively campaigned against five incumbent conservative Democratic senators; all five senators won re-election. In 1940, after rejecting DNC chair James Farley as his successor because Farley was [[Catholic]],<ref>John Flynn, ''The Roosevelt Myth'', 1948, p. 179.</ref> Roosevelt broke with tradition and sought a third term as president. The decision was controversial - Democrat Governor [[Strom Thurmond]] supported his third term while his own vice president John Nance Garner quit over the matter while.<ref>https://www.americanheritage.com/content/what-trent-meant</ref>

On the eve of [[World War II]], Roosevelt appointed [[Joseph P. Kennedy]], father of John Kennedy, [[Bobby Kennedy]], and [[Ted Kennedy]] as Ambassador to [[Great Britain]]. Joe Kennedy was a notorious [[anti-Semite]] and [[Nazi]] sympathizer. At the time of the [[Kristallnacht]], the ''New York Times'' reported Kennedy had a solution to the problems of German Jews: ship them all to [[Africa]].<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-kennedys-answer-to-the-jewish-question-ship-them-to-africa?ref=home?ref=home</ref>

====FDR's Southern Strategy====
[[File:LynchinginAmerica-6ngpoajqm9pq7z40qd21q4ejl9fx6zrggi1pq7r5bic.png|right|300px|thumb|FDR's Southern Strategy: FDR always opposed federal [[anti-lynching legislation]], first introduced by Republicans.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/12/07/is-it-time-for-progressives-to-stop-venerating-fdr/?utm_term=.2b894a27cc04</ref>]]
To win election, FDR forged a coalition of Northern Democrats and Southern segregationists by placing [[John Nance Garner]] of Texas on the ticket as his running mate. The Democrats won an overwhelming majority in the House, picked up 97 seats, bringing the total to 313. On the Republican side the first African-American in the 20th century, and the first since Reconstruction, Rep. [[Oscar De Priest]] was re-elected. The Democratic chairman of the new Congress' Committee on Accounts, Rep. Lindsay Warren, ordered a De Priest staffer and his son to be thrown out of the House's whites-only cafeteria. There was a separate facility for blacks in the basement. De Priest introduced a resolution calling for an investigation. On the House floor, De Priest refuted Warren's claim that African-Americans had always been banned from the restaurant, recalling that he and other black patrons had frequented the House cafeteria. De Priest implored his colleagues to support the resolution, remarking, {{quotebox-float|“If we allow segregation and the denial of constitutional rights under the Dome of the Capitol, where in God’s name will we get them? If we allow this challenge to go without correcting it, it will set an example where people will say Congress itself approves of segregation.”<ref>https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/D/DE-PRIEST,-Oscar-Stanton-(D000263)/</ref>}}
The effort to desegregate the Democrat-controlled House cafeteria was defeated. Civil rights were not on the party agenda. FDR always opposed the federal anti-lynching law as part of FDR's Southern Strategy. Anti-lynching bills were first introduced by Republicans. The Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill was introduced in 1934, calling on the Roosevelt administration to take an active role in ending [[lynching]] in the United States. Senators Edward Costigan of Colorado and Robert Wagner of New York sponsored the bill. Under its provisions, any state officer who failed to exercise diligence in protecting a person under their care from a lynch mob or who neglected to arrest persons involved in a lynching, could themselves be subject to federal imprisonment for five years and a $5,000 fine. In 1935 attempts were made to persuade Roosevelt to speak out in support of the bill. However, Roosevelt refused. He argued that the white voters in the South would never forgive him if he supported the bill and he would, therefore, lose the next election.

Even the appearance in the newspapers of the lynching of Rubin Stacy failed to change Roosevelt's mind on the subject. Six deputies were escorting Stacy to Dade County jail in Miami on July 19, 1935, when he was taken by a white mob and hanged by the side of the home of Marion Jones, the woman who had made the original complaint against him. ''The New York Times'' later revealed that "subsequent investigation revealed that Stacy, a homeless tenant farmer, had gone to the house to ask for food; the woman became frightened and screamed when she saw Stacy's face."<ref>https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-costigan-wagner-act/</ref> The Costigan-Wagner Bill had wide support; however, the bill was defeated in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938 and 1940.
[[File:Hugo black kkk.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Not until after the Democrat Senate approved FDR's appointment of Hugo Black to a lifetime appointment to the bench, was a conservative journalist able to reveal Black was a Klan member.]]
Ever since the Draft Riots of 1863, New York was the bastion of Democratic Resistance in the North. It was a Republican mayor however who made the first efforts to coax traditional black Lincoln Republicans into the New Deal coalition. Fiorello La Guardia was a [[RINO]], or Republican New Dealer. Roosevelt provided federal funds to La Guardia and withheld support from La Guardia's opponents. After the 1935 Harlem riot, La Guardia decreed that African-Americans were not to be arrested for anything, and that police patrolling [[Harlem]] could not carry nightsticks.<ref>[https://vault.fbi.gov/.../Eleanor%20Roosevelt%20Part%2016%20of%2040 Eleanor Roosevelt Part 16 of 37 - FBI — The Vault, p. 46]</ref>

President Roosevelt excluded 4-time gold medalist [[Jesse Owens]] from the customary [[White House]] visit by [[Olympics|Olympic]] athletes. As Jesse Owens later explained:<ref>https://fee.org/articles/hitler-didn-t-snub-me-it-was-our-president/</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"[[Hitler]] didn’t snub me; it was our president [[FDR]] who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send a telegram."}}

In 1937 FDR appointed Alabama Senator [[Hugo Black]] to the Supreme Court. Black was a member of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and built his career campaigning at Klan meetings. Black was well known for his anti-[[Catholic]] viewpoints.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WX2LcraS1EgC&pg=PA219 The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States]</ref> In ''Korematsu v. the United States'', Black voted to uphold [[President Roosevelt]]'s mass arrests and incarceration of [[Japanese]] men, women, and children based on [[race]].

President Roosevelt called Democrat klansman Sen. [[Theodore Bilbo]] "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ New Deal . . . Conservatives?] ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> Bilbo claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the New Deal."<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ A History of Liberal White Racism, Cont.] ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> In a 1938 filibuster against anti-[[lynching]] legislation, Bilbo said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]” by encouraging Black men to rape white women.<ref>https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html</ref>

Not until the presidential election of 1960 when John Kennedy intervened for the release of Martin Luther King, who was jailed by local Democrats two weeks before the election in Atlanta following a non-violent protest, did the majority of Blacks begin voting Democratic ''en bloc''. The transition was solidified four years later when anti-Vietnam war candidate Barry Goldwater defied Republican Congressional leadership and voted with Southern Democrats to oppose the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Franklin Roosevelt's Georgia Warm Springs Polio Rehabilitation Center, founded by Roosevelt in the 1920s before he became president, maintained a Whites-only admission policy. This discrimination was sustained by a [[scientific]] argument about polio itself - that Blacks were not susceptible to the disease.<ref>''[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1854857/#!po=67.8125 Race and the Politics of Polio: Warm Springs, Tuskegee, and the March of Dimes]'', Naomi Rogers, PhD. American Journal of Public Health, May 2007.</ref> The center continued to practice [[racial discrimination]] into the 1960s until it was finally struck down by a federal Appeals Court ruling and changes made in the [[Civil Rights Act]].

====White privilege relief efforts====
:{{See also|New Deal and Fascism}}
New Deal relief efforts targeted FDR's white Democrat voter base. A Black Republican congressman attached a non-discrimination amendment, however Democrats put a ten percent quota system on Blacks who were suffering from higher incidence of poverty and unemployment than whites or the population in general. In more prosperous times 30 years later the War on Poverty was the New Deal in reverse, targeting Blacks with the assumption that all Blacks were poor and uneducated. Both the New Deal and Great Society were predicated on Marxist [[class warfare]].

Journalist John Flynn reported on a Senate investigation into cronyism and corruption in New Deal programs in Kentucky. Similar abuses were found throughout the nation. {{quotebox|"The WPA foremen were given a sheet upon which they had to report on the standing of the reliefers in the political campaign. It became a part of [[Harry Hopkins|Mr. [Harry] Hopkins]]' [[WPA]] organization in Kentucky to learn how many of the down-and-out had enough devotion to Franklin D. Roosevelt to be entitled to eat. It was not sufficient for an indigent Kentuckian to be just down and out and hungry. He had to believe that the President of the United States was his redeemer and had to be ready to register that belief at the polls. The reliefers were asked to sign papers pledging themselves to the election of the senior senator from Kentucky. They were given campaign buttons and told to wear them and there were instances where, if they refused, they were thrown off the WPA rolls. All this, of course, was in a Democratic primary where only Democrats could vote. But there were a lot of poor Republicans in Kentucky who couldn't vote in the Democratic primary so long as they were Republicans. So they were told to change their registration and become Democrats, or no WPA jobs for them.}}

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was born of pure [[progressive]] intentions and modeled after [[Hitler Youth]] programs ongoing in [[Germany]]: employment of young men for conservation work on public lands. Republican Rep. Oscar DePriest, the only black member of Congress, made sure that the 1933 legislation that established the CCC banned [[discrimination]] based on “race, color, or creed." Black enrollment in the CCC was capped at ten percent of total recruits–roughly equivalent to the proportion of blacks in the U.S. in 1930, but nowhere near proportional to the number of blacks eligible for relief during the [[Great Depression]]. Tens of thousands were turned away.

The U.S. Army controlled CCC camp administration and operations, and the [[Wilsonian]] policy of racial segregation transferred over to the new civilian workforce. Most of the CCC's quarter million African-American enrollees served in segregated companies and were unable to attain positions of authority.<ref>The Progressive Republican states of Wisconsin and Minnesota had integrated camps.</ref> Some Southern states categorically excluded blacks, arguing that they were needed for growing and harvesting cotton.<ref>[https://livingnewdeal.org/just-way-segregation-ccc-2/ Just the way society was.” Segregation in the CCC], December 28, 2014.</ref>

====Tuskegee syphilis experiment====
:{{See also|Tuskegee syphilis experiment}}
[[File:Tuskegee experiment.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Tuskegee experiment during the New Deal.<ref>https://ghionjournal.com/tuskegee-institute-study-2-0-targeting-african-americans/</ref>]]
The study was initially funded by the private Rosenwald Fund. However, The Fund ended its involvement due to lack of matching state funds, and the federal government under the heavily [[Democratic party|Democrat]] 73rd Congress took over the funding.<ref>https://www.slu.edu/law/academics/journals/health-law-policy/pdfs/issues/v1-i2/menikoff_article.pdf</ref> According to the 1995 Abstract to ''The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: [[biotechnology]] and the [[administrative state]]:''
{{quotebox-float|"The central issue of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was [[property]]: property in the body and [[intellectual property]]. Once removed from the body, tissue and body fluids were not legally the property of the Tuskegee subjects. Consequently, there was not a direct relationship between a patient and research that used his sera. The Public Health Service (PHS) was free to exercise its property right in Tuskegee sera to develop serologic tests for syphilis with commercial potential. To camouflage the true meaning, the PHS made a distinction between direct clinical studies and indirect studies of tissue and body fluids. This deception caused all reviews to date to limit their examination to documents labeled by the PHS as directly related to the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. This excluded other information in the public domain. Despite the absence of a clinical protocol, this subterfuge led each to falsely conclude that the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment was a clinical study. Based on publications of indirect research using sera and cerebrospinal fluid, this article conceives a very history of the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment. Syphilis could only cultivate in living beings. As in [[slavery]], the generative ability of the body made the Tuskegee subjects real property and gave untreated syphilis and the sera of the Tuskegee subjects immense commercial value. Published protocols exploited the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to invent and commercialize biotechnology for the applied science of syphilis [[serology]].<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7869408/</ref>}}
Jinbin Park of Kyung Hee University reports,<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Jinbin-Park-2137382871</ref>
{{quotebox-float|"the growing influence of [[eugenics]] and [[racial]] pathology at the time reinforced discriminative views on minorities. [[Progressivism]] was realized in the form of domestic reform and imperial pursuit at the same time. Major medical journals argued that [[blacks]] were inclined to have certain defects, especially [[sexually transmitted diseases]] like syphilis, because of their prodigal behavior and lack of hygiene. This kind of racial ideas were shared by the PHS [Public Health Service] officials who were in charge of the Tuskegee Study. Lastly, the PHS officials believed in continuing the experiment regardless of various social changes. They considered that black participants were not only poor but also ignorant of and even unwilling to undergo the treatment. When the exposure of the experiment led to the [[Senate]] investigation in 1973, the participating doctors of the PHS maintained that their study offered valuable contribution to the medical research. This paper argues that the combination of the efficiency of military medicine, [[progressive]] and imperial racial [[ideology]], and [[discrimination]] on [[African-American]]s resulted in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.}}

====Housing discrimination becomes law====
The [[Federal Housing Administration]] (FHA) was created by the Democratic congress in 1934 to insure loans for construction and repairs of homes. White middle-class families could buy suburban homes with little or no down payments and extended 30-year amortization schedules and their monthly charges were often less than rents the families had previously paid to housing authorities or private landlords. But the FHA had an explicit policy of not insuring suburban mortgages for African-Americans, according to writer Richard Rothstein on the ''The American Prospect'' website. In suburban New York's Nassau County, just east of Queens, Levittown was built in 1947 containing 17,500 mass-produced two-bedroom houses, requiring nothing down and monthly payments of about only $60. At the FHA's insistence, developer William Levitt did not sell homes to Blacks, and each deed included a prohibition of such resales in the future.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america</ref>

====Communist infiltration====

:{{See also|Students for a Democratic Society|Progressives for Obama}}
The New Deal was infiltrated with [[Russia]]n controlled [[Communists]] from the beginning. The [[Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy]] reported in 1996 "The first fact is that a significant Communist conspiracy was in place in Washington, New York, and Hollywood."<ref>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/appa6.html Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, Appendix A 6. The Experience of The Bomb]; the report also included, "At this distance it is difficult to conceive the intensity of Communist conviction in the 1930s....Looking back, however, we see more clearly the dilemma ... By 1950... the United States Government possessed information which the American public desperately needed to know: proof that there had been a serious attack on American security by the [[Soviet Union]], with considerable assistance from what was, indeed, an “enemy within.” The fact that we knew this was now known to, or sufficiently surmised by, the Soviet authorities. Only the American public was denied this information. [http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/moynihan/appa7.html Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, Appendix A 7. The Cold War]</ref> [[Hayden Peake]],<ref>[http://intellit.muskingum.edu/alpha_folder/P_folder/peake.html Hayden B. Peake]</ref> curator of [[Central Intelligence Agency]]’s (CIA) Historical Intelligence Collection observes "[[Venona]] makes absolutely clear that they had active agents in the U.S. State Department, Treasury Department, Justice Department, Senate committee staffs, the military services, the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS), the [[Manhattan Project]], and the [[White House]], as well as wartime agencies. No modern government was more thoroughly penetrated." <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060820054409/http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/review/2000/summer/re2-su0.htm ''The Venona Progeny''], Hayen B. Peake, Naval War College Review, Summer 2000, Vol. LIII, No. 3.</ref> Of a handful of presidential assistants whose job was to read and summarize information coming in from all the departments and agencies of the U.S. government for the presidents' daily briefing in wartime, two - [[Lauchlin Currie]] and [[David K. Niles]] - were KGB agents.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/rooseveltandhopk006306mbp/page/n227 ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS AN INTIMATE HISTORY], by ROBERT E.SHERWOOD, 1948, p. 228.</ref> So thorough was [[KGB]] penetration of the Roosevelt Administration, that when [[Army Signals Intelligence]] cryptographer [[Meredith Gardner]] extracted the names of [[Hans Bethe]], [[Niels Bohr]], [[Enrico Fermi]], Harold Urey, [[Edward Teller]] and 11 other scientists working on the [[Manhattan Project]] from a December 2, 1944 KGB encipherment,<ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/venona/venon00014.cfm Venona 1699 New York to Moscow, December 2, 1944].</ref> KGB agent [[William Weisband]] watched him do it.<ref>''VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957'', Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds., (Wasghington, D.C.: [[National Security Agency]], Central Intelligence Agency, 1996) [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/venona-soviet-espionage-and-the-american-response-1939-1957/preface.htm]; The ''Baltimore Sun'' (Laura Sullivan, "SPY'S ROLE LINKED TO US FAILURE ON KOREA," 6/29/00) reported that a report newly declassified by the US National Security Agency (NSA) shows that William Weisband alerted the Soviets to extensive US eavesdropping in 1948, resulting in a complete blackout of information from the communist bloc for more than two years. This crippled the NSA's intelligence gathering efforts in the late 1940s and begins to explain why the US was caught unprepared for the [[DPRK]]'s 1950 invasion of the [[ROK]]. NSA historian David A. Hatch, who authored the report, said, "This report answers several significant questions. Up until now, there has been a great lack of knowledge surrounding some of these events ... and this should help sharpen [the public's] understanding." [Ed. note: This article was included in the US Department of Defense's Early Bird news service for June 29, 2000.] [http://www.nautilus.org/archives/napsnet/dr/0006/JUN29.html#item8]</ref>

As early as Roosevelt's first 100 days, [[Harold Ware]] was a [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) official in the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] (AAA) and founded the [[Ware group]]. The group consisted of young lawyers and economists, had about 75 members in 1934 and was divided into about eight cells. The AAA was later found [[unconstitutional]], but by that time the Communist operatives had established jobs in the [[civil service system]] and were simply reassigned elsewhere in government. [[Alger Hiss]], [[Lee Pressman]], [[John Abt]], [[Charles Kramer]], [[Nathan Witt]], [[Henry Collins]], [[George Silverman]], [[Marion Bachrach]], [[John Herrmann]], [[Nathaniel Weyl]], [[Donald Hiss]] and [[Victor Perlo]] were all members. [[Harry Dexter White]], who was involved in the most auspicious policy [[subversion (political)|subversion]] as Director of the Division of Monetary Research in the [[Treasury Department]], was also affiliated with the group. The Ware group was the CPUSA's covert arm at this time. Each of these agents not only provided classified documents to Soviet intelligence, but was involved in political influence operations as well.

In 1934, a Congressional Investigation was held to examine statements by Dr. William A. Wirt, who headed the Office of Education which later became the [[Department of Education]]. Dr. Wirt had attended a dinner party with several [[Brain Trust]]ers at the home of his secretary, [[Alice Barrows]].<ref>A June 1945 [[Venona project]] decryption of Soviet [[KGB]] wartime cables from the Washington D.C. KGB Office to Moscow's Eighth Department, the political intelligence wing, relayed information on matters regarding Attorney General Francis Biddle. KGB agent [[Charles Kramer]], who served on the staff of several U.S. Senate Subcommittees, and Barrows are the sources of the information. ''Venona 3706 KGB Washington to Moscow, 29 June 1945.'' Mary Van Kleek who headed the Russell Sage Foundation and also served on the Board of the National Council, visited Washington weekly to meet with Barrows and [[Greg Silvermaster|Nathan Gregory Silvermaster]].

During [[World War II]] Barrows was the Executive Secretary of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. This organization was declared in 1953 to be a [[Glossary of espionage terms#Fronts and cutouts|Communist front]] organization by the [[Subversive Activities Control Board]] (SACB). In its Findings of Fact, the SACB said the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, "advances positions...markedly pro-Soviet and...anti-United States Government...is a Communist-action organization which has as its primary purpose to advance the objectives of the world Communist movement under the [[hegemony]] of the Soviet Union; it has the policy to support and defend the Soviet Union under any and all circumstances...We conclude that the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., is substantially directed, dominated, and controlled by the Communist Party of the United States...and is primarily operated for the purpose of giving aid and support to...the Soviet Union, a Communist foreign government." ''[http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=usfexec;cc=usfexec;q1=Barrows;rgn=full%20text;idno=81242.0001.001;didno=81242.0001.001;view=image;seq=511;page=root;size=s;endseq=3;frm=frameset Reports of the Subversive Activities Control Board.]'' Washington. United States Government Printing Office. 1966. Vol. 1, p. 501.</ref>
Barrows began working for the Office of Education in 1919 and was a member of the CPUSA, which advocated the violent overthrow of the United States Government. Several of the Brain Trusters present revealed to Wirt they were CPUSA members. Wirt testified,
[[Image:Fbisilvermasterfilevol15p4.JPG|right|300px|thumb|[[CPUSA]] defector [[Louis Budenz]] testified he could name 400 individuals involved in the [[CPUSA#Secret apparatus|Communist conspiracy]];<ref>[http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft296nb15t&chunk.id=d0e6193&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e4718&brand=eschol FBI Headquarters File 100-63, Louis Francis Budenz, Internal Security—C, Serial 122.]</ref> others testified there may have been over 1000.<ref>Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations ([https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/McCarthy_Transcripts.htm McCarthy Hearings 1953-54]).</ref> The [[Silvermaster group]] infiltrated 27 high level Stalinist [[KGB]] operatives into government jobs in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, including the first General Secretary of the [[United Nations]], the first head of the [[International Monetary Fund]], the head of the [[Manhattan Project]] as well as speech writers and staff assistants for both the President and Vice President.<ref>[http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster015.pdf FBI Silvermaster file Vol. 15, pg. 4 pdf.]</ref> ]]
{{Cquote|I was told they believe that by thwarting our then evident economic recovery, they would be able to prolong the country’s destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the Government must operate business and commerce. By propaganda, they would destroy institutions making long term capital loans—and then push Uncle Sam into making these loans. Once Uncle Sam becomes our financier, he must also follow his money with control and management.<ref>Hearings, House Select Committee To Investigate Certain Statements of Dr. William Wirt, 73rd Congress, 2nd Session, April 10 and 17, 1934.</ref><ref>''Dr Wirt faces the cameras and tells all'', Literary Digest v. 117 (April 21, 1934) p. 7.</ref><ref>FBI Silvermaster file [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster053.pdf Volume 53 June 1946], p. 78 pdf.</ref>}}
Outside government, the [[far-left]] was exerting considerable influence in the labor movement. It dominated the new [[Congress of Industrial Organizations|CIO]], and was building a network of membership organizations. The [[American League Against War and Fascism]] was formed in 1933 and, in 1937, became the American League for Peace and Democracy. There followed the [[American Youth Congress]], 1934; League of American Writers, 1935; National Negro Congress, 1936; and the American Congress for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, 1939. All had significant [[Stalinist]] connections, and fought furious battles with the anti-Communist left.<ref>

Leuchtenburg (1963) 281-3; Irving Howe, Lewis A. Coser, and Julius Jacobson, ''The American Communist Party: a critical history, 1919-1957'' (1957); James R. Barrett, ''William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism'' (2002).</ref> [[Joseph Berger]], a speechwriter for the Democratc National Committee, also was a KGB agent.<ref>[http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI Verona Files]</ref>

While the [[D-Day]] landings were happening, Vice President [[Henry Wallace]] undertook a mission to the Far East for the [[Office of War Information]] and was accompanied by [[Owen Lattimore]] and [[John Carter Vincent]] of the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR).<ref>''Yalta Betrayal'', Wittmer, 1953, pg. 58. Retrieved from GELO.com [http://www.ogleo.com/search/ogleo-History_of_CzechoslovakiaHistory of Czechoslovakia] 05/08/07.</ref> Wallace and his delegation were given a tour of the Magadan concentration camp at Kolyma. Lattimore wrote a travelogue for the ''[[National Geographic]]'' describing this Siberian [[gulag]] as a combination of the Hudson's Bay Company and the [[TVA]], gushing about how strong and well-fed the inmates were and ascribing to camp commandant Feliks Nikishov “a trained and sensitive interest in art and music and also a deep sense of civic responsibility.”<ref>Paul Johnson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aXm-lKKztywC&pg=PA1&dq=the+survival+of+the+adversary+culture&sig=NBsLl97lMC2A-i-gpuvRZdkewDA#PPA180,M1 ''The Survival of the Adversary Culture'' (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1988) ISBN 1560005548, p. 180]</ref> Upon his return from the Siberian journey Wallace was hailed by leftist [[mainstream media]] "as the conscience of the world" in "the century of the common man." Nobel Laureate [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] wrote years later in ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]'' that the entire city of Magadan was founded as a Soviet Gulag, and would never have come into existence for any other reason than as a Communist slave camp for dissidents and the politically incorrect undesirables of Soviet society.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944884,00.html?promoid=googlep Islands of Slavery],, ''[[Time magazine]]'', June 24, 1974.</ref><ref>[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/10/31/jordan_peterson_reads_foreward_to_the_gulag_archipelago_50th_anniversary.html Jordan Peterson Reads New Foreward to The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary Edition], October 31, 2018. realclearpolitics.com</ref> Commentator Cal Thomas wrote in 2007, {{Cquote|While many Westerners recall Nazi-run death camps like [[Auschwitz]] and [[Buchenwald]], few remember Soviet death camps named Kolyma and Magadan. True, Alexander Solzhenitsyn mentioned them in "The Gulag Archipelago" as did Varlam Sjalamov in "Tales from Kolyma," but as the late Swedish journalist Andres Kung wrote, "There are people who have still not heard of these communist [[democide|extermination]] camps -- even though the communists preceded the [[Nazi]]s in creating such camps and killed an even larger number of people in their camps.<ref>[http://www3.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20070612-085222-1017r.htm Monument to murder], By Cal Thomas, ''Washington Times'', June 13, 2007.</ref>}}
The [[American Labor Party]] provided the necessary votes to overcome the [[Republican]] lead over the [[Democrat]]s. By 1944 the [[Communist]]s had taken over the American Labor Party completely. In the election of 1944, [[Republican]] Presidential nominee [[Thomas E. Dewey]] got nearly half a million votes more on the Republican ticket than Roosevelt got on the Democratic ticket,<ref>[http://www.therealitycheck.org/GuestColumnist/tbrewton010306.htm The (Socialist) Empire Strikes],
by Thomas E. Brewton, ''The RealityCheck.org''. Retrieved August 1, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801534,00.html?promoid=googlep The Side Issues], [[Time magazine]], Nov. 13, 1944.</ref> but Roosevelt was the candidate of two other parties - the American Labor Party of the Communists <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Ch. 10, [https://web.archive.org/web/20040626062741/https://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Ten___Politics__Disease_.htm ''Politics, Disease and History'']</ref> and the [[Liberal Party]] which consisted of technocrats, [[economic planners]] and American non-Stalinist Communists.<ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 2, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/cgi-bin/framed/2767/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Two___The_White_House_G.htm ''The White House Goes into Business''], Flynn, 1948.</ref> In New York State Roosevelt won 47 electoral votes with a majority of 317,000.<ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 9, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Nine___The_Great_Confere.htm ''The Great Conferences''], Flynn, 1948,</ref> Of these 825,000 votes came from the American Labor Party dominated by the Communists, which had also nominated FDR and he had accepted, and the American Liberal Party. The same thing was true in Illinois, in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and other large industrial states, although the fact was not so obvious because the radicals operated inside the Democratic party where they could not be so easily identified. [[Strom Thurmond]] also supported FDR's decision to seek a fourth term.<ref>[http://www.kevinbaker.info/c_wtm.html What Trent Meant], Kevin Baker.</ref>

Several liberal New Deal economists in the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy era]] fled to [[Maoist]] [[China]] to experiment with their real ambitions after being hindered by [[democracy]], law, and the [[Constitution]].<ref>Unlike the landlords of sharecroppers, these former American civil servants turned Chinese Communist civil servants simply outlawed "landlordism," and exterminated the landlords, saving the state treasury billions in agricultural subsidies.</ref> Their time in China is memorialized in history as the [[Three Years of Disasters]].<ref>Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that "coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the foundation of the [[Great Leap Forward]]" and it "motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history". Dikötter, Frank (2010). pp. x, xi. ISBN 0-8027-7768-6</ref> The death toll of this [[socialist]] experiment is estimated at 55 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2011/06/17/la-chine-creuse-ses-trous-de-memoire_743211|title=La Chine creuse ses trous de mémoire|last=|first=|date=|website=La Liberation|publisher=|language=fr|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>

After [[World War II]], [[Moscow]] ordered all American communists to go underground and join the Democratic party. The story of [[Frank Marshall Davis]], Barack Obama's mentor,<ref>http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/main/AboutHFP/tabid/64/Default.aspx</ref> is intertwined with the Hawaii Democrats' rise to power.<ref>http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-frank-marshall-davis-network-in-hawaii/</ref> Communists controlled the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), the ILWU controlled the Hawaii Democratic Party, and in 1954, union-based election campaigns launched the Hawaii Democrats into control of the state legislature. Hawaii's first Democratic Governor Jack Burns said,
{{Cquote|Every guy in the ILWU was at one time or another a member of the Communist Party of America. This is where they got their [[community organizing|organizational information]] and how to organize, and how to bring groups together and how to create cells and how to make movements that are undetected by the bosses.}}
In 1959 Hawaii became a state.<ref>http://hawaii.gov/statehood/history</ref> when Burns captured the governor's office in 1962 the Democrats created a [[single party control]]led state unbroken for four decades until the election of [[Republican]] Governor [[Linda Lingle]] in the aftermath of the [[9/11 attacks]] in 2002. During those decades in some sessions sat as few as one Republican legislator. In 1976 the Democratic-controlled Hawaii State Legislature passed a resolution honoring [[Koji Ariyoshi]], a lieutenant of [[Mao Zedong]], the single biggest mass murderer of all time. Herbert Romerstein,<ref>[http://education-research.org/CSR/romerstein.htm The Education and Research Institute], Washington, DC.</ref><ref>[http://intellit.org/alpha_folder/R_folder/romerstein.html Herbert Romerstein], ''The Literature of Intelligence: A Bibliography of Materials, with Essays, Reviews, and Comments'', J. Ransom Clark Emeritus, Muskingum University, New Concord, Ohio. Published in 2007: J. Ransom Clark, Intelligence and National Security: A Reference Handbook (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International Reference, 2007. [http://www.greenwood.com/psi/book_detail.aspx?sku=C9298])</ref> formerly head of the office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the United States Information Agency (USIA) commented, "this was the atmosphere that young Barack Obama grew up in...We honor Soviet spies."<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Transcript_May_22_edited_version.pdf ''The Stealth Candidate''], Edited Transcript May 22, 2008, Briefing on Barack Obama's Communist Connections Featuring Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein. Accuracy in Media.</ref><ref>Mao and Ariyoshi were Soviet operatives prior to the death of Stalin and the [[Sino-Soviet split]].</ref>

[[Michael Whitney Straight]] became a Communist Party member in the Stalin era and worked as a speechwriter for President Roosevelt. After WWII Straight took over as publisher of his family-owned ''[[The New Republic]]'' magazine, the liberal movement's flagship publication, where he hired former [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]] and 1948 Progressive Party presidential candidate [[Henry A. Wallace]] as the magazine's editor. Straight later served as the deputy chairman of the Great Society [[National Endowment for the Arts]] program from 1969 to 1977 handing out taxpayer cash and federal grants to [[politically correct]] [[Cultural Marxist]] recipients.

====Immigration and refugees====

After [[Kristallnacht]] in November 1938, many Jews within Germany decided that it was time to leave. The ''S.S St. Louis'' carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jewish, set sail from Hamburg to [[Cuba]] on May 13, 1939. In Cuba the passengers were denied entrance without posting a $500 bond. A few dozen passengers disembarked. The ship set sail for Florida.

Once in Florida waters, Sec. of State [[Cordell Hull]] advised President Roosevelt to deny the Jews [[asylum]]. The [[U.S. Coast Guard]] and planes followed the ''St. Louis'' to prevent it from landing.<ref>https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-tragedy-of-s-s-st-louis</ref>
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Many Jews had fled to Central and South America to escape [[Nazi]] persecution. When war broke out, these [[Latin America]]n countries did not want German Jews. They were deported to the United States where the Roosevelt administration was willing to hold them as German citizens in America [[concentration camp]]s. The Roosevelt administration traded them back to Germany in exchange for American civilians held in detention in Germany. The fate of these Jews is unknown.<ref>https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/internment-of-germans.html</ref>

In 1943, Roosevelt told French military leaders at the Casablanca Conference that "the number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions" in liberated North Africa "should be definitely limited", lest there be a recurrence of "the understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews in Germany."<ref>http://new.wymaninstitute.org/2013/08/a-presidents-private-thoughts-about-jews/</ref>

====Mass incarceration of minorities====
Wikipedia states that Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt set up "[[concentration camp]]s" during World War II while the United States was at war with [[Nazi Germany]]:
{{quotebox-float|"Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. This order authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans in U.S. [[concentration camps]]."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066</ref>}}
====Supreme Court====
Franklin Roosevelt nominated [[James F. Byrnes]] to the Supreme Court and was confirmed by the Democrat Senate in 1941. The NAACP opposed his confirmation in a telegram to the White House:
{{quotebox-float|“If Senator Byrnes at any time in his long public career failed to take a position inimical to the human and citizenship rights of 13 million American Negro citizens, close scrutiny of his record fails to reveal it.”}}
As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate for more than two decades, Byrnes personally blocked a Senate investigation of a South Carolina lynching and opposed federal anti-lynching legislation, insisting that “rape is responsible, directly and indirectly, for most of the lynching in America.”

Byrnes later held the office of Secretary of State under President Harry Truman. He remained a vocal opponent of integration throughout his term as South Carolina governor from 1951 to 1955. In his inaugural address, Byrnes proclaimed,
{{quotebox-float|“Whatever is necessary to continue the separation of the races in the schools of South Carolina is going to be done by the white people of the state. That is my ticket as a private citizen. It will be my ticket [as governor].”}}
A building and a professorship at the University of South Carolina bear his name, as do Byrnes Auditorium at Winthrop University, Byrnes Hall dormitory at Clemson University, and James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, South Carolina.<ref>https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html</ref>

===Truman to Kennedy: 1945–1963===

Harry Truman took over unexpectedly in 1945, and the rifts inside the party that Roosevelt had papered over began to emerge. Former Vice President [[Henry A. Wallace]], a progressive, denounced Truman as a war-monger for his anti-Soviet programs, the [[Truman Doctrine]], [[Marshall Plan]], and [[NATO]]. By cooperating with internationalist Republicans, Truman succeeded in defeating isolationists on the right and pro-Soviets on the left to establish a [[Cold War]] program that lasted until the fall of Communism in 1991. Wallace supporters and fellow travelers of the far left were pushed out of the party and the CIO in 1946-48 by young anti-Communists like [[Hubert Humphrey]], [[Walter Reuther]], and [[Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.]]. [[Hollywood]] emerged in the 1940s as an important new base in the party, led by movie-star politicians such as [[Ronald Reagan]], who at this point in time strongly supported Roosevelt and Truman. Reagan was elected president of the [[Screen Actors Guild]] and left the party over communist infiltration of his union.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=I4-UBnd20K4C&pg=PA155 Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics]</ref>

By October 1946, the G.I. Bill had placed 6,500 former soldiers in nonfarm jobs in Mississippi; 86 percent of the skilled and semiskilled jobs were filled by whites, 92 percent of the unskilled ones by Blacks. In New York and northern New Jersey, fewer than 100 of the 67,000 mortgages insured by the G.I. Bill supported home purchases by nonwhites. Discrimination continued as well in elite Northern colleges. The University of Pennsylvania, along with Columbia the least discriminatory of the Ivy League colleges, enrolled only 46 Black students in its student body of 9,000 in 1946. The traditional Black colleges did not have places for an estimated 70,000 Black veterans in 1947. At the same time, white universities were doubling their enrollments and prospering with the infusion of public and private funds, and of students with their G.I. benefits.<ref>https://atlantablackstar.com/2015/02/04/9-ways-franklin-d-roosevelts-new-deal-purposely-excluded-blacks-people/5/</ref>

On the right, the Republicans blasted Truman's domestic policies. "Had Enough?" was the winning slogan as Republicans recaptured Congress in 1946. Many party leaders were ready to dump Truman, but they lacked an alternative. The party was split three ways. [[Henry Wallace]], who Roosevelt threw off the ticket in 1944 ran as a [[Progressive]] while [[J. Strom Thurmond]], who remained a staunch supporter of FDR split off and ran as a [[Dixiecrat]]. Republican overconfidence led to many failing to show up at the polls and Truman was reelected in a stunning surprise. However, all of Truman's Fair Deal proposals, such as universal health care were defeated by the [[Conservative Coalition]] in Congress. His [[nationalization]] of the steel industry was reversed by the Supreme Court.
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In foreign policy, Europe was occupied but divided between the Western alliance and the Communist bloc as troubles mounted in Asia. American troops were now facing down the New Deal's Stalinist allies in the streets of Berlin. Kuomintang China, a major ally in the war against [[Japan]], fell to the Stalinist communist bloc in 1949. Truman, under the [[UN]] banner, entered the [[Korean War]] without formal Congressional approval—the last time a president would ever do so. When the war stalemated in 1951 because of Truman's reluctance to use nuclear weapons, he fired General [[Douglas MacArthur]], a hero to conservatives. Republicans blasted Truman's failure to stop Communist gains in Asia. A series of petty scandals among friends and buddies of Truman further tarnished his image, allowing [[Dwight Eisenhower]] and the Republicans in 1952 to crusade against "Korea, Communism and Corruption." Truman dropped out of the presidential race early in 1952, leaving no obvious successor. The convention nominated [[Adlai Stevenson]] in 1952 and 1956, only to see him overwhelmed by two Eisenhower landslides. Stevenson, a New Deal liberal, adopted the traditional Democratic Southern Strategy of choosing a Southern white male for vice president in both elections to appeal to Southern voters, who regularly would not allow African Americans to register to vote.

====Voter suppression and election fraud====
Two term New Dealer Sen. Theodore Bilbo faced three primary challengers running for a third term and told a group of supporters,
{{quotebox-float|“I’m calling on every red-blooded American who believes in the superiority and integrity of the white race to get out and see that no n***** votes.”}}
In true Democrat tradition, Bilbo won the rigged primary election with 51% in a four-way contest. The Republicans won back control of the Senate that year in the 1946 general election and refused to seat Bilbo as his comments about Democrat [[voter suppression]] to rig the election became more widely known. He died 7 months later, unable to take his seat, while the Senate was still investigating.<ref>http://www.mississippihistory.org/sites/default/files/bilbo.pdf</ref>

In 1948, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] won an election for [[U.S. Senate]] from the state of [[Texas]] by [[Democrat election fraud#1948 Texas Senate|stealing the election]], according even to historians sympathetic to him. Johnson ran against former governor [[Coke Stevenson]]; neither candidate won a majority of the votes in the election, which under Texas law forced a runoff between Johnson and Stevenson. Johnson then claimed an 87-vote victory over Stevenson in the runoff, which was fraudulent.<ref>See eg Robert A Caro Master of the ''Senate Means of Assent''</ref> Johnson's partner in [[crime]] in the election theft, [[Abe Fortas]], whom Johnson later appointed to the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] and was confirmed by a two-thirds majority of the Democrat Senate, is the only Supreme Court Justice to have resigned over corruption charges.

====Brown vs. Board of Education====
:{{See also|Brown vs. Board of Education}}
The election of a Republican for the first time in 20 years was momentous. Eisenhower appointed Republican California Governor [[Earl Warren]] as [[Chief Justice]] of the Supreme Court. All the other members had been appointed by Roosevelt and Truman who believed courts should defer to the policymaking prerogatives of the White House and Congress. Warren convened a meeting of the justices and presented to them the simple argument that the only reason to sustain segregation was a deep-rooted belief in the inferiority of African-Americans. In ''[[Brown v. Topeka Board of Education]]'', Warren produced a unanimous decision that said: {{quotebox|"Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group…Any language in contrary to this finding is rejected. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”}}
In Congress, the powerful duo of House Speaker [[Sam Rayburn]] and Senate Majority leader [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] held the party together, often by compromising with Eisenhower. After the Little Rock Crisis of 1957, the party made dramatic gains in the 1958 midterms and seemed to have a permanent lock on Congress. Indeed, Democrats had majorities in the House every election from 1930 to 1992 (except 1946 and 1952). Most southern Congressmen were conservative Democrats, however, and they usually worked with conservative Republicans. The result was a [[Conservative Coalition]] that blocked practically all socialist domestic legislation from 1937 to the 1970s, except for a brief spell 1964–65, when Johnson neutralized its power.
[[File:John Kennedy texas.png|left|300px|thumb|John Kennedy was elected using the same Southern Strategy FDR did by putting a Texan on the ticket.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23535517?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents John F. Kennedy's Southern Strategy, 1956-1960], Guy Paul Land, ''The North Carolina Historical Review'', Vol. 56, No. 1 (January, 1979), pp. 41-63.</ref>]]
The nomination of [[John F. Kennedy]] in 1960 energized the Catholic population, which jammed motorcades and turned out in heavy numbers (over 80% voted for Kennedy), while also causing a backlash among white Protestants (over 70% of whom voted for Republican candidate [[Richard Nixon]]). Reaching beyond the traditional Irish, German, Italian and Polish Catholic ethnics, Viva Kennedy set out to mobilize the previously passive Latino vote, and it perhaps provided the margin of victory for Kennedy in Texas and New Mexico. His brother, [[Robert Kennedy]], who managed the campaign, opposed the outreach to Black voters and sided with traditional Southern racists of the New Deal coalition.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kLspqSlNjfYC&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=three+Southern+governors+told+us+that+if+Jack+supported+Jimmy+Hoffa,+Nikita+Khrushchev,+or+Martin+Luther+King,+they+would+throw+their+states+to+Nixon&source=bl&ots=9PCWxfix0P&sig=ACfU3U2rlCOdSQJLr7w1x8AhpeJODSmG6w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj58fD9uIngAhWMoYMKHRY0CPAQ6AEwCnoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=three%20Southern%20governors%20told%20us%20that%20if%20Jack%20supported%20Jimmy%20Hoffa%2C%20Nikita%20Khrushchev%2C%20or%20Martin%20Luther%20King%2C%20they%20would%20throw%20their%20states%20to%20Nixon&f=false Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero], [[Chris Matthews]], Simon and Schuster, Nov 6, 2012, p. 309.</ref> Bobby Kennedy was furious with campaign aides for talking with King, and felt it would cost them the election.

Kennedy's victory reinvigorated the party. His youth, vigor and intelligence caught the popular imagination. In foreign policy he was strongly anti-Communist, and promptly launched an invasion of Castro's Cuba; it failed badly. A few new programs like the Peace Corps provided pacifists with an alternative to two years of military service in the peacetime draft. In terms of civil rights legislation, his proposals were all cautious and incremental. In three years he was unable to pass any significant civil rights legislation.

Kennedy's election did mark the coming of age of the Catholic component of the New Deal Coalition. After 1964 middle-class Catholics started voting Republicans in the same proportion as their Protestant neighbors. Except for the Chicago of [[Richard J. Daley]], the last of the Democratic machines faded away. His involvement in Vietnam proved momentous, for his successor Lyndon Johnson decided to stay, and double the investment, and double the bet again and again until over 500,000 American soldiers were fighting in that small country.

====Southern Manifesto====
:{{Main article|Southern Manifesto}}
The Southern Manifesto was a document issued in response to the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'', which integrated public schools. School segregation laws were some of the most enduring and best-known of the [[Jim Crow]] laws that characterized the American South at the time. All but twenty-eight of the 138 southern Democrat members of Congress signed this Southern Manifesto, including 19 of the Majority Democrat Senators.<ref>https://d1lexza0zk46za.cloudfront.net/history/am-docs/southern-manifesto.pdf</ref> [[John Sparkman]], 1952 Vice Presidential candidate as part of the Democrat's Southern Strategy, [[J. William Fulbright]] mentor of Bill Clinton, Richard Brevard Russell of the [[Warren Commission]], [[Sam Ervin]] of the [[Watergate]] Committee, [[Hale Boggs]] (the father of [[NPR]]'s Cokie Roberts), and [[Wilbur Mills]] were all signatories. It reads in part: {{quotebox|"This unwarranted exercise of power by the Court, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion in the States principally affected. It is destroying the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through 90 years of patient effort by the good people of both races. It has planted hatred and suspicion where there has been heretofore friendship and understanding....We commend the motives of those States which have declared the intention to resist forced integration by any lawful means."}} [[File:Little Rock Nine.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Republican President Dwight Eisenhower called out the 101st Airborne to protect Black school children from Democrat protesters after a Democrat governor refused to implement a desegregation order written by the Republican Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.]]

The Southern Manifesto was signed on a large mahogany conference table in Sen. [[John Stennis]]' office which Stennis used as his desk and referred to as "the flagship of the [[Confederacy]]." The table was used by segregationist and co-signer of the Southern Manifesto Sen. [[Richard Russell]] before his retirement. When Stennis retired in 1988, Sen. [[Joseph Biden]] took over Stennis' office, including the conference table. When Sen. Biden was elected vice president in 2008, Biden had the flagship of the Confederacy moved into the Vice President's residence.

One of the first challenges to ''Brown v. Board of Education'' occurred when Democrat Governor [[Orval E. Faubus]] ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African-American students from enrolling at [[Little Rock]] Central High School. Central High was an all-white school. Faubus ordered the troops to "accomplish the mission of maintaining or restoring law and order and to preserve the peace, health, safety and security of the citizens." A force of 289 soldiers was assembled. The commander told nine black students, six girls and thee boys ages 15–17 years old who were attempting to enter the school, to return home. The standoff continued for three weeks. Little Rock Democrat mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann appealed to President Eisenhower to help end the deadlock. Eisenhower sent the [[101st Airborne Division]] to federalized the entire 10,000-member Arkansas National Guard. The students were allowed to enroll.

Faubus was re-elected in 1958 with 82.5% of the vote over a Republican challenger. Faubus ordered the closure of four public high schools that year, preventing both black and white students from attending school while seeking a two and a half year delay on de-segregation until January 1961 in Federal Court when there would be a possibility of a Democratic president.

====1957 Civil Rights Act====
:{{See also|Civil Rights Act of 1957}}
Republican Attorney General [[Herbert Brownell]] originally proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Democrat Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had Judiciary chairman Sen. [[James Eastland]] drastically water-down the House version, removing stringent voting protection clauses.<ref>https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1951-2000/The-Civil-Rights-Act-of-1957/</ref><ref>Caro, Robert, ''Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson'', Chapter 39</ref> The bill passed 285–126 in the House with Republicans providing the majority of votes 167–19 and Democrats 118–107.<ref>HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. PASSED. YEA SUPPORTS PRESIDENT'S POSITION. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/h42</ref> It then passed 72–18 in the Senate, with Republicans again supplying the majority of votes, 43–0 and Democrats voting 29–18. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who later ran for president, voted against it.<ref>[https://kennedysandking.com/reviews/the-kennedys-and-civil-rights-how-the-msm-continues-to-distort-history-part-2 The Kennedys and Civil Rights: How the MSM Continues to Distort History, Part 2], James DiEugenio, 07 October 2018. "Kennedy sided with the [[segregation]]ists on a complicated procedural matter that watered down that bill. (p. 58) Even for Levingston, this is sorry. What watered down the bill was the removal of something that Kennedy voted ''for''. This was called Title III.</ref> Kennedy's 1957 book, ''Profiles in Courage'', celebrated the vote of Sen. [[Edmund Ross]] to acquit Pres. [[Andrew Johnson]], the first step in ending Republican [[Reconstruction]] reforms and paving the way for the Democrat era of [[Jim Crow]] laws and the [[segregation]] era.<ref>https://brewminate.com/andrew-johnson-impeachment-and-reconstruction/</ref>

The 1957 Civil Rights Act was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Johnson told Sen. [[Richard Russell]], {{quotebox|"These Negroes, they're getting pretty [[uppity]] these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."<ref>Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=HS9aAAAAYAAJ ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream''] (1977), by Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York: New American Library, p. 155.</ref>}}

====Bull Connor====
[[Bull Connor]] was first elected to the Alabama House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1934.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/connor.html|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Connor|first=Lawrence|last=Kestenbaum|website=politicalgraveyard.com}}</ref> Connor remained a Democrat throughout his career and life. In 1936 he was elected Commissioner of Public Safety of Birmingham, Alabama and served in that position for the better part of three decades. A [[white supremacist]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Eugene "Bull" Connor|url=http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1091|access-date=2021-12-01|website=Encyclopedia of Alabama|language=en}}</ref> Connor enforced racial segregation laws passed by the Democratic party-controlled state legislature and denied [[civil rights]] to black citizens. He is notorious for directing the use of fire hoses and police attack dogs against civil rights activists in the early 1960s, including against children supporting the protests.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Meet the Players: Other Figures {{!}} American Experience {{!}} PBS|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/meet-players-other-figures/|access-date=|website=PBS|language=en}}</ref> National media broadcast these tactics on television, horrifying much of the world. The outrages served as catalysts for passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].

===Johnson, war and riots===
:{{See also|Johnson administration}}
The New Deal Coalition began to fracture as union and religious leaders demanded support for [[civil rights]], upsetting the party's traditional base of Democrat segregationists who themselves became dependent on government largess. In 1948 the party platform for the first time in its history showed some support for civil rights. The Republicans passed civil rights legislation with the [[13th Amendment]], [[14th Amendment]], [[15th Amendment]], [[Emancipation Proclamation]], the Civil Rights Act of 1875, and first passed anti-lynching legislation in 1922, which Democrats killed by [[filibuster]]s.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/05/party-civil-rights-kevin-d-williamson/</ref>
[[File:Lyndon Johnson showing scars.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A new level crudeness: Johnson shows off scars from gallbladder surgery to photographers and the world. Johnson is said to have given instructions to staff and press interviews while sitting on the toilet.<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4617681/toilet-time-lbj</ref> Johnson regularly used the "N" word.]]
The party's reversal on civil rights culminated with Democratic President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] finally signing the [[bi-partisan]] [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], which he called "the N****r Bill."<ref>http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism</ref> In lobbying fellow Democrats for the bill, Johnson said,
{{quotebox-float|"I'll have them n*gg*rs voting Democratic for two hundred years."<ref>Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-''Air Force One'' steward Robert MacMillan as quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=lJz-yIZNE2sC ''Inside the White House''] (1996), by Ronald Kessler, New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 33.</ref>}} Democrats tried to block passage by filibustering for 75 hours, including a 14-hour and 13-minute speech by the Exalted Cyclops, Sen. [[Robert Byrd]],<ref>Sen. Theodore Bilbo, whom Byrd swore his Klan oath to, said in 1949 on ''Meet the Press'', "Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux."</ref> who later became Senate Democrat Leader in the Reagan era. The filibuster failed when the Senate invoked cloture for only the second time since 1927.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Civil_Rights_Filibuster_Ended.htm|title=Civil Rights Filibuster Ended |work=Art & History Historical Minutes|publisher=United States Senate|accessdate=}}</ref> The law was intended to block Republican gains in the South followed by buying off Blacks with [[Great Society]] [[welfare]] and [[affirmative action]] programs. According to LBJ biographer Robert Caro, Johnson told his chauffeur:
{{Quotebox-float|"Let me tell you one thing, n*gg*r. As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your g*dd*mn name. So no matter what you are called, n*gg*r, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a g*dd*mn piece of furniture."<ref>https://slate.com/culture/2002/05/lbj-s-alleged-compassion.html</ref>}}

African-Americans formed an anomalous coalition with low-income white Democrat racists who were dependent on New Deal and Great Society [[welfare]] programs.<ref>"Chicago 1969: Assumed to be natural enemies, these groups united in their calls for [[economic justice]]." [http://theconversation.com/chicago-1969-when-black-panthers-aligned-with-confederate-flag-wielding-working-class-whites-68961 When Black Panthers aligned with Confederate-flag-wielding, working-class whites], Colette Gaiter, ''The Conversation'', January 8, 2017.</ref> Both African Americans and racist Democrats opposed Republican efforts to maintain fiscal and budgetary sanity. The coalition gave cover to bigoted Democrats to hide their racism, while accusing Republicans who wanted to balance the budget of prejudice. [[Malcolm X]] described it this way: {{quotebox-float|"The white Liberal differs from the white Conservative only in one way; the Liberal is more [[deceit]]ful, more hypocritical, than the Conservative. Both want power, but the White Liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor and by winning the friendship and support of the Negro, the White Liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or a weapon in this political football game, that is constantly raging, between the White Liberals and the White Conservatives. The American Negro is nothing, but a political "football game" that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YmjWW9tx4</ref>}}
Contrary to popular Democrat mythology, Democrat Governor [[George Wallace]] won [[the South]] in 1968 in a three-way contest against Nixon and Humphrey. There was no Nixon "[[Southern Strategy]]." The South continued to reject Yankee liberals (Humphrey in 1968, McGovern in 1972, Mondale in 1984, Dukakis in 1988, Kerry in 2004). At the state and local level, the Republicans made slow but steady gains. As racism in the South declined, Republicans in the South increased.<ref>https://youtu.be/ol7OMGBDMao</ref>

The South became competitive in presidential politics as early as the 1920s and by 1980 gave strong support to Republican Ronald Reagan, rejecting northern liberal candidates.<ref>https://www.prageru.com/videos/why-did-democratic-south-become-republican</ref> Democrats responded with a new Southern Strategy - putting Southerners at the top of the ticket - Carter in 1976 and 1980, Clinton in 1992 and 1996, Gore in 2000, and calling Yankee Republicans "racist."

By the 1990s the GOP was competitive at the state and local level throughout the South. The Democrats made gains in the west through [[illegal immigration]],<ref>https://cis.org/Report/Injustice-All-Excerpt-Sellout-Inside-Story-President-Clintons-Impeachment</ref> converting [[California]] to a Democratic stronghold and gaining in fast-growing Arizona and Nevada. The Northeast became more and more a Democratic enclave, especially after 2006 when numerous Republican moderates were defeated for reelection. The Midwest remained a battleground. The Democrats made strong gains in Illinois but slipped a little in Minnesota.

====1964 Convention: Mississippi Freedom Party====
:{{See also|Black history}}
The Mississippi Freedom Party was organized by African Americans to challenge the establishment Democratic Party, which allowed participation only by whites. The party ran a slate of delegates with close to 80,000 people casting ballots.<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/tim/tim63b.htm#1963msballot Freedom Ballot in MS] ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans</ref> The party hoped to replace the Regular Democrats as the official Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

At the convention the party challenged the Regular Democrats' right to be seated, claiming that the Regular Democrats were illegally elected in a segregated process that violated both party regulations and [[federal law]].<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/disc/mfdp.htm The Mississippi Movement & the MFDP] ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans</ref> The Equal Protection Clause had been on the books for nearly 100 years already. The Democratic Party referred the challenge to the credentials committee,<ref>{{cite book
| last = Branch
| first = Taylor
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| date = 1998}}</ref> which televised its proceedings and allowed the nation to see and hear the moving testimony of several delegates and the retaliation inflicted on them by Democrats for attempting to vote.<ref>Carmichael, Stokely, and Charles V. Hamilton. ''Black Power: The Politics of Liberation,'' (New York: Random House, 1967), p. 90.</ref>

After that, most observers and pundits thought the credentials committee were ready to unseat the Regular Democrats and seat the Freedom Party delegates in their place. But some Democrats from other states threatened to leave the convention and bolt the party if the Regular Democrats were unseated. President Johnson wanted a united convention and feared losing support. To ensure his victory in November, Johnson maneuvered to prevent the Mississippi Freedom Democrats from replacing the all-white Regular Democrats.

Two future Democrat Presidential nominees, [[Hubert Humphrey]] and [[Walter Mondale]], denied Blacks [[equal protection]] and made a mockery of the [[civil rights movement]].<ref>https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2011/05/sad-story-humphreys-role-1964-democratic-convention/</ref> Johnson held a private meeting with Humphrey, Mondale, Roy Wilkins, [[Andrew Young]], [[United Auto Workers]] President [[Walter Reuther]] and [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] A plan was hatched to offer the Freedom Democrats two non-voting ''At-Large'' seats with observer status, rather than replace the all-white delegation which had been undemocratically and illegally elected.<ref>Mills, Kay, ''This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer,'' (New York: Plume, 1994), p. 5.</ref> Johnson arrogated to himself the right to pick which two, and Johnson chose one white and one black. Johnson dispatched Humphrey and Mondale and ordered them to make sure that “that illiterate woman," Fannie Lou Hamer would never be a delegate. Dr. King protested and was told by Reuther to shut up.

The offer was rejected, but Humphrey and Mondale remained powerhouse liberals in the Democratic party for another 20 years.

====Great Society====
:{{See also|War on Poverty}}
By the 1960s, the [[Preamble]] clause of the [[Constitution]], "to promote the general welfare," was re-interpreted to justify massive [[welfare|wealth transfer]] programs under the rubric of "Welfare." This creeping [[Marxist dialectic]] and [[communism]] was accredited to [[Michael Harrington]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ |title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty |work=Washington Post |date=January 8, 2014 |quote="Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book [The Other America] (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda" }}</ref> founder of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]],<ref>''[http://www.marxisthistory.org/history/usa/parties/dsa/1973/1000-dsoc-dl006.pdf Newsletter of the Democratic Left]'', October 1973, page 3</ref><ref>Democratic Left, Sep. 1975, page 2</ref> and adopted by Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Congress as the focal point of law, government social spending, and [[affirmative action]] programs.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kurtz|first=Stanley|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2010|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=David|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2006|pages=85}}</ref>
[[File:Democrat coalition of 1960s.jpg|left|300px|thumb|The Democrat coalition of the 1960s. Racist whites who benefited from New Deal welfare programs now aligned with Blacks who were beneficiaries of the [[War on Poverty]]. Republicans who wanted to cut off vote buying out of the public treasury and balance the budget were unjustly accused by both of "racism."]]
African Americans, who were excluded from many New Deal programs, now were the direct targets of the [[Great Society]]. Single Black women could receive cash payments to have children outside wedlock.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/20/us/breakup-of-black-family-imperils-gains-of-decades.html</ref> Johnson and the Democrat's intended to capture the nation's 20 million African-Americans as a dependent and loyal voting bloc within the Democratic party, now that a bi-partisan majority of Republicans and Democrats smashed the Democratic party's stranglehold on the South, which had denied Black voter participation for a century. Great Society programs had a devastating impact on Black families and communities in the following decades.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262726/how-liberal-welfare-state-destroyed-black-america-john-perazzo</ref>

The term, "poverty" became a [[dog whistle]] for "black," and the term "rich" became a codeword for "white." [[Class warfare]] and [[Cultural Marxism]] became the focus in [[public education]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/25/us/education-the-mainstreaming-of-marxism-in-us-colleges.html</ref>

Dr. [[Thomas Sowell]] observed that "despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws and "war on poverty" programs of the 1960s, the cold fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87% in 1940 to 47% by 1960."<ref>[https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/11/14/a-legacy-of-liberalism A Legacy of Liberalism], By Dr. Thomas Sowell, November 18, 2014.</ref> The war on poverty increased the percentage of mothers and children dependent on the federal government to keep them above the poverty line. Although the number of dependent people had been declining for decades before the "war on poverty" began, this downward trend reversed itself and had a devastating effect on the black family structure, and black communities overall. Fathers were driven out of the home so that females could meet eligibility requirements, young males' marriage and family prospects precipitously dropped, out of wedlock births and street gangs, crime, and violence proliferated in coming decades.

Overall federal spending on programs for the poor escalated as eligibility rules for [[welfare]] and [[Social Security]] were loosened, the size of benefits was increased, and unemployment insurance was made more available to more people, and for longer periods of time. The number of people receiving [[public assistance]] more than doubled from 1960 to 1977. The dollar value of public [[housing]] rose nearly five-fold in a decade and the amount spent on [[food stamps]] rose more than ten-fold. All government-provided in-kind benefits increased about eight-fold from 1965 to 1969 and more than twenty-fold by 1974. Federal spending on such social welfare programs not only rose in dollar terms and in real terms, but also as a percentage of the nation's gross national product, going from 8 percent of GNP in 1960 to 16 percent by 1974. A classic example of income transfer or "redistribution of wealth".

As for urban ghetto [[riot]]s, they raged across the country during this era. [[Newark]] Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio (D) called for a federal investigation of the city's anti-poverty agency which received Great Society funding to determine if it had, in any way, contributed to the city's riots in which 26 persons were killed.<ref>https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal67-1313423</ref> More funding was approved anyway. Later, the strife declined sharply after the beginning of the Nixon administration, which opposed the whole ‘war on poverty’ approach and eventually abolished the Office of Economic Opportunity, which had been the spearhead of this program. Still later, during the eight years of the Reagan presidency–supposedly the nadir of neglect–major urban riots became virtually extinct.

Eventually, however, even official poverty began to rise, so that a larger number of people were in poverty in 1992 than were in poverty in 1964, when the "war on poverty" began.<ref>n21 U.S. Bureau of Census, Current Population Records, Series P60-185 (Washington, D.C. General Printing Office 1993) p.ix. (p. 13-14)</ref> By 1992, more than half of all [[black]] adults had never been married, quite aside from an additional 16 percent who had been either [[divorce]]d or [[widow]]ed. By contrast, only 21 percent of [[white]] adults had never been married. More than half of all black children–57 percent–were living with only one parent and another 7.5 percent were not living with either parent. Thus, only a little more than a third of black children were living in traditional two-parent households. Of 190,000 black children whose parents were currently still teenagers, only 5,000 were living with both parents.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/06/25/out-of-wedlock-black-children-draw-a-community-together/7c431555-27fa-483a-acdb-0ee09ea4acbe/</ref> As street gangs and crime proliferated, Democrats responded with mass incarceration of Blacks.

====Civil disturbances====
[[File:View-of-moratorium-demonstrators-p.jpg|thumb|190px|Democrats protested the war they started. [[North Vietnam]]ese and Cuban communist flags can be seen in the image.]]
After the chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, where [[Hubert Humphrey]] did not appear on any primary ballot but took the nomination amid protests and riots, the Democratic party attempted to reform its nomination process.

With the assassination of [[Robert Kennedy]] who was a leading critic of [[President Johnson]]'s war policy, Humphrey was regarded as a war hawk who would continue President Johnson's [[Vietnam War]] policy. Johnson dropped out of the race due to growing unpopularity of himself and the war. Sen. [[George McGovern]] made himself heir of Bobby Kennedy's dovish stance. Most states at the time used closed caucuses and state conventions, controlled by New Deal segregationist “party regulars” and insiders to select national delegates. Machine caucuses in several states accumulated enough delegates for Humphrey to win nomination without appearing on any primary ballot. In the aftermath of the loss to [[Richard Nixon]], Humphrey agreed to a reform commission and appointed one of his lieutenants, Donald Fraser, to co-chair the [[McGovern-Fraser Commission]].

Chairman George McGovern wanted to "open up" the process of delegate selection and strip figures like [[Chicago]] Mayor [[Richard J. Daley]]<ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj9TkjL87Rk Ribicoff vs Daley at the Democratic Convention 1968] youtube.com</ref> of their ability to select delegates for the upcoming 1972 convention. Daley felt particularly betrayed, having stuffed the ballot box for the Democrats and the Kennedy's to rob Richard Nixon of the presidency in 1960,<ref>[http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=425967 Did Daley rob Nixon of the Presidency in 1960?]</ref> to then be accused by [[liberal]] Democrats of "gestapo tactics" in the streets of Chicago.

McGovern was critical of the insider establishment's way of choosing a nominee and wanted to switch over to primaries. Donald Fraser was a lieutenant in the [http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsfmc Humphrey & Mondale Democratic Farmer-Labor (DFL) machine] which dominated [[Minnesota]] where caucuses are popular. So a compromise was sought. The general feeling was that party insiders such as Mayor Daley and Southern Democrat bosses controlled too much power and through state party caucuses and conventions were able to impose their candidates on a national convention.

Shortly after [[Sen. Richard Russell]]'s passing, the Democrat Senate renamed the Senate Office Building the Russell Office Building in commemoration of the man who was instrumental in their fight to keep [[segregation]] alive during his five decades of leadership in the Democrat party.

===Desegregation: the McGovern/Biden era===
:{{See also|Civil Rights in the Biden era}}
In [[Nixon]]'s landslide 49 state re-election of 1972, [[Massachusetts]] was the only state that remained solidly in the Democratic camp. Black parents filed a desegregation lawsuit the same year, and the [[NAACP]] argued the case. According to ''Politico'', nowhere did the sentiment of people opposed to desegregation play out more dramatically than in [[Boston]]. In mid 1974, a federal judge found that 20 years after ''Brown v. Board'', Boston officials deliberately kept the schools segregated, and that the city must integrate at once. He drew up a busing plan. Black students from Roxbury would attend South Boston High School, while Irish Americans from Southie would board buses to Roxbury.

The first buses rolled through Boston in September 1974—and racial violence engulfed the city. White mobs hurled bricks at school buses with terrified black children inside. Then, on October 7, a [[Haiti]]an immigrant was beaten savagely by a white mob in South Boston. In the coming months, the list of casualties would grow. The city became a cauldron of racial hatred.

Each year after passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act up until 1977, the Democratic controlled House passed at least one new law designed to restrain school integration—often in the guise of anti-busing legislation. Until 1974, the Senate rejected those bills. But as white resistance to busing escalated in many cities across the country, the House Democrats anti-busing majority began to pull more Democratic senators to their side.

In 1975, Sen. [[Joseph Biden]] proposed an amendment that gutted Title VI of the [[1964 Civil Rights Act]], which enabled the federal government to cut off funding to school districts that refused to integrate. ''[[Politico]]'' writes of the whole sordid affair, {{quotebox|Biden morphed into a leading anti-busing crusader—all the while continuing to insist that he supported the goal of school desegregation, he only opposed busing as the means to achieve that end. This stance, which many of Biden’s liberal and moderate colleagues also held, was clever but disingenuous. It enabled Biden to choose votes over principles, while acting as if he was not doing so....In a seminal moment, the Senate thus turned against desegregation. The Senate had supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act, [[1965 Voting Rights Act]] and 1968 Fair Housing Act....the Senate remained the last bastion for those who supported strong integration policies. Biden stormed that bastion...<ref name="politico.com">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968_full.html</ref>}} A Boston NAACP leader said, “An anti-busing amendment is an anti-desegregation amendment, and an anti-desegregation amendment is an anti-black amendment.” Republican Sen. [[Edward Brooke]], the first black senator ever to be directly elected, called Biden's amendment “the greatest symbolic defeat for [[civil rights]] since 1964.” Brooke accused Biden of leading an assault on integration.

[[File:Democratic voter suppression.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Democratic voter suppression, 1963.]]
====Voter suppression====
The McGovern-Fraser Commission required state parties to develop written rules and post uniform statewide notification of the date, time, and location of precinct caucus meetings or party primary elections. There was a common practice in some Southern states such as Mississippi were all-white local party bosses held meetings in obscure locations so that Black majorities in a county or district were unaware of the time and place of party elections. Although many provisions the commission brought about were undone in the early 1980s by Walter Mondale and Ted Kennedy, several provisions have remained. Prior to McGovern-Fraser, several states had no written guidelines governing party conventions, caucuses, and the delegate selection process at each level, and were based mostly on local tradition, which often meant cronyism, discrimination, voter suppression and the boss's rule. The system had been used effectively by Democrats in their [[voter suppression]] of Blacks for over 100 years.

The Commission rewrote the rules to rig McGovern's nomination. The 1972 Credentials Committee at the convention under the McGovern-Fraser reforms replaced Daley's contingent of the [[Illinois]] delegation with a group sent by [[Jesse Jackson]]<ref>See U.S. Supreme Court ''[https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/419/477/ Cousins v. Wigoda]'', 419 U.S. 477 (1975)</ref> and also replaced a delegation from [[Mississippi]] with another group.

After the 1972 election, Congresswoman [[Barbara Mikulski]] was asked by the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC) to chair the [[Mikulski Commission]] to review and make recommendations on how effective the pre-convention McGovern-Fraser reforms rules were. According to [[CNN]], the commission
{{quotebox-float|replaced the demographic quotas of 1972 with [[affirmative action]] requirements to increase participation by women, blacks and other minorities. (However, this specific plan had the OPPOSITE effect, decreasing the proportion of women from 38% in 1972 to 36% in 1976. The proportion of blacks declined from 15% in 1972 to 7% in 1976. After 1976, quotas for women delegates were reimposed.) PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, the distribution of delegates among candidates to reflect their share of the primary or caucus vote, was mandated by party rules.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/rules/index.shtml All Politics, CNN Time, Facts.] Sources: ‘’The National Journal’’, August 23, 1980; ‘’Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections’’; also quoted in ‘’Democratic party convention rule changes’’, academic.regis.edu , below.</ref>}}

The Mikulski Commission went further than McGovern-Fraser, proposing to bind rules on state parties which would restrict delegate selection in primaries or caucuses to "Democratic voters only who publicly declare their [[party affiliation|party preference]] and have that preference publicly recorded" (Rule 2A). This required a party registration process before being able to vote in a Democratic primary. The new rule put pressure on parties to close their primaries to outside participation and brought about "same-day registration"<ref>See for example Kansas rules. [https://www.sos.ks.gov/forms/elections/Voting_Rules_for_Primary_Elections.pdf Voting Rules for Primary Elections]. www.sos.ks.gov</ref> in states with open primaries mandated by state law. The DNC incorporated these recommendations into the Delegate Selection Rules for the 1976 Convention. A temporary exemption where state legislatures had no party identification requirement to participate in a primary election was included. Opponents and dissenters felt this new rule violated the integrity of the secret ballot at public polling stations.

The Mikulski Commission did away with the secret ballot and required a public declaration in front of the election judges or on registration forms and a party-specific ballot given to the voter to cast.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_elections_in_the_United_States#Types_of_primaries]</ref> Now in most states a non-partisan primary voter who wishes to vote for a Democrat for President and a Republican for Senate experiences voter suppression and denial.

====Biden Amendment repeal of portions of the Civil Rights Act====

:{{See also|Segregation|Systemic racism}}
In 1972 Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden re-cycled the [[John C. Calhoun#positive good|racist rhetoric of John C. Calhoun]], arguing that school segregation was a "positive good" for Blacks. Calhoun famously laid out his doctrine of separation of the races as a civilizing force among Blacks which became Democrat talking points before the [[Dred Scott]] decision, throughout the [[Civil War]], [[Reconstruction]], the [[Jim Crow]] era, and the [[New Deal]]. In a Democrat [[filibuster]] on the floor of the [[Senate]], Calhoun famously said:
[[File:Biden segregation.png 1718483346.png|left|350px|thumb|Biden called segregation "a matter of Black pride" and pushed for a [[Constitutional Amendment]] to outlaw Court ordered de-segregation.<ref name="politico.com">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968_full.html</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|"I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good—a positive good."}}
Biden resurrected the idea that segregation was "for their own good" and that Blacks were grateful for it.
{{Quotebox-float|“I think the concept of busing … that we are going to [[integrate]] people so that they all have the same access and they learn to grow up with one another and all the rest, is a rejection of the whole movement of black pride, a rejection of the entire black awareness concept, where black is beautiful, black culture should be studied; and the cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity, their own individuality.”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/read-the-transcript-of-the-october-1975-npr-interview-with-sens-joe-biden-and-edward-brooke</ref>}}
In the 21st century Biden tried to separate himself from his previous racist statements on school integration:
{{quotebox-float|"Poor kids are just as smart as white kids."}}
Biden led a coalition of segregationists that was opposed by Republican Sen. [[Edward Brooke]], the first [[African American]] senator elected since Democrats forced the end of [[Reconstruction]] after the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. National Public Radio's David Ensor asked Biden, "What about a constitutional amendment? Isn’t that what you’re gonna have to end up supporting if you want to stop court ordered busing, too?" Biden responded,
{{Quotebox-float|"That would clearly do it. I’m hopeful, and I have — now that I have some sort of new allies in this area, it’s become respectable now for [[liberal]]s to at least say publicly what they’ve been saying in private, that busing doesn’t work. We are trying to figure out whether or not we can come up with an innovative piece of legislation which would limit the remedy, and I don’t — honestly don’t know whether we can come up with something constitutional. And if we can’t, I will not in an attempt to eliminate busing violate the Constitution. I won’t do that. The only way, if I’m gonna go at it, I’m gonna go at it through a Constitutional Amendment if it can’t be done through a piece of legislation."}}
Ensor reported that Biden proposed renewing segregation because busing "wasn't working" ("wasn't working" to the electoral advantage of Democrats and not necessarily to the cause of equal rights for Blacks), and Biden was afraid that older liberal colleagues were blind to how Black separatists felt about their children being bused to [[white]] schools.
[[File:Biden racial jungle.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Biden: "My children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle."<ref>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-racial-jungle-quote/</ref>]]
{{Quotebox-float|"There are those of we [[social experiment|social planner]]s who think somehow that if we just [[subrogate]] man’s individual characteristics and traits by making sure that a presently heterogeneous society becomes a totally homogeneous society, that somehow we’re going to solve our social ills. Quite to the contrary."}}
Title VI of the [[1964 Civil Rights Act]] prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance.<ref>https://quizlet.com/45411923/ethical-and-legal-issues-2-flash-cards/</ref> By 1975, Biden authored an amendment to gut Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ''[[Politico]]'' writes of the whole sordid affair,
{{quotebox-float|Biden morphed into a leading anti-busing crusader—all the while continuing to insist that he supported the goal of school desegregation, he only opposed busing as the means to achieve that end. This stance, which many of Biden’s liberal and moderate colleagues also held, was clever but disingenuous. It enabled Biden to choose votes over principles, while acting as if he was not doing so....In a seminal moment, the Senate thus turned against desegregation. The Senate had supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act, [[1965 Voting Rights Act]] and 1968 Fair Housing Act....the Senate remained the last bastion for those who supported strong integration policies. Biden stormed that bastion...<ref name="politico.com">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968_full.html</ref>}}
Sen. James Abourezk of [[South Dakota]] related how Biden reacted when Abrourezek tried to block the amendment:
{{quotebox-float|‘Abourezk, you **********, if I ever vote for another one of your bills, it'll be a cold day in hell.'

‘Calm down, Joe,' I told him, ‘You're eventually gonna thank me for doing this.'

‘Like hell I will you dirty *******.'

A few days later, Biden came into the scheduled committee meeting, this time with a broad, friendly grin aimed directly at me.

‘Jesus, Abourezk, you were right,' he said. ‘I am gonna thank you. You should see the Delaware newspapers—big front-page headlines saying, ‘Biden Battles Liberals in Washington.' He was unabashedly elated. ‘They love me back home, how did you know this would happen?'<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-exploded-at-dem-colleague-over-busing-called-him-dirty-bastard/</ref>}}
''The New York Times'' published a lengthy story on Biden's advocacy of segregation. In a 1977 congressional hearing related to anti-desegregation orders, Biden emphasized,
{{quotebox-float|"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/us/politics/biden-busing.html</ref>}}
Republican Sen. [[Edward Brooke]], the first black senator ever to be popularly elected, called Biden's amendment “the greatest symbolic defeat for [[civil rights]] since 1964.” Brooke accused Biden of leading an assault on integration.

Prof. Ronnie Dunn said opposition to busing was motivated by [[racism]] and that without the court-ordered policy Biden probably would not have become vice president in 2009. “What I find ironic is that [Biden] was the vice president under a president who, if it hadn’t been for the social interaction that occurred during the era of busing, I argue we likely would not have seen the election of Barack Obama." Dunn, an Urban Studies professor at Cleveland State University and author of the book ''Boycotts, Busing, & Beyond'', said Biden made the case in favor of maintaining segregation. "That was an argument against desegregation.” Dunn said Biden must address the issue if he runs for president. “People have to be held accountable."<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/joe-biden-embraced-segregation-in-1975-claiming-it-was-a-matter-of-black-pride</ref>
[[File:Carter and Maddox (cropped).PNG|left|300px|thumb|Jimmy Carter and [[Lester Maddox]].]]
Biden's opposition to integration didn't stop there. ''HuffPo'' reported:
{{quotebox-float|In 1977, two black men nominated for key Justice Department posts by [[President Jimmy Carter]] easily won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee. After confirmation by the full Senate, Drew Days III became the nation’s first black head of the department’s civil rights division and Wade McCree became the second black solicitor general. Only one member of the committee voted against them. It wasn’t segregationists [[Strom Thurmond]] (R-S.C.) or [[James Eastland]] (D-Miss.). It wasn’t even former [[Ku Klux Klan]] member [[Robert Byrd]] (D-W.Va.). The lone Judiciary Committee vote against the two men was Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.).<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-busing-nominees_n_5ca3c03de4b03174b92904f7</ref>}}
In 1981 Biden said in a Senate hearing, “sometimes even [[George Wallace]] is right about some things.” Wallace is famous for saying in 1963, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/09/biden-sometimes-even-george-wallace-is-right/</ref> Biden read the "N" word into the Congressional Record during an open hearing in 1986.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/exclusive-newly-uncovered-transcripts-reveal-joe-biden-said-n-word-public-senate-hearing-1986/</ref> In a farewell address to retiring Democrat segregationist Sen. John Stennis Biden said:
{{quotebox-float|"To think that I would be one day on the floor of the United States Senate, being paid such accolades by such a man of character and courage as John Stennis is beyond my wildest dreams. And I mean that sincerely."<ref>https://youtu.be/9X6Y2CLqgDM</ref>}}
When Biden announced his candidacy ''Politico'' attempted to poo-poo and explain away Biden and liberal Democrat racism with a back-handed slap at [[school vouchers]] for minority students, which liberal elites have strenuously opposed ever since the Biden Amendment passed:
[[File:LesterMaddox.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Lester Maddox (pointing gun) and his son (waving axe handle) try to prevent a Black protester from entering his restaurant.<ref>[https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1278395843322789889 Historian Michael Beschloss.]</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|School desegregation, as part of a broader suite of civil rights reforms, was once as a vital component of the Democratic Party platform. Yet since the 1970s, Democrats, in the face of concerted white backlash, have largely accommodated themselves to increasing segregation in public schools across the nation. Party leaders, even the most progressive among them, rarely propose serious solutions to this vexing problem. A sincere critique of Biden’s busing record would require a broader reckoning of the Democratic Party’s—and by extension the nation’s—abandonment of this central goal of the [[civil rights movement]]. And it’s hard to see that happening anytime soon.<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/05/joe-biden-busing-problem-226791</ref>}}
Sen. [[Cory Booker]] of [[New Jersey]] condemned the [[2020 Democrat primary]] frontrunner at the [[Juneteenth]] annual commemoration of [[Republican]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] ending [[slavery]] in the United States.
{{quotebox-float|You don’t joke about calling black men 'boys'...frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should.<ref name="zerohedge.com">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-20/biden-doubles-down-after-reminding-everyone-democrats-owned-slaves</ref>}}

===Carter, stagflation and human rights===
More than four decades of [[Keynesian]]ism, deficit spending, and [[big government]] created an era of stagnant growth only kept afloat by the printing presses of the Federal Reserve Board. Each round of [[new spending]] by the Democratic Congress prompted the Federal Reserve to print more money, causing an increase in the cost of living, resulting in calls by Democrats for more government stimulus spending, more inflation, more price increases, higher costs, taxes on business and less new job creation. While wages and prices continued to spiral upward, no new jobs or increase in goods and services were created to meet the demands of a growing population.
[[File:Jimmy Carter.jpg|left|175px|thumb|[[Jimmy Carter]] was elected in 1976 and defeated in 1980.]]
The Democratic party split five ways in 1968 and became a minority party in presidential elections for decades; after 1964 they won a national majority of the popular presidential vote only in 2008. However, the Democrats won a plurality of the popular vote in 1976, 1992, 1996 and 2000 - all years where Democrats employed their own version of a Southern Strategy to appeal to racist white Democrats. After the fiasco and riot that was the 1968 convention, the [[McGovern-Fraser Commission]] was appointed to reform the nominating process. Sen. [[George McGovern]] of South Dakota used the commission to rig his own nomination in 1972. McGovern's forces at the national convention ousted Mayor [[Richard J. Daley]] and the entire Chicago delegation, replacing them with insurgents led by [[Jesse Jackson]]. After it became known that McGovern's running mate, Thomas Eagleton, had received psychiatric and electro-shock treatment, McGovern said he supported Eagleton "1000%" but he was soon forced to drop him and find a new running mate. With his campaign stalled for several weeks, McGovern finally selected [[Sargent Shriver]], a Kennedy-in-law who was close to Mayor Daley. On July 14, 1972, McGovern appointed his campaign manager, Jean Westwood as the first woman chair of the Democratic National Committee. McGovern emulated an earlier populist Plains preacher, William Jennings Bryan, with his antiwar sentiment and redistributive politics. He was defeated in a landslide by incumbent [[Richard Nixon]], winning only Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.. With the Marxist encroachment in the Democrat party which had spent the later half of the 1960s and early 1970s rioting, looting, and burning American cities, a Gallup Poll revealed a staggering 33% of Democrats and 57% of blue-collar workers voted for Nixon.<ref>[http://presidentelect.org/art_cooper_e1972an.html An Interpretation of the 1972 Presidential Election Landslide], by CRAIG W. COOPER, 1975.</ref>

The [[Watergate affair]] of 1973-74 made mistrust of government a central issue, especially after [[Gerald Ford]] pardoned Nixon in September 1974. Returning servicemen from Vietnam and termination of the draft created large unemployment, marking the end of the centerpiece of the Great Society's unemployment program. Nixon however was blamed for the bad economy, and the Democrats made major gains in the 1974 off-year elections. Racism and segregation remained a common thread binding white Democrats together. In 1975, [[Delaware]] Sen. [[Joseph Biden]] led a coalition of liberals and former [[George Wallace]] supporters to oppose racial integration of schools, and went so far as to consider a [[Constitutional Amendment]].<ref>https://soundcloud.com/user-391839060/npr-1975-interview-with-sen-joe-biden</ref>

In 1976 Ford was narrowly defeated by [[Jimmy Carter]], a former governor of Georgia. Carter, a [[Trilateral Commission|Trilateralist]], posed as a total outsider who promised honesty in government. He had served as a naval officer, a farmer, a state senator, and a one-term governor. His only public profile in federal politics was when he chaired the Democratic National Committee's congressional and gubernatorial elections in 1974. Carter's "consolidation" of governmental agencies resulted in the creation of two new cabinet-level bureaucracies, the [[United States Department of Energy]] and the [[United States Department of Education]]. Carter began deregulation of the trucking, airline, rail, finance, communications, and oil industries, raised [[social security]] taxes, and appointed record numbers of women and minorities to significant government and judicial posts, including [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] as head of the Great Society [[boondoggle]], the Legal Service Corporation. He also enacted more environmental legislation, through the expansion of the [[National Park Service]] in [[Alaska]], adding 103 million acres of parkland. In foreign affairs, Carter negotiated the [[Camp David Accords]], the Panama Canal Treaties, the creation of full diplomatic relations with the [[People's Republic of China]], and the [[SALT II]] Treaty.

Carter failed to implement national health care and raised Social Security taxes. The [[Congressional Black Caucus]] year after year submitted bills for the Martin Luther King holiday, but despite Democrat control of the House, Senate, and White House, their proposals were repeatedly rejected by racist Democrats. Not until Ronald Reagan and the Republican Senate of the 1980s was the holiday adopted. Stagflation with limited job opportunities were on the rise.

In 1980, Carter defeated liberal champion [[Edward Kennedy]] to gain renomination but lost to conservative [[Ronald Reagan]] by a landslide. The Democrats lost 12 Senate seats, and for the first time since 1954, the Republicans controlled the Senate. The House, however, remained in Democratic hands.

Jimmy Carter was elected by campaigning on the Misery Index - adding the [[inflation]] rate and [[unemployment]] rate together, which then stood at 13.4%. By 1980 when Carter sought reelection, the Misery index ratcheted up to 21%. After "twelve years of neglect" as Bill Clinton referred to [[Reaganomics]] it in 1992, the Misery Index stood at 9.2%. Clinton's racist [[dogwhistling]] brought enough racist Democrats home to win a 42% plurality in a three-way contest.

====Progressive Kool-Aid drinkers====
:{{See also|Progressivism|San Francisco values|Peoples Temple Agricultural Collective}}
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[[Willie Brown]], later mayor of [[San Francisco]] and [[Kamala Harris]]'s mentor, compared [[Jim Jones]] to [[Martin Luther King]] and [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. Brown endorsed Jones as “a close personal friend and a highly trusted brother in the [[National liberation struggle|struggle for liberation]]."<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/how-san-franciscos-democrats-made-jim-jones-and-then-made-his-memory-vanish</ref> [[Dianne Feinstein]] joined the rest of the San Francisco board of supervisors in honoring Jones “in recognition of his guidance and inspiration” in furthering “humanitarian programs.” Gov. [[Jerry Brown]] spoke at the [[People's Temple]]. At its peak, the Temple boasted 20,000 members.

Following the San Francisco mayoral election of 1975, the San Francisco District Attorney asked Timothy Stoen, a Temple member,<ref name="Lindsay, Robert 1978">Lindsay, Robert. "How Rev. Jim Jones Gained His Power Over Followers." ''New York Times''. 26 November 1978.</ref> to lead a special unit to investigate [[election fraud]] charges.<ref>Taylor, Michael, "Jones Captivated S.F.'s Liberal Elite", San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 1998</ref> Shortly thereafter Stoen was hired as an assistant district attorney.<ref>Reiterman, Tim and John Jacobs. ''Raven (book)|Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People''. Dutton, 1982. ISBN|0-525-24136-1. p. 270.</ref><ref>Kinsolving, Kathleen and Tom. [http://www.culteducation.com/reference/jonestown/jonestown43.html "Madman in Our Midst: Jim Jones and the California Cover Up."] 1998.</ref> Stoen found no evidence of fraud, but Temple members later alleged that the Temple brought "busloads" of members from Redwood Valley who were not registered to vote in San Francisco, to vote in the San Francisco election.<ref>Crewdson, John, "Followers Say Jim Jones Directed Voting Frauds", New York Times, December 16, 1978</ref> It was Willie Brown who brought George Moscone and Jim Jones together.<ref>Reiterman, Tim, and John Jacobs. ''Raven (book)|Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People''. Dutton, 1982. ISBN|978-0-525-24136-2. page 266.</ref><ref>http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/</ref> Moscone, who owed his position as mayor to Jones in a tight race, appointed Jones chairman of the city's Housing Commission Authority, effectively making Jones the city's largest landlord. Moscone's press secretary stated that Jones "made his followers available to support [[progressive]] [[Democratic]] candidates."<ref>Los Angeles Herald Examiner, "The Political Pull of Jim Jones", November 21, 1978</ref>

Moscone's press spokesman explained it was "common knowledge that if you were going to run for office in San Francisco, and your constituency included the black, the young or the poor, you'd better have Jones in your corner." Of particular interest to politicians was the Temple's ability to produce 2,000 people for campaign work or attendance at an event with only six hours notice.
<ref name="Lindsay, Robert 1978"/> Moscone's aide stated that Jones offered thousands of "foot soldiers" willing to walk precincts and get out the vote, which was "an offer no politician in his right mind could refuse." Similarly, San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos stated that "If you were having a rally for a presidential candidate, you needed to fill up the crowd, you could always get busloads from Jim Jones' church."<ref>Richardson, James, [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft0m3nb07q;brand=ucpress ''Willie Brown A Biography''], University of California Press, 1996, p. 250 {{webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybRDHsI?url=http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft0m3nb07q;brand=ucpress |date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref> The chairman of the county Democratic Central Committee, the governing body of the Democratic Party in San Francisco, referred to the Temple as "a ready-made volunteer workforce," and Jones was "a man who touched a component of the consensus power forces in the city, such as labor and ethnicity groups....here was a guy who could provide workers for causes progressives cared about."<ref>Taylor, Michael, "Jones Captivated S.F.'s Liberal Elite", San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 1998.</ref>

Herb Caen, a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner for the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', acted as a hype-generator for Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. [[Jane Fonda]] joined other celebrities in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of [[ethics]] and [[morality]].” <ref>Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27309 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 1023."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University. {{cite web |url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q1023.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=|deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5wTIpY0di?url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q1023.html |archivedate=2019-01-30|df= }} The concept often loosely mixed tenets of socialism. The Temple openly preached to established members that "religion is an opiate to the people." (Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27318 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 1053."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.) Accordingly, "those who remained drugged with the opiate of religion had to be brought to enlightenment{{spaced ndash}}socialism." (Layton 1999, page 53). In that regard, Jones also openly stated that he "took the church and used the church to bring people to atheism." (Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27580 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 757."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University). Jones often mixed those concepts, such as preaching that "If you're born in this church, this socialist revolution, you're not born in sin. If you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born with a big d***o in sin. But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin."(Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27318 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 1053."] ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.) {{cite web |url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q757.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=|deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5wTIqQUvL?url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q757.html |archivedate=2019-01-30|df= }}</ref> The Peoples Temple and the [[Nation of Islam]] held a joint event in the Los Angeles Convention Center in 1976 . Thousands packed the Civic Center. Two time [[CPUSA]] [[Vice President]]ial candidate [[Angela Davis]], along with the Lieutenant Governor and Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley attended the event. In speaking at the event Jones stated "We are grateful for this symbolic merging of our two movements . . . If the Peoples Temple and the Nation of Islam can get together, anyone can."

[[Rosalynn Carter]] called Jones at candidate Jimmy Carter's behest. She held a private dinner with him and had the Peoples Temple leader introduce her at the 1976 grand opening of the San Francisco Democratic Party Headquarters. Jimmy Carter's running mate, Walter Mondale, met with Jones on the tarmac in San Francisco during the campaign.<ref>When Deputy Minister Ptolemy Reid traveled to Washington, D.C. in September 1977 to sign the [[Panama Canal Treaties]], Mondale asked him, "How's Jim?", which indicated to Reid that Mondale had a personal interest in Jones' well being, p. 173. Moore, Rebecca. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=16581 ''American as Cherry Pie''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029130010/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=16581 |date=October 29, 2014 }}, Jonestown Institute, San Diego State University</ref> Jones dined with Rosalynn Carter at the head table at the Democratic National Convention.<ref>Layton, Deborah. ''Seductive Poison''. Anchor, 1999. ISBN|978-0-385-48984-. p. 53.</ref> Jones wrote to Carter requesting aid for [[Fidel Castro]], whom Jones had earlier met with in [[Cuba]].<ref>Reiterman, Tim, and John Jacobs. ''Raven (book)|Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People''. Dutton, 1982. ISBN|978-0-525-24136-2. page 305.</ref> In a handwritten letter to Jones on White House stationery, the [[First Lady]] wrote "Your comments on Cuba have been helpful. I hope your suggestion can be acted on in the near future." Carter also wrote that "I enjoyed being with you during the campaign -- and do hope you can meet Ruth soon", referring to her sister-in-law, Ruth Carter Stapleton.<ref>LA Times November 21, 1978</ref> Mondale stated regarding the Temple that "knowing the congregations deep involvement in the major social and constitutional issues of our country . . . is a great inspiration to me."<ref>"First Lady Among Cult's References" {{cite news|work=Los Angeles Times |title=First Lady Among Cult's References; Mondale and Califano also listed |date= November 21, 1978}}</ref> [[Health and Human Services]] Secretary Joseph Califano stated "your humanitarian principles and your interest in protecting individual liberty and freedom have made an outstanding contribution to furthering the cause of human dignity." President Carter sent a representative to a dinner at the Temple at which Jones and Gov. Jerry Brown spoke.<ref>Mehren, Elizabeth, "Politicians Defend Associations With Jones", Oakland Tribune, November 21, 1978</ref>

Jones procured land in [[Guyana]] where nearly 1,000 of his followers settled in Jonestown, clearing the land, planting crops, and listening to him preach the gospel according to [[Karl Marx]]. “I call [[capitalism]] the [[devil]],” Jones said from the pulpit, “and [[socialism]] is [[God]].” A former member of the Indianapolis Human Rights Commission, Jones often quoted Marx's dictum, "From each as he is able, to each according to his need." One member said the Temple moved to Jonestown because "what we saw in the United States was creeping [[fascism]]. It was apparent that corporations, or the multinationals, were getting much larger, their influence was growing within the government, and the United States is a racist place."<ref>Tim Carter. [http://www.opb.org/radio/archives/2007/04/there_was_no_ch_1.php ''There was no choice in Jonestown that day...''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426000000/http://www.opb.org/radio/archives/2007/04/there_was_no_ch_1.php |date=April 26, 2007 }} Oregon Public Broadcasting Radio interview. 9 April 2007. {{cite web |url=http://www.opb.org/radio/archives/2007/04/there_was_no_ch_1.php |title=Archived copy |accessdate=|deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5wTJ4uKgA?url=http://www.opb.org/radio/archives/2007/04/there_was_no_ch_1.php |archivedate=2019-01-30|df= }}</ref>

Up to $65,000 in monthly [[welfare]] payments from [[New Deal]] and [[Great Society]] programs to Jonestown residents were signed over to the Temple.<ref>{{Harvnb|Layton|1998|p=103}}</ref> Officials from the U.S. embassy in Georgetown interviewed [[Social Security]] recipients on multiple occasions to inquire if they were being held against their will.<ref>Pear, Richard. "State Explains Response to Cult Letters." ''Washington Star News''. November 26, 1978.</ref> None of the 75 people interviewed, according to the embassy, said they were being held captive, were forced to sign over welfare checks, or wanted to leave Jonestown.<ref>Wessinger, Catherine. ''How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate''. 2000. ISBN|978-1-889119-24-3.</ref> Civil rights lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane, who represented [[James Earl Ray]], depicted Jonestown as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media.
[[File:The Jimmy Carter Jonestown Massacre.jpg|left|350px|thumb|'''Socialist paradise in Guyana.''' Lack of beef and living off of jungle plants is said to have added to the mass irrationality. Its leader, a community organizer named Jim Jones, was very active in Democratic party politics.]]
As reports seeped back of people who wanted to leave Guyana, [[Harvey Milk]] – the first openly gay elected official who was endorsed by the Temple for San Francisco city councilman – wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter defending Jones "as a man of the highest character," and stating that Temple defectors were trying to "damage Rev. Jones' reputation" with "apparent bold-faced lies".<ref>Milk, Harvey [http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg ''Letter Addressed to President Jimmy Carter, Dated February 19, 1978''] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybbC0i4?url=http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/milk.jpg |date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref> The Temple claimed that "reactionary forces were trying to destroy his [Jones] image because he is the most persistent [[Social justice warrior|fighter for social justice]].<ref>Peoples Temple, [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/3VictimConspirBrochure.pdf ''Victims of Conspiracy Brochure''], Jonestown Alternative Considerations, San Diego State University {{cite web |url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/JTResearch/opposition/3VictimConspirBrochure.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2019-01-31 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5vybVUjVl?url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/JTResearch/opposition/3VictimConspirBrochure.pdf |archivedate=January 24, 2011 |df= }}</ref>

Russian dignitary Feodor Timofeyev visited Jonestown for two days to gave a speech.<ref>Jones, Jim. [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27428 "Transcript of Recovered FBI tape Q 352."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094827/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27428 |date=March 4, 2016 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref> Jones introduced him saying, "For many years, we have let our sympathies be quite publicly known, that the United States government was not our mother, but that the Soviet Union was our spiritual motherland." Timofeyev opened the speech stating that the [[Soviet Union]] would like to send "our deepest and the most sincere greetings to the people of this first socialist and communist community of the United States of America, in Guyana and in the world". Both speeches were met by cheers and applause. Angela Davis addressed the crowd by shortwave radio saying, "when you are attacked, it is because of your progressive stand, and we feel that it is directly an attack against us as well."<ref>{{cite web|title=Statement of Angela Davis (Text)|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19027|publisher=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple|accessdate=}}</ref>

Hearing allegations of abuse, Congressman [[Leo J. Ryan]] led a fact-finding mission to [[Jonestown]] which included in his group a staff member and future congresswoman, [[Jackie Speier]]. Ryan and four others were murdered when they attempted to leave. After the killings, Jones herded his followers into the camp's main pavilion and ordered them all to drink [[cyanide]]-laced Kool-Aid. 909 bodies, including 304 children, were found by Guyana police in following days. Some of the bodies had gunshot wounds.

Three survivors claimed they were given an assignment before the suicides began. They were given luggage containing $550,000 in U.S. currency, $130,000 in Guyanese currency, and an envelope, which they were told to deliver to the Soviet embassy in Georgetown, Guyana. The envelope contained two [[passport]]s and three instructional letters, the first of which was to Timofeyev, stating:
[[Image:Iran.jpg|thumb|198px|right|Carter's shift away from anti-communism to supposed "human rights" as the focus of U.S. [[foreign policy]] brought the [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] to power, and the enlistment of child soldiers - some as young as 4 years old - to clear minefields for the Iranian Army. Iran, once a U.S. ally, now pursues nuclear weapons.]]
:''Dear Comrade Timofeyev, The following is a letter of instructions regarding all of our assets that we want to leave to the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Enclosed in this letter are letters which instruct the banks to send the cashiers checks to you. I am doing this on behalf of Peoples Temple because we, as communists, want our money to be of benefit for help to [[oppression|oppressed peoples]] all over the world, or in any way that your decision-making body sees fit.''<ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/letter_toFeodorTimofeyev.pdf "Letter to Feodor Timofeyev."] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webcitation.org/5ryfcXgSk?url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/PrimarySources/financialLetters/letter_toFeodorTimofeyev.pdf |date=August 14, 2010 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref>

The letters included listed accounts with balances totaling in excess of $7.3 million to be transferred to the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].<ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_1.pdf "Letter from Annie McGowan."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205012201/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_1.pdf |date=February 5, 2015 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref><ref>[http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_2.pdf "Another Letter from Annie McGowan."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205014539/http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AnnieMcGowan_2.pdf |date=February 5, 2015 }} ''Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple''. Jonestown Project: San Diego State University.</ref> Jonestown was the greatest loss of American civilian lives in a non-natural disaster until the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]]. Progressivism suffered a devastating blow in the eyes of most Americans. Not until the rise of Barack Obama did it recover.

====Human rights and the Ayatollah Khomeini====

Abroad, for the first time since Harry Truman, Carter shifted the focus of U.S. foreign policy from Russia to "human rights." The [[Shah of Iran]] came to power in 1941 and was an ally of Western powers in the war against [[Adolf Hitler]]. During the [[Six Day War]] in 1967, the Shah aided Israel by keeping [[Saddam Hussein]] out of the war. The Shah did not participate in the 1973 [[Yom Kippur War]] or [[OPEC]] oil embargo. He had been a loyal Western ally in the [[Cold War]] for the better part of four decades.

Carter supported the [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] over the Shah of Iran whom Soviet intelligence and Western media portrayed as a greedy capitalist oppressor. William Miller, chief of staff on the US Senate Intelligence Committee, said America had nothing to fear from Khomeini since he would be a [[Progressivism|progressive]] force for human rights. U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan compared Khomeini to [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. The mainstream media and State Department called him the "Iranian Mandela." The fall of the Shah and rise of the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]] set back [[women's rights]] centuries.

Once installed under Carter's human right's policy, the Ayatollah created the ''Basij Mostazafan'', a movement of young people under age 17. When the Iran-Iraq War started in 1980, Khomeini issued a promise of paradise to the children and they were incorporated into the Iranian military. The Iranian clergy called for the young people from age 9 years old and up to move forward in human wave attacks, to clear minefields so the regular Army could pass.<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), ''Iraqi Retreats, 1982-84''], Globalsecruity.org, retrieved 20 March 2007.</ref> Matthias Küntzel quotes an Iraqi officer's description of one such encounter in the summer of 1982.

:''“They come toward our positions in huge hordes with their fists swinging...You can shoot down the first wave and then the second. But at some point the corpses are piling up in front of you, and all you want to do is scream and throw away your weapon."'' <ref>[http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/ahmadinejads-demons ''Ahmadinejad's Demons: A Child of the Revolution Takes Over''], Matthias Küntzel, The New Republic, 24 April 2006 .</ref>

Other reports appeared in the Iranian daily newspaper, ''Ettelaat'', and later an eyewitness gave an account to the German newspaper ''Frankfurter Allgemeine'' in 2002. Some 100,000 children were killed fulfilling Carter's human rights policy this way.

Iranian students attacked the American embassy in [[Teheran]] and took Americans hostage for 444 days. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979 and the progressive Kool-Aid drinkers weakened the perception Americans had of Carter.

Carter was forced to admit his error in downplaying the focus on Russian intentions in January 1980 with his [[Carter Doctrine]], declaring the Persian Gulf a vital [[national security]] interest which was later used as the long-standing [[foreign policy]] basis of the 1992 [[Gulf War]] and the 2003 [[Iraq War]]. The loss of the Shah as an ally in 1979 led to the rise of the [[theocratic]] Iranian Islamic Republic, the world's leading state sponsor of terror. The Islamic Republic's pursuit of nuclear weapons would become a lingering problem for the United States in coming decades and the early 21st century.

===Battling Raygun===
[[File:Carter mondale 1200.JPG|left|300px|thumb|Democratic nominee Walter Mondale on the campaign trail with Jimmy Carter in 1984.]]
Carter was re-nominated in 1980. In a spirit of unity Willie Nelson, who later hit the top of the ''Billboard'' charts with a song celebrating public lynchings,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psmag.com/news/country-hits-are-getting-more-misogynistic-according-to-new-research?fbclid=IwAR0L2NbDN6gHqxr8vnsjPyB6GZFuMbUxIjh-k9uFn74tSrvx9y-U_xc_OAk|title=COUNTRY HITS INCREASINGLY OBJECTIFY WOMEN AND GLORIFY WHITENESS|last=Jacobs|first=Tom|date=May 7, 2019|website=Pacific Standard|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> sang the national anthem at the Democratic National Convention. Instrumental in the election of Republican [[Ronald Reagan]], were many who felt abandoned by the Democrats embrace of socialism. Among legislators, one of the most prominent of these conservative Democrats was Georgia congressman and second chairman of the [[John Birch Society]], [[Larry McDonald]], who was a passenger on [[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] shot down by the Soviets near [[Moneron Island]] on September 1, 1983.

To oppose Reagan, Senate Democrats elected the [[Exalted Cyclops]] of Ku Klux Klan, Sen. [[Robert Byrd]] to lead them. Byrd once wrote,
{{quotebox-float|"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."<ref>https://www.ocregister.com/2012/05/09/walter-williams-most-racists-were-democrats/</ref>}}

The "Reagan Democrats" were Democrats before the Reagan years, and afterward, but they voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and for [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1988), producing landslide victories. Jesse Jackson became the first African-American to win states in a major party primary election for president in 1984. But vote rigging by [[Superdelegate]]s at the convention sabotaged his efforts.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/20/us/disparity-between-jackson-s-vote-and-delegate-count-vexes-party.html DISPARITY BETWEEN JACKSON'S VOTE AND DELEGATE COUNT VEXES PARTY], by DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, ''New York Times'', May 20, 1984.</ref> Reagan Democrats were mostly white ethnics in the Northeast who were attracted to Reagan on issues such as jobs, abortion, and his strong foreign policy. Stanley Greenberg, a Democratic pollster analyzed white ethnic voters, largely unionized auto workers, in suburban Macomb County, Michigan, just north of Detroit. The county voted 63 percent for Kennedy in 1960 and 66 percent for Reagan in 1984. Restrictive oil drilling, high energy prices, unrestricted Japanese auto imports, and 17% auto loans caused by federal deficits and inflation destroyed their jobs. Greenberg concluded that many working families no longer saw Democrats as champions of their interests. Bill Clinton resuscitated racist dog whistles with considerable success in 1992 and 1996.

[[File:Ted and Brezhnev.jpeg|right|200px|thumb|Sen. Ted Kennedy colluding with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to interfere in the 1984 Presidential election.]]
====The global warming hoax to counter capitalism====
Democratic party leaders, officially and unofficially, [[collude]]d with the [[KGB]] to interfere in American elections and affect U.S. [[foreign policy]]. A 1983 KGB memo<ref>[http://sweetness-light.com/archive/kgb-letter-details-ted-kennedys-offer-to-help-ussr Kennedy collusion with the KGB].</ref> describes a meeting between former KGB officials and former Democratic Sen. John Tunney (Sen. Kennedy's confidant) in Moscow. Tunney asked the KGB to convey a message to [[Yuri Andropov]], the Soviet leader, proposing a campaign in which Kennedy would visit [[Moscow]] to offer talking points to Andropov and Soviet officials on how to attack Reagan's policies to U.S. audiences. According to the memo, Kennedy, through the intermediary, offered to help facilitate a media tour in a proposed visit by Andropov to the United States. Kennedy's hope was to hurt Reagan politically on foreign policy at a time when the economic recovery was working in his favor.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30980 Jamie Glazov; ''Ted Kennedy and the KGB'' FrontPageMagazine.com (Thursday, May 15, 2008)]</ref>

In 1984, 10 Democratic lawmakers — including the House Democratic Majority Leader and Intelligence Committee chairman – sent a letter to Nicaraguan Communist leader [[Daniel Ortega]] known as the "Dear Comandante" letter. In it, the lawmakers criticized Reagan's policy toward [[Nicaragua]] and whitewashed the record of violence and murder by the [[Sandinista]] communists.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/5-times-democrats-undermined-republican-presidents-with-foreign-governments</ref> [[Bernie Sanders]] was a frequent visitor to Nicaragua at this time, singing the praises of communism.

In response to Reagan's defense build-up and missile defense initiative,<ref>http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/nuclear-winter/</ref> which bankrupted the Soviet Union and ended the specter of Mutually Assured Destruction, many Democrats adopted the [[KGB]] line of a nuclear freeze and [[global warming]] targeting America's manufacturing and economic base. [[Barack Obama]] expounded the [[Brezhnev]] era doctrine in an essay entitled ''Breaking The War Mentality'' published in Columbia University's weekly magazine, ''The Sun Dial.''<ref>https://2012election.procon.org/sourcefiles/obama-article-sun-dial-columbia-breaking-war-mentality.pdf</ref> Anti-capitalists in the United States and Europe began attacking the booming auto manufacturing,<ref>The legacy of the global [[Cold War]] economy can be seen in that the loosers of [[World War II]] - [[Germany]] and [[Japan]] - as of 2019 remain the world's largest auto manufactures. Germany and Japan were allowed to rebuild their economies around the automobile - provided the two refrained from competing in the global aircraft industry. World War II proved the military doctrine of the superiority of airpower - whoever controls the skies controls the ground. While Germany and Japan do produce aircraft, including military aircraft, it is strictly for their domestic markets and not for export. Germany and Japan certainly have the manufacturing and technical capabilities to compete with Boeing, AirBus, Northrup Grumman and others, but by previous trade agreements are prohibited. By contrast, the United States, [[UK]], [[France]], [[Italy]] and others have ceded much of their domestic auto markets to German and Japanese manufactures. The fraud of the global warming hoax can be seen in the disproportionate lack of pressure on Germany and Japan to cease auto exports, as has been applied throughout the rest of the West.</ref> oil drilling and refining industries as responsible for the destruction of the planet. The Soviet [[KGB]], known for its [[propaganda]] campaigns such as the [[AIDS]] virus invented by the [[Pentagon]], mounted one last ditch effort to save [[communism]] and fight [[capitalism]]. This [[leftwing]] socialist sentiment was taught in schools and universities, where faculty salaries are dependent on [[statist]] largesse. These Russian-manufactured hoaxes on [[climate change]] were widely embraced by public sector unions in schools and universities to argue against cuts to [[Great Society]] programs.

In a limited way, the communists were successful; the global warming scare was a factor in the de-industrialization and transfer of Western factories to the [[Third World|developing world]] where environmental and labor laws were less strict. The [[free trade]] movement and [[globalization]] was partly justified by the politization of science and global warming.

====As the South became less racist, it became more Republican====
[[File:2000px-ElectoralCollege1980.png|left|thumb|325px|Reagan's 1980 landslide|By 1980, racism ebbed in the Old South as the South began voting like much of the rest of the country. Only the staunchest Democrat racist areas held out. The Republicans then passed the Martin Luther King Holiday, which the Democrat Congress and Jimmy Carter repeatedly rejected.]]
In the century after the Republicans efforts for Black equality and the end of [[Reconstruction]] in 1877, the white South identified with the Democratic Party. The Democrats' lock on power was so strong, the region was called the [[Solid South]]. The Republicans only controlled parts of the Appalachian mountains, but they sometimes did compete for statewide office in the border states. Before Lyndon Johnson's [[War on Poverty]] - an effort to extend big government social spending on Blacks which the New Deal failed to do<ref>https://youtu.be/rLMh3O-4aNA</ref> - the southern Democrats saw their party as the defender of the southern way of life, which included a respect for states' rights and an appreciation for traditional southern "values" (including [[segregation]] of blacks). They repeatedly warned against the aggressive designs of Republicans and Northern liberals, as well as civil rights activists whom they denounced as "outside agitators."

However, between 1928 and 2004, the Democratic Party's lock on the South was broken.<ref>https://youtu.be/UiprVX4os2Y</ref> The long-term cause had to do with the South becoming more like the rest of the nation. It could no longer stand apart in terms of racial segregation. Modernization had brought factories, national businesses, and larger, more [[cosmopolitan]] cities to the South, as well as millions of migrants from the North and more opportunities for higher education. Meanwhile, the cotton and tobacco economy of the traditional rural South faded away, as former farmers commuted to factory jobs. As the South became less racist, it became more Republican.
[[File:The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 20 Sep 1987, Sun Page 79.PNG|right|250px|thumb|"we [Delawareans] were on the South’s side in the Civil War.” - Joe Biden, ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', 20 Sep 1987, Page 79.<ref>''Presidential hopeful Biden faces an image problem'', [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=28178299&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE2OTgzNDI0OCwiaWF0IjoxNjIwMDAwOTY5LCJleHAiOjE2MjAwODczNjl9.Qis6deAMX2ZszubFmWmV75o-sSIRnJfvNYg4W9pJF3A The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 20 Sep 1987, Sun Page 79.]</ref>]]
Integration and the civil rights movement caused enormous controversy in the white South, with many attacking it as a violation of states' rights. When segregation was outlawed by Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices and by the [[bi-partisan]] Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element of Democrats resisted integration, led by Democrats [[Orval Faubus]] of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, [[Al Gore, Sr.]] of Tennessee, [[J. William Fulbright]] of Arkansas and [[George Wallace]] of Alabama. These racists appealed to a less-educated, blue-collar electorate that on economic grounds favored [[New Deal]] [[white privilege]] and opposed desegregation. After 1965 most Southerners accepted integration, with the exception of public schools in an effort led by Sen. [[Joseph Biden]].<ref name="politico.com">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968_full.html</ref> Just as the Republican, Martin Luther King had promised, integration had brought about a new day in Southern politics, freeing both blacks and whites from old hatreds and fears.

President Johnson's [[big government]] giveaways and [[affirmative action]] programs attracted Blacks for the first time, and they began supporting Democratic candidates, producing leaders such as [[Julian Bond]] and [[John Lewis]] of Georgia, and Barbara Jordan of Texas.

Using issues of cultural conservatism, especially opposition to abortion and homosexuality and support for school prayer, Republicans attracted strong majorities among evangelical Christians. They were nationwide, but strongest in the South; before the 1980s they were largely apolitical. Exit polls in 2004 showed that Bush led Kerry by 70-30% among Southern whites, who comprised 71% of the voters. Kerry had a 90–9 lead among the 18% of Southern voters who were black. One third of the Southern voters said they were white evangelicals; they voted for Bush by 80–20%.<ref>See the exit polls at {{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.3.html |date=2004-11-02\|accessdate=|title=U.S. PRESIDENT / REGION: SOUTH / EXIT POLL}}</ref>

In 1988, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), after decades of running their own presidential candidates, with the loss of Russian funding stopped running presidential candidates and has endorsed every Democratic presidential nominee since.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pjFfE1MNFk Communists, the Democrat Party and Snopes]</ref><ref>[http://aun-tv.com/2015/08/did-the-communist-party-usa-take-over-democratic-party-in-1988/ Did The Communist Party USA Take Over Democratic Party in 1988?]</ref> Since the end of the [[Cold War]],<ref>[https://youtu.be/JVkkLDAm8I4 KGB Bezmenov 1985 - Four Steps to Subversion of a Nation], youtube.</ref> communists began rising in Civil Service and elected office as Democrats.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ZXLuqQe8DqQ Deep State Unmasked: State Dept on Hidden Cam "Resist Everything" "I Have Nothing to Lose"], ''Project Veritas''.</ref>

====Racist smear campaign====
In 1991, Republican President George H.W. Bush appointed an African American, [[Clarence Thomas]], to the Supreme Court to replace the retiring Justice [[Thurgood Marshall]]. Racist Democrats were outraged that a conservative Black, who refused to pledge to uphold ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' which legalized the murder of millions of unborn Blacks, would become a role model for Black youth. [[Anita Hill]], a [[lesbian]] staffer who worked for Thomas was pushed forward, against her will, to testify publicly about unverified comments she made to FBI background investigators alleging sexual harassment in the work place, essentially jokes circulating among office employees. Hill's name was illegally [[leak]]ed by Senate Democrat staffers and Chairman [[Joseph Biden]] then subpoenaed Hill, compelling her to testify in public under oath in an effort to derail the nomination and permanently scar Thomas. In an unprecedented step, Biden delayed the final vote and held extended public hearings.

Hill worked for Thomas at the Dept. of Education, and when Thomas left the Dept. of Education to work at the EEOC, Thomas invited her to come along and she followed. Hill never reported the alleged sexual harassment.

After nationally televised hearings consisting largely of a discussion of African American body parts, Thomas was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with a majority of Americans in public opinion polls believing Thomas over Hill. A fringe minority of partisan [[gay rights]] activists, [[feminists]], liberals, and [[mainstream media]] journalist are said to have believed Hill.

===Clinton, Biden and the New Jim Crow===
[[File:Clinton gore.png|right|275px|thumb]]
In the 1990s the Democratic Party revived itself, in part by distancing itself from [[Jesse Jackson]] and the [[Rainbow Coalition]].<ref>http://www.blackcommentator.com/46/46_cover.html https://ofamerica.wordpress.com/tag/democratic-leadership-council/</ref> Jackson was the first African-American to win a major party primary in 1988. Blacks were getting a little too [[uppity]] in the eyes of the Clintons and Democratic party leadership.<ref>[http://prospect.org/article/crisis-working-majority-0 From Crisis to Working Majority], Stan Greenberg, ''The American Prospect'' 2, no. 7 (September 1991). Republished 24 May 2005</ref> Clinton defeated the incumbent [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1992, was the beneficiary of reduced defense spending with the end of the Cold War and a balanced federal budget. Clinton proposed [[welfare reform]] (cutting benefits and requiring many recipients to take jobs). Labor unions, which had been steadily losing membership due to [[globalization]] since the 1960s, found they had also lost political clout inside the Democratic Party: Clinton enacted the [[NAFTA]] free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico accelerating globalization and job loss over the strong objection of these labor unions.

Every year for twelve years, Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, who both always had at least one house of Congress controlled by Democrats, asked in their State of the Union addresses for Congress to create Enterprise Zones - special tax breaks for start-ups and businesses to relocate to blighted areas, predominantly black, inner-city urban areas - to create jobs and deliver services. Democrats didn't want Republicans to be seen as helping blacks. However, in President Clinton's first 100 days, with a Democrat House and Senate, Democrats finally delivered Enterprise Zones after making African Americans wait 12 years to finally participate in the prosperity begun in the 1980s. [[Bill Clinton]] attacked [[Nancy Reagan]]'s anti-drug "Just Say No" campaign as "twelve years of neglect" and ratcheted up deaths caused by illegal drug use from 10,000 per year to 70,000.<ref>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1996/06/clinton-s-drug-war.html</ref> The [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] took control of both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate after the 1994 midterm election.
[[File:Bill-clinton-orval-faubus-1991.jpg|left|275px|thumb|Bill Clinton with a trusted advisor, [[Orval Faubus]] in 1991. Faubus sent over 200 National Guardsmen to block 7 Black children from registering at a white school in 1957.<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-15/news/vw-739_1_orval-faubus</ref>]]
Under the Clintons and the 1994 Biden Crime Bill, more than 250,000 [[African American]]s were imprisoned in the [[United States]] than under President Reagan,<ref>http://www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp?ID=320</ref> Both Hillary Clinton and Joseph Biden took credit for mass incarceration.<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/</ref> Cumulatively since the Clinton's passed the Biden Crime Bill, 2.5 million adult black males—more than 10% of the population—were incarcerated, splitting up black families.<ref name="prisonpolicy.org">http://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/incarceration_rates_growth_causes/</ref> [[Barack Obama]], [[Louis Farrakhan]] and [[Al Sharpton]] led the [[Million Man March]] on Washington to protest.<ref>http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/wright-obama-helped-organize-march-with.html</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100502040630/https://www1.chicagoreader.com/obama_reader/what_makes_obama_run/?q=012009K</ref>

In a eulogy loaded with racist [[dog whistle]]s, here's what Bill Clinton said at the grave of his mentor, Sen. J. William Fulbright: {{quotebox-float|"We come to celebrate and give thanks for the remarkable life of [[J. William Fulbright]], a life that changed our country and our world forever and for the better. . . . In the work he did, the words he spoke and the life he lived, Bill Fulbright stood against the 20th century’s most destructive forces and fought to advance its brightest hopes.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/</ref>}} So spoke President William J. Clinton in 1995 of a man who was among the 99 Democrats in Congress to sign the “[[Southern Manifesto]]” in 1956. The Southern Manifesto declared the signatories’ opposition to the Supreme Court's decision in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' and their commitment to segregation forever. Fulbright was also among those who [[filibuster]]ed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]]. That filibuster continued for 83 days.

When the [[Democratic Leadership Council]] (DLC) assumed leadership of the party and its direction, some liberals and progressives felt alienated, believing the party gave in to capitalism and was unconcerned with left-wing issues in general. Some moderates challenged the validity of such critiques, citing the Democratic role in pushing the gay and progressive agendas.

=====Biden Crime Bill of 1994=====

:{{See also|The New Jim Crow|Biden Crime Bill}}
In the wake of the Central Park jogger attack, [[Joseph Biden]] boasts as one of his greatest legislative achievements was passage of the 1994 Crime bill which locked up 10% of the Black adult male population of the United States.<ref name="prisonpolicy.org"/><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/us/politics/joe-bidens-role-in-90s-crime-law-could-haunt-any-presidential-bid.html</ref>

When [[President George H.W. Bush]] asked for a record increase in funding to fight the [[War on Drugs]], Biden told a TV interviewer
{{Quotebox-float|"In a nutshell, the President's plan does not include enough police officers to catch the violent thugs, enough prosecutors to convict them, enough judges to sentence them or enough prison cells to put them away for a long time."<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-06/news/mn-1646_1_drug-war</ref><ref>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/first-step-act-skepticism.html</ref>}}
[[File:1994 Superpredator Act.jpg|left|350px|thumb|The Biden Crime Bill of 1994. Feinstein, Kerry and Biden are clearly visible with President Clinton. The bill is known for its sentencing disparities which led to mass incarceration of Blacks.<ref>https://fair.org/home/senate-crime-bill-unscrutinized-by-the-press/</ref>]]
Biden, [[Ted Kennedy]], and [[Strom Thurmond]] worked on proposals that raised maximum penalties, removed a directive requiring the US Sentencing Commission to take into account prison capacity, and created the cabinet-level “drug czar” position. In 1984, they passed the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, which, among other things, abolished [[parole]], imposed a less generous cap on “good time” sentence reductions, and allowed the Sentencing Commission to issue more punitive guidelines.

Biden bragged on the Senate floor that it was under his and Thurmond's leadership that Congress passed a law sending anyone caught with a rock of cocaine the size of a quarter to jail for a minimum of five years - the notoriously racist hundred-to-one sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. In the same speech Biden took credit for [[civil asset forfeiture]] and seizure laws, and demanded to know why [[Papa Bush]] hadn't sentenced more drug dealers to life in prison or exercise the [[death penalty]] once Congress had given him that power.<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?18528-1/violent-crime-control-act-1991</ref>

Biden's version of a new crime bill added more than forty crimes that would be eligible for the [[death penalty]]. Biden boasted “we do everything but hang people for jaywalking.”<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=AK_DAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA141&dq=we%20do%20everything%20but%20hang%20people%20for%20jaywalking&pg=PA141#v=onepage&q=we%20do%20everything%20but%20hang%20people%20for%20jaywalking&f=false The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America]'', Naomi Murakawa, Oxford University Press, Jul 10, 2014, p. 141.</ref> The [[NAACP]] and other groups lobbied against the bill.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/27/us/civil-libertarians-go-after-crime-bills.html</ref> Although the 1991 crime bill was defeated by Republicans, the 1994 Biden/Clinton crime bill was passed.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=SGUJBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT142&dq=biden%20strongly%20believes%20the%20administration%20needs%20to%20seize%20control%20of%20the%20issue%20by%20upping%20the%20ante&pg=PT142#v=onepage&q=biden%20strongly%20believes%20the%20administration%20needs%20to%20seize%20control%20of%20the%20issue%20by%20upping%20the%20ante&f=false The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America]'', Naomi Murakawa.</ref>

By 2001, the United States had the highest rate of incarceration in the world. [[Human Rights Watch]] reported that in seven states, African Americans constituted 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders even though they were no more likely than whites to use or sell illegal drugs. Prison admissions for drug offenses reached a level in 2000 for African Americans more than 26 times the level they had been under [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>[https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/ Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote], Michelle Alexander, ''The Nation'', February 10, 2016</ref> Biden's "social planning" had proven effective.

The Leftist ''Jacobin'' magazine summed up Biden's record:
{{Quotebox-float|"It’s not as if Biden didn’t know what he was doing.... He just didn’t care. Biden had made a calculated decision that the elections he would win were worth the damage he inflicted.... But even if Biden has subsequently learned the error of his ways, the rank cynicism and callousness involved in his two-decade-long championing of carceral policies should be more than enough to give anyone pause about his qualities as a leader, let alone a [[progressive]] one."<ref>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/biden-crime-mass-incarceration-police-prisons</ref>}}
[[File:Epstein-bill-clinton-1200x630.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Bill Clinton with Clinton Foundation co-founder Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was a frequent visitor to the Clinton White House as an honoured guest.]]

=====Impeachment: lying under oath is not a crime=====
Clinton was impeached in a scandal involving [[sexual crime]]s in 1998 and acquitted in 1999 when Democrats considered that a sitting president who lies under oath to a federal judge was not a crime. Impeachment caused extreme partisan divisions within the country; however a healthy economy, with the lower mortgage interest rates due to reduced defense spending and the end of the Cold War, no one wanted to upset the apple cart. Democrats themselves were not keen on the idea of Al Gore becoming president, either.

Hollywood mogul and Democrat megadonor [[Harvey Weinstein]] was a founder of the Clinton Legal Defense Fund to defend Bill Clinton against sexual assault charges; after Senate Democrats exonerated President Clinton, Weinstein himself faced sexual assault charges from at least 97 women over the next twenty years.

=====Globalization=====
One of the first actions to promote globalization was when the Clinton administration purchased berets for Army Rangers made in China. Plans were quickly drawn up to outsource the manufacture of army boots, fatigues, and other military apparel to China. This of course would destroy American jobs in American textile plants.

Since the New Deal, tales were legendary how the large military force assembled by America led to full employment in American factories, with the soldiers wives and girlfriends working in arms factories, and mothers and grandmothers employed in textile plants to make clothing and boots for soldiers. This basic economic concept was engraved in the conscience of the World War II generation, particularly loyal Democrat voters proud of the New Deal. Outsourcing American jobs related to national defense and national security to foreigners, particularly a non-democratic and potentially hostile foreign power, seemed like total insanity to older loyal Democrat voters and Republicans, as well.

The argument that "cheaper is better", since it would destroy American jobs and the U.S. welfare system existed as a safety net, didn't carry much weight. But Democrat voters re-elected Clinton anyway. Globalists made clear that eventually items such as medical supplies and pharmaceuticals, items also related to national security should a [[pandemic]] ever erupt, could also be safely entrusted to the Chinese communists.

====Godhatesfags.org====
[[File:Al gore fred phelps (1).jpg|thumb|390px|right|[[Nobel Prize]] winner and former Vice President Al Gore with [[Fred Phelps]] and their wives at a [[Westboro Baptist Church]] fundraiser for Gore. Westboro is the home of the godhatesfags website.]]
The Rev. [[Fred Phelps]] of the notoriously [[homophobic]]<ref>https://shadowproof.com/2007/05/26/fred-phelps-on-baby-samuel-cheney/</ref> [[Westboro Baptist Church]] ran for governor of [[Kansas]] as a Democrat in 1990, 1994, and 1998.<ref name="ref4">[https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/05/kansas.results/ 1998 Kansas Primary Results. Compiled by Congressional Quarterly.]</ref> Phelps received 31% of the vote in Kansas's 1992 Democrat Party primary for [[U.S. Senate]].<ref>[http://www.kssos.org/elections/elections_statistics.html State of Kansas Secretary of State Website]</ref> In 1993 and 1997,<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21229 The "God Hates Fags" [[Left]]], By Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMagazine.com, February 09, 2006.</ref><ref>[http://www.religionnewsblog.com/1128/kansas-anti-gay-church-embarrasses-topekans Kansas anti-gay church embarrasses Topekans], November 7, 2002. Retrieved from ReligionNewsBlog.com, October 11, 2007.</ref> Phelps ran for mayor of [[Topeka]]. He supported [[Al Gore]] in the 1988 primaries. Phelpsbecame an extremely vocal critic of [[President George W. Bush]] and former Vice President [[Dick Cheney]], calling Bush "A Bible pervert." Of the Cheney family Phelps said, "They know the iniquity they’ve wrought, but they’re not at all ashamed of it...God hates the Cheneys."<ref>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8194338250744686470#</ref>

===Election of 2000: Florida recount===

During the presidential election of 2000, the Democrats chose Vice President [[Al Gore]] to be the party's candidate for the presidency. Gore and [[George W. Bush]], the Republican candidate and son of former President George H.W. Bush, disagreed on a number of issues, including abortion, gun control, environmentalism, gay rights, tax cuts, foreign policy, public education, global warming, judicial appointments, and affirmative action. Gore told the [[NAACP]] that his father, Sen. [[Al Gore Sr.]], had lost his Senate seat because he voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964-a total fabrication.

Gore won a plurality of over 500,000 votes but lost the electoral college by four votes. Gore asked for a recount in [[Florida]], re-opening the divisions caused by Clinton's impeachment.

Gore's affiliation with Clinton and the racist DLC machine<ref>http://www.blackcommentator.com/46/46_cover.html</ref> caused critics—Green Party progressive candidate [[Ralph Nader]] in particular—to assert that Bush and Gore were too similar, especially on free trade, reductions in social welfare, and the death penalty. "We want to punish the Democrats, we want to hurt them, wound them," Nader's closest advisor said.<ref>Harry G. Levinem "Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber." ''The Village Voice'' May 3, 2004 at [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0418,levine,53179,1.html]</ref> Some Democrats blamed Nader's third-party spoiler role for Gore's defeat.

Afterward, Gore made millions of dollars with a film preaching progressive climate change eschatology, asserting that life on the planet would come to an end by the year 2013, sold his leftist propaganda radio network for hundreds of millions of dollars to [[Al Jazeera]], was accused of sexual assault, and disappeared into obscurity.

Despite Gore's close defeat, the Democrats gained five seats in the Senate (including the election of [[Hillary Clinton]] in New York), to turn a 55–45 Republican edge into a 50–50 split (with a Republican vice president breaking a tie). However, when Republican Senator [[Jim Jeffords]] of Vermont decided in 2001 to become an independent and caucus with the Democrats, the majority status shifted along with the seat, including control of the floor (by the Majority Leader) and control of all committee chairmanships. However, the Republicans regained their Senate majority with gains in 2002 and 2004, leaving the Democrats with only 44 seats, the fewest since the 1920s.

====2001: Progressives allied with jihadis====
[[File:C9Pak4-W0AIldKy (1).jpg|right|350px|thumb|Email to Hillary Clinton: '''"Al Qaeda is on our side."''' Al Qaeda murdered 3,000 Americans in the [[9/11 attacks]].<ref>http://theduran.com/wikileaks-drops-syria-bomb-email-to-hillary-clinton-assures-her-aq-al-qaeda-is-on-our-side-in-syria/</ref>]]
In the aftermath of the [[9-11 Attacks]], the nation's focus was on issues of national security. All but one Democrat<ref>Longtime [[CPUSA]] operative Rep. [[Barbara Lee]] of Texas</ref> joined the Republicans to authorize the use of force in Afghanistan and overthrow the Taliban. House leader [[Richard Gephardt]] and Senate leader [[Thomas Daschle]] pushed Democrats to vote for the [[USA PATRIOT Act]] and the 2003 [[AUMF]] in Iraq. [[Progressive]]s sympathized with terrorists who wanted to destroy [[Western Civilization]]. More rational Democrats expressed concern over the domestic effects, including potential government abuses of civil rights and civil liberties with the PATRIOT Act. Senator [[Russ Feingold]] was the only Senator to vote against the act; it received more resistance when it came up for renewal, but was renewed in 2006.

In the wake of the [[Enron scandal]], Congressional Democrats pushed for an overhaul of business accounting.<ref>See [[Andrew Weissmann]].</ref> This led to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002.

Typically, an incumbent president loses seats in Midterm elections. However, in the aftermath of 19 terrorists entering the US during the Clinton administration as part of the [[multicultural]] experiment, who then murdered 3,000 Americans in the 9/11 attacks, Democrats lost seats in the House, Senate, and governorships in the 2002 midterms. Democrats flipped gubernatorial seats in New Mexico ([[Bill Richardson]]) and Arizona ([[Janet Napolitano]]) where Clinton [[cronyism|cronies]] were elected and Wyoming (Dave Freudenthal), it was offset by Democrats losing seats in South Carolina (Jim Hodges), Alabama ([[Don Siegelman]]) and, for the first time in more than a century the Democrats' Southern Strategy failed with the loss of Georgia (Roy Barnes).

Republican gains in [[The South]] had nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with Democrats' willingness to sacrifice national security for open immigration and [[diversity]]. It led to another round of soul searching about the future of the party's increasingly radicalized base. The party's miseries mounted in 2003, when a voter recall unseated their unpopular governor of California, [[Gray Davis]], and replaced him which a charismatic liberal Republican [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]. By the end of 2003, the four largest states had Republican governors: California, Texas, New York and Florida.

While the Gallup poll showed 72% public support for the [[War in Iraq]],<ref>https://news.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-americans-support-war-against-iraq.aspx</ref> and with the party establishment drastically weakened, a handful of dissident anti-American and progressive protesters gathered in Chicago's Federal Plaza to hear an Illinois state senator named Barack Obama speak. Obama was one of the few, if not only, elected official in the country willing to express openly his lack of concern about the jihad against Western civilization. The protest was organized by the Communist party.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100811115415/http://www.noiraqwar-chicago.org/?page_id=2</ref>

===Pelosi era===
[[File:Pelosi poop map.jpg|left|350px|thumb|The City of San Francisco official "poop map" of reports of human feces on the street covers Nancy Pelosi's entire 12th Congressional district.<ref>https://www.mrctv.org/blog/new-report-shows-nancy-pelosis-district-seat-piled-high-dirty-needles-and-human-feces</ref>]]
{{See also|Climate Crisis Committee}}
In 2002, after [[Richard Gephardt]] resigned as minority leader to seek the Democratic nomination in the [[2004 presidential election]], Rep. [[Nancy Pelosi]] was elected to replace him, becoming the first woman to lead a major party in the House of Representatives. Pelosi's father was a Congressman from [[Maryland]] and later the Mayor of [[Baltimore]]; when Pelosi graduated from college in 1962 she didn't remain in Baltimore to serve her community but rather joined the white flight to California<ref>https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/10/07/family-dynasty-may-boost-pelosi-to-head-of-house-2/amp/</ref> where [[blacks]] were fewer in number.<ref>https://qz.com/393128/white-flight-decimated-baltimore-businesses-long-before-rioters-showed-up/amp/</ref> By the 1980s she became a protégé of the progressive [[Willie Brown]].

A poll conducted by [[Fox News]] released in October 2007 found that 1 in 5 Democrats – nearly 10 million voters – thought the world would be better off if the [[United States]] were to lose the [[War in Iraq]].<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299374,00.html Nearly 1 in 5 Democrats Say World Will Be Better Off if U.S. Loses War], FOX News Poll, October 04, 2007.</ref> The poll found this sentiment 3 to 4 times higher among Democrats than among moderate, centrist, and Republican voters.

According to its 2008 platform, the Democratic Party claimed to have the objective of strengthening America, yet Democrat leaders did nothing while the Obama administration allied itself with jihadis.<ref>[http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=22045 "Democrats, ACLU Outraged Over Traveler Terrorism Screening Program"] C. Johnson, Associated Press</ref><ref>[https://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/01/smn.19.html CNN Saturday Morning News] Transcript: December 1, 2001</ref> In 2010 the Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.) said "Democrats have been sedulously rewriting history for decades."<ref>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/26/whitewashing_the_democratic_partys_history_127132.html</ref> The Exalted Cyclops passed away shortly afterward and was solemnly eulogized by Speaker Pelosi and Democrat Leader Schumer.

The Democratic Party favored free trade agreements, environmental regulation and so-called "trade impact assistance" or government handouts after trade agreements destroy private sector, taxpaying jobs.

At the Democratic National Convention in July 2016, no American flags were present while several attendees flew the Palestinian flag.<ref>Kassam, Raheem (July 25, 2016). [https://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/07/25/old-glorys-old-news-palestinian-flag-flown-dnc-delegates/ Old Glory’s Old News To The New Democrats As The Palestinian Flag Flies At The DNC]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 31, 2018.</ref><ref>Prestigiacomo, Amanda (July 26, 2016). [https://www.dailywire.com/news/7811/so-uh-guess-how-many-american-flags-were-dnc-amanda-prestigiacomo So, Uh, Guess How Many American Flags Were at The DNC.] ''The Daily Wire''. Retrieved May 31, 2018.</ref> The [[CPUSA]] urged people not to vote for Donald Trump even if they disliked Hillary Clinton (an indirect endorsement of Clinton).<ref>Although there are still some very substantial differences between communists and Democrats/liberals, the line between communists/Democrats/liberals continues to blur in the United States.</ref><ref>Ironically, the leading communist country in the world, [[Communist Party of China|communist China]], has moved farther away from communism and now has a mixed economy of [[capitalism]] and state-owned enterprises. [China's The Most Viciously Free Market Economy On The Planet Right Now], Forbes, 2015</ref> Democrats blamed Russia for Hillary Clinton's loss. Obama evidently did nothing to prevent it.

====John Kerry: the Hippies last stand====
[[Image:437px-The New Soldier.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Kerry's book, ''The New Soldier'' with [[VVAW]] activists flying the American flag upside down. By the time Democrats did start flying the American flag, they flew it upside down.]]
The 2004 campaign began in late 2002, when Gore said he would not run again. [[Howard Dean]], former Governor of Vermont, a war protester and critic of the Democrat establishment, was the front-runner leading into the Democratic primaries. Dean had immense progressive support, especially from the [[far left]] wing of the party. Massachusetts Senator [[John Kerry]], a [[Vietnam war]] veteran turned [[hippie]] who had heavy support from the Clinton Machine and DLC, was nominated because he was seen as more "electable" than Dean. Under [[Leader Pelosi]], Democrats moved to populist [[Trumpian]] positions that denounced free trade and the [[NAFTA]] agreement.

[[Babyboomer]]s - children born in the post-[[World War II]] "baby boom," despite their large numbers in the American electorate, were always wracked by political division stemming from the Vietnam war. The election of 2004 highlighted those divisions - Kerry the supposed "war hero" who then turned on the war, and Bush the "patriot" who used family privilege to duck the draft and served in the reserves.
[[File:John-edwards-mug-shot.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Vice-Presidential candidate [[John Edwards]]' mugshot. Edwards was charged and booked in a fundraising scheme.]]
In the end, Kerry lost both the popular vote (by 3 million out of over 120 million votes cast) and the [[Electoral College]]. Republicans also gained four seats in the Senate and three seats in the House of Representatives, and for the first time since 1952, the Democratic leader of the Senate lost re-election. In the end, there were 3,660 Democratic state legislators across the nation to the Republicans' 3,557. Democrats netted governorships in Louisiana, New Hampshire and Montana. However, they lost the governorship of Missouri and a legislative majority in Georgia, which had long adhered to the Democratic racist tradition.

There were many reasons for the defeat. After the election, most analysts concluded that Kerry was a poor campaigner.<ref>Evan Thomas and Staff of Newsweek,''Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in the Future''(2005)</ref> A group of Vietnam veterans opposed to Kerry called the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" undercut Kerry's use of his military past by citing Kerry's Congressional testimony where he called fellow Vietnam veterans war criminals.<ref>See [[Jerome Corsi]].</ref> Kerry was unable to reconcile his support for the [[Iraq War]] with his opposition to the war in 2004, or manage the deep split in the Democratic Party between [[Patriot]]s and protesters of the war. Republicans ran thousands of television commercials to argue that Kerry had flip-flopped on Iraq. When Kerry's home state of Massachusetts' judicial system legalized radical progressive [[same-sex marriage]], the issue split liberal and conservative Democrats and independents. Kerry publicly stated throughout his campaign that he opposed same-sex "marriage," but favored [[civil union]]s. Ballot initiatives appeared in 11 states that brought citizens of both parties to the polls in large numbers; all 11 initiatives passed. [[Proposition 8]] in California won by a wide margin, but California Attorney General [[Kamala Harris]] bowed to [[LGBT]] groups and refused to defend citizen referendums in court. Some Democrats argued that flaws in vote-counting systems may also have played a role in Kerry's defeat in Ohio. Other factors include a healthy job market, a rising stock market, strong home sales due to [[FNMA|government subsidized interest rates]], and low unemployment.

After the 2004 election, prominent Democrats began to rethink the party's direction, and a variety of strategies for moving forward were voiced. Some Democrats proposed moving towards the right; others demanded that the party move more to the left and become a stronger opposition party. Rethinking the party's position on gun control became a matter of discussion, brought up by [[Howard Dean]], [[Bill Richardson]], [[Brian Schweitzer]] and other Democrats who had won governorships in states where Second Amendment rights were important to many voters.

====Pelosi and the Progressive takeover====
[[File:Pelosi Logan Act (2).jpeg|right|250px|thumb|Speaker Nancy Pelosi, an Assad apologist, violating the Logan Act.]]
These debates were reflected in the 2005 campaign for Chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]], which [[Howard Dean]] won. As a progressive, Dean was the first to shepherd civil unions through the Vermont legislature. He sought to move the Democratic strategy away from the establishment, and bolster support for the party's state organizations, even in Red states.

When the 109th Congress convened in 2005, [[Harry Reid]], the new Senate Minority Leader, tried to convince the Democratic Senators to vote more as a bloc on important issues; he forced the Republicans to abandon their push for privatization of retirement insurance and leave the collectivist model in place. In 2005, the Democrats retained their governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, electing [[Tim Kaine]] and [[Jon Corzine]], respectively. However, the party lost the mayoral race to [[Michael Bloomberg]] in New York City, a Democratic stronghold, for the fourth straight time.

The cost of fighting two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq simultaneously allowed the [[Peoples Republic of China]], which was granted [[most favored nation]] trading status in 2001, to rush ahead in economic development and military modernization unchecked by American competition. Cheap Chinese made goods flooded the country, while American manufacturing jobs were exported to China. Negative public opinion on the war in Iraq, along with widespread dissatisfaction among conservatives dragged President Bush's job approval ratings down to the lowest levels of his presidency. To win control the Democrats had to add 15 seats in the House (they added 30), and 6 in the Senate. In 2006, with [[lobbying]] scandals engulfing the Republicans, the Democrats used the slogan "culture of corruption."

The Democratic Party's electoral success in the 2006 midterms was attributed to running relatively moderate Democrats in close seats, such as the Senate races in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Montana.<ref>Dewan Shaila and Anne E. Kornblut, "In Key House Races, Democrats Run to the Right," ''New York Times,'' 2006-10-30; but compare Rick Perlstein, "Who deserves credit for the Democratic comeback?" ''The New Republic'' 2006-11-08 at [https://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml?i=w061106&s=perlstein110806]</ref> Exit polling suggested that corruption was a key issue for many voters.<ref>CNN, "Corruption named as key issue by voters in exit polls," 2006-11-08 at [https://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/election.exitpolls/]</ref> Democrats gained a majority of governorships and made gains in many state legislatures. No Democratic incumbent was defeated in any major race.

Senate Democrats promoted Harry Reid to Majority Leader. House Democrats chose Rep. [[Nancy Pelosi]] of California for Speaker, the first woman ever, but rejected her choice for House Majority Leader, electing [[Steny Hoyer]] instead of [[John Murtha]]. Members of Pelosi's own Democratic Caucus warned failure to deliver on their promises to clean up corruption could be damaging.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/4014.html Democrats divided on lobbying reform], Josephine Hearn and Jeff Patch, May 15, 2007. Retrieved from [[Politico]] 06/01/07.</ref> Twenty freshmen Democrats asked for legislation to establish an independent ethics commission within the [[legislative branch]] to investigate future ethical lapses by fellow members.<ref>Alexander Bolton, [https://thehill.com/leading-the-news/dems-press-pelosi-for-ethics-panel-2007-04-18.html''Dems press Pelosi for ethics panel''], The Hill, April 19, 2007.</ref> Pelosi resisted the reform.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7hE4HX-Cwo&NR=1 The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same], ''[[ABC News]]'', April 25, 2007.</ref>

===Obamunism===
[[File:Barack-Hussein-Obama-mit-Louis-Farrakhan-528x524.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Barack Obama with the notorious [[anti-Semite]], [[Louis Farrakhan]]. Farrakhan called [[Jews]] "pigs and dogs." The [[Anti-Defamation League]] identified Farrakhan as the nation's “leading anti-Semite."<ref>[https://www.adl.org/resources/profiles/the-nation-of-islam The Nation of Islam], Anti-Defamation League.</ref>]]
:{{See also|History of the Democrat party under Barack Obama|Vice Presidency of Joe Biden (2009–2017)|}}
From 1919 to 1992 the global communist movement, headquartered in [[Moscow]], sought to destabilize and [[subversion (political)|subvert]] the [[bourgeois]] regimes of the planet. The collapse of communism in [[Eastern Europe]] in ended the 45-year-long [[Cold War]]. [[Russia]] caved in, became [[capitalist]], joined the [[International Monetary Fund]] and qualified for [[World Bank]] loans. American leftists momentarily were in danger of losing their ideological direction. A group of academics and organizers called the [[Committees of Correspondence of Democratic Socialism]] (CoC) relocated the center of the global Marxist movement from the [[Kremlin]] to [[Berkeley]], [[California]] and kept the movement alive.<ref>https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/committees-of-correspondence-for-democracy-and-socialism-ccds/</ref> Despite what some journalists and pundits speculated as "the end of history" with the widely reported "fall of communism," within 15 years communists had captured the [[White House]].

Led by [[anti-war|anti-War on Terror]] radicals and jihadi sympathizers schooled in the Cold War era notion of Marxist "[[national liberation movement]]s," the Democratic party roared back with major gains in 2006, which it expanded in 2008 to sweep control of the national government and leave the GOP in a state of confusion and decline.

The GOP reunited in 2009, with near-unanimous opposition to the Democrats' socialist agenda and contentious policies, especially stimulus spending and Obamacare. Polls show Obama's popularity began to erode after his [[Barack Obama approval ratings#Declines after the Gates flap|anti-police stance]] became apparent in the summer of 2009.

For the first two years of the Obama administration, the Democrats held a veto-proof Congress and the White House, ramming through unpopular legislation, with no bipartisan support, such as [[Obamacare]]. In the [[2010 midterm elections]], Democrats received a "shellacking" for defying popular sentiment. In 2009 moderate [[Bluedog Democrat]]s boasted 44 [[centrist]]s, but by 2011 it had only 8 members. A [[centrist]] core in the House was destroyed by [[progressive]]s who dominated the party. Progressive communists tended to come from so-called "safe seats," whereas moderates, centrists, and Bluedogs came from competitive districts, and were sacrificed on the altar of ideological purity by Marxists in search of [[single party control]]. Suburbs and rural areas remained in Republican hands.<ref>[http://www.multistate.com/Site.nsf/Elections2006PostMaps?OpenPage Multistate.com] Post-Election 2006 Maps</ref> Voters in 2010, 2014, and 2016 rejected Democratic Party candidates at the local, state and national levels in record-setting proportions.

====Fascist national security state====

Under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic party has been transformed into the party of war and the national security surveillance state. Anyone who does not toe the party line is smeared as a Russian agent.<ref>https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1185988329742798848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw</ref> The party establishment attacks critics of [[regime change]] wars with Hinduphobia and as "Russian" bots and assets. Party operatives regularly ignore [[4th Amendment]] and due process rights - including congressional committee chairmen conducting a supposed "[[impeachment inquiry]]" which was never voted on and authorized by the [[House of Representatives]].

Author Max Blumenthal, senior editor of ''The Grayzone'', observed:
{{Quotebox|This whole narrative would blow back on [[the left]] and would be used to enforce conformity on issues of war and peace, in support of the former against the latter. When we're seeing that play out in real time, with Hillary Clinton's attacks on [[Tulsi Gabbard]]. It was clear to me as soon as Tulsi Gabbard got into the race that even though she has absolutely no connection to Russia at all, she was going to be smeared this way because this is the McCarthyite venomous poison that Hillary Clinton has brought into the Democratic Party, along with the [[national security]] state figures like [[John Brennan]] and [[James Clapper]]. They have turned principled resistance against Trump and Trumpism into a collection of spooks, dupes, and Cold War cooks, and our worst warnings are being fulfilled. Tulsi Gabbard has been smeared as a Russian asset. She's been basically accused of committing a crime, that could hold the [[death penalty]], by someone with a multi-million dollar sleaze operation. Hillary Clinton and her sleaze network, her corporate funded sleaze network which really grew out of her campaign where she just had so much [[Wall Street]] money, and defense industry money....this is their way of destroying an emergent trend in the party, which is somewhat non-partisan. But is also anti-war, which reflects the sentiments of Americans across the country including a lot of the working-class people who are following Trump into the Republican Party. It was coordinated.... 
The rhetorical basis for Hillary Clinton smear was established during the past two years when anyone who challenged the imperatives of the national security state in places like [[Syria]] or [[Venezuela]], where the proxy war is playing out between the US and Russia although you know it's not purely a proxy war but it's seen that way in Washington, is accused of echoing [[Kremlin]] [[propaganda]]. And so we saw that narrative weaponized against Tulsi Gabbard after the last debate. I've never seen such a meltdown among you know Beltway and Democratic establishment hacks over a minor protest candidate who's polling at 2%, as the one I saw against Tulsi Gabbard. Susan Glasser from ''Politico'', who's just the quintessential centrist hack, who's married to Peter Baker - the ''New York Times'' White House correspondent, said that Tulsi Gabbard was echoing Russian and Syrian talking points by condemning regime change wars. This is something that only the reel cranks of the Republican Party would have said about opponents of the [[Iraq war]]. Now it's coming out of the political center. Josh Marshall, and founder of ''Talking Points Memo'' which all of the Democratic wonks wake up every morning and read, said "the only thing that Tulsi Gabbard can do is shut the F up." That was his response to her. It's like this. She inspires this kind of visceral outrage by condemning regime change wars, and one after another they accuse her of echoing Russian talking points. So now championing the cause of peace, withdrawing US troops, withdrawing US bases from a hinterland in northern Syria, it's the Russian agenda. And this is something I've never heard in my lifetime since I was kind of like a sentient being following politics. But it's something that I read about in books about [[McCarthyism]]. And it really appears to have so infested the mainstream of the Democratic Party that we're going to be living with it for the rest of our lives.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRp7iEVZD6c</ref>}}

Critics have noted that the Democratic party has morphed into a branch of the CIA not unlike the origins of the [[East German]] [[Stasi]] government.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/will-democratic-party-exist-after-2020-election</ref> The all consuming [[Russiagate]] insanity began when the FBI launched its counterintelligence probe after learning that a Trump campaign aide, [[George Papadopoulos]], was offered “dirt” on Hillary Clinton from an FBI plant named [[Joseph Mifsud]], and after Papadopoulos told Australian diplomat [[Alexander Downer]] about it. Australian officials then tipped off their American counterparts to Papadopoulos’ remarks, after which the FBI flew agent [[Peter Strzok]] to [[London]] to interview Downer about his interactions with Papadopoulos, igniting what the FBI called operation “[[Crossfire Hurricane]],” they claim began on July 31, 2016.

Aside from now fired FBI agent Peter Strzok and his also ousted FBI secret lover [[Lisa Page]] being exposed for their political bias in text messages to have created an “Insurance Policy” to damage Trump if he was elected, and Alexander Downer having funneled $25 million to [[Clinton Foundation]], the central pivot person of the entire Russiagate [[conspiracy theory]] revolved around Mifsud, who works for the UK Cabinet Office Security Vetting Appeals Panel and trains NATO intelligence personnel and diplomats at Link Campus University in Rome that's described as a finishing school for British spies, along with FBI agents who have also both taught and have trained at the school.<ref>https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/04/all-russiagate-roads-lead-to-london-as-evidence-emerges-of-joseph-mifsuds-links-to-uk-intelligence/</ref>

====Incremental socialism====
[[File:Maria-and-Che.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A Democrat organizer sports a poster of communist [[mass murder]]er [[Che Guevara]] at Obama campaign headquarters.]]
The [[2008 presidential election]] campaign featured a duel between [[Barack Obama]]—a black candidate, and [[Hillary Clinton]], a woman contender. Obama won with his oratory skills and a highly efficient fund-raising and strong organization in the caucus states, while Clinton appealed to [[feminist]]s and [[white supremacist]]s.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uWu0nSsg7w Hillary Clinton in Black History], youtube.</ref> The contest between Obama and GOP nominee [[John McCain]] showed Obama being the clear favorite, with the vast majority of polls (with the exception of early September) depicting Obama as the clear favorite.

The [[Obama Administration]] got off to a fast start taking on more government debt to finance massive bailouts to banks, increased regulation, and deep intervention in the automobile industry. All those policies failed to reverse the decline from the [[Recession of 2008]]. After Democrats passed the Economic Recovery Act of 2009, [[unemployment]] increased from below 7% to 10%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm|title=Employment Situation Summary|work=Bureau of Labor Statistics|date=August 1, 2014|accessdate=}}</ref>

Democratic leaders endorsed various [[Democratic Health Care Plans]]; the question in 2009 was whether to allow "a crisis to go to waste." Many Democrats advocated a minimum wage increase; the Democrat Congress failed to act but Obama signed an [[executive order]] imposing a $15 minimum wage on federal contractors, a meaningless gesture as few federal contracts have minimum wage workers.

Democrats talked about increased taxpayer funding of higher education, particularly for scientific research, land-grant colleges, community colleges and historically black colleges. Obama established a White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-historically-black-colleges-and-universities|title=Executive Order 13532 -- Historically Black Colleges and Universities|date=February 26, 2010|accessdate=}}</ref> Democrats subsidized the interest rate out of the federal treasury for Stafford loan voters by cutting the rate to 3.4% and eliminated private banks as middlemen in federal student loans.<ref name=ed>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education|title=Higher Education|accessdate=}}</ref>

The Democratic Party felt the sting from the opposition and many Democrats began questioning their own leadership. Liberals were disenchanted with Obama's escalation of the [[Afghanistan War]]. American deaths more than doubled in Obama's first few years compared with the preceding eight years.<ref>Chesser, S.G. (2012, July 12). [http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41084.pdf Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians - CRS Report for Congress]. Pg. 3. ''Congressional Research Service'''.</ref> The health care reform that consumed most of 2009 remained unsettled, as public opinion turned against it. Environmentalists seemed resigned to the failure of [[carbon tax]]es and a [[cap and trade]] program to reduce [[greenhouse gases]]. Most of the recession dragged on. The stimulus bill was passed quickly in February 2009 over almost unanimous GOP opposition, but despite promises of "shovel ready" projects, most of the money was never spent to relieve unemployment, job creation and [[economic growth]] remained dtagnant for years.

The elections in November 2009 in New Jersey and Virginia went badly for the Democrats, as the GOP gained both governorships and many local races, not to mention the Democrats' fifth straight loss for the mayoralty of New York City.

In the [[2010 Midterm Elections]], the Republican Party gained 63 Representatives in the House (one of the largest amounts in its history and surpassing the 1994 landslide), almost gained a majority in the Senate, and gained a majority of governorships and state legislatures in one of its best election results in its history.

Although the Democrats had the opportunity to reverse the massive GOP gains in 2014 midterms, they completely failed and allowed the GOP to make even larger victories. Even when the GOP held a majority of governorships so large that it would be difficult to hold them all, they actually gained two states, expanding their majority to 31 out of 50.

====Marxists crawl out of the closet====
Within the first six months of the new administration, Obama White House Communications Director [[Anita Dunn]] told a high school graduating class that communist [[mass murder]]er [[Mao Zedong]] - the biggest mass murderer in history by far - was her favorite "political philosopher."<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/10/17/obama-debate-advisor-anita-dunn-mao/ Obama Debate Coach Named Mao as Favorite Political Philosopher] by Ben Shapiro, Breitbart News, 2012</ref> [[Van Jones]], a self-proclaimed communist, was appointed Green Czar to indoctrinate young people schooled in the [[global warming hoax]] into the communist movement. When Jones' communist background and connections became public he was immediately fired and hired as an analyst for [[CNN]].

[[Bernie Sanders]], a leading candidate in the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nomination has a history of involvement with [[Marxism|Marxist]] organizations.<ref>[http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/ Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist], New York Post by [[Paul Sperry]], New York Post,January 16, 2016</ref><ref name="IS BERNIE SANDERS A COMMUNIST">[https://www.wnd.com/2016/01/is-bernie-sanders-a-communist/ IS BERNIE SANDERS A COMMUNIST?] by Joseph Farah, WND, 2016</ref><ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-d-ackerman/history-lesson-bernie-san_b_9355082.html History Lesson: Bernie Sanders is no 'Communist,' and 'Democratic Socialists' are as American as Apple Pie], Huffington Post, 2012</ref> Sanders had on the wall of his Senate office a flag of the [[Soviet Union]], a regime which [[democide|exterminated]] more than 50 million of its own peoples.<ref>[http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/ Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist], New York Post by Paul Sperry, New York Post, January 16, 2016</ref>

In the 21st century, the Democratic Party dropped all pretense of advocacy for Human Rights in favor of forced [[collectivization]].

====Uranium One scandal====
:{{Main article|Uranium One scandal}}
Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration colluded with Vladimir Putin to sell Russia 20% of American uranium reserves. The Clinton Foundation received $150 million from investors. The Clinton campaign knew that Hillary's Russia collusion by approving the sale of Uranium One (U1) from Clinton Foundation board member Frank Giustra to Russia's state owned nuclear energy company Rosatom in 2010-2011 was a problem, so they set out from at least April 2015 to smear whoever she was up against as “weak on Russia” or “Kremlin Trolls”.

====Obama war crimes====
:{{Main article|Obama war crimes}}
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama illegally overthrew the government of Libya. The African [[slave trade]] was revived after the overthrow.

====Political spying====
Not wanting a crisis - the [[Financial Panic of 2008]] - to go to waste, which won the Democrats a veto proof Congress and the White House, the Democrats went full bore single party socialist and communist with the passage of Obamacare, ignoring public opinion and opposition within their own party. While subsequent elections repealed much of Obamacare, the Democrats and Obama administration plunged ahead with the communist agenda of outlawing and criminalizing political opposition and free speech. It began with the [[IRS scandal]], and when exposed shifted to [[FISA abuse]] and persecution of journalists who printed negative stories. Blackmail and pollical spying on opposition candidates and campaigns became the hallmark of Obama's second term. The cover up of the [[Muellergate timeline 2019|Muellergate scandal]] was used by Democrats to surreptitiously win back the House in 2018 and bring about the phony [[impeachment scam]].
[[File:112 2016 b4-napo-comey-hoove8201 c0-389-1420-1216 s885x516 (1).jpg|right|300px|thumb|In the Comey era, the FBI returned to the use of sexual innuendo and domestic spying on political opponents.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/19/comey-trump-cnn-news-hook/</ref>]]
With Obama's harassment of political opponents, first with the [[IRS scandal]], then through illegal surveillance and [[FISA abuse]],<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/08/doj-political-surveillance-from-the-irs-in-2011-to-the-fisa-court-in-2016/ DOJ Political Surveillance – From the IRS in 2011 to the FISA Court in 2016], Posted on March 8, 2020 by sundance. theconservativetreehouse.com</ref> Obama won re-election in [[2012 United States Presidential Election|2012]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EULOYZ-mAG0</ref> even though the Republican Party held on to all its 2010 gains.

This early self-deception by Democrats repeated in mainstream media after the election of Obama - that America had shifted its historic roots from center-right to center-left, had disastrous results in the coming decade. The repression of free speech in media in favor of a pro-communist line contributed to a deterioration in race relations based on communist lies and [[propaganda]]. The [[Obama riots]] destroyed Black communities, and the [[2020 Leftwing insurrection]], led by Marxist whites in the name of "social justice", overestimated the willingness of the American people to embrace Marxist [[revolution]], cast off [[capitalism]], and abrogate their constitutional rights to a single party [[totalitarian]] regime governed by unelected Democrat bureaucrats and [[civil servants]]. An entire generation of Americans grew up in the Obama years, where opportunity to improve one's own economic wellbeing was virtually non-existent, [[brainwash]]ed by Marxist doctrine in [[public school]]s and educational institutions, to resort to [[violence]] and attempt to tear down the whole system.

While most Blacks looked for the freedom and opportunity America promised, a generation of dangerous and [[intolerant]] white youth walked the streets, looking to violently maim and destroy anyone who opposed their Marxist agenda.

====Obamagate scandal====
[[File:Obama post election strategy Blame Russia start WW3.jpg|right|300px|thumb]]
:{{See also|Obamagate timeline|FBI scandal|Ukrainian collusion|Trump-Russia collusion hoax}}
In 2016 the party [[collude]]d with Russia and the Ukraine to interfere in the United States presidential election.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/16/horowitz-report-confirms-john-solomons-scoop-fbi-spreadsheet-regarding-steele-dossier/</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/europe/ukraine-paul-manafort.html</ref> The DNC has been sued for [[civil rights]] violations of [[Carter Page]] for the DNC-funded fraud against the FISA court.<ref>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/480678-carter-page-files-lawsuit-against-democratic-national-committee-over</ref>

More than 27 Obama appointees and Democrat operatives were fired, removed, demoted or reassigned in the criminal attempt to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and later the [[coup]] plot against President Trump.

The Mueller Report produced no evidence whatsoever that Russia hacked the DNC. Neither Special Council Robert Mueller, nor the FBI, nor the DOJ, nor the Dept. of Homeland Security, nor the NSA, nor the CIA, nor the mainstream media, nor the Clinton campaign ever investigated DNC servers.

====The New McCarthyism====
In 2016, Russian hackers attempted, and failed, to hack into state election board computers. No federal facilities, as far as is known, were attempted. However, no federal law enforcement agency, not the FBI, CIA, [[Department of Homeland Security]] or any other federal, state, or municipal law enforcement agency ever investigated an alleged hack of the Democratic National Committee. The confluence of these two events - attempted hacking of state election boards and the publication of leaked emails from the DNC by [[WikiLeaks]] - coupled with the Obama administration's [[FISA abuse]] were melded by CIA Director John Brennan into the Russia collusion hoax.

The debunked Trump-Russia [[fake news]] morphed itself into a [[xenophobic]] reaction against Russian bots and anything Russian to explain all the Democratic party's self-inflicted misfortunes. These Russianbot [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] inspired some of the most absurd conjecture to explain social phenomenon and justify the most venomous hatred, in the spoken word of Democrat leaders, media elites, and violent actions of the [[extreme left]].

====Primary rigging====
{{See also|United States presidential election, 2016}}
Again, in 2016, the Democrats performed very poorly, allowing the GOP to win the presidency with [[Donald Trump]],<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/08/first-polls-close-in-2016-race-trump-projected-to-win-ind-ky-clinton-wins-vt.html Trump wins presidency, defeats Clinton in historic election upset]. ''Fox News''. November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> to maintain their House and Senate majorities,<ref>Bresnahan, John (November 9, 2016). [https://www.politico.eu/article/republicans-on-cusp-of-keeping-the-senate/ Republicans hold the Senate in a stunner]. ''Politico''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref><ref>Hughes, Siobhan (November 9, 2016). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-are-confident-about-retaining-control-of-the-house-1478634160 Democrats Gain Seats in House, But GOP Retains Majority]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> to win the largest amount of governorships since 1922,<ref>Lieb, David A. (November 9, 2016). [https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2016-11-09/republicans-expand-control-of-governorships-legislatures Republicans governorships rise to highest mark since 1922]. ''U.S. News & World Report''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> and to win the most state legislative chambers in history.<ref>Bosman, Julie & Davey, Monica (November 11, 2016). [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/republicans-expand-control-in-a-deeply-divided-nation.html Republicans Expand Control in a Deeply Divided Nation]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved November 14, 2016.</ref> The Democrats held a record low amount of party trifectas in the states.<ref>Greenblatt, Alan (November 9, 2016). [http://www.governing.com/topics/elections/gov-republicans-add-dominance-state-legislatures.html Republicans Add to Their Dominance of State Legislatures]. ''Governing''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref><ref>Siegel, Josh (November 9, 2016). [http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/09/republicans-maintain-strong-control-of-state-capitols-what-that-means/ Republicans Maintain Strong Control of State Capitols. Here’s What That Means.] ''The Daily Signal''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> Democrats lost 1,042 seats—including U.S. House, Senate, state governorship, and state legislative seats—during the eight years of [[Barack Obama]]'s tenure as U.S. president.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/27/democrats-lost-over-1000-seats-under-obama.html?refresh=true Democrats lost over 1,000 seats under Obama]. ''Fox News''. December 27, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016.</ref>
[[File:Sethrich-e1494948876256.jpg|left|275px|thumb|Seth Rich (1989-2016) was an IT specialist at DNC headquarters in Washington DC. His bullet-ridden body was found on a dark street two weeks before the convention that nominated Hillary Clinton.]]
The Democratic primaries were rigged against Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton, and the party was shown to be helping Clinton behind the scenes.<ref>Griffin, Andrew (November 9, 2016). [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/bernie-sanders-us-election-president-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-democrats-primary-results-a7408451.html Donald Trump won election because Democrats rigged system to have Clinton beat Bernie Sanders, says WikiLeaks]. ''The Independent''. Retrieved November 11, 2016.</ref><ref>Hoft, Jim (October 18, 2016). [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/obama-lectures-media-integrity-elections-forgets-democrats-just-rigged-primary-bernie/ Obama Lectures Trump on "Rigged" Elections — Forgets That Democrats Just Rigged Primary Against Bernie]. ''The Gateway Pundit''. Retrieved November 11, 2016.</ref> The DNC tagged the [[Jewish]] Vermont Senator in the Bible Belt as an "[[atheist]]", hoping to give her another advantage in the early Southern Democratic primaries. Hillary won the endorsement of the [[Ku Klux Klan]].<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kkk-grand-dragon-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president</ref> The DNC scheduled the Democratic primary debates during days of the week when most Americans wouldn't watch, such as Friday and Saturday nights. This was done to keep interest in the Democratic primary debates low and with Mrs. Clinton obviously having more name recognition, would have an early advantage over her lesser-known opponents. Even the leftist website [[Salon Media Group|Salon]]<ref>Demoro, Roseann (March 30, 2016). [https://www.salon.com/2016/03/30/10_ways_the_democratic_primary_has_been_rigged_from_the_start_partner/ 10 ways the Democratic primary has been rigged from the start]. ''Salon''. Retrieved November 11, 2016.</ref> and, later, [[Elizabeth Warren]]<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41850798 Elizabeth Warren agrees Democratic race 'rigged' for Clinton]. ''BBC News''. November 3, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2017.</ref> believed the primary was rigged against Sanders.

[[Donna Brazile]], the interim DNC Chair, shared Democrat town hall meeting questions with the Clinton campaign in order to help her win.<ref>Shaw, Adam (March 17, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/17/brazile-admits-forwarded-debate-questions-to-clinton-camp.html Brazile admits she forwarded town hall questions to Clinton camp]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved March 17, 2017.</ref><ref>Ernst, Douglas (March 17, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/17/donna-brazile-admits-leaking-debate-questions-to-c/ Donna Brazile admits leaking debate questions to Clinton camp: ‘A mistake I will forever regret’]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved March 17, 2017.</ref> She continued to deny this fact through February 2017<ref>Scarry, Eddie (March 17, 2017). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/donna-brazile-finally-admits-she-shared-debate-questions-with-clinton-campaign/article/2617742 Donna Brazile finally admits she shared debate questions with Clinton campaign]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved March 17, 2017.</ref> and blamed [[Russia]] for the ordeal.<ref>Hudson, Jerome (March 18, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/18/donna-brazile-admits-to-sharing-debate-questions-with-clinton-camp-blames-russia/ Donna Brazile Admits to Sharing Debate Questions With Clinton Camp, Blames Russia]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved March 18, 2017.</ref> Later, in November 2017, Brazile revealed that not only did Obama leave the DNC deeply in debt due to his 2012 re-election campaign,<ref>Boyer, Dave (November 2, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/2/brazile-says-obama-left-dnc-deep-debt-clinton-camp/ Brazile says she found DNC deep in debt from Obama, controlled by Clinton a year before nomination]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.</ref> but the Clinton campaign effectively controlled the DNC as early as 2015, and the DNC worked to keep Sanders from winning the nomination.<ref>Multiple references:
*Brazile, Donna (November 2, 2017). [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774 Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC]. ''Politico Magazine''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
*Pappas, Alex (November 2, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/02/donna-brazile-found-proof-dnc-rigged-nomination-for-hillary-clinton.html Donna Brazile: I found 'proof' the DNC rigged the nomination for Hillary Clinton]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
*Neuman, Scott (November 3, 2017). [https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/03/561768006/book-reveals-clinton-campaign-effectively-controlled-dnc-as-early-as-2015 Book Reveals Clinton Campaign Effectively Controlled DNC As Early As 2015]. ''NPR''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
*[https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Did-the-Democratic-Party-have-an-anti-Sanders-bias-513279 Did the Democratic Party Have an Anti-Sanders Bias?] ''The Jerusalem Post''. November 4, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
The incident highlighted the growing divisions in the party:
*[https://www.voanews.com/a/democrats-cry-foul-rigged-primary-election/4098967.html Democrats Cry Foul Over 'Rigged' Primary Election]. ''Voice of America''. November 3, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
*O'Reilly, Andrew (November 3, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/03/donna-brazile-allegations-highlight-mounting-schism-within-dnc.html Donna Brazile allegations highlight mounting schism within DNC]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
*Nolan, Lucas (November 3, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/03/bitter-hillary-supporters-blast-brazile/ Bitter Hillary Supporters Blast Donna Brazile, Elizabeth Warren on Twitter over Rigged Primary Revelation]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
The mainstream media avoided these revelations:
*Flood, Brian (November 3, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/03/big-three-networks-skip-donna-brazile-bombshell-that-dnc-was-rigged-for-clinton.html Big Three Networks skip Donna Brazile bombshell that DNC was rigged for Clinton]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
Brazile walked back from what she revealed soon after:
*Crookston, Paul (November 3, 2017). [https://freebeacon.com/politics/brazile-backtracks-clinton-dnc-claims-never-said-hillary-rigged-election/ Brazile Backtracks on Clinton-DNC Claims: ‘Never Said Hillary Rigged Election’]. ''The Washington Free Beacon''. Retrieved November 3, 2017.</ref>

The release of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails provided to [[Wikileaks]] by Seth Rich<ref>https://youtu.be/Kp7FkLBRpKg</ref> showed clear [[collusion]] between Clinton, [[mainstream media]] outlets, and the DNC to smear [[Bernie Sanders]]. Millennials felt betrayed by the Democratic party. DNC Chair [[Debbie Wasserman Schultz]] was forced out on the eve of the convention, less than 24 hours after dozens of emails were published showing her and her staff rigging the primary elections for Hillary Clinton.

The [[Whistleblower Statutes|whistleblower]] Seth Rich was gunned down execution-style in early July 2016, two weeks before the convention. Wikileaks founder [[Julian Assange]] offered $20,000 cash reward for the arrest and conviction of Seth Rich's killers or killer. Hillary Clinton said of Assange, "Can't we just drone this guy?"<ref>http://truepundit.com/under-intense-pressure-to-silence-wikileaks-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-proposed-drone-strike-on-julian-assange/</ref> In October WikiLeaks released a transcript of Hillary's private paid speech to [[Goldman Sachs]]. To silence Assange, Wikileaks internet access was cut within the [[Ecuador]] embassy, where he was granted asylum. Wikileaks Director, Prof. Gavin Macfayden, was found dead the following week. Macfayden's death was the third of a close associate of Assange in 6 months.<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/790004642038050816/photo/1</ref>


''[[USA Today]]'' reported a [[The indictment of 12 Russian nationals, 13 July 2018#Use of Organization 1|37-page indictment]] from special counsel [[Mueller office|Robert Mueller's investigation]] shows that Russians worked to boost the campaign of [[Bernie Sanders]] to damage [[Hillary Clinton]]. Mueller's indictment reads the Russians “engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders."<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/17/indictment-russians-also-tried-help-bernie-sanders-jill-stein-presidential-campaigns/348051002/</ref>

Sanders hired [[Paul Manafort]] partner Tad Devine of Devine Mulvey Longabaug as his chief strategist.<ref>http://dmlmessage.com/about/</ref> Devine and Manafort worked for the election of [[Putin]] [[crony]] [[Victor Yanukovich]] as President of the [[Ukraine]] in 2010.<ref>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/bernie-sanders-strategist-tad-devine-paul-manafort-files-mueller</ref> In February 2019 Sanders entered the [[2020 presidential election]] and re-hired Devine's company, of which Devine is president.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-hires-top-civil-liberties-advocate-faiz-shakir-as-campaign-manager</ref>

Sanders reminisced about his drunken honeymoon to ''[[Time magazine]]'' in his beloved [[USSR|Soviet Russia]]: {{quotebox|"on our honeymoon, I took Jane to [[Russia]], back when it was still known as the Soviet Union. Russia was an incredible place back then, before the billionaires ruined everything. Who needs 30 different types of deodorant anyway? In the glory days of the [[Soviet Union]], there was one brand, it was called “Deodorant,” and you had to wait four hours in line for it. By the time you got your hands on one, you were sweating so badly, not even the greediest billionaire’s fanciest deodorant could mask the stench. Or as I call it: The sweet smell of [[equality]]!"<ref>https://www.trumprussiaconspiracy.com/2019/01/29/bernie-sanders-and-wife-on-their-honeymoon-in-russia-singing-this-land-is-your-land-with-their-russian-comrades/</ref><ref>https://medium.com/the-haven/bernie-sanders-reminisces-about-honeymoon-in-soviet-union-bcbe3537e06c</ref>}} Vladimir Putin commented on the glory days of the Soviet Union:
{{quotebox-float|"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."}}

====Guantanamo Bay====
:{{See also|Guantanamo Bay}}
For all it's moralizing, when the Democratic party enjoyed a veto-proof Congress and the occupied the White House, they refused to override a Presidential declaration of a national emergency, cut off funding and shut down the alleged [[human rights]] abuses occurring at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Suddenly the issue became "too complex," after years of demagoguery.

===115th Congress===
:{{See also|115th United States Congress|Left-wing violence in the Trump era|Kavanaugh hearings insurrection}}

====Democrat IT scandal====
:{{Main article|Democrat IT scandal}}
On February 2, 2017 ''Politico'' reported 5 House IT staffers, including 3 brothers later identified as Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan, were relieved of access to House computers and had been under criminal investigation since late 2016.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-staffers-investigation-equipment-234586</ref> The brothers managed office information technology for Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee handling matters on war and [[terrorism]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/exclusive-house-intelligence-it-staffers-fired-in-computer-security-probe/#ixzz4b5enE6c9</ref> Imran Awan worked for ex-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz,<ref>https://observer.com/2017/02/imran-awan-democrat-debbie-wasserman-schultz-criminal-investigation/</ref> had access to her iPad and password,<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/09/suspect-in-house-it-security-probe-also-had-access-to-dnc-emails/n</ref> took $100,000 in cash from an [[Iraq]]i company,<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/20/exclusive-house-dem-it-guys-in-security-probe-secretly-took-100k-in-iraqi-money/</ref> and was a suspect in the [[leak]]ing of DNC emails to Wikileaks. Despite verbose allegations of "Russian hacking," the DNC never allowed the FBI to examine its servers to determine if indeed the DNC had been hacked, or did the leaks come from an inside source.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/09/suspect-in-house-it-security-probe-also-had-access-to-dnc-emails/</ref> The suspects may have been involved in a leak of information that lead to the ambush and death of Navy SEAL William Ryan Owen.<ref>http://www.americanow.com/story/society/2017/02/06/muslim-spy-ring-linked-navy-seals-death</ref> Furthermore, because the suspects were [[Muslim]],<ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-01/house-democrats-delayed-dismissal-it-staff-hackers-because-they-were-muslim-american</ref> their activities were covered up and they were not fired until after the death of Owen. Even then, they were initially relieved of duties without their names being released, two weeks later fired,<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-staff-criminal-investigation-234714</ref> and three weeks after that in a series of press leaks identified as prime suspects in what the media called the "Russian hacking" scandal.

On May 18, 2017, Wasserman Schultz threatened the Capital police chief for impounding evidence in the [[Awan investigation]]. The Awan brothers were former IT specialists working for Wasserman Schultz with access to DNC data, and for House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/05/24/wasserman-schultz-threatened-police-chief-for-gathering-evidence-on-her-it-staffers-alleged-crimes/</ref>

On May 24, 2017, federal prosecutor Beranton J. Whisenant Jr. was found murdered in Florida with a bullet in his head.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/beranton-whisenant-jr-federal-prosecutor-found-dead-on-florida-beach/</ref><ref>http://www.wptv.com/news/state/federal-prosecutor-beranton-j-whisenant-jr-found-dead-on-hollywood-florida-beach</ref><ref>http://yournewswire.com/voter-fraud-investigator-murdered/</ref><ref>https://steemit.com/chainbb-general/@stevescoins/additional-information-possibly-connected-to-the-whisenant-murder</ref> Curiously, the local police handled the investigation. Ordinarily, in the murder of a federal official, the FBI should investigate.<ref>http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article152629589.html</ref> Whisenant's body was found on a beach in the home congressional district that Wasserman Schultz represents in Congress.

===116th Congress===
[[File:Dnc-tweet-july-4th-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The Official Twitter account of the [[Democrat Party]] made a post alleging that a [[4th of July]] celebration was "[[white supremacy]]".<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/29/rubicon-crossed-dnc-official-2020-position-celebrating-july-4th-equals-white-supremacy/</ref>]]
:{{See also|116th United States Congress}}
====U.S. Color Revolution====
{{See also|U.S. Color Revolution}}

===Biden putsch===
:{{See also|Democrat election fraud|Biden Putsch}}
At 2:30 AM EDT of the 4th of November 2020, TV broadcasts reported that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada and Georgia decided to cease vote counting operations and would continue the following day. This unanimous decision to initially and intentionally stop counting by all five battleground states was unprecedented, and it demonstrates prior coordination by election officials for time to assess how many ballots were needed to manufacture and stuff the ballot box in battleground states.

====Biden junta====

:{{See also|Sedition|}}
As of November 2020 [[Peter Neffenger]] was chairman of the [[corrupt]] [[voter fraud|ballot-stuffing]] and [[election fraud|election-rigging]] [[Dominion Voting Systems#Smartmatic|SmartMatic]] corporation.<ref>https://www.smartmatic.com/us/about/board-of-directors/detail/peter-neffenger/</ref> Neffenger was appointed to the [[Biden junta]] organizational team.<ref>https://www.air.tv/watch?v=ir00pXx9QsKbvSdjsCy3nQ</ref>

Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia,<ref>https://cybersummitusa.com/2017/06/navid-nia/</ref> with 35 years experience performing technical assessment, mathematical modeling, cyber-attack pattern analysis, and
security [[counterintelligence]] linked to foreign intelligence service operators, including [[China]], [[Iran]], [[North Korea]], and [[Russia]] and who has worked as a consultant and subject-matter expert supporting the [[Department of Defense]], [[FBI]] and US [[Intelligence Community]] (USIC) agencies such as the [[DIA]], [[CIA]], [[NSA]], NGA [National Geospatial Agency], and the [[DHS]] I&A [Office of Intelligence and Analysis] supporting counterintelligence, and [[law enforcement]] investigations and whom the ''[[New York Times]]'' describes as the "always the smartest person in the room,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/sunday/garrison-courtney-spies-contracts.html</ref> testified under oath Smartmatic and its role in the [[2020 Presidential election]] thusly:
{{quotebox-float|"In my expert opinion, the DVS [ [[Dominion Voting Systems]] ] Democracy Suite, [[Scytl]]/SOE Software/eClarity and Smartmatic have not produced auditable results in the 2020 election. It is evident that ballots were not properly validated, system records were not kept, and the system experience considerable instability even several days prior to November 4, 2020 that require DVS to implement software changes at the last minute. In addition, the disparity in data distribution after 4:30 AM on November 4, 2020 indicates significant systemic anomalies that were widespread among all battleground states. The evidence is both extensive and persuasive and indicates large-scale [[fraud]] by remote operators.

"I conclude that a combination of lost cryptographic key contained on stolen USB memory cards, serious exploitable system and [[software]] vulnerabilities and operating system backdoor in DVS, Scytl, SOE Software/eClarity and Smartmatic created the perfect environment to commit widespread fraud in all states where these systems are installed. My analysis of the 2020 Election from ''NY Times'' data shows statistical anomalies across the battleground state votes. These failures are widespread and systemic - and sufficient to invalidate the [[vote]] counts.

"I conclude with high confidence that the election 2020 data were altered in all [[swing states|battleground states]] resulting in a hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for [[President Trump]] to be transferred to [[Vice President Biden]]. These alterations were the result of systemic and widespread exploitable vulnerabilities in DVS, Scytl/SOE Software and Smartmatic systems that enabled operators to achieve
the desired results. In my view, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible."<ref>https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.1.19.pdf</ref>}}

====Foreign collusion====
On September 12, 2018, by President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 13848 entitled, “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.”<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/</ref> In that executive order President Trump declared a national emergency and the 2020 presidential election was conducted under this state of emergency. The order states that people and organizations located, in part, outside the [[United States]] are known to be able to, {{quotebox|“interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of [[election]] and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of [[propaganda]] and [[disinformation]].” The EO further states that this foreign interference in U.S. elections, “constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the [[national security]] and [[foreign policy]] of the United States.”}}
Di Dongsheng, a vice-dean at the School of International Relations at Renmin University in Beijing, made public statements before a large audience on November 28, 2020:
{{Quotebox-float|"We know that the Trump administration is in a trade war with us, so why can’t we fix the Trump administration? Why did China and the US used to be able to settle all kinds of issues between 1992 and 2016?" he asked. "I’m going to throw out something maybe a little bit explosive here. It’s just because we have people at the top. We have our old friends who are at the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence."

"During the US-China trade war, [[Wall Street]] tried to help, and I know that my friends on the US side told me that they tried to help, but they couldn’t do much. But now we’re seeing Biden was elected, the traditional elite, the political elite, the establishment, they’re very close to Wall Street, so you see that, right?"

"Trump has been saying that Biden’s son has some sort of global foundation. Have you noticed that? Who helped [Hunter] build the foundations? Got it? There are a lot of deals inside all these."<ref>[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/12/08/top_chinese_intellectual_boasts_about_old_friends_who_are_at_the_top_of_americas_core_inner_circle_of_power_and_influence.html#! Chinese Scholar Boasts About "Old Friends At The Top Of America's Core Inner Circle Of Power And Influence"], December 8, 2020. realclearpoitics.com</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/lyQUtPEBBSA</ref><ref>https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-tucker-carlson-exposes-how-media-democrats-have-been-working-on-behalf-of-china/</ref>}}

==Symbols==
[[Image:HammerAndSickle.png|right|100px|thumb|Displaying the hammer and sickle is illegal in some parts of the world because of its [[genocidal]] history.]]
The most common symbol for the party is the donkey, although the party itself never officially adopted this symbol.<ref>[http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/06/history_of_the.php History of the Democratic Donkey].</ref> Some historians suggest the jackass was born 1828 when Jackson was sometimes called a jackass by his opponents as a play on his name. A political cartoon depicting Jackson riding and directing a donkey (representing the Democratic Party) was published in 1837. A political cartoon by [[Thomas Nast]] in 1870 revived the donkey as a symbol for the Democratic Party. Cartoonists ever since have followed Nast and used the donkey to represent the Democrats, and the elephant to represent the Republicans.

In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in many states was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican eagle.

There is no official color, but since election night 2000 blue has become the identification color of the Democratic Party for maps, while the red has become the color of the Republicans. Increasingly blue is used by Democrats for promotions (e.g. BuyBlue, BlueFund) and by the party itself, which in 2006 unveiled the "Red to Blue Program" to support Democratic candidates running against Republican incumbents in the 2006 midterm election.

The song ''Happy Days Are Here Again'' is the unofficial song of the Democratic Party. It was used prominently when Roosevelt was nominated for president at the 1932 Democratic National Convention and remains a sentimental favorite for Democrats today. During the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] era, the Fleetwood Mac song "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" became a popular song at Democratic events, reflecting the growing prominence of Baby Boomers in the party.

Some critics refer to the group disparagingly as the [[Democrat Party]].
==Misinformation==
The Democratic Party official website claims that it has "led the fight for civil rights, health care, Social Security, workers’ rights, and women's rights" for over 200 years.<ref>https://democrats.org/who-we-are/our-history/</ref> Not only were all three Reconstruction Amendments approved and ratified during a time when both houses of Congress were Republican-majority,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38th_United_States_Congress</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_United_States_Congress</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_United_States_Congress</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_United_States_Congress</ref> as well as the Nineteenth (giving women the right to vote),<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/66th_United_States_Congress</ref> but the Democratic Party was founded in 1828, making their website's statement incorrect until January 8, 2028.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)</ref>

==Democratic Presidents==
* [[Andrew Jackson]] (1829–1837)
* [[Martin Van Buren]] (1837–1841)
* [[James K. Polk]] (1845–1849)
* [[Franklin Pierce]] (1853–1857)
* [[James Buchanan]] (1857–1861)
* [[Grover Cleveland]] (1885–1889, 1893–1897)
* [[Woodrow Wilson]] (1913–1921)
* [[Franklin Roosevelt]] (1933–1945)
* [[Harry S Truman]] (1945–1953)
* [[John F. Kennedy]] (1961–1963)
* [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (1963–1969)
* [[Jimmy Carter]] (1977–1981)
* [[Bill Clinton]] (1993–2001)
* [[Barack Obama]] (2009–2017)
* [[Joe Biden]] (2021–present) (disputed)

==See also==
*[[Racism and the Democratic Party]]
*[[Fifth Column]]
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Essay:Greatest Conservative Video Games

2022-08-15T01:44:33Z

Theocon: /* Debatable whether Conservative */Fixed typo

Although the video game industry by and large is liberal, there have been instances of video games promoting conservative values.

==Artifex Mundi==
This small studio mostly works on mobile games, but their PC title ''Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka With Love'' is a very funny take on young and naïve people fiercely promoting socialism/communism.

The point-and-click game takes place in 1951 during the Cold War and portrays a young journalist, Evan, who defends Matryoshka's communist regime and its dictator, a clear parallel with the USSR, in any opportunity. He is then sent to Matryoshka and gets involved in a tale of espionage while experiencing the communist regime and slowly coming to terms with reality. As an example, when he sees a bread line in the beginning of his adventure, he somehow spins that as a positive thing, in the sense of "how the supreme leader is feeding all his people". A must-play for young teenagers who are flirting with leftist ideologies.

==Axis Entertainment==
This India-based gaming studio produces child-friendly, free games (sponsored by ads which are targeted toward their audience's parents).

Their main offering is the '''[[Baby Hazel]]''' game series. The title character is a two-year-old female toddler, featured doing positive activities (taking care of her newborn brother Matt, fixing food in the kitchen with her mother) and learning positive traits (manners, hygiene). The family is portrayed as a traditional nuclear family (father, mother, Hazel, and baby brother Matt) along with extended family, various friends and pets. One offering features Earth Day, but portrayed in a neutral manner to show care for the environment without getting into liberal traits. Many of the offerings feature Hazel saying prayers, not usually seen in secular video games.

However, the graphics are very simplistic and the games are known to have glitches in them; if a level is frozen the entire game must be restarted from the beginning (though there are only four levels in each game). Also being a foreign company the games do not feature proper English grammar (either American or British).

==Ubisoft==
*Watchdogs: Despite coming from the ultra-liberal video game company Ubisoft, the game Watch Dogs has several Conservative messages, namely those of pro-family, anti-crime, and anti-big government. However, its sequel qualified as liberal.
*Assassin's Creed Unity: Despite it coming from the ultra-liberal video game company Ubisoft as well as the liberal ''Assassin's Creed'' video game franchise, the game's plot specifically condemned the French Revolution and its adherents, with various notable figures of the French Revolution and Reign of Terror being targets for assassination.
*''Rainbow Six'' series: Based on the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, it deals with a special forces unit dealing with terrorists worldwide.
*''Ghost Recon'' series: Like with Rainbow Six, it deals with a special forces unit combating terrorists.

==Koei-Tecmo==
*''Dead or Alive'' series: The fighting game franchise had several conservative messages. One of which was pro-family, as the main character, Kasumi, joined the Dead or Alive tournament specifically to avenge her brother when he ended up critically injured by her uncle, and Kasumi, despite being on the run from her clan due to her technically violating their laws to do so, ultimately wants to return to her clan and family someday throughout the series, and in Dead or Alive 4, 5, and Dimensions, Ayane eventually managed to put aside her murderous jealousy against her half-sister and try to aid her. Similarly, Hayate, her brother, is also reluctant to kill his sister, despite the law mandating it, and their mother, Ayame, also stops Ayane (who was an illegitimate child due to Raidou, the uncle of Hayate and Kasumi who was responsible for the former's injury, having previously raped Ayame) from committing suicide and specifically stated not to kill Kasumi specifically because she was family, which was stronger than any Shinobi code. Similarly, in Dead or Alive 5, the character of Helena Douglas attempts to honor her deceased father's memory by restoring DOATEC to what her father Fame envisioned, and her overall character arc had her trying to avenge her deceased mother when she was murdered during a performance. In addition, the reason Helena's mother had died was because she took the bullet to save her daughter, due to said assassin, Christie, actually aiming for Helena herself during the performance. In addition, the character Hitomi in Dead or Alive 4 took control of the dojo specifically because her father had succumbed to an illness and needed money to help him and his dojo, with the character Gen-Fu having a similar motive regarding his granddaughter Mei Lin in Dead or Alive 1 and 2, entering to gain money for an operation to save her, and in Dead or Alive 3 to pay the medical bills, retiring only after she was fully cured and he fully paid off the debt and spending time with her afterward. Helena Douglas is also depicted as a Christian as well as depicted in a more positive light. In addition, even though it was a Japanese-created game series, it is also notable as featuring a surprisingly pro-American message in the form of the Armstrongs, as their patriotism was depicted in a positive light, and the character Tina was depicted as also trying to follow through with the American Dream. Also has an anti-cloning message, as the villainous DOATEC (and later, MIST) created various clones of Kasumi, with all of them being depicted as either villains (Alpha Kasumi, later known as Alpha-152) or victims (Phase 4). There is also a slight condemnation against feminism in Dead or Alive 5, as Tina tells Mila that "pretty girls shouldn't fight." On a related note, similar to Isabelle in ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'' below, one of the expansions for ''Dead or Alive 5'', ''Last Round'', featured the debut of the character Honoka, who is depicted as being very positive and eager, and is the antithesis of a modern feminist.

==Konami==
*Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: Although it was part of the liberal ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series, and also gave some hints at promoting the concept of [[Globalism]] and also relativism (and to a lesser extent nihilism) via The Boss's philosophy, the game's overall message was surprisingly conservative, emphasizing a promotion of patriotism in a (in comparison to the rest of the series at least) positive light throughout most of the game, and also featuring the Soviet Union and Communism in general in a more negative light, including depicting the main villain, Colonel Volgin, in a truly villainous and horrific light, as well as referencing several real-life [[war crimes]] conducted by the USSR such as the [[Katyn Massacre|massacre at Katyn Forest]] during World War II (including making clear that the Soviets, in particular Volgin, was responsible for the event, not the Nazis which was even referenced in-game, as well as making explicitly clear that [[Joseph Stalin]] had ordered for the massacre by the NKVD in the first place, as well as similar massacres within the Ukraine and [[Kurapaty|Western Belarus]] as well as it resulting in at least 24,000 deaths including the mass grave discovered by the Wehrmacht near Gnezdovo village), the massacres during the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|Hungarian Revolution in 1956]] as well as the [[Uprising of East Germany in 1953|uprising in East Germany]] on June 17, 1953. It also to a certain extent attempts to promote American values (especially in comparison to most entries in the series prior to and after that game). In addition, the man trying to defect from the Soviet Union to America in the beginning of the game, Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, is shown in a sympathetic light and was also shown to be a family man, as when defecting to the United States and trying to cross the Iron Curtain, he made clear that he won't leave without his family, and late in the game, when acknowledging he probably won't be able to go to America, he has Naked Snake swear to take care of his family for him. In addition, it has a slight anti-homosexual agenda message due to the character Major Raikov alongside the main villain Volgin being strongly implied to be in a homosexual relationship, and neither character being depicted in a positive or sympathetic light. Also, contrary to most Cold War-related storylines which usually downplays Soviet involvement in various third-world conflicts such as Vietnam, it is made explicitly clear that the Soviets played a huge role in various uprisings within the third world, with radio conversations dealing with various weapons making very clear that the Soviets had involvement in South Vietnam, in the Malaysia Emergency, and that they even devised various traps specifically to be adopted by any communist allies in third world regions and were researching various traps within the Soviet Union via one of the key locations in the game. Volgin's main plan for the Shagohod also involved mass-producing it for the Eastern Bloc and then using it as bait to ferment uprisings against "dictators, ethnic insurgents, and revolutionary groups" throughout the third world, which not only acts as further confirmation of Soviet communism's involvement in the third world uprisings, but also hints at Volgin planning on engineering revolts against the USSR while he is in control of it, alluding to how various Communist ideologues often tried to instigate revolts even when firmly in power (owing to Karl Marx's advocating that the communists upon assuming power be obliged to reenact Robespierre's Reign of Terror).
**Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops: Like ''Snake Eater'' above, it also attempts to invoke patriotism in a more positive light, and the main villains are explicitly shown to try and invoke nihilism, anti-American commentary as well as promoting class warfare at one point (citing a growing gap between the rich and poor during a speech midway through the game). It also has a condemnation against Soviet policies, as a large part of the reason why the personnel of a missile base in Colombia (who were of Soviet origin) ended up turning to Gene's cause was out of revenge for essentially being cut off from the Soviet brass due to the events of Détente in order for the Soviets to place the blame on "out-of-control soldiers" in the event the base was discovered, and when the Soviet personnel ultimately did aid Snake in stopping the possible nuclear launch against the Soviet Union, it is solely due to the Soviet Union being their homeland and not out of any love for its policies. Similar to ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', it makes clear that the Soviets were also heavily involved in the actions of various liberation fronts in the third world, as the reason the Soviets had the missile base in Colombia in the first place was because the Soviets had been aiding the [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia|FARC]] communist rebel group in the backstory, and the character Frank Jaegar, aka, Null, had formerly been a member of the communist-backed FREMILO, with Big Boss being implied to have aided the Portuguese Soldiers during the Mozambician Civil War.
*Contra series: Pro-military and Pro-American. American heroes fight against villainous organizations and alien invaders.
*Castlevania series: Various members of the Belmont Clan, implied to be Christian (in Castlevania II, Simon Belmont restores his HP by visiting a church, in Castlevania III, Trevor Belmont kneels before a Cross in the intro, and in the Nintendo 64 version of the game, the character Reinhardt Schneider is seen making the trinity prayer gesture ["in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit"] in the beginning of his scenario, and when comforting Rosa, offers her last rites.) fight against the occult forces of Count Dracula.

==Play Mechanix Inc.==
*[[Big Buck Hunter]] series: Pro-hunting arcade game series.

==Electronic Arts==
*Battlefield series: Similarly to the Call of Duty series, it tends to promote American values as well as being pro-military. However its recent title Battlfield V betrays its fanbase for the sake of being woke. Allowing for female soldiers even though it historicaly inacurate for non russian female soldiers in WW2. The game has also made "white men" a swear word.
*Medal of Honor series: Like above, it tends to promote American values as well as being pro-military. Although the series mostly deals with the events of [[World War II]], two of the more recent games deal with the [[War in Afghanistan]].
*Command And Conquer series: A military real-time strategy series divided into three sub-series: ''Tiberium, Red Alert'' and ''Generals''. The ''Tiberium'' series, however, promotes globalism but at the same time, condemns religious extremism. The latter two are more conservative and pro-American, with ''Red Alert'' fighting against Soviet communism and ''Generals'' fighting against Islamic extremism.

==Nintendo==
*''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series: Similar in vein to stories such as ''Lord of the Rings'', ''Beowulf'', and ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', the games detail a classic message of good fighting evil, and also featured implicit Christian themes in the series (in fact, until the third game, the religion of the people in the games was supposed to be Christianity, hence the cross on Link's Shield in the first game). The main villain, Ganon, is revealed to have originally belonged to a group known as the Gerudo, who are depicted as a nearly all-female race (Ganon, or more accurately his human form Ganondorf, being the only exception) and having traits resembling Muslims, hinting at an anti-feminist/anti-Islam message. There was also a pro-family message in at least one game in the series, as one of the entries, ''Wind Waker'', featured Link trying to save his sister after she was abducted early on in the game, as well as their getting along amicably throughout.
*Radar Mission: Pro-military game based on the board game battleship, it teaches the player the art of strategy, with the story involving the player fighting against an enemy fleet and, later, an enemy airfield that is implied to be the main headquarters of the enemy. Also has an alternate game mode that deals with Submarine warfare.
*''[[Metroid]]'' series: Although largely being based on the liberal movie franchise ''Alien'', the game franchise has several conservative elements. Namely, it depicts piracy and terrorism in a negative manner in the form of the murderous Space Pirates who frequently act as the main antagonists of the franchise. The game ''Super Metroid'' also promotes parenthood in a positive light, as the main plotline of the game involved Samus Aran trying to rescue her "child", a Metroid hatchling she adopted after wiping out its race in the previous game due to it imprinting on her, from the Space Pirate forces. The Prime series also depicts the military in a positive manner in the form of the Galactic Federation Marines, and some of the Chozo Logs as well as the Luminoth also have some similarities to biblical accounts (i.e., the Worm, alluding to the titular antagonist Metroid Prime, alluding to Wormwood in the book of revelations). In addition, although the main protagonist, Samus Aran, is female, it does not promote the concept of feminism. The game ''Metroid Fusion'' also showcases the warnings of playing god and government corruption.
*''[[Punch-Out!!]]'' series: Pro-American dream, as the player, as Little Mac, a rookie boxer from New York, has to fight to the championship to acquire the title of world champion of boxing.
* ''Cooking Mama'' series: A charming cooking series that utilizes the mechanics of the games system's mechanics to teach cooking. Does favor traditional gender roles with the title character, Mama, an enthusiastic chef/stay-at-home mother. This series was "parodied" by [[PETA]] (The parody game is subtitled ''Mama Kills Animals''!) due to the series including meat-based recipes, but the developers, Majesco, exploited the frenetic attention that PETA was gaining with such gore. The series started in 2006 and has been steady releasing games, the most recent being a mobile app game called ''Cooking Mama: Let's Cook!''

==''Paranoid Productions''==
*''The Church In The Darkness'': The game's premise deals with a preacher infiltrating a cult to save their nephew. The antagonistic cult is heavily implied to be based on the cult led by the infamous [[Jim Jones]]. Aside from it condemning the socialist elements as well as being pro-traditional christianity and pro-family, it also has a condemnation of [[social justice warrior]] elements, as the game repeatedly refers to the antagonistic cult as "collective justice warriors."<ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/08/the-church-in-the-darkness-gameplay-walkthrough/90218/</ref>

==Sega==
*''Streets of Rage'' series: An anti-crime and anti-gang series in which former police officers fight against a crime syndicate run by a "Mr. X."

==SNK==
*''Metal Slug'' series: Pro-military and pro-American, deals with the main characters trying to fight terrorists of various stripes.
*''Iron Tank'': Unlike its predecessor ''Guerilla War'', this involved an American tank commando trying to take down the Nazis, and is blatantly pro-American.

==Synergestic Software==
*''Super Battleship'': Pro-military strategy game based on the board game Battleship. In addition to the standard game, there is also a story-based mode that has you dealing with several military operations and fighting against enemy fleets (implied by the eagle on the flag to be the Nazis). Teaches the player about the art of strategy.

==Pterodon/Illusion Software==
*''Vietcong'': Promotes American forces in a positive light, and, despite the title of the game, the Vietcong are depicted as villains in this. Overall promotes the [[Vietnam War]].

==Square-Enix==
*''Final Fantasy:'' The first game in the franchise has a simple tale of Good vs. Evil.
*''Final Fantasy IV:'' Promotes the concept of redemption, and showcases a clear message of good vs. evil.

==Capcom==
*''194X'' series: Despite being made by the Japanese developer Capcom, this series of scrolling shooters has the player playing as and American Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighting in the Pacific War.
*''Devil May Cry'' Series: Has messages about stopping demonic forces of hell and protecting humanity/having a heart with pro-family themes throughout the 5 games.
*''Mega Man ZX'' series: Has a significant condemnation of [[Social Darwinism]] in the form of Serpent and Master Albert, and also has a condemnation of homosexuality in the form of Rospark the Floroid. Also depicts terrorism in a very negative light.
*Final Fight: Pro-family and anti-crime. Metro City's new mayor, Mike Haggar, vows to get tough on crime. In response, the city's infamous "Mad Gear" gang kidnaps Haggar's daughter, Jessica and demands that he "just let us do what we want to like the old mayor did," implying that the old mayor was in collusion with the Mad Gears. Mike Haggar, Jessica's boyfriend Cody, and Cody's friend Guy take to the streets and fight through the Mad Gear gang to rescue Jessica. The ending shows Mike embracing his daughter, comforting her after her traumatic experience with him saying "I thought I'd lose you the way I lost your mother" and Jessica responding "I love you, Daddy."

==Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.==
*''Ace Combat 04:Shattered Skies'': Pro-military and has the player fighting against a fictional fascist regime. The last mission has heavy Christian symbolism. Megalith, a superweapon designed to alter the course of asteroids to any target on Earth, has been activated by rogue military officers, and has the weapon direct asteroids to the continent. The falling of the asteroids images one of the events in the Book of Revelations. The mission to destroy Megalith symbolizes the sacrifice of Jesus: the superweapon itself is shaped like a crucifix (a symbol of death), Megalith is a stone used to sacrifice animals and to create tombs. To destroy Megalith, the player has to fly inside the superweapon and destroy the generators and missiles inside. This symbolizes Jesus sacrificing his life as the Lamb of God to save mankind from their sins as the player is "sacrificing" his life to stop the asteroids killing civilians. Indeed, the background music is a repeated Latin chorus which is translated as:

''Lamb of God,
''who take away the sins of the world
''Grant them rest.

The destruction of the superweapon by the player symbolizes the defeat of death by Christ, with the AWACS officer remarking, "Heroes really do exist. We've just seen one, and now he's coming home." As he says this, sunlight breaks through the clouds, and the player flies towards them as he returns to base, symbolizing Christ's Ascension.

==Rockstar==
*''L.A. Noir'': Despite being made by Rockstar, L.A. Noir places the character in the role of a detective rather than a criminal. The player investigates murders and collects evidence, interrogates witnesses and suspects while chasing down criminals. The player also has the option of stopping street crime during the game at random intervals. L.A. Noir stresses using intelligence and insight to solve crimes rather than commit them as done in other games. This is the only Rockstar game which doesn't use violence except in the furtherance of stopping a crime against an innocent party. The player is rewarded for capturing a suspect rather than appealing to violence as a first consideration.

==Paradox Interactive==
* ''Crusader Kings III'': This is a Role-playing game that takes place during the [[Medieval Age]] in Europe, North [[Africa]], and the [[Middle East]]. This period is famous for its piousness and devotion to the principles of God, as in opposition to the values of sin. It also promotes true conservative values like fighting [[Islam]] and converting the religion of heathens.
* ''Hearts of Iron 4'': This is a World War Two era strategy game that features very complex gameplay. The game was attacked by the [[CCP]] for it's accurate depiction of [[Tibet]], [[Manchuria]], and [[East Turkestan]] as independent countries before the Chinese invasions of each. The game's ''Man the Guns'' expansion was also heavily criticized for its accurate depiction of [[Democratic Socialism]] as a buzzword for [[communism]]. ''Hearts of Iron 4'' also features a positive depiction of [[Catholics]] and a negative depiction of [[Atheists]]. The game also recognizes Communism and Fascism as having the same inherent government form, [[Totalitarianism]]. ''Hearts of Iron 4'' was attacked by the leftist site [[Kotuku]] for allowing a player made modification that featured a positive depiction of [[Christianity]] and a negative depiction of [[Islamic Terrorism]].

==Mojang==
*''Minecraft'': [[Minecraft]] was created by a lone computer programmer, outside of any major studio (a [[best of the public]] approach to game development), and later sold to Microsoft for $1 Billion. The game could probably be best described as an electronic form of Lego but vastly more complex. Game play is very simple, the player is dropped into a randomly generated world and must mine resources and craft tools and other items. Despite the simplicity of play the game can be used to create extremely complex circuitry and other types of constructions. The game contains no violence (outside of occasionally battling cartoonish enemies during the night hours), no swearing or sex. The game is hugely popular and has a dedicated following proving games do not have to be violent to be popular. Minecraft also has an education pack which is used to teach children about science, history, biology and other subjects<ref>https://education.minecraft.net/class-resources/lessons/</ref>

==Rocksteady Studios==
*''Batman: Arkham'' series: In these games the player plays as Batman to defeat enemies like The Joker, Poison Ivy, Bane and other villains from the the Batman universe. The game stresses no violence and preferring players to use their wits to hide and stalk enemies rather than engaging in immediate violence. While you do need to defeat enemies physically in many circumstances Batman never kills anyone - preferring to knock enemies out and leave them to be captured by police. Also portrays capitalism in a positive light, due to Lucius Fox being a frequent ally in ''Arkham Knight'' and to a lesser extent ''Arkham City''.

==Debatable whether Conservative==
===Indie/Small Developers===
• Undertale: On one hand, it teaches the importance of core Christian values such as mercy and compassion by discouraging killing characters, and instead solving conflicts non-violently. On the other hand, it involves homosexual and bisexual relationships, some of which may involve the player character (who is 12 years of age) depending on what dialogue choices the player makes.

• Dust An Elysian Tail: as the game was developed by a devout Christian couple, it has a significant amount of religious messages such as redemption, forgiveness and even hints to incarnation. The main characters combat against the genocidal tyrant whose views are comparable to the German Nazism and Japanese Militarism. In addition, the main developer personally thanks God Himself in the final credits of the game, calling him "everloving". It is worth noting that the game may scare away some conservatives with its (albeit very high-quality) furry art style, even though the developers themselves are not part of the infamous furry community.

===Capcom===
*Resident Evil series: The games generally have a subtle anti-capitalist and anti-American agenda (with one of the protagonists in ''Resident Evil 3: Nemesis'', Carlos, being a communist rebel according to the game's Japanese version, and some versions of ''Resident Evil 5'' have a secret conversation between the game's protagonists, Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar, where the former denounces America due to it being capitalist.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA-aH1K_zBU</ref>). However, it also has a condemnation against social Darwinism and eugenics, as most of the main villains in the franchise tended to promote some form of eugenics as well as social Darwinism as their motives. In addition, one of the protagonists, Barry Burton, was implied in the English localization to be a member of the [[National Rifle Association]], and the games also to some extent featured pro-family messaging, as Barry Burton was shown to be very loyal to his family, and the character Claire Redfield is depicted as being loyal to her brother Chris, spending Resident Evil 2 trying to find him and in Code Veronica refuses to allow Albert Wesker to harm him. The games also showcase government corruption in a scarily realistic and negative light in the form of Albert Wesker (who was a former police officer in the first ''Resident Evil'') and Brian Irons (the police chief for the Raccoon City Police Department in ''Resident Evil 2''). Resident Evil 4 also has a condemnation against pagan religions in the form of the Los Illuminados (which is Spanish for "The Enlightened Ones", and may subtly condemn the Illuminati), and the game ''Umbrella Chronicles'' has a possible negative depiction of Communism, or at the very least Soviet-style communism, as one of the main antagonists of that game, Sergei Vladimir, is depicted as an unrepentant former Soviet soldier who in one of the in-game files is strongly implied to have ultimately desired the restoration of the Soviet state.
*''Dead Rising 2'' and ''Dead Rising 2: Off the Record'': Although it has largely the same plotline as in the first ''Dead Rising'', it also to some extent is pro-family, due to the main character trying to save his daughter from infection. In addition, unlike the first or third main entries to the series, the hidden antagonist is not a military person, but instead a former rapper and TV executive who orchestrated the entire outbreak to boost ratings as well as steal wealth, acting as a subtle condemntation to [[Hollywood values]].

===Electronic Arts===
*The Sims (and sequels): Promotes conservative values such as marriage, hard work, the raising of children, law and order, [[capitalism]], and private property ownership<ref>In the SimCity spinoff, the player is expected to build a city, which requires such.</ref>, but it also promotes other things that are anti-conservative, such as homosexual relationships and extramarital sexual relationships, and also has an implicit anti-military message due to there being negative aspects included with building military bases.<ref>In the SimCity spinoff, one option is a military base, but doing so comes with "higher crime" requiring increased police presence.</ref>. An afterlife exists in the game, but not in a Christian sense. The game was created by an [[atheist]].

===Frontier Developments===
*''Jurassic World Evolution'': A spiritual sequel to ''Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis'' from 2001, this game takes the player across the Muerto Archipelago - a chain of tropical islands off the coast of Costa Rica - as they build dinosaur parks for the public. In a way, it promotes capitalism, showing that the park cannot operate without money, requiring the player to build shops, complete contracts to earn rewards, and create fully-cloned dinosaurs to bring in more money and build up the parks. On the other hand, it also promotes the pro-cloning message from the films ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' and ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'', though Ian Malcolm from the movies does warn the player about the consequences of creating dinosaurs. Three DLCS include "The Secrets of Dr. Wu", "Claire's Sanctuary", and "Return to Jurassic Park", as well as having different upgrades and new dinosaurs added with them. A sequel called ''Jurassic World Evolution 2'' was released in November 2021, taking place after the events of ''Fallen Kingdom''.
*''Jurassic World Evolution 2'': The 2021 sequel to ''Jurassic World Evolution''- which itself is a spiritual sequel to 2001's ''Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis'' - takes the player to different biomes across the United States of America as they build dinosaur parks for the public. It takes place after the film ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'', which starts the age of dinosaurs living alongside mankind. Like its predecessor, it promotes capitalism, showing that the park cannot operate without money, requiring the player to build shops, complete contracts to earn rewards, and create fully-cloned dinosaurs to bring in more money and build up the parks. On the other hand, it also promotes the pro-cloning message from the films ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' and ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'', though Ian Malcolm from the movies does warn the player about the consequences of creating dinosaurs.

===Koei Tecmo===
*''Dead or Alive 6'': The game features some left wing elements (presumably due to some bullying by the higher-ups such as Tom Lee and Yohei Shimbori), including having Tina imply at one point that one of her goals as governor was to implement big government policies in a conversation with Zack, and the new character Diego is implied to be a socialist due to his bitterly inferring the tournament only exists to "entertain rich people". However, some of the more conservative elements from the games was still retained such as the pro-family messaging (Ryu Hayabusa while sparring with Hayate assures him that his sister Kasumi was safe, referring to an ambush by MIST on her life earlier that Hayabusa stopped, Helena making clear that Kokoro's the only family she has left when the latter was about to leave over the revelation that the two are half-sisters, and Diego's concern for his implied terminally ill mother. In addition, the final battle of the game has Kasumi, Ayane, and Hayate confronting their revived murderous uncle (and in Ayane's case, illegitimate father), Raidou, with Ayane's involvement being implied to be due to wanting to avenge her newly-discovered paternal half-sister, Honoka, who was left in critical condition due to her as well as Ayane being forcibly used by NiCO to revive him.). In addition, the game also has a condemnation of infidelity, as one of the lore bits implied that Helena's and Kokoro's father's womanizing habits is ultimately part of the reason he got killed. There's also a statement against the [[Idea of Progress]] philosophy, as the character NiCO embodies this philosophy regarding her use of unethical experiments, and Helena after NiCO was revealed to have attempted to revive her murdered mother Maria calls her out on it, even explicitly stating that even if science were to find a way to revive the dead, something like that should not ever be embraced.
*''Dead or Alive Xtreme'' series: A beach vacation spinoff for the ''Dead or Alive'' series. The ''Xtreme'' games include some softcore elements such as a pole dancing minigame as well as girls being implied to change in front of the player in ''Xtreme 3'', and it does feature some gambling. One of the characters, Kanna, also is a Japanese Oni and resembles a demon. However, series creator Tomonobu Itagaki indicated his primary intent for the game was merely to have the characters enjoying a vacation, not necessarily to promote softcore elements. In addition, regarding the game ''Xtreme Venus Vacation'', although the character Tamaki is heavily implied to be bisexual as well as an alcoholic, her more girl-obsessed and lewd elements were not treated in a particularly positive light based on the other girls being wary of her when interacting with her as well as Helena, her closest acquaintance, admitting that was a frequent problem of Tamaki's. The game also has a condemnation of feminism as well, as the character Nagisa was shown to initially have distaste for the Owner partly via feminist rhetoric, though she gradually changes her views on the Owner during her character arc. Three of the characters in that game, Fiona (who is heavily implied to be a Princess from Europe, presumably Great Britain due to comments made by her regarding schools having morning and noon tea times as well as modeling a swimsuit after the Christmas Tree Fairy.), Sayuri (a Japanese nurse), and Koharu (a Japanese girl who aspires to become an innkeeper due to her family background) are also depicted in a traditionally feminine manner. The games also retain the more pro-family elements from the original to a certain extent, as ''Xtreme 2'' had Ayane arriving at the island while going after Kasumi, with the implication being that she wished to patch things up with her half-sister, and both Kasumi and Ayane as well as Helena and Kokoro were shown to get along very well (with it also being heavily implied that Kokoro wished to have a long chat with Helena regarding their half-sibling status in one episode), and part of Nagisa's reasons for participating in the festival was in part to help her sister Misaki. In addition, the concept of chivalry is promoted, as you lose bonding points if you peek too soon during the aforementioned clothes changing element or gifting the girls any lewd outfits, and the owner of the island a few times refuses to take advantage of several girls even when he had the upper hand (for instance, not taking advantage of a drunken Tamaki in one episode, and forfeiting a poker game despite having the winning hand in order to avoid forcing Monica to strip per the pre-established rules of the game in another episode). The game ''Xtreme Venus Vacation'' also has an implicit promotion of capitalism, as Misaki when describing the objective of the owner of the island explicitly states that he needs to turn the island into the ultimate beach resort. The title of one of the Christmas events is also one of the few instances to explicitly reference the point of Christmas being to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ due to it being titled "Dreams of Holy Night."

===Konami===
*''Metal Gear Solid''/''Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes'': Although the first game does have condemnation towards Cloning and genetic engineering, and also has (albeit unintentionally) a pro-life/anti-abortion message due to Liquid Snake, when describing the process of the Les Enfants Terribles' creation, in particular its use of abortion to encourage fetal growth, explicitly labeling it as murder (although in that case, he attributed the act of murder more to himself and his brother Solid Snake, both byproducts of the project, than to the people actually responsible for the Super Baby Method), as well as promoting the concept of redemption to some extent, and also paints terrorism in an appropriately bad light, it at the same time is rife with anti-Americanism among both heroes and villains (although obviously not to the same extent as in later entries) as well as pushing an anti-nuclear and anti-war agenda, both of which seemed to focus more on America doing so than other countries, in particular Russia and China (specifically, the character Nastasha Romanenko, a member of NEST, spent most of her time condemning America for using nuclear weapons or even using nuclear power at all, and giving very little, if any criticism towards Russia and China for their having nukes, despite the fact that the event that caused her to hold a strong hatred for nukes, Chernobyl, having originated from within the Soviet bloc).
**''Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance'': The game does have anti-American elements per the standard of the ''Metal Gear'' franchise, with the main villain being an American politician who intended to jumpstart a war to restore America, and Raiden and Courtney also give slight references to Occupy Wall Street and their 1% rhetoric. On the other hand, it also condemns far-left ideologies such as Communism, in particular the Khmer Rouge, as one of the villains, Monsoon, was a survivor of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal actions in Cambodia, with his more villainous and amoral nature being directly derived from that event, and it also condemns nihilism via Monsoon as well. It also has a slight promotion of Capitalism, as one of Raiden's allies, a former East German scientist by the name of Wilhelm Voigt, and better known as Doktor, at one point says "Ich Liebus Capitalismus", which translated to "I Love Capitalism."

===Radical Games===
*''The Simpsons Hit and Run'': Although there are some liberal themes, such as Marge's crusade against Bonestorm-an implied violent video game-being depicted in a negative light, some characters engaging in lawlessness in a similar manner to ''Grand Theft Auto'', and one of the later chapters for the game having the main antagonists supply the townspeople with ray guns as well as tainted cola in a way that could be interpreted as supporting gun control, it also had several conservative messages, namely pro-family, as two of the chapters dealt with Lisa and Marge trying to find Bart after he went missing and trying to find out the cause behind his addled behavior, and later attempting to stop the production of Buzz Cola due to its effects on Bart, respectively, the first chapter and most of the game features a condemnation towards mass surveillance due to the presence of surveillance vans and wasp cameras and their being treated in a clear negative light, especially in a matter that isn't essential to stopping a threat, and is also anti-Hollywood values due to the main antagonists, aliens by the name of Kang and Kodos, deliberately trying to cause a ruckus in Springfield, including the aforementioned distribution of ray guns and tainted Buzz Cola to cause a shootout and later reanimating the dead via Buzz Cola, plus using the wasp cameras and surveillance vans all in an attempt to boost ratings of their reality show "Foolish Earthlings," which as the title implies deals with depicting various people of Earth, in particular Springfield, doing various stupid actions. Also has a rarity in the franchise where nuclear power is actually depicted in a positive light due to it ultimately being the only thing that stopped Kang and Kodos's alien invasion. There is also a humorous condemnation towards gun-free school zones, as during the same level that Bart has to stop the distribution of ray guns to the populace at Squidport, Principal Skinner explicitly references the no-gun policy among students at Springfield Elementary when confiscating Bart's ray gun, despite Bart making clear he only needed the gun to supply evidence towards an evil plot.

===Activision===
*Call of Duty 2: Like most entries in the franchise, it ultimately promotes American values and the military, as well as the British during World War II as well. However, at least one of the main campaigns depicts the Soviets in a positive manner due to it focusing on the Battle of Stalingrad.
*Call of Duty World at War: Like Call of Duty 2, it promotes the American military, but also has a Soviet campaign. Unlike COD 2, though, it portrays the Russians more realistically as cruel, brutal and merciless towards the Nazis. It also depicts a Russian Commissar encouraging this brutality. This game is one of the few World War II games to depict the Pacific War against Japan and the first mission accurately portrays the Japanese cruelty towards POWs. The events are also historically inaccurate as the Marines are depicted taking Shuri Castle, which was done by the Army, not the Marines.

===Bethesda Software===
*''The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim'': Inspired by conservative novels such as ''Lord of the Rings'', ''Beowulf'', and ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', this game in the ''Elder Scrolls'' series tells about the player being prophesized as a "Dragonborn" (a being with the body of a mortal and the soul of a dragon) to do battle with the dark dragon Alduin and delay the end of the world. In the midst of the crisis is an ongoing civil war between the rebel Stormcloaks led by Ulfric Stormcloak and the Imperial Legion. Like the other games in the series, this game has conservative messages just like them. Such messages include redemption and striving to do good when the great white dragon Paarthurnax is revealed to have once been Alduin's second-in-command but has since tamed his more savage nature to be at peace with the mysterious Greybeards and other humans, asking "What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" Both sides in the civil war have valid reasons for their actions: The Legion that is stationed in Skyrim wants a united empire to stand against the high elves, and the Stormcloaks want Skyrim to be more independent from the empire, similar to the colonists from the [[American Revolution]]. That said, however, it also engages in a few liberal themes, including an option for same-sex "marriages" and a promotion of feminism (including a high-ranking female "legates", the game's equivalent of a colonel, with the females being given a more masculine design).
*''Fallout 4'': Part of the apocalyptic ''Fallout'' series, the player (a soldier for a male character, a lawyer for a female character) is cryogenically frozen, witnessing his/her infant son being kidnapped. They awaken two hundred years later in post-apocalyptic Boston, Massachusetts (called the Commonwealth) and embark on a journey to find their son, joined by new friends and various factions. The game portrays friendship and other virtues like courage well, as shown with the well-meaning but harsh Brotherhood of Steel. The Minutemen - initially led by Preston Garvey - are shown to be altruistic patriots, ready to defend other people and preserve freedom for the Commonwealth; they even have a motto saying "Freedom at a minute's notice". Family is also promoted in several ways: The player is searching for their son who is kidnapped as a baby, reporter Piper Wright and her sister Nat work together as a team in journalism, and MacCready wanders the Commonwealth in search of a cure for his sick son. The player even has the choices of doing good, like defending settlements from attack or giving money or supplies to the needy, and several companions (including Piper and synth detective Nick Valentine) will praise the player for their good choices. However, the game does condemn nuclear weapons; even a companion named Deacon believes this about weapons of any kind: "Guns don't solve problems, they just create more". Players can even choose to be involved in a homosexual relationship with companions of the same sex, and a minor character and a Miss Nanny robot fall in love and marry. Like having the choice to do good, the player can also choose to do harmful things like murder or stealing, which other companions (like Courser X6-88 and super mutant Strong) will commend them for. The DLC called "Nuka World" (taking place in a soda-based amusement park) has the option of leading a violent band of raiders on a mission to subdue the Commonwealth; this, however, is also up to the player, who can wipe out the raiders instead.

===Nintendo===
*''Metroid: Other M:'' Although largely part of the Metroid series and retaining some of its more conservative elements (namely, the promotion of parenthood and condemning the concept of playing god), the game was rather infamous for several criticisms it experienced in the game, namely the characterization of Adam Malkovich and his relationship with Samus due to it coming across more as promoting an abusive relationship (such as Adam shooting Samus in the back before sacrificing himself). The game, unlike in the Prime series, also depicts the military in a more negative manner, as a flashback had Samus being restrained from turning her back on Adam despite her intention being to save Ian, his brother, from death, as well as one of the more controversial elements of the game being the authorization element which at one point has Adam failing to actually authorize the Varia Suit to allow Samus to traverse through a superheated area despite it nearly killing her until a long while afterward, and also had as its main plot a conspiracy to weaponized Metroids at the order of the Federation military (as well as having someone within Samus's group attempt to assassinate each of the members in order to silence them to any potential discoveries to the conspiracy in question via the character The Deleter).
*''Animal Crossing: New Leaf:'' Though it does replace holidays [[Christmas]] and [[Easter]] with the more politically correct "Toy Day" and "Bunny Day" respectfully (largely due to Nintendo of America's insistence on not listing Christmas and Easter by those names due to it having a ban on religious references), as well as some 'environmentally friendly' Public Works Projects (the latter of which are optional), the main ideals of ''Animal Crossing'' shine through, mainly the ideals of friendship, responsibility (since in this game, you become the mayor) and innocence are treated with respect. Shows [[capitalism]] in a positive light in Tom Nook, a kind-hearted (now-wealthy) raccoon (tanuki in original Japanese) who has opened Nook's Homes, leaving his store to his budding salesmen nephews, Timmy and Tommy (though some villagers theorise that they are not Tom Nook's nephews, instead believing them to be orphans that he adopted). Also shows [[marriage]] and family in a positive light, in characters Reese and Cyrus, a pair of married alpacas who run the Re-Tail recycling/refurbishing shop, and the Able Sisters clothing store, run by hedgehog sisters Mabel, Sable and Labelle, the latter of which has returned home after a bad fight with oldest sister Sable prior to the original game but has since come home, and the turtle (kappa in Japan) Kapp'n, a motorboat driver, who since the previous game married long-time sweetheart Leilani and they have a daughter named Leila. The mayor's secretary, Isabelle, an eager and positive shi-tsu, is also the antithesis to a modern [[feminist]], as well Lottie, a very feminine and sweet-natured otter employee of Nook's Homes (only shows up after the Welcome Amiibo update, however) That being said, however, in the Valentine's Day events, Isabelle can be depicted as having a crush on the player character regardless of gender (though said player is not allowed to pursue a relationship with her, or any other animal character for that matter), as well as the character of the fashionista giraffe Gracie, who while female in most translations of the game, is a effeminate male named Grace in the original Japanese. In addition, due to the options to create your own outfits and paintings, at least one person had created and showcased a T-shirt modeled after [[Che Guevara]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20141009074917/http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/51860/features/thank-kk-its-friday/?page=2</ref>

===Pterodon/Illusion Software===
*''Vietcong 2'': Although like its predecessor, it ultimately portrays American involvement in Vietnam as a positive, and depicts the Vietcong in the main story as the bad guys, there is an additional mode that features the player playing as the Vietcong and them being portrayed in a more positive manner.

===Ubisoft===
*Assassins Creed 3: The Assassins help the American Revolution by killing the Templar leaders of the British. However, a DLC came out for the game that has you kill all of the [[Founding Fathers]].
*''Far Cry 5'': Set in the Montana countryside, a deputy is tasked with bringing a violent cult to justice with help from the locals. One of the characters helping the player is a Christian pastor named Jerome Jeffries, who encourages his fellow churchgoers to have faith and not give in to the cult. Richard "Dutch" Roosevelt, another supporting character who tasks the player of uniting the citizens of Hope County against the cult, has a distrust for big government. The game also occasionally pokes fun at liberals and the left-wing agenda, as well as painting the [[Second Amendment]] in a positive light through the locals arming themselves to fight the cult. However, the villainous cult is Christian (though they could be considered not true Christians due to doing the opposite of what Jesus Christ had taught), while the previous game villains were more politically neutral: a psychotic pirate, an atheistic dictator, and a sun-worshiping chieftain.

===Square-Enix===
*''Final Fantasy II:'' In initial releases for the game, the game had an undeniably pro-Christian element to the games, and also condemned Satanic worshippers and totalitarianism in the form of the game's main villain Emperor Mateus Palamecia, who explicitly goes to Hell when he dies and tries to take over the world with the powers he gained from Hell. However, the remakes starting with the GBA version added in a new mode called "Dawn of Souls" which has the killed party members fighting against the Emperor's light half who took over Heaven, which could be interpreted as an anti-Christian message.
*''Final Fantasy VI:'' Promotes parenthood due to Terra Branford becoming a mother figure for the Mobliz orphans late into the game, which also had her learning the concept of love, and also showcases the horrors of totalitarian ideologies in the form of the Gestahlian Empire, and also offers a condemnation of [[nihilism]] in the form of the game's main antagonist Kefka Palazzo (who is depicted in a similar manner to [[Joker (comics)|the Joker]] from the Batman franchise). However, Terra also makes a more relativistic remark when trying to refute Kefka regarding finding meanings in things.
*''Final Fantasy VII:'' Promotes the concept of redemption and condemns unethical science in the form of Professor Hojo as well as his creation Sephiroth (who ironically is voiced in the English versions by George Newbern, who portrayed [[Superman]]), but on the other hand, it also has a more anti-Capitalist view on things with Shin-Ra, the main antagonists, being a corporation, and is hinted to promote environmentalism due to the main protagonists being eco-terrorists.

===Rockstar North===
*''Bully:'' Despite coming from the same developers ultra-liberal series ''Grand Theft Auto'' and ''Midnight Club'', this game can be seen to show the dangers of high school cliques as well as bullies. However, the game's main protagonist, Jimmy Hopkins, can be quite a jerk himself and still gets involved in fights with bullies and high school cliques. The game has also been criticized by conservatives because it is possible for the player to engage the protagonist in homosexual relationships.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.neoseeker.com/news/6237-bully-under-spotlight-for-homosexual-content/|title=Bully Under Spotlight For "Homosexual" Content|author=Leo Chan|date=2006-10-24|accessdate=2019-03-08|work=Neoseeker|publisher=Neo Era Media, Inc.}}</ref>
*''Red Dead Redemption'': In the last days of the Old West in 1911, former outlaw John Marston is tasked by a corrupt government official to hunt down his former gang members (Bill Williamson, Javier Esquella, and Dutch Van der Linde) in exchange for getting his wife and son back. The game promotes the importance of family in the form of John trying to work hard to be with his family again, even trying to spend time with his son Jack and saving him from a [[brown bear]]; there is also traditional marriage being upheld, for John will refuse to sleep with prostitutes and remains loyal to his wife Abigail. It condemns government corruption through main villain Edgar Ross, who wants all of John's former gang destroyed to get all the glory for it, to the point where he has his army kill John in spite of promising to leave the latter alone once his job is done and is even rewarded for it. It also promotes doing good like donating to a nunnery, helping people (ranging from rescuing people from gangs or wild animals to just fetching items for them), and doing jobs for them; heroism is even portrayed positively, as legendary gunslinger Landon Ricketts singlehandedly keeps peace in Chuparosa while repelling its enemies. However, the player also has the option of doing bad things like murder, theft, and robbery. There is even a hint of [[bestiality]] when a minor character marries his horse Lucy, though the main character is rightfully flabbergasted at the reveal that the man's lost love is a horse.
*''Red Dead Redemption 2'': Set 12 years before the events of ''Red Dead Redemption'', this prequel game explores how the Dutch Van Der Linde gang had fallen, in the point of view of Arthur Morgan, one of Dutch's righthand men. Over the course of the game, the gang changes in so many ways that makes Arthur think over his past and future choices as well as question Dutch's increasingly reckless decisions. As the title of the two games suggests, it promotes redemption in the form of Arthur helping John Marston and his family escape the collapsing gang at the cost of his own life (whether from succumbing to tuberculosis or being murdered by main villain Micah Bell, which depends on whether the player has high or low honor). [[Hunting]] is portrayed positively while [[poaching]] is negatively shown, the latter showing half black/half [[Native American]] Charles Smith being angered at the sight of two poachers leaving intact [[bison]] carcasses to rot and killing one of the poachers. Like the previous game, the game shows doing good deeds, heroism, and family (whether it be with the Marston family or most of the Dutch Van Der Linde gang) in a good light. However, also like the first game, the player have a choice of doing bad things like murder, theft, and robbery, as well as the protagonist being in a gang of infamous bandits even if the player gets high honor. Dutch himself is portrayed as an early communist, believing in redistributing wealth as they steal from the rich and give to the poor, based on the [[Jacobin]] version of [[Robin Hood]] as portrayed by [[Joseph Ritson]]. Feminism is also promoted in a way by the character of the widow Sadie Adler, who insists of doing more work than helping with cooking; it's further shown when she later fights off and kills three men at once on her own in spite of a physical disadvantage.

===id Software===
*''Doom:'' The game casts satanic demons and monsters as the villains (although like most media, it depicts demons inaccurately). However, the game is controversial for its extreme violence and satanic imagery.

==Debatable Whether Great==
===Multiple Parties===
*''Home Alone'': A video game adaptation of the greatest conservative film of the same name, retaining many of its themes. However, the NES game has poor graphics and shallow gameplay.
*''Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'': A video game adaptation of the greatest conservative film of the same name, and retains many of its themes. However, it takes many liberties with the source material and has very flawed game design.
==See also==
*[[Essay:Worst Liberal Video Games]]

==References==
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Essay:Greatest Conservative Video Games

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Theocon: /* Indie/Small Developers */

Although the video game industry by and large is liberal, there have been instances of video games promoting conservative values.

==Artifex Mundi==
This small studio mostly works on mobile games, but their PC title ''Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka With Love'' is a very funny take on young and naïve people fiercely promoting socialism/communism.

The point-and-click game takes place in 1951 during the Cold War and portrays a young journalist, Evan, who defends Matryoshka's communist regime and its dictator, a clear parallel with the USSR, in any opportunity. He is then sent to Matryoshka and gets involved in a tale of espionage while experiencing the communist regime and slowly coming to terms with reality. As an example, when he sees a bread line in the beginning of his adventure, he somehow spins that as a positive thing, in the sense of "how the supreme leader is feeding all his people". A must-play for young teenagers who are flirting with leftist ideologies.

==Axis Entertainment==
This India-based gaming studio produces child-friendly, free games (sponsored by ads which are targeted toward their audience's parents).

Their main offering is the '''[[Baby Hazel]]''' game series. The title character is a two-year-old female toddler, featured doing positive activities (taking care of her newborn brother Matt, fixing food in the kitchen with her mother) and learning positive traits (manners, hygiene). The family is portrayed as a traditional nuclear family (father, mother, Hazel, and baby brother Matt) along with extended family, various friends and pets. One offering features Earth Day, but portrayed in a neutral manner to show care for the environment without getting into liberal traits. Many of the offerings feature Hazel saying prayers, not usually seen in secular video games.

However, the graphics are very simplistic and the games are known to have glitches in them; if a level is frozen the entire game must be restarted from the beginning (though there are only four levels in each game). Also being a foreign company the games do not feature proper English grammar (either American or British).

==Ubisoft==
*Watchdogs: Despite coming from the ultra-liberal video game company Ubisoft, the game Watch Dogs has several Conservative messages, namely those of pro-family, anti-crime, and anti-big government. However, its sequel qualified as liberal.
*Assassin's Creed Unity: Despite it coming from the ultra-liberal video game company Ubisoft as well as the liberal ''Assassin's Creed'' video game franchise, the game's plot specifically condemned the French Revolution and its adherents, with various notable figures of the French Revolution and Reign of Terror being targets for assassination.
*''Rainbow Six'' series: Based on the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, it deals with a special forces unit dealing with terrorists worldwide.
*''Ghost Recon'' series: Like with Rainbow Six, it deals with a special forces unit combating terrorists.

==Koei-Tecmo==
*''Dead or Alive'' series: The fighting game franchise had several conservative messages. One of which was pro-family, as the main character, Kasumi, joined the Dead or Alive tournament specifically to avenge her brother when he ended up critically injured by her uncle, and Kasumi, despite being on the run from her clan due to her technically violating their laws to do so, ultimately wants to return to her clan and family someday throughout the series, and in Dead or Alive 4, 5, and Dimensions, Ayane eventually managed to put aside her murderous jealousy against her half-sister and try to aid her. Similarly, Hayate, her brother, is also reluctant to kill his sister, despite the law mandating it, and their mother, Ayame, also stops Ayane (who was an illegitimate child due to Raidou, the uncle of Hayate and Kasumi who was responsible for the former's injury, having previously raped Ayame) from committing suicide and specifically stated not to kill Kasumi specifically because she was family, which was stronger than any Shinobi code. Similarly, in Dead or Alive 5, the character of Helena Douglas attempts to honor her deceased father's memory by restoring DOATEC to what her father Fame envisioned, and her overall character arc had her trying to avenge her deceased mother when she was murdered during a performance. In addition, the reason Helena's mother had died was because she took the bullet to save her daughter, due to said assassin, Christie, actually aiming for Helena herself during the performance. In addition, the character Hitomi in Dead or Alive 4 took control of the dojo specifically because her father had succumbed to an illness and needed money to help him and his dojo, with the character Gen-Fu having a similar motive regarding his granddaughter Mei Lin in Dead or Alive 1 and 2, entering to gain money for an operation to save her, and in Dead or Alive 3 to pay the medical bills, retiring only after she was fully cured and he fully paid off the debt and spending time with her afterward. Helena Douglas is also depicted as a Christian as well as depicted in a more positive light. In addition, even though it was a Japanese-created game series, it is also notable as featuring a surprisingly pro-American message in the form of the Armstrongs, as their patriotism was depicted in a positive light, and the character Tina was depicted as also trying to follow through with the American Dream. Also has an anti-cloning message, as the villainous DOATEC (and later, MIST) created various clones of Kasumi, with all of them being depicted as either villains (Alpha Kasumi, later known as Alpha-152) or victims (Phase 4). There is also a slight condemnation against feminism in Dead or Alive 5, as Tina tells Mila that "pretty girls shouldn't fight." On a related note, similar to Isabelle in ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'' below, one of the expansions for ''Dead or Alive 5'', ''Last Round'', featured the debut of the character Honoka, who is depicted as being very positive and eager, and is the antithesis of a modern feminist.

==Konami==
*Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: Although it was part of the liberal ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series, and also gave some hints at promoting the concept of [[Globalism]] and also relativism (and to a lesser extent nihilism) via The Boss's philosophy, the game's overall message was surprisingly conservative, emphasizing a promotion of patriotism in a (in comparison to the rest of the series at least) positive light throughout most of the game, and also featuring the Soviet Union and Communism in general in a more negative light, including depicting the main villain, Colonel Volgin, in a truly villainous and horrific light, as well as referencing several real-life [[war crimes]] conducted by the USSR such as the [[Katyn Massacre|massacre at Katyn Forest]] during World War II (including making clear that the Soviets, in particular Volgin, was responsible for the event, not the Nazis which was even referenced in-game, as well as making explicitly clear that [[Joseph Stalin]] had ordered for the massacre by the NKVD in the first place, as well as similar massacres within the Ukraine and [[Kurapaty|Western Belarus]] as well as it resulting in at least 24,000 deaths including the mass grave discovered by the Wehrmacht near Gnezdovo village), the massacres during the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|Hungarian Revolution in 1956]] as well as the [[Uprising of East Germany in 1953|uprising in East Germany]] on June 17, 1953. It also to a certain extent attempts to promote American values (especially in comparison to most entries in the series prior to and after that game). In addition, the man trying to defect from the Soviet Union to America in the beginning of the game, Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, is shown in a sympathetic light and was also shown to be a family man, as when defecting to the United States and trying to cross the Iron Curtain, he made clear that he won't leave without his family, and late in the game, when acknowledging he probably won't be able to go to America, he has Naked Snake swear to take care of his family for him. In addition, it has a slight anti-homosexual agenda message due to the character Major Raikov alongside the main villain Volgin being strongly implied to be in a homosexual relationship, and neither character being depicted in a positive or sympathetic light. Also, contrary to most Cold War-related storylines which usually downplays Soviet involvement in various third-world conflicts such as Vietnam, it is made explicitly clear that the Soviets played a huge role in various uprisings within the third world, with radio conversations dealing with various weapons making very clear that the Soviets had involvement in South Vietnam, in the Malaysia Emergency, and that they even devised various traps specifically to be adopted by any communist allies in third world regions and were researching various traps within the Soviet Union via one of the key locations in the game. Volgin's main plan for the Shagohod also involved mass-producing it for the Eastern Bloc and then using it as bait to ferment uprisings against "dictators, ethnic insurgents, and revolutionary groups" throughout the third world, which not only acts as further confirmation of Soviet communism's involvement in the third world uprisings, but also hints at Volgin planning on engineering revolts against the USSR while he is in control of it, alluding to how various Communist ideologues often tried to instigate revolts even when firmly in power (owing to Karl Marx's advocating that the communists upon assuming power be obliged to reenact Robespierre's Reign of Terror).
**Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops: Like ''Snake Eater'' above, it also attempts to invoke patriotism in a more positive light, and the main villains are explicitly shown to try and invoke nihilism, anti-American commentary as well as promoting class warfare at one point (citing a growing gap between the rich and poor during a speech midway through the game). It also has a condemnation against Soviet policies, as a large part of the reason why the personnel of a missile base in Colombia (who were of Soviet origin) ended up turning to Gene's cause was out of revenge for essentially being cut off from the Soviet brass due to the events of Détente in order for the Soviets to place the blame on "out-of-control soldiers" in the event the base was discovered, and when the Soviet personnel ultimately did aid Snake in stopping the possible nuclear launch against the Soviet Union, it is solely due to the Soviet Union being their homeland and not out of any love for its policies. Similar to ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', it makes clear that the Soviets were also heavily involved in the actions of various liberation fronts in the third world, as the reason the Soviets had the missile base in Colombia in the first place was because the Soviets had been aiding the [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia|FARC]] communist rebel group in the backstory, and the character Frank Jaegar, aka, Null, had formerly been a member of the communist-backed FREMILO, with Big Boss being implied to have aided the Portuguese Soldiers during the Mozambician Civil War.
*Contra series: Pro-military and Pro-American. American heroes fight against villainous organizations and alien invaders.
*Castlevania series: Various members of the Belmont Clan, implied to be Christian (in Castlevania II, Simon Belmont restores his HP by visiting a church, in Castlevania III, Trevor Belmont kneels before a Cross in the intro, and in the Nintendo 64 version of the game, the character Reinhardt Schneider is seen making the trinity prayer gesture ["in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit"] in the beginning of his scenario, and when comforting Rosa, offers her last rites.) fight against the occult forces of Count Dracula.

==Play Mechanix Inc.==
*[[Big Buck Hunter]] series: Pro-hunting arcade game series.

==Electronic Arts==
*Battlefield series: Similarly to the Call of Duty series, it tends to promote American values as well as being pro-military. However its recent title Battlfield V betrays its fanbase for the sake of being woke. Allowing for female soldiers even though it historicaly inacurate for non russian female soldiers in WW2. The game has also made "white men" a swear word.
*Medal of Honor series: Like above, it tends to promote American values as well as being pro-military. Although the series mostly deals with the events of [[World War II]], two of the more recent games deal with the [[War in Afghanistan]].
*Command And Conquer series: A military real-time strategy series divided into three sub-series: ''Tiberium, Red Alert'' and ''Generals''. The ''Tiberium'' series, however, promotes globalism but at the same time, condemns religious extremism. The latter two are more conservative and pro-American, with ''Red Alert'' fighting against Soviet communism and ''Generals'' fighting against Islamic extremism.

==Nintendo==
*''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series: Similar in vein to stories such as ''Lord of the Rings'', ''Beowulf'', and ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', the games detail a classic message of good fighting evil, and also featured implicit Christian themes in the series (in fact, until the third game, the religion of the people in the games was supposed to be Christianity, hence the cross on Link's Shield in the first game). The main villain, Ganon, is revealed to have originally belonged to a group known as the Gerudo, who are depicted as a nearly all-female race (Ganon, or more accurately his human form Ganondorf, being the only exception) and having traits resembling Muslims, hinting at an anti-feminist/anti-Islam message. There was also a pro-family message in at least one game in the series, as one of the entries, ''Wind Waker'', featured Link trying to save his sister after she was abducted early on in the game, as well as their getting along amicably throughout.
*Radar Mission: Pro-military game based on the board game battleship, it teaches the player the art of strategy, with the story involving the player fighting against an enemy fleet and, later, an enemy airfield that is implied to be the main headquarters of the enemy. Also has an alternate game mode that deals with Submarine warfare.
*''[[Metroid]]'' series: Although largely being based on the liberal movie franchise ''Alien'', the game franchise has several conservative elements. Namely, it depicts piracy and terrorism in a negative manner in the form of the murderous Space Pirates who frequently act as the main antagonists of the franchise. The game ''Super Metroid'' also promotes parenthood in a positive light, as the main plotline of the game involved Samus Aran trying to rescue her "child", a Metroid hatchling she adopted after wiping out its race in the previous game due to it imprinting on her, from the Space Pirate forces. The Prime series also depicts the military in a positive manner in the form of the Galactic Federation Marines, and some of the Chozo Logs as well as the Luminoth also have some similarities to biblical accounts (i.e., the Worm, alluding to the titular antagonist Metroid Prime, alluding to Wormwood in the book of revelations). In addition, although the main protagonist, Samus Aran, is female, it does not promote the concept of feminism. The game ''Metroid Fusion'' also showcases the warnings of playing god and government corruption.
*''[[Punch-Out!!]]'' series: Pro-American dream, as the player, as Little Mac, a rookie boxer from New York, has to fight to the championship to acquire the title of world champion of boxing.
* ''Cooking Mama'' series: A charming cooking series that utilizes the mechanics of the games system's mechanics to teach cooking. Does favor traditional gender roles with the title character, Mama, an enthusiastic chef/stay-at-home mother. This series was "parodied" by [[PETA]] (The parody game is subtitled ''Mama Kills Animals''!) due to the series including meat-based recipes, but the developers, Majesco, exploited the frenetic attention that PETA was gaining with such gore. The series started in 2006 and has been steady releasing games, the most recent being a mobile app game called ''Cooking Mama: Let's Cook!''

==''Paranoid Productions''==
*''The Church In The Darkness'': The game's premise deals with a preacher infiltrating a cult to save their nephew. The antagonistic cult is heavily implied to be based on the cult led by the infamous [[Jim Jones]]. Aside from it condemning the socialist elements as well as being pro-traditional christianity and pro-family, it also has a condemnation of [[social justice warrior]] elements, as the game repeatedly refers to the antagonistic cult as "collective justice warriors."<ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/08/the-church-in-the-darkness-gameplay-walkthrough/90218/</ref>

==Sega==
*''Streets of Rage'' series: An anti-crime and anti-gang series in which former police officers fight against a crime syndicate run by a "Mr. X."

==SNK==
*''Metal Slug'' series: Pro-military and pro-American, deals with the main characters trying to fight terrorists of various stripes.
*''Iron Tank'': Unlike its predecessor ''Guerilla War'', this involved an American tank commando trying to take down the Nazis, and is blatantly pro-American.

==Synergestic Software==
*''Super Battleship'': Pro-military strategy game based on the board game Battleship. In addition to the standard game, there is also a story-based mode that has you dealing with several military operations and fighting against enemy fleets (implied by the eagle on the flag to be the Nazis). Teaches the player about the art of strategy.

==Pterodon/Illusion Software==
*''Vietcong'': Promotes American forces in a positive light, and, despite the title of the game, the Vietcong are depicted as villains in this. Overall promotes the [[Vietnam War]].

==Square-Enix==
*''Final Fantasy:'' The first game in the franchise has a simple tale of Good vs. Evil.
*''Final Fantasy IV:'' Promotes the concept of redemption, and showcases a clear message of good vs. evil.

==Capcom==
*''194X'' series: Despite being made by the Japanese developer Capcom, this series of scrolling shooters has the player playing as and American Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighting in the Pacific War.
*''Devil May Cry'' Series: Has messages about stopping demonic forces of hell and protecting humanity/having a heart with pro-family themes throughout the 5 games.
*''Mega Man ZX'' series: Has a significant condemnation of [[Social Darwinism]] in the form of Serpent and Master Albert, and also has a condemnation of homosexuality in the form of Rospark the Floroid. Also depicts terrorism in a very negative light.
*Final Fight: Pro-family and anti-crime. Metro City's new mayor, Mike Haggar, vows to get tough on crime. In response, the city's infamous "Mad Gear" gang kidnaps Haggar's daughter, Jessica and demands that he "just let us do what we want to like the old mayor did," implying that the old mayor was in collusion with the Mad Gears. Mike Haggar, Jessica's boyfriend Cody, and Cody's friend Guy take to the streets and fight through the Mad Gear gang to rescue Jessica. The ending shows Mike embracing his daughter, comforting her after her traumatic experience with him saying "I thought I'd lose you the way I lost your mother" and Jessica responding "I love you, Daddy."

==Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.==
*''Ace Combat 04:Shattered Skies'': Pro-military and has the player fighting against a fictional fascist regime. The last mission has heavy Christian symbolism. Megalith, a superweapon designed to alter the course of asteroids to any target on Earth, has been activated by rogue military officers, and has the weapon direct asteroids to the continent. The falling of the asteroids images one of the events in the Book of Revelations. The mission to destroy Megalith symbolizes the sacrifice of Jesus: the superweapon itself is shaped like a crucifix (a symbol of death), Megalith is a stone used to sacrifice animals and to create tombs. To destroy Megalith, the player has to fly inside the superweapon and destroy the generators and missiles inside. This symbolizes Jesus sacrificing his life as the Lamb of God to save mankind from their sins as the player is "sacrificing" his life to stop the asteroids killing civilians. Indeed, the background music is a repeated Latin chorus which is translated as:

''Lamb of God,
''who take away the sins of the world
''Grant them rest.

The destruction of the superweapon by the player symbolizes the defeat of death by Christ, with the AWACS officer remarking, "Heroes really do exist. We've just seen one, and now he's coming home." As he says this, sunlight breaks through the clouds, and the player flies towards them as he returns to base, symbolizing Christ's Ascension.

==Rockstar==
*''L.A. Noir'': Despite being made by Rockstar, L.A. Noir places the character in the role of a detective rather than a criminal. The player investigates murders and collects evidence, interrogates witnesses and suspects while chasing down criminals. The player also has the option of stopping street crime during the game at random intervals. L.A. Noir stresses using intelligence and insight to solve crimes rather than commit them as done in other games. This is the only Rockstar game which doesn't use violence except in the furtherance of stopping a crime against an innocent party. The player is rewarded for capturing a suspect rather than appealing to violence as a first consideration.

==Paradox Interactive==
* ''Crusader Kings III'': This is a Role-playing game that takes place during the [[Medieval Age]] in Europe, North [[Africa]], and the [[Middle East]]. This period is famous for its piousness and devotion to the principles of God, as in opposition to the values of sin. It also promotes true conservative values like fighting [[Islam]] and converting the religion of heathens.
* ''Hearts of Iron 4'': This is a World War Two era strategy game that features very complex gameplay. The game was attacked by the [[CCP]] for it's accurate depiction of [[Tibet]], [[Manchuria]], and [[East Turkestan]] as independent countries before the Chinese invasions of each. The game's ''Man the Guns'' expansion was also heavily criticized for its accurate depiction of [[Democratic Socialism]] as a buzzword for [[communism]]. ''Hearts of Iron 4'' also features a positive depiction of [[Catholics]] and a negative depiction of [[Atheists]]. The game also recognizes Communism and Fascism as having the same inherent government form, [[Totalitarianism]]. ''Hearts of Iron 4'' was attacked by the leftist site [[Kotuku]] for allowing a player made modification that featured a positive depiction of [[Christianity]] and a negative depiction of [[Islamic Terrorism]].

==Mojang==
*''Minecraft'': [[Minecraft]] was created by a lone computer programmer, outside of any major studio (a [[best of the public]] approach to game development), and later sold to Microsoft for $1 Billion. The game could probably be best described as an electronic form of Lego but vastly more complex. Game play is very simple, the player is dropped into a randomly generated world and must mine resources and craft tools and other items. Despite the simplicity of play the game can be used to create extremely complex circuitry and other types of constructions. The game contains no violence (outside of occasionally battling cartoonish enemies during the night hours), no swearing or sex. The game is hugely popular and has a dedicated following proving games do not have to be violent to be popular. Minecraft also has an education pack which is used to teach children about science, history, biology and other subjects<ref>https://education.minecraft.net/class-resources/lessons/</ref>

==Rocksteady Studios==
*''Batman: Arkham'' series: In these games the player plays as Batman to defeat enemies like The Joker, Poison Ivy, Bane and other villains from the the Batman universe. The game stresses no violence and preferring players to use their wits to hide and stalk enemies rather than engaging in immediate violence. While you do need to defeat enemies physically in many circumstances Batman never kills anyone - preferring to knock enemies out and leave them to be captured by police. Also portrays capitalism in a positive light, due to Lucius Fox being a frequent ally in ''Arkham Knight'' and to a lesser extent ''Arkham City''.

==Debatable whether Conservative==
===Indie/Small Developers===
• Undertale: On one hand, it teaches the importance of core Christian values such as mercy and compassion by discouraging killing characters, and instead solving conflicts non-violently. On the other hand, it involves homosexual and bisexual relationships, some of which may involve the player character (who is 12 years of age) depending on what dialogue choices the player makes.

• Dust An Elysian Tail: as the game was developed by a devout Christian couple, it has a significant amount of religious messages such as redemption, forgiveness and even hints to reincarnation. The main characters combat against the genocidal tyrant whose views are comparable to the German Nazism and Japanese Militarism. In addition, the main developer personally thanks God Himself in the final credits of the game, calling him "everloving". It is worth noting that the game may scare away some conservatives with its (albeit very high-quality) furry art style, even though the developers themselves are not part of the infamous furry community.

===Capcom===
*Resident Evil series: The games generally have a subtle anti-capitalist and anti-American agenda (with one of the protagonists in ''Resident Evil 3: Nemesis'', Carlos, being a communist rebel according to the game's Japanese version, and some versions of ''Resident Evil 5'' have a secret conversation between the game's protagonists, Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar, where the former denounces America due to it being capitalist.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA-aH1K_zBU</ref>). However, it also has a condemnation against social Darwinism and eugenics, as most of the main villains in the franchise tended to promote some form of eugenics as well as social Darwinism as their motives. In addition, one of the protagonists, Barry Burton, was implied in the English localization to be a member of the [[National Rifle Association]], and the games also to some extent featured pro-family messaging, as Barry Burton was shown to be very loyal to his family, and the character Claire Redfield is depicted as being loyal to her brother Chris, spending Resident Evil 2 trying to find him and in Code Veronica refuses to allow Albert Wesker to harm him. The games also showcase government corruption in a scarily realistic and negative light in the form of Albert Wesker (who was a former police officer in the first ''Resident Evil'') and Brian Irons (the police chief for the Raccoon City Police Department in ''Resident Evil 2''). Resident Evil 4 also has a condemnation against pagan religions in the form of the Los Illuminados (which is Spanish for "The Enlightened Ones", and may subtly condemn the Illuminati), and the game ''Umbrella Chronicles'' has a possible negative depiction of Communism, or at the very least Soviet-style communism, as one of the main antagonists of that game, Sergei Vladimir, is depicted as an unrepentant former Soviet soldier who in one of the in-game files is strongly implied to have ultimately desired the restoration of the Soviet state.
*''Dead Rising 2'' and ''Dead Rising 2: Off the Record'': Although it has largely the same plotline as in the first ''Dead Rising'', it also to some extent is pro-family, due to the main character trying to save his daughter from infection. In addition, unlike the first or third main entries to the series, the hidden antagonist is not a military person, but instead a former rapper and TV executive who orchestrated the entire outbreak to boost ratings as well as steal wealth, acting as a subtle condemntation to [[Hollywood values]].

===Electronic Arts===
*The Sims (and sequels): Promotes conservative values such as marriage, hard work, the raising of children, law and order, [[capitalism]], and private property ownership<ref>In the SimCity spinoff, the player is expected to build a city, which requires such.</ref>, but it also promotes other things that are anti-conservative, such as homosexual relationships and extramarital sexual relationships, and also has an implicit anti-military message due to there being negative aspects included with building military bases.<ref>In the SimCity spinoff, one option is a military base, but doing so comes with "higher crime" requiring increased police presence.</ref>. An afterlife exists in the game, but not in a Christian sense. The game was created by an [[atheist]].

===Frontier Developments===
*''Jurassic World Evolution'': A spiritual sequel to ''Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis'' from 2001, this game takes the player across the Muerto Archipelago - a chain of tropical islands off the coast of Costa Rica - as they build dinosaur parks for the public. In a way, it promotes capitalism, showing that the park cannot operate without money, requiring the player to build shops, complete contracts to earn rewards, and create fully-cloned dinosaurs to bring in more money and build up the parks. On the other hand, it also promotes the pro-cloning message from the films ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' and ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'', though Ian Malcolm from the movies does warn the player about the consequences of creating dinosaurs. Three DLCS include "The Secrets of Dr. Wu", "Claire's Sanctuary", and "Return to Jurassic Park", as well as having different upgrades and new dinosaurs added with them. A sequel called ''Jurassic World Evolution 2'' was released in November 2021, taking place after the events of ''Fallen Kingdom''.
*''Jurassic World Evolution 2'': The 2021 sequel to ''Jurassic World Evolution''- which itself is a spiritual sequel to 2001's ''Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis'' - takes the player to different biomes across the United States of America as they build dinosaur parks for the public. It takes place after the film ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'', which starts the age of dinosaurs living alongside mankind. Like its predecessor, it promotes capitalism, showing that the park cannot operate without money, requiring the player to build shops, complete contracts to earn rewards, and create fully-cloned dinosaurs to bring in more money and build up the parks. On the other hand, it also promotes the pro-cloning message from the films ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' and ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'', though Ian Malcolm from the movies does warn the player about the consequences of creating dinosaurs.

===Koei Tecmo===
*''Dead or Alive 6'': The game features some left wing elements (presumably due to some bullying by the higher-ups such as Tom Lee and Yohei Shimbori), including having Tina imply at one point that one of her goals as governor was to implement big government policies in a conversation with Zack, and the new character Diego is implied to be a socialist due to his bitterly inferring the tournament only exists to "entertain rich people". However, some of the more conservative elements from the games was still retained such as the pro-family messaging (Ryu Hayabusa while sparring with Hayate assures him that his sister Kasumi was safe, referring to an ambush by MIST on her life earlier that Hayabusa stopped, Helena making clear that Kokoro's the only family she has left when the latter was about to leave over the revelation that the two are half-sisters, and Diego's concern for his implied terminally ill mother. In addition, the final battle of the game has Kasumi, Ayane, and Hayate confronting their revived murderous uncle (and in Ayane's case, illegitimate father), Raidou, with Ayane's involvement being implied to be due to wanting to avenge her newly-discovered paternal half-sister, Honoka, who was left in critical condition due to her as well as Ayane being forcibly used by NiCO to revive him.). In addition, the game also has a condemnation of infidelity, as one of the lore bits implied that Helena's and Kokoro's father's womanizing habits is ultimately part of the reason he got killed. There's also a statement against the [[Idea of Progress]] philosophy, as the character NiCO embodies this philosophy regarding her use of unethical experiments, and Helena after NiCO was revealed to have attempted to revive her murdered mother Maria calls her out on it, even explicitly stating that even if science were to find a way to revive the dead, something like that should not ever be embraced.
*''Dead or Alive Xtreme'' series: A beach vacation spinoff for the ''Dead or Alive'' series. The ''Xtreme'' games include some softcore elements such as a pole dancing minigame as well as girls being implied to change in front of the player in ''Xtreme 3'', and it does feature some gambling. One of the characters, Kanna, also is a Japanese Oni and resembles a demon. However, series creator Tomonobu Itagaki indicated his primary intent for the game was merely to have the characters enjoying a vacation, not necessarily to promote softcore elements. In addition, regarding the game ''Xtreme Venus Vacation'', although the character Tamaki is heavily implied to be bisexual as well as an alcoholic, her more girl-obsessed and lewd elements were not treated in a particularly positive light based on the other girls being wary of her when interacting with her as well as Helena, her closest acquaintance, admitting that was a frequent problem of Tamaki's. The game also has a condemnation of feminism as well, as the character Nagisa was shown to initially have distaste for the Owner partly via feminist rhetoric, though she gradually changes her views on the Owner during her character arc. Three of the characters in that game, Fiona (who is heavily implied to be a Princess from Europe, presumably Great Britain due to comments made by her regarding schools having morning and noon tea times as well as modeling a swimsuit after the Christmas Tree Fairy.), Sayuri (a Japanese nurse), and Koharu (a Japanese girl who aspires to become an innkeeper due to her family background) are also depicted in a traditionally feminine manner. The games also retain the more pro-family elements from the original to a certain extent, as ''Xtreme 2'' had Ayane arriving at the island while going after Kasumi, with the implication being that she wished to patch things up with her half-sister, and both Kasumi and Ayane as well as Helena and Kokoro were shown to get along very well (with it also being heavily implied that Kokoro wished to have a long chat with Helena regarding their half-sibling status in one episode), and part of Nagisa's reasons for participating in the festival was in part to help her sister Misaki. In addition, the concept of chivalry is promoted, as you lose bonding points if you peek too soon during the aforementioned clothes changing element or gifting the girls any lewd outfits, and the owner of the island a few times refuses to take advantage of several girls even when he had the upper hand (for instance, not taking advantage of a drunken Tamaki in one episode, and forfeiting a poker game despite having the winning hand in order to avoid forcing Monica to strip per the pre-established rules of the game in another episode). The game ''Xtreme Venus Vacation'' also has an implicit promotion of capitalism, as Misaki when describing the objective of the owner of the island explicitly states that he needs to turn the island into the ultimate beach resort. The title of one of the Christmas events is also one of the few instances to explicitly reference the point of Christmas being to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ due to it being titled "Dreams of Holy Night."

===Konami===
*''Metal Gear Solid''/''Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes'': Although the first game does have condemnation towards Cloning and genetic engineering, and also has (albeit unintentionally) a pro-life/anti-abortion message due to Liquid Snake, when describing the process of the Les Enfants Terribles' creation, in particular its use of abortion to encourage fetal growth, explicitly labeling it as murder (although in that case, he attributed the act of murder more to himself and his brother Solid Snake, both byproducts of the project, than to the people actually responsible for the Super Baby Method), as well as promoting the concept of redemption to some extent, and also paints terrorism in an appropriately bad light, it at the same time is rife with anti-Americanism among both heroes and villains (although obviously not to the same extent as in later entries) as well as pushing an anti-nuclear and anti-war agenda, both of which seemed to focus more on America doing so than other countries, in particular Russia and China (specifically, the character Nastasha Romanenko, a member of NEST, spent most of her time condemning America for using nuclear weapons or even using nuclear power at all, and giving very little, if any criticism towards Russia and China for their having nukes, despite the fact that the event that caused her to hold a strong hatred for nukes, Chernobyl, having originated from within the Soviet bloc).
**''Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance'': The game does have anti-American elements per the standard of the ''Metal Gear'' franchise, with the main villain being an American politician who intended to jumpstart a war to restore America, and Raiden and Courtney also give slight references to Occupy Wall Street and their 1% rhetoric. On the other hand, it also condemns far-left ideologies such as Communism, in particular the Khmer Rouge, as one of the villains, Monsoon, was a survivor of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal actions in Cambodia, with his more villainous and amoral nature being directly derived from that event, and it also condemns nihilism via Monsoon as well. It also has a slight promotion of Capitalism, as one of Raiden's allies, a former East German scientist by the name of Wilhelm Voigt, and better known as Doktor, at one point says "Ich Liebus Capitalismus", which translated to "I Love Capitalism."

===Radical Games===
*''The Simpsons Hit and Run'': Although there are some liberal themes, such as Marge's crusade against Bonestorm-an implied violent video game-being depicted in a negative light, some characters engaging in lawlessness in a similar manner to ''Grand Theft Auto'', and one of the later chapters for the game having the main antagonists supply the townspeople with ray guns as well as tainted cola in a way that could be interpreted as supporting gun control, it also had several conservative messages, namely pro-family, as two of the chapters dealt with Lisa and Marge trying to find Bart after he went missing and trying to find out the cause behind his addled behavior, and later attempting to stop the production of Buzz Cola due to its effects on Bart, respectively, the first chapter and most of the game features a condemnation towards mass surveillance due to the presence of surveillance vans and wasp cameras and their being treated in a clear negative light, especially in a matter that isn't essential to stopping a threat, and is also anti-Hollywood values due to the main antagonists, aliens by the name of Kang and Kodos, deliberately trying to cause a ruckus in Springfield, including the aforementioned distribution of ray guns and tainted Buzz Cola to cause a shootout and later reanimating the dead via Buzz Cola, plus using the wasp cameras and surveillance vans all in an attempt to boost ratings of their reality show "Foolish Earthlings," which as the title implies deals with depicting various people of Earth, in particular Springfield, doing various stupid actions. Also has a rarity in the franchise where nuclear power is actually depicted in a positive light due to it ultimately being the only thing that stopped Kang and Kodos's alien invasion. There is also a humorous condemnation towards gun-free school zones, as during the same level that Bart has to stop the distribution of ray guns to the populace at Squidport, Principal Skinner explicitly references the no-gun policy among students at Springfield Elementary when confiscating Bart's ray gun, despite Bart making clear he only needed the gun to supply evidence towards an evil plot.

===Activision===
*Call of Duty 2: Like most entries in the franchise, it ultimately promotes American values and the military, as well as the British during World War II as well. However, at least one of the main campaigns depicts the Soviets in a positive manner due to it focusing on the Battle of Stalingrad.
*Call of Duty World at War: Like Call of Duty 2, it promotes the American military, but also has a Soviet campaign. Unlike COD 2, though, it portrays the Russians more realistically as cruel, brutal and merciless towards the Nazis. It also depicts a Russian Commissar encouraging this brutality. This game is one of the few World War II games to depict the Pacific War against Japan and the first mission accurately portrays the Japanese cruelty towards POWs. The events are also historically inaccurate as the Marines are depicted taking Shuri Castle, which was done by the Army, not the Marines.

===Bethesda Software===
*''The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim'': Inspired by conservative novels such as ''Lord of the Rings'', ''Beowulf'', and ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', this game in the ''Elder Scrolls'' series tells about the player being prophesized as a "Dragonborn" (a being with the body of a mortal and the soul of a dragon) to do battle with the dark dragon Alduin and delay the end of the world. In the midst of the crisis is an ongoing civil war between the rebel Stormcloaks led by Ulfric Stormcloak and the Imperial Legion. Like the other games in the series, this game has conservative messages just like them. Such messages include redemption and striving to do good when the great white dragon Paarthurnax is revealed to have once been Alduin's second-in-command but has since tamed his more savage nature to be at peace with the mysterious Greybeards and other humans, asking "What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" Both sides in the civil war have valid reasons for their actions: The Legion that is stationed in Skyrim wants a united empire to stand against the high elves, and the Stormcloaks want Skyrim to be more independent from the empire, similar to the colonists from the [[American Revolution]]. That said, however, it also engages in a few liberal themes, including an option for same-sex "marriages" and a promotion of feminism (including a high-ranking female "legates", the game's equivalent of a colonel, with the females being given a more masculine design).
*''Fallout 4'': Part of the apocalyptic ''Fallout'' series, the player (a soldier for a male character, a lawyer for a female character) is cryogenically frozen, witnessing his/her infant son being kidnapped. They awaken two hundred years later in post-apocalyptic Boston, Massachusetts (called the Commonwealth) and embark on a journey to find their son, joined by new friends and various factions. The game portrays friendship and other virtues like courage well, as shown with the well-meaning but harsh Brotherhood of Steel. The Minutemen - initially led by Preston Garvey - are shown to be altruistic patriots, ready to defend other people and preserve freedom for the Commonwealth; they even have a motto saying "Freedom at a minute's notice". Family is also promoted in several ways: The player is searching for their son who is kidnapped as a baby, reporter Piper Wright and her sister Nat work together as a team in journalism, and MacCready wanders the Commonwealth in search of a cure for his sick son. The player even has the choices of doing good, like defending settlements from attack or giving money or supplies to the needy, and several companions (including Piper and synth detective Nick Valentine) will praise the player for their good choices. However, the game does condemn nuclear weapons; even a companion named Deacon believes this about weapons of any kind: "Guns don't solve problems, they just create more". Players can even choose to be involved in a homosexual relationship with companions of the same sex, and a minor character and a Miss Nanny robot fall in love and marry. Like having the choice to do good, the player can also choose to do harmful things like murder or stealing, which other companions (like Courser X6-88 and super mutant Strong) will commend them for. The DLC called "Nuka World" (taking place in a soda-based amusement park) has the option of leading a violent band of raiders on a mission to subdue the Commonwealth; this, however, is also up to the player, who can wipe out the raiders instead.

===Nintendo===
*''Metroid: Other M:'' Although largely part of the Metroid series and retaining some of its more conservative elements (namely, the promotion of parenthood and condemning the concept of playing god), the game was rather infamous for several criticisms it experienced in the game, namely the characterization of Adam Malkovich and his relationship with Samus due to it coming across more as promoting an abusive relationship (such as Adam shooting Samus in the back before sacrificing himself). The game, unlike in the Prime series, also depicts the military in a more negative manner, as a flashback had Samus being restrained from turning her back on Adam despite her intention being to save Ian, his brother, from death, as well as one of the more controversial elements of the game being the authorization element which at one point has Adam failing to actually authorize the Varia Suit to allow Samus to traverse through a superheated area despite it nearly killing her until a long while afterward, and also had as its main plot a conspiracy to weaponized Metroids at the order of the Federation military (as well as having someone within Samus's group attempt to assassinate each of the members in order to silence them to any potential discoveries to the conspiracy in question via the character The Deleter).
*''Animal Crossing: New Leaf:'' Though it does replace holidays [[Christmas]] and [[Easter]] with the more politically correct "Toy Day" and "Bunny Day" respectfully (largely due to Nintendo of America's insistence on not listing Christmas and Easter by those names due to it having a ban on religious references), as well as some 'environmentally friendly' Public Works Projects (the latter of which are optional), the main ideals of ''Animal Crossing'' shine through, mainly the ideals of friendship, responsibility (since in this game, you become the mayor) and innocence are treated with respect. Shows [[capitalism]] in a positive light in Tom Nook, a kind-hearted (now-wealthy) raccoon (tanuki in original Japanese) who has opened Nook's Homes, leaving his store to his budding salesmen nephews, Timmy and Tommy (though some villagers theorise that they are not Tom Nook's nephews, instead believing them to be orphans that he adopted). Also shows [[marriage]] and family in a positive light, in characters Reese and Cyrus, a pair of married alpacas who run the Re-Tail recycling/refurbishing shop, and the Able Sisters clothing store, run by hedgehog sisters Mabel, Sable and Labelle, the latter of which has returned home after a bad fight with oldest sister Sable prior to the original game but has since come home, and the turtle (kappa in Japan) Kapp'n, a motorboat driver, who since the previous game married long-time sweetheart Leilani and they have a daughter named Leila. The mayor's secretary, Isabelle, an eager and positive shi-tsu, is also the antithesis to a modern [[feminist]], as well Lottie, a very feminine and sweet-natured otter employee of Nook's Homes (only shows up after the Welcome Amiibo update, however) That being said, however, in the Valentine's Day events, Isabelle can be depicted as having a crush on the player character regardless of gender (though said player is not allowed to pursue a relationship with her, or any other animal character for that matter), as well as the character of the fashionista giraffe Gracie, who while female in most translations of the game, is a effeminate male named Grace in the original Japanese. In addition, due to the options to create your own outfits and paintings, at least one person had created and showcased a T-shirt modeled after [[Che Guevara]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20141009074917/http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/51860/features/thank-kk-its-friday/?page=2</ref>

===Pterodon/Illusion Software===
*''Vietcong 2'': Although like its predecessor, it ultimately portrays American involvement in Vietnam as a positive, and depicts the Vietcong in the main story as the bad guys, there is an additional mode that features the player playing as the Vietcong and them being portrayed in a more positive manner.

===Ubisoft===
*Assassins Creed 3: The Assassins help the American Revolution by killing the Templar leaders of the British. However, a DLC came out for the game that has you kill all of the [[Founding Fathers]].
*''Far Cry 5'': Set in the Montana countryside, a deputy is tasked with bringing a violent cult to justice with help from the locals. One of the characters helping the player is a Christian pastor named Jerome Jeffries, who encourages his fellow churchgoers to have faith and not give in to the cult. Richard "Dutch" Roosevelt, another supporting character who tasks the player of uniting the citizens of Hope County against the cult, has a distrust for big government. The game also occasionally pokes fun at liberals and the left-wing agenda, as well as painting the [[Second Amendment]] in a positive light through the locals arming themselves to fight the cult. However, the villainous cult is Christian (though they could be considered not true Christians due to doing the opposite of what Jesus Christ had taught), while the previous game villains were more politically neutral: a psychotic pirate, an atheistic dictator, and a sun-worshiping chieftain.

===Square-Enix===
*''Final Fantasy II:'' In initial releases for the game, the game had an undeniably pro-Christian element to the games, and also condemned Satanic worshippers and totalitarianism in the form of the game's main villain Emperor Mateus Palamecia, who explicitly goes to Hell when he dies and tries to take over the world with the powers he gained from Hell. However, the remakes starting with the GBA version added in a new mode called "Dawn of Souls" which has the killed party members fighting against the Emperor's light half who took over Heaven, which could be interpreted as an anti-Christian message.
*''Final Fantasy VI:'' Promotes parenthood due to Terra Branford becoming a mother figure for the Mobliz orphans late into the game, which also had her learning the concept of love, and also showcases the horrors of totalitarian ideologies in the form of the Gestahlian Empire, and also offers a condemnation of [[nihilism]] in the form of the game's main antagonist Kefka Palazzo (who is depicted in a similar manner to [[Joker (comics)|the Joker]] from the Batman franchise). However, Terra also makes a more relativistic remark when trying to refute Kefka regarding finding meanings in things.
*''Final Fantasy VII:'' Promotes the concept of redemption and condemns unethical science in the form of Professor Hojo as well as his creation Sephiroth (who ironically is voiced in the English versions by George Newbern, who portrayed [[Superman]]), but on the other hand, it also has a more anti-Capitalist view on things with Shin-Ra, the main antagonists, being a corporation, and is hinted to promote environmentalism due to the main protagonists being eco-terrorists.

===Rockstar North===
*''Bully:'' Despite coming from the same developers ultra-liberal series ''Grand Theft Auto'' and ''Midnight Club'', this game can be seen to show the dangers of high school cliques as well as bullies. However, the game's main protagonist, Jimmy Hopkins, can be quite a jerk himself and still gets involved in fights with bullies and high school cliques. The game has also been criticized by conservatives because it is possible for the player to engage the protagonist in homosexual relationships.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.neoseeker.com/news/6237-bully-under-spotlight-for-homosexual-content/|title=Bully Under Spotlight For "Homosexual" Content|author=Leo Chan|date=2006-10-24|accessdate=2019-03-08|work=Neoseeker|publisher=Neo Era Media, Inc.}}</ref>
*''Red Dead Redemption'': In the last days of the Old West in 1911, former outlaw John Marston is tasked by a corrupt government official to hunt down his former gang members (Bill Williamson, Javier Esquella, and Dutch Van der Linde) in exchange for getting his wife and son back. The game promotes the importance of family in the form of John trying to work hard to be with his family again, even trying to spend time with his son Jack and saving him from a [[brown bear]]; there is also traditional marriage being upheld, for John will refuse to sleep with prostitutes and remains loyal to his wife Abigail. It condemns government corruption through main villain Edgar Ross, who wants all of John's former gang destroyed to get all the glory for it, to the point where he has his army kill John in spite of promising to leave the latter alone once his job is done and is even rewarded for it. It also promotes doing good like donating to a nunnery, helping people (ranging from rescuing people from gangs or wild animals to just fetching items for them), and doing jobs for them; heroism is even portrayed positively, as legendary gunslinger Landon Ricketts singlehandedly keeps peace in Chuparosa while repelling its enemies. However, the player also has the option of doing bad things like murder, theft, and robbery. There is even a hint of [[bestiality]] when a minor character marries his horse Lucy, though the main character is rightfully flabbergasted at the reveal that the man's lost love is a horse.
*''Red Dead Redemption 2'': Set 12 years before the events of ''Red Dead Redemption'', this prequel game explores how the Dutch Van Der Linde gang had fallen, in the point of view of Arthur Morgan, one of Dutch's righthand men. Over the course of the game, the gang changes in so many ways that makes Arthur think over his past and future choices as well as question Dutch's increasingly reckless decisions. As the title of the two games suggests, it promotes redemption in the form of Arthur helping John Marston and his family escape the collapsing gang at the cost of his own life (whether from succumbing to tuberculosis or being murdered by main villain Micah Bell, which depends on whether the player has high or low honor). [[Hunting]] is portrayed positively while [[poaching]] is negatively shown, the latter showing half black/half [[Native American]] Charles Smith being angered at the sight of two poachers leaving intact [[bison]] carcasses to rot and killing one of the poachers. Like the previous game, the game shows doing good deeds, heroism, and family (whether it be with the Marston family or most of the Dutch Van Der Linde gang) in a good light. However, also like the first game, the player have a choice of doing bad things like murder, theft, and robbery, as well as the protagonist being in a gang of infamous bandits even if the player gets high honor. Dutch himself is portrayed as an early communist, believing in redistributing wealth as they steal from the rich and give to the poor, based on the [[Jacobin]] version of [[Robin Hood]] as portrayed by [[Joseph Ritson]]. Feminism is also promoted in a way by the character of the widow Sadie Adler, who insists of doing more work than helping with cooking; it's further shown when she later fights off and kills three men at once on her own in spite of a physical disadvantage.

===id Software===
*''Doom:'' The game casts satanic demons and monsters as the villains (although like most media, it depicts demons inaccurately). However, the game is controversial for its extreme violence and satanic imagery.

==Debatable Whether Great==
===Multiple Parties===
*''Home Alone'': A video game adaptation of the greatest conservative film of the same name, retaining many of its themes. However, the NES game has poor graphics and shallow gameplay.
*''Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'': A video game adaptation of the greatest conservative film of the same name, and retains many of its themes. However, it takes many liberties with the source material and has very flawed game design.
==See also==
*[[Essay:Worst Liberal Video Games]]

==References==
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Essay:Greatest Conservative Video Games

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Theocon: /* Indie/Small Developers */

Although the video game industry by and large is liberal, there have been instances of video games promoting conservative values.

==Artifex Mundi==
This small studio mostly works on mobile games, but their PC title ''Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka With Love'' is a very funny take on young and naïve people fiercely promoting socialism/communism.

The point-and-click game takes place in 1951 during the Cold War and portrays a young journalist, Evan, who defends Matryoshka's communist regime and its dictator, a clear parallel with the USSR, in any opportunity. He is then sent to Matryoshka and gets involved in a tale of espionage while experiencing the communist regime and slowly coming to terms with reality. As an example, when he sees a bread line in the beginning of his adventure, he somehow spins that as a positive thing, in the sense of "how the supreme leader is feeding all his people". A must-play for young teenagers who are flirting with leftist ideologies.

==Axis Entertainment==
This India-based gaming studio produces child-friendly, free games (sponsored by ads which are targeted toward their audience's parents).

Their main offering is the '''[[Baby Hazel]]''' game series. The title character is a two-year-old female toddler, featured doing positive activities (taking care of her newborn brother Matt, fixing food in the kitchen with her mother) and learning positive traits (manners, hygiene). The family is portrayed as a traditional nuclear family (father, mother, Hazel, and baby brother Matt) along with extended family, various friends and pets. One offering features Earth Day, but portrayed in a neutral manner to show care for the environment without getting into liberal traits. Many of the offerings feature Hazel saying prayers, not usually seen in secular video games.

However, the graphics are very simplistic and the games are known to have glitches in them; if a level is frozen the entire game must be restarted from the beginning (though there are only four levels in each game). Also being a foreign company the games do not feature proper English grammar (either American or British).

==Ubisoft==
*Watchdogs: Despite coming from the ultra-liberal video game company Ubisoft, the game Watch Dogs has several Conservative messages, namely those of pro-family, anti-crime, and anti-big government. However, its sequel qualified as liberal.
*Assassin's Creed Unity: Despite it coming from the ultra-liberal video game company Ubisoft as well as the liberal ''Assassin's Creed'' video game franchise, the game's plot specifically condemned the French Revolution and its adherents, with various notable figures of the French Revolution and Reign of Terror being targets for assassination.
*''Rainbow Six'' series: Based on the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, it deals with a special forces unit dealing with terrorists worldwide.
*''Ghost Recon'' series: Like with Rainbow Six, it deals with a special forces unit combating terrorists.

==Koei-Tecmo==
*''Dead or Alive'' series: The fighting game franchise had several conservative messages. One of which was pro-family, as the main character, Kasumi, joined the Dead or Alive tournament specifically to avenge her brother when he ended up critically injured by her uncle, and Kasumi, despite being on the run from her clan due to her technically violating their laws to do so, ultimately wants to return to her clan and family someday throughout the series, and in Dead or Alive 4, 5, and Dimensions, Ayane eventually managed to put aside her murderous jealousy against her half-sister and try to aid her. Similarly, Hayate, her brother, is also reluctant to kill his sister, despite the law mandating it, and their mother, Ayame, also stops Ayane (who was an illegitimate child due to Raidou, the uncle of Hayate and Kasumi who was responsible for the former's injury, having previously raped Ayame) from committing suicide and specifically stated not to kill Kasumi specifically because she was family, which was stronger than any Shinobi code. Similarly, in Dead or Alive 5, the character of Helena Douglas attempts to honor her deceased father's memory by restoring DOATEC to what her father Fame envisioned, and her overall character arc had her trying to avenge her deceased mother when she was murdered during a performance. In addition, the reason Helena's mother had died was because she took the bullet to save her daughter, due to said assassin, Christie, actually aiming for Helena herself during the performance. In addition, the character Hitomi in Dead or Alive 4 took control of the dojo specifically because her father had succumbed to an illness and needed money to help him and his dojo, with the character Gen-Fu having a similar motive regarding his granddaughter Mei Lin in Dead or Alive 1 and 2, entering to gain money for an operation to save her, and in Dead or Alive 3 to pay the medical bills, retiring only after she was fully cured and he fully paid off the debt and spending time with her afterward. Helena Douglas is also depicted as a Christian as well as depicted in a more positive light. In addition, even though it was a Japanese-created game series, it is also notable as featuring a surprisingly pro-American message in the form of the Armstrongs, as their patriotism was depicted in a positive light, and the character Tina was depicted as also trying to follow through with the American Dream. Also has an anti-cloning message, as the villainous DOATEC (and later, MIST) created various clones of Kasumi, with all of them being depicted as either villains (Alpha Kasumi, later known as Alpha-152) or victims (Phase 4). There is also a slight condemnation against feminism in Dead or Alive 5, as Tina tells Mila that "pretty girls shouldn't fight." On a related note, similar to Isabelle in ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'' below, one of the expansions for ''Dead or Alive 5'', ''Last Round'', featured the debut of the character Honoka, who is depicted as being very positive and eager, and is the antithesis of a modern feminist.

==Konami==
*Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: Although it was part of the liberal ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series, and also gave some hints at promoting the concept of [[Globalism]] and also relativism (and to a lesser extent nihilism) via The Boss's philosophy, the game's overall message was surprisingly conservative, emphasizing a promotion of patriotism in a (in comparison to the rest of the series at least) positive light throughout most of the game, and also featuring the Soviet Union and Communism in general in a more negative light, including depicting the main villain, Colonel Volgin, in a truly villainous and horrific light, as well as referencing several real-life [[war crimes]] conducted by the USSR such as the [[Katyn Massacre|massacre at Katyn Forest]] during World War II (including making clear that the Soviets, in particular Volgin, was responsible for the event, not the Nazis which was even referenced in-game, as well as making explicitly clear that [[Joseph Stalin]] had ordered for the massacre by the NKVD in the first place, as well as similar massacres within the Ukraine and [[Kurapaty|Western Belarus]] as well as it resulting in at least 24,000 deaths including the mass grave discovered by the Wehrmacht near Gnezdovo village), the massacres during the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|Hungarian Revolution in 1956]] as well as the [[Uprising of East Germany in 1953|uprising in East Germany]] on June 17, 1953. It also to a certain extent attempts to promote American values (especially in comparison to most entries in the series prior to and after that game). In addition, the man trying to defect from the Soviet Union to America in the beginning of the game, Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, is shown in a sympathetic light and was also shown to be a family man, as when defecting to the United States and trying to cross the Iron Curtain, he made clear that he won't leave without his family, and late in the game, when acknowledging he probably won't be able to go to America, he has Naked Snake swear to take care of his family for him. In addition, it has a slight anti-homosexual agenda message due to the character Major Raikov alongside the main villain Volgin being strongly implied to be in a homosexual relationship, and neither character being depicted in a positive or sympathetic light. Also, contrary to most Cold War-related storylines which usually downplays Soviet involvement in various third-world conflicts such as Vietnam, it is made explicitly clear that the Soviets played a huge role in various uprisings within the third world, with radio conversations dealing with various weapons making very clear that the Soviets had involvement in South Vietnam, in the Malaysia Emergency, and that they even devised various traps specifically to be adopted by any communist allies in third world regions and were researching various traps within the Soviet Union via one of the key locations in the game. Volgin's main plan for the Shagohod also involved mass-producing it for the Eastern Bloc and then using it as bait to ferment uprisings against "dictators, ethnic insurgents, and revolutionary groups" throughout the third world, which not only acts as further confirmation of Soviet communism's involvement in the third world uprisings, but also hints at Volgin planning on engineering revolts against the USSR while he is in control of it, alluding to how various Communist ideologues often tried to instigate revolts even when firmly in power (owing to Karl Marx's advocating that the communists upon assuming power be obliged to reenact Robespierre's Reign of Terror).
**Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops: Like ''Snake Eater'' above, it also attempts to invoke patriotism in a more positive light, and the main villains are explicitly shown to try and invoke nihilism, anti-American commentary as well as promoting class warfare at one point (citing a growing gap between the rich and poor during a speech midway through the game). It also has a condemnation against Soviet policies, as a large part of the reason why the personnel of a missile base in Colombia (who were of Soviet origin) ended up turning to Gene's cause was out of revenge for essentially being cut off from the Soviet brass due to the events of Détente in order for the Soviets to place the blame on "out-of-control soldiers" in the event the base was discovered, and when the Soviet personnel ultimately did aid Snake in stopping the possible nuclear launch against the Soviet Union, it is solely due to the Soviet Union being their homeland and not out of any love for its policies. Similar to ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', it makes clear that the Soviets were also heavily involved in the actions of various liberation fronts in the third world, as the reason the Soviets had the missile base in Colombia in the first place was because the Soviets had been aiding the [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia|FARC]] communist rebel group in the backstory, and the character Frank Jaegar, aka, Null, had formerly been a member of the communist-backed FREMILO, with Big Boss being implied to have aided the Portuguese Soldiers during the Mozambician Civil War.
*Contra series: Pro-military and Pro-American. American heroes fight against villainous organizations and alien invaders.
*Castlevania series: Various members of the Belmont Clan, implied to be Christian (in Castlevania II, Simon Belmont restores his HP by visiting a church, in Castlevania III, Trevor Belmont kneels before a Cross in the intro, and in the Nintendo 64 version of the game, the character Reinhardt Schneider is seen making the trinity prayer gesture ["in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit"] in the beginning of his scenario, and when comforting Rosa, offers her last rites.) fight against the occult forces of Count Dracula.

==Play Mechanix Inc.==
*[[Big Buck Hunter]] series: Pro-hunting arcade game series.

==Electronic Arts==
*Battlefield series: Similarly to the Call of Duty series, it tends to promote American values as well as being pro-military. However its recent title Battlfield V betrays its fanbase for the sake of being woke. Allowing for female soldiers even though it historicaly inacurate for non russian female soldiers in WW2. The game has also made "white men" a swear word.
*Medal of Honor series: Like above, it tends to promote American values as well as being pro-military. Although the series mostly deals with the events of [[World War II]], two of the more recent games deal with the [[War in Afghanistan]].
*Command And Conquer series: A military real-time strategy series divided into three sub-series: ''Tiberium, Red Alert'' and ''Generals''. The ''Tiberium'' series, however, promotes globalism but at the same time, condemns religious extremism. The latter two are more conservative and pro-American, with ''Red Alert'' fighting against Soviet communism and ''Generals'' fighting against Islamic extremism.

==Nintendo==
*''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series: Similar in vein to stories such as ''Lord of the Rings'', ''Beowulf'', and ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', the games detail a classic message of good fighting evil, and also featured implicit Christian themes in the series (in fact, until the third game, the religion of the people in the games was supposed to be Christianity, hence the cross on Link's Shield in the first game). The main villain, Ganon, is revealed to have originally belonged to a group known as the Gerudo, who are depicted as a nearly all-female race (Ganon, or more accurately his human form Ganondorf, being the only exception) and having traits resembling Muslims, hinting at an anti-feminist/anti-Islam message. There was also a pro-family message in at least one game in the series, as one of the entries, ''Wind Waker'', featured Link trying to save his sister after she was abducted early on in the game, as well as their getting along amicably throughout.
*Radar Mission: Pro-military game based on the board game battleship, it teaches the player the art of strategy, with the story involving the player fighting against an enemy fleet and, later, an enemy airfield that is implied to be the main headquarters of the enemy. Also has an alternate game mode that deals with Submarine warfare.
*''[[Metroid]]'' series: Although largely being based on the liberal movie franchise ''Alien'', the game franchise has several conservative elements. Namely, it depicts piracy and terrorism in a negative manner in the form of the murderous Space Pirates who frequently act as the main antagonists of the franchise. The game ''Super Metroid'' also promotes parenthood in a positive light, as the main plotline of the game involved Samus Aran trying to rescue her "child", a Metroid hatchling she adopted after wiping out its race in the previous game due to it imprinting on her, from the Space Pirate forces. The Prime series also depicts the military in a positive manner in the form of the Galactic Federation Marines, and some of the Chozo Logs as well as the Luminoth also have some similarities to biblical accounts (i.e., the Worm, alluding to the titular antagonist Metroid Prime, alluding to Wormwood in the book of revelations). In addition, although the main protagonist, Samus Aran, is female, it does not promote the concept of feminism. The game ''Metroid Fusion'' also showcases the warnings of playing god and government corruption.
*''[[Punch-Out!!]]'' series: Pro-American dream, as the player, as Little Mac, a rookie boxer from New York, has to fight to the championship to acquire the title of world champion of boxing.
* ''Cooking Mama'' series: A charming cooking series that utilizes the mechanics of the games system's mechanics to teach cooking. Does favor traditional gender roles with the title character, Mama, an enthusiastic chef/stay-at-home mother. This series was "parodied" by [[PETA]] (The parody game is subtitled ''Mama Kills Animals''!) due to the series including meat-based recipes, but the developers, Majesco, exploited the frenetic attention that PETA was gaining with such gore. The series started in 2006 and has been steady releasing games, the most recent being a mobile app game called ''Cooking Mama: Let's Cook!''

==''Paranoid Productions''==
*''The Church In The Darkness'': The game's premise deals with a preacher infiltrating a cult to save their nephew. The antagonistic cult is heavily implied to be based on the cult led by the infamous [[Jim Jones]]. Aside from it condemning the socialist elements as well as being pro-traditional christianity and pro-family, it also has a condemnation of [[social justice warrior]] elements, as the game repeatedly refers to the antagonistic cult as "collective justice warriors."<ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/08/the-church-in-the-darkness-gameplay-walkthrough/90218/</ref>

==Sega==
*''Streets of Rage'' series: An anti-crime and anti-gang series in which former police officers fight against a crime syndicate run by a "Mr. X."

==SNK==
*''Metal Slug'' series: Pro-military and pro-American, deals with the main characters trying to fight terrorists of various stripes.
*''Iron Tank'': Unlike its predecessor ''Guerilla War'', this involved an American tank commando trying to take down the Nazis, and is blatantly pro-American.

==Synergestic Software==
*''Super Battleship'': Pro-military strategy game based on the board game Battleship. In addition to the standard game, there is also a story-based mode that has you dealing with several military operations and fighting against enemy fleets (implied by the eagle on the flag to be the Nazis). Teaches the player about the art of strategy.

==Pterodon/Illusion Software==
*''Vietcong'': Promotes American forces in a positive light, and, despite the title of the game, the Vietcong are depicted as villains in this. Overall promotes the [[Vietnam War]].

==Square-Enix==
*''Final Fantasy:'' The first game in the franchise has a simple tale of Good vs. Evil.
*''Final Fantasy IV:'' Promotes the concept of redemption, and showcases a clear message of good vs. evil.

==Capcom==
*''194X'' series: Despite being made by the Japanese developer Capcom, this series of scrolling shooters has the player playing as and American Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighting in the Pacific War.
*''Devil May Cry'' Series: Has messages about stopping demonic forces of hell and protecting humanity/having a heart with pro-family themes throughout the 5 games.
*''Mega Man ZX'' series: Has a significant condemnation of [[Social Darwinism]] in the form of Serpent and Master Albert, and also has a condemnation of homosexuality in the form of Rospark the Floroid. Also depicts terrorism in a very negative light.
*Final Fight: Pro-family and anti-crime. Metro City's new mayor, Mike Haggar, vows to get tough on crime. In response, the city's infamous "Mad Gear" gang kidnaps Haggar's daughter, Jessica and demands that he "just let us do what we want to like the old mayor did," implying that the old mayor was in collusion with the Mad Gears. Mike Haggar, Jessica's boyfriend Cody, and Cody's friend Guy take to the streets and fight through the Mad Gear gang to rescue Jessica. The ending shows Mike embracing his daughter, comforting her after her traumatic experience with him saying "I thought I'd lose you the way I lost your mother" and Jessica responding "I love you, Daddy."

==Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.==
*''Ace Combat 04:Shattered Skies'': Pro-military and has the player fighting against a fictional fascist regime. The last mission has heavy Christian symbolism. Megalith, a superweapon designed to alter the course of asteroids to any target on Earth, has been activated by rogue military officers, and has the weapon direct asteroids to the continent. The falling of the asteroids images one of the events in the Book of Revelations. The mission to destroy Megalith symbolizes the sacrifice of Jesus: the superweapon itself is shaped like a crucifix (a symbol of death), Megalith is a stone used to sacrifice animals and to create tombs. To destroy Megalith, the player has to fly inside the superweapon and destroy the generators and missiles inside. This symbolizes Jesus sacrificing his life as the Lamb of God to save mankind from their sins as the player is "sacrificing" his life to stop the asteroids killing civilians. Indeed, the background music is a repeated Latin chorus which is translated as:

''Lamb of God,
''who take away the sins of the world
''Grant them rest.

The destruction of the superweapon by the player symbolizes the defeat of death by Christ, with the AWACS officer remarking, "Heroes really do exist. We've just seen one, and now he's coming home." As he says this, sunlight breaks through the clouds, and the player flies towards them as he returns to base, symbolizing Christ's Ascension.

==Rockstar==
*''L.A. Noir'': Despite being made by Rockstar, L.A. Noir places the character in the role of a detective rather than a criminal. The player investigates murders and collects evidence, interrogates witnesses and suspects while chasing down criminals. The player also has the option of stopping street crime during the game at random intervals. L.A. Noir stresses using intelligence and insight to solve crimes rather than commit them as done in other games. This is the only Rockstar game which doesn't use violence except in the furtherance of stopping a crime against an innocent party. The player is rewarded for capturing a suspect rather than appealing to violence as a first consideration.

==Paradox Interactive==
* ''Crusader Kings III'': This is a Role-playing game that takes place during the [[Medieval Age]] in Europe, North [[Africa]], and the [[Middle East]]. This period is famous for its piousness and devotion to the principles of God, as in opposition to the values of sin. It also promotes true conservative values like fighting [[Islam]] and converting the religion of heathens.
* ''Hearts of Iron 4'': This is a World War Two era strategy game that features very complex gameplay. The game was attacked by the [[CCP]] for it's accurate depiction of [[Tibet]], [[Manchuria]], and [[East Turkestan]] as independent countries before the Chinese invasions of each. The game's ''Man the Guns'' expansion was also heavily criticized for its accurate depiction of [[Democratic Socialism]] as a buzzword for [[communism]]. ''Hearts of Iron 4'' also features a positive depiction of [[Catholics]] and a negative depiction of [[Atheists]]. The game also recognizes Communism and Fascism as having the same inherent government form, [[Totalitarianism]]. ''Hearts of Iron 4'' was attacked by the leftist site [[Kotuku]] for allowing a player made modification that featured a positive depiction of [[Christianity]] and a negative depiction of [[Islamic Terrorism]].

==Mojang==
*''Minecraft'': [[Minecraft]] was created by a lone computer programmer, outside of any major studio (a [[best of the public]] approach to game development), and later sold to Microsoft for $1 Billion. The game could probably be best described as an electronic form of Lego but vastly more complex. Game play is very simple, the player is dropped into a randomly generated world and must mine resources and craft tools and other items. Despite the simplicity of play the game can be used to create extremely complex circuitry and other types of constructions. The game contains no violence (outside of occasionally battling cartoonish enemies during the night hours), no swearing or sex. The game is hugely popular and has a dedicated following proving games do not have to be violent to be popular. Minecraft also has an education pack which is used to teach children about science, history, biology and other subjects<ref>https://education.minecraft.net/class-resources/lessons/</ref>

==Rocksteady Studios==
*''Batman: Arkham'' series: In these games the player plays as Batman to defeat enemies like The Joker, Poison Ivy, Bane and other villains from the the Batman universe. The game stresses no violence and preferring players to use their wits to hide and stalk enemies rather than engaging in immediate violence. While you do need to defeat enemies physically in many circumstances Batman never kills anyone - preferring to knock enemies out and leave them to be captured by police. Also portrays capitalism in a positive light, due to Lucius Fox being a frequent ally in ''Arkham Knight'' and to a lesser extent ''Arkham City''.

==Debatable whether Conservative==
===Indie/Small Developers===
• Undertale: On one hand, it teaches the importance of core Christian values such as mercy and compassion by discouraging killing characters, and instead solving conflicts non-violently. On the other hand, it involves homosexual and bisexual relationships, some of which may involve the player character (who is 12 years of age) depending on what dialogue choices the player makes.
• Dust An Elysian Tail: as the game was developed by a devout Christian couple, it has a significant amount of religious messages such as redemption, forgiveness and even hints to reincarnation. The main characters combat against the genocidal tyrant whose views are comparable to the German Nazism and Japanese Militarism. In addition, the main developer personally thanks God Himself in the final credits of the game, calling him "everloving". It is worth noting that the game may scare away some conservatives with its (albeit very high-quality) furry art style, even though the developers themselves are not part of the infamous furry community.

===Capcom===
*Resident Evil series: The games generally have a subtle anti-capitalist and anti-American agenda (with one of the protagonists in ''Resident Evil 3: Nemesis'', Carlos, being a communist rebel according to the game's Japanese version, and some versions of ''Resident Evil 5'' have a secret conversation between the game's protagonists, Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar, where the former denounces America due to it being capitalist.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA-aH1K_zBU</ref>). However, it also has a condemnation against social Darwinism and eugenics, as most of the main villains in the franchise tended to promote some form of eugenics as well as social Darwinism as their motives. In addition, one of the protagonists, Barry Burton, was implied in the English localization to be a member of the [[National Rifle Association]], and the games also to some extent featured pro-family messaging, as Barry Burton was shown to be very loyal to his family, and the character Claire Redfield is depicted as being loyal to her brother Chris, spending Resident Evil 2 trying to find him and in Code Veronica refuses to allow Albert Wesker to harm him. The games also showcase government corruption in a scarily realistic and negative light in the form of Albert Wesker (who was a former police officer in the first ''Resident Evil'') and Brian Irons (the police chief for the Raccoon City Police Department in ''Resident Evil 2''). Resident Evil 4 also has a condemnation against pagan religions in the form of the Los Illuminados (which is Spanish for "The Enlightened Ones", and may subtly condemn the Illuminati), and the game ''Umbrella Chronicles'' has a possible negative depiction of Communism, or at the very least Soviet-style communism, as one of the main antagonists of that game, Sergei Vladimir, is depicted as an unrepentant former Soviet soldier who in one of the in-game files is strongly implied to have ultimately desired the restoration of the Soviet state.
*''Dead Rising 2'' and ''Dead Rising 2: Off the Record'': Although it has largely the same plotline as in the first ''Dead Rising'', it also to some extent is pro-family, due to the main character trying to save his daughter from infection. In addition, unlike the first or third main entries to the series, the hidden antagonist is not a military person, but instead a former rapper and TV executive who orchestrated the entire outbreak to boost ratings as well as steal wealth, acting as a subtle condemntation to [[Hollywood values]].

===Electronic Arts===
*The Sims (and sequels): Promotes conservative values such as marriage, hard work, the raising of children, law and order, [[capitalism]], and private property ownership<ref>In the SimCity spinoff, the player is expected to build a city, which requires such.</ref>, but it also promotes other things that are anti-conservative, such as homosexual relationships and extramarital sexual relationships, and also has an implicit anti-military message due to there being negative aspects included with building military bases.<ref>In the SimCity spinoff, one option is a military base, but doing so comes with "higher crime" requiring increased police presence.</ref>. An afterlife exists in the game, but not in a Christian sense. The game was created by an [[atheist]].

===Frontier Developments===
*''Jurassic World Evolution'': A spiritual sequel to ''Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis'' from 2001, this game takes the player across the Muerto Archipelago - a chain of tropical islands off the coast of Costa Rica - as they build dinosaur parks for the public. In a way, it promotes capitalism, showing that the park cannot operate without money, requiring the player to build shops, complete contracts to earn rewards, and create fully-cloned dinosaurs to bring in more money and build up the parks. On the other hand, it also promotes the pro-cloning message from the films ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' and ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'', though Ian Malcolm from the movies does warn the player about the consequences of creating dinosaurs. Three DLCS include "The Secrets of Dr. Wu", "Claire's Sanctuary", and "Return to Jurassic Park", as well as having different upgrades and new dinosaurs added with them. A sequel called ''Jurassic World Evolution 2'' was released in November 2021, taking place after the events of ''Fallen Kingdom''.
*''Jurassic World Evolution 2'': The 2021 sequel to ''Jurassic World Evolution''- which itself is a spiritual sequel to 2001's ''Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis'' - takes the player to different biomes across the United States of America as they build dinosaur parks for the public. It takes place after the film ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'', which starts the age of dinosaurs living alongside mankind. Like its predecessor, it promotes capitalism, showing that the park cannot operate without money, requiring the player to build shops, complete contracts to earn rewards, and create fully-cloned dinosaurs to bring in more money and build up the parks. On the other hand, it also promotes the pro-cloning message from the films ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' and ''Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'', though Ian Malcolm from the movies does warn the player about the consequences of creating dinosaurs.

===Koei Tecmo===
*''Dead or Alive 6'': The game features some left wing elements (presumably due to some bullying by the higher-ups such as Tom Lee and Yohei Shimbori), including having Tina imply at one point that one of her goals as governor was to implement big government policies in a conversation with Zack, and the new character Diego is implied to be a socialist due to his bitterly inferring the tournament only exists to "entertain rich people". However, some of the more conservative elements from the games was still retained such as the pro-family messaging (Ryu Hayabusa while sparring with Hayate assures him that his sister Kasumi was safe, referring to an ambush by MIST on her life earlier that Hayabusa stopped, Helena making clear that Kokoro's the only family she has left when the latter was about to leave over the revelation that the two are half-sisters, and Diego's concern for his implied terminally ill mother. In addition, the final battle of the game has Kasumi, Ayane, and Hayate confronting their revived murderous uncle (and in Ayane's case, illegitimate father), Raidou, with Ayane's involvement being implied to be due to wanting to avenge her newly-discovered paternal half-sister, Honoka, who was left in critical condition due to her as well as Ayane being forcibly used by NiCO to revive him.). In addition, the game also has a condemnation of infidelity, as one of the lore bits implied that Helena's and Kokoro's father's womanizing habits is ultimately part of the reason he got killed. There's also a statement against the [[Idea of Progress]] philosophy, as the character NiCO embodies this philosophy regarding her use of unethical experiments, and Helena after NiCO was revealed to have attempted to revive her murdered mother Maria calls her out on it, even explicitly stating that even if science were to find a way to revive the dead, something like that should not ever be embraced.
*''Dead or Alive Xtreme'' series: A beach vacation spinoff for the ''Dead or Alive'' series. The ''Xtreme'' games include some softcore elements such as a pole dancing minigame as well as girls being implied to change in front of the player in ''Xtreme 3'', and it does feature some gambling. One of the characters, Kanna, also is a Japanese Oni and resembles a demon. However, series creator Tomonobu Itagaki indicated his primary intent for the game was merely to have the characters enjoying a vacation, not necessarily to promote softcore elements. In addition, regarding the game ''Xtreme Venus Vacation'', although the character Tamaki is heavily implied to be bisexual as well as an alcoholic, her more girl-obsessed and lewd elements were not treated in a particularly positive light based on the other girls being wary of her when interacting with her as well as Helena, her closest acquaintance, admitting that was a frequent problem of Tamaki's. The game also has a condemnation of feminism as well, as the character Nagisa was shown to initially have distaste for the Owner partly via feminist rhetoric, though she gradually changes her views on the Owner during her character arc. Three of the characters in that game, Fiona (who is heavily implied to be a Princess from Europe, presumably Great Britain due to comments made by her regarding schools having morning and noon tea times as well as modeling a swimsuit after the Christmas Tree Fairy.), Sayuri (a Japanese nurse), and Koharu (a Japanese girl who aspires to become an innkeeper due to her family background) are also depicted in a traditionally feminine manner. The games also retain the more pro-family elements from the original to a certain extent, as ''Xtreme 2'' had Ayane arriving at the island while going after Kasumi, with the implication being that she wished to patch things up with her half-sister, and both Kasumi and Ayane as well as Helena and Kokoro were shown to get along very well (with it also being heavily implied that Kokoro wished to have a long chat with Helena regarding their half-sibling status in one episode), and part of Nagisa's reasons for participating in the festival was in part to help her sister Misaki. In addition, the concept of chivalry is promoted, as you lose bonding points if you peek too soon during the aforementioned clothes changing element or gifting the girls any lewd outfits, and the owner of the island a few times refuses to take advantage of several girls even when he had the upper hand (for instance, not taking advantage of a drunken Tamaki in one episode, and forfeiting a poker game despite having the winning hand in order to avoid forcing Monica to strip per the pre-established rules of the game in another episode). The game ''Xtreme Venus Vacation'' also has an implicit promotion of capitalism, as Misaki when describing the objective of the owner of the island explicitly states that he needs to turn the island into the ultimate beach resort. The title of one of the Christmas events is also one of the few instances to explicitly reference the point of Christmas being to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ due to it being titled "Dreams of Holy Night."

===Konami===
*''Metal Gear Solid''/''Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes'': Although the first game does have condemnation towards Cloning and genetic engineering, and also has (albeit unintentionally) a pro-life/anti-abortion message due to Liquid Snake, when describing the process of the Les Enfants Terribles' creation, in particular its use of abortion to encourage fetal growth, explicitly labeling it as murder (although in that case, he attributed the act of murder more to himself and his brother Solid Snake, both byproducts of the project, than to the people actually responsible for the Super Baby Method), as well as promoting the concept of redemption to some extent, and also paints terrorism in an appropriately bad light, it at the same time is rife with anti-Americanism among both heroes and villains (although obviously not to the same extent as in later entries) as well as pushing an anti-nuclear and anti-war agenda, both of which seemed to focus more on America doing so than other countries, in particular Russia and China (specifically, the character Nastasha Romanenko, a member of NEST, spent most of her time condemning America for using nuclear weapons or even using nuclear power at all, and giving very little, if any criticism towards Russia and China for their having nukes, despite the fact that the event that caused her to hold a strong hatred for nukes, Chernobyl, having originated from within the Soviet bloc).
**''Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance'': The game does have anti-American elements per the standard of the ''Metal Gear'' franchise, with the main villain being an American politician who intended to jumpstart a war to restore America, and Raiden and Courtney also give slight references to Occupy Wall Street and their 1% rhetoric. On the other hand, it also condemns far-left ideologies such as Communism, in particular the Khmer Rouge, as one of the villains, Monsoon, was a survivor of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal actions in Cambodia, with his more villainous and amoral nature being directly derived from that event, and it also condemns nihilism via Monsoon as well. It also has a slight promotion of Capitalism, as one of Raiden's allies, a former East German scientist by the name of Wilhelm Voigt, and better known as Doktor, at one point says "Ich Liebus Capitalismus", which translated to "I Love Capitalism."

===Radical Games===
*''The Simpsons Hit and Run'': Although there are some liberal themes, such as Marge's crusade against Bonestorm-an implied violent video game-being depicted in a negative light, some characters engaging in lawlessness in a similar manner to ''Grand Theft Auto'', and one of the later chapters for the game having the main antagonists supply the townspeople with ray guns as well as tainted cola in a way that could be interpreted as supporting gun control, it also had several conservative messages, namely pro-family, as two of the chapters dealt with Lisa and Marge trying to find Bart after he went missing and trying to find out the cause behind his addled behavior, and later attempting to stop the production of Buzz Cola due to its effects on Bart, respectively, the first chapter and most of the game features a condemnation towards mass surveillance due to the presence of surveillance vans and wasp cameras and their being treated in a clear negative light, especially in a matter that isn't essential to stopping a threat, and is also anti-Hollywood values due to the main antagonists, aliens by the name of Kang and Kodos, deliberately trying to cause a ruckus in Springfield, including the aforementioned distribution of ray guns and tainted Buzz Cola to cause a shootout and later reanimating the dead via Buzz Cola, plus using the wasp cameras and surveillance vans all in an attempt to boost ratings of their reality show "Foolish Earthlings," which as the title implies deals with depicting various people of Earth, in particular Springfield, doing various stupid actions. Also has a rarity in the franchise where nuclear power is actually depicted in a positive light due to it ultimately being the only thing that stopped Kang and Kodos's alien invasion. There is also a humorous condemnation towards gun-free school zones, as during the same level that Bart has to stop the distribution of ray guns to the populace at Squidport, Principal Skinner explicitly references the no-gun policy among students at Springfield Elementary when confiscating Bart's ray gun, despite Bart making clear he only needed the gun to supply evidence towards an evil plot.

===Activision===
*Call of Duty 2: Like most entries in the franchise, it ultimately promotes American values and the military, as well as the British during World War II as well. However, at least one of the main campaigns depicts the Soviets in a positive manner due to it focusing on the Battle of Stalingrad.
*Call of Duty World at War: Like Call of Duty 2, it promotes the American military, but also has a Soviet campaign. Unlike COD 2, though, it portrays the Russians more realistically as cruel, brutal and merciless towards the Nazis. It also depicts a Russian Commissar encouraging this brutality. This game is one of the few World War II games to depict the Pacific War against Japan and the first mission accurately portrays the Japanese cruelty towards POWs. The events are also historically inaccurate as the Marines are depicted taking Shuri Castle, which was done by the Army, not the Marines.

===Bethesda Software===
*''The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim'': Inspired by conservative novels such as ''Lord of the Rings'', ''Beowulf'', and ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', this game in the ''Elder Scrolls'' series tells about the player being prophesized as a "Dragonborn" (a being with the body of a mortal and the soul of a dragon) to do battle with the dark dragon Alduin and delay the end of the world. In the midst of the crisis is an ongoing civil war between the rebel Stormcloaks led by Ulfric Stormcloak and the Imperial Legion. Like the other games in the series, this game has conservative messages just like them. Such messages include redemption and striving to do good when the great white dragon Paarthurnax is revealed to have once been Alduin's second-in-command but has since tamed his more savage nature to be at peace with the mysterious Greybeards and other humans, asking "What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" Both sides in the civil war have valid reasons for their actions: The Legion that is stationed in Skyrim wants a united empire to stand against the high elves, and the Stormcloaks want Skyrim to be more independent from the empire, similar to the colonists from the [[American Revolution]]. That said, however, it also engages in a few liberal themes, including an option for same-sex "marriages" and a promotion of feminism (including a high-ranking female "legates", the game's equivalent of a colonel, with the females being given a more masculine design).
*''Fallout 4'': Part of the apocalyptic ''Fallout'' series, the player (a soldier for a male character, a lawyer for a female character) is cryogenically frozen, witnessing his/her infant son being kidnapped. They awaken two hundred years later in post-apocalyptic Boston, Massachusetts (called the Commonwealth) and embark on a journey to find their son, joined by new friends and various factions. The game portrays friendship and other virtues like courage well, as shown with the well-meaning but harsh Brotherhood of Steel. The Minutemen - initially led by Preston Garvey - are shown to be altruistic patriots, ready to defend other people and preserve freedom for the Commonwealth; they even have a motto saying "Freedom at a minute's notice". Family is also promoted in several ways: The player is searching for their son who is kidnapped as a baby, reporter Piper Wright and her sister Nat work together as a team in journalism, and MacCready wanders the Commonwealth in search of a cure for his sick son. The player even has the choices of doing good, like defending settlements from attack or giving money or supplies to the needy, and several companions (including Piper and synth detective Nick Valentine) will praise the player for their good choices. However, the game does condemn nuclear weapons; even a companion named Deacon believes this about weapons of any kind: "Guns don't solve problems, they just create more". Players can even choose to be involved in a homosexual relationship with companions of the same sex, and a minor character and a Miss Nanny robot fall in love and marry. Like having the choice to do good, the player can also choose to do harmful things like murder or stealing, which other companions (like Courser X6-88 and super mutant Strong) will commend them for. The DLC called "Nuka World" (taking place in a soda-based amusement park) has the option of leading a violent band of raiders on a mission to subdue the Commonwealth; this, however, is also up to the player, who can wipe out the raiders instead.

===Nintendo===
*''Metroid: Other M:'' Although largely part of the Metroid series and retaining some of its more conservative elements (namely, the promotion of parenthood and condemning the concept of playing god), the game was rather infamous for several criticisms it experienced in the game, namely the characterization of Adam Malkovich and his relationship with Samus due to it coming across more as promoting an abusive relationship (such as Adam shooting Samus in the back before sacrificing himself). The game, unlike in the Prime series, also depicts the military in a more negative manner, as a flashback had Samus being restrained from turning her back on Adam despite her intention being to save Ian, his brother, from death, as well as one of the more controversial elements of the game being the authorization element which at one point has Adam failing to actually authorize the Varia Suit to allow Samus to traverse through a superheated area despite it nearly killing her until a long while afterward, and also had as its main plot a conspiracy to weaponized Metroids at the order of the Federation military (as well as having someone within Samus's group attempt to assassinate each of the members in order to silence them to any potential discoveries to the conspiracy in question via the character The Deleter).
*''Animal Crossing: New Leaf:'' Though it does replace holidays [[Christmas]] and [[Easter]] with the more politically correct "Toy Day" and "Bunny Day" respectfully (largely due to Nintendo of America's insistence on not listing Christmas and Easter by those names due to it having a ban on religious references), as well as some 'environmentally friendly' Public Works Projects (the latter of which are optional), the main ideals of ''Animal Crossing'' shine through, mainly the ideals of friendship, responsibility (since in this game, you become the mayor) and innocence are treated with respect. Shows [[capitalism]] in a positive light in Tom Nook, a kind-hearted (now-wealthy) raccoon (tanuki in original Japanese) who has opened Nook's Homes, leaving his store to his budding salesmen nephews, Timmy and Tommy (though some villagers theorise that they are not Tom Nook's nephews, instead believing them to be orphans that he adopted). Also shows [[marriage]] and family in a positive light, in characters Reese and Cyrus, a pair of married alpacas who run the Re-Tail recycling/refurbishing shop, and the Able Sisters clothing store, run by hedgehog sisters Mabel, Sable and Labelle, the latter of which has returned home after a bad fight with oldest sister Sable prior to the original game but has since come home, and the turtle (kappa in Japan) Kapp'n, a motorboat driver, who since the previous game married long-time sweetheart Leilani and they have a daughter named Leila. The mayor's secretary, Isabelle, an eager and positive shi-tsu, is also the antithesis to a modern [[feminist]], as well Lottie, a very feminine and sweet-natured otter employee of Nook's Homes (only shows up after the Welcome Amiibo update, however) That being said, however, in the Valentine's Day events, Isabelle can be depicted as having a crush on the player character regardless of gender (though said player is not allowed to pursue a relationship with her, or any other animal character for that matter), as well as the character of the fashionista giraffe Gracie, who while female in most translations of the game, is a effeminate male named Grace in the original Japanese. In addition, due to the options to create your own outfits and paintings, at least one person had created and showcased a T-shirt modeled after [[Che Guevara]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20141009074917/http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/51860/features/thank-kk-its-friday/?page=2</ref>

===Pterodon/Illusion Software===
*''Vietcong 2'': Although like its predecessor, it ultimately portrays American involvement in Vietnam as a positive, and depicts the Vietcong in the main story as the bad guys, there is an additional mode that features the player playing as the Vietcong and them being portrayed in a more positive manner.

===Ubisoft===
*Assassins Creed 3: The Assassins help the American Revolution by killing the Templar leaders of the British. However, a DLC came out for the game that has you kill all of the [[Founding Fathers]].
*''Far Cry 5'': Set in the Montana countryside, a deputy is tasked with bringing a violent cult to justice with help from the locals. One of the characters helping the player is a Christian pastor named Jerome Jeffries, who encourages his fellow churchgoers to have faith and not give in to the cult. Richard "Dutch" Roosevelt, another supporting character who tasks the player of uniting the citizens of Hope County against the cult, has a distrust for big government. The game also occasionally pokes fun at liberals and the left-wing agenda, as well as painting the [[Second Amendment]] in a positive light through the locals arming themselves to fight the cult. However, the villainous cult is Christian (though they could be considered not true Christians due to doing the opposite of what Jesus Christ had taught), while the previous game villains were more politically neutral: a psychotic pirate, an atheistic dictator, and a sun-worshiping chieftain.

===Square-Enix===
*''Final Fantasy II:'' In initial releases for the game, the game had an undeniably pro-Christian element to the games, and also condemned Satanic worshippers and totalitarianism in the form of the game's main villain Emperor Mateus Palamecia, who explicitly goes to Hell when he dies and tries to take over the world with the powers he gained from Hell. However, the remakes starting with the GBA version added in a new mode called "Dawn of Souls" which has the killed party members fighting against the Emperor's light half who took over Heaven, which could be interpreted as an anti-Christian message.
*''Final Fantasy VI:'' Promotes parenthood due to Terra Branford becoming a mother figure for the Mobliz orphans late into the game, which also had her learning the concept of love, and also showcases the horrors of totalitarian ideologies in the form of the Gestahlian Empire, and also offers a condemnation of [[nihilism]] in the form of the game's main antagonist Kefka Palazzo (who is depicted in a similar manner to [[Joker (comics)|the Joker]] from the Batman franchise). However, Terra also makes a more relativistic remark when trying to refute Kefka regarding finding meanings in things.
*''Final Fantasy VII:'' Promotes the concept of redemption and condemns unethical science in the form of Professor Hojo as well as his creation Sephiroth (who ironically is voiced in the English versions by George Newbern, who portrayed [[Superman]]), but on the other hand, it also has a more anti-Capitalist view on things with Shin-Ra, the main antagonists, being a corporation, and is hinted to promote environmentalism due to the main protagonists being eco-terrorists.

===Rockstar North===
*''Bully:'' Despite coming from the same developers ultra-liberal series ''Grand Theft Auto'' and ''Midnight Club'', this game can be seen to show the dangers of high school cliques as well as bullies. However, the game's main protagonist, Jimmy Hopkins, can be quite a jerk himself and still gets involved in fights with bullies and high school cliques. The game has also been criticized by conservatives because it is possible for the player to engage the protagonist in homosexual relationships.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.neoseeker.com/news/6237-bully-under-spotlight-for-homosexual-content/|title=Bully Under Spotlight For "Homosexual" Content|author=Leo Chan|date=2006-10-24|accessdate=2019-03-08|work=Neoseeker|publisher=Neo Era Media, Inc.}}</ref>
*''Red Dead Redemption'': In the last days of the Old West in 1911, former outlaw John Marston is tasked by a corrupt government official to hunt down his former gang members (Bill Williamson, Javier Esquella, and Dutch Van der Linde) in exchange for getting his wife and son back. The game promotes the importance of family in the form of John trying to work hard to be with his family again, even trying to spend time with his son Jack and saving him from a [[brown bear]]; there is also traditional marriage being upheld, for John will refuse to sleep with prostitutes and remains loyal to his wife Abigail. It condemns government corruption through main villain Edgar Ross, who wants all of John's former gang destroyed to get all the glory for it, to the point where he has his army kill John in spite of promising to leave the latter alone once his job is done and is even rewarded for it. It also promotes doing good like donating to a nunnery, helping people (ranging from rescuing people from gangs or wild animals to just fetching items for them), and doing jobs for them; heroism is even portrayed positively, as legendary gunslinger Landon Ricketts singlehandedly keeps peace in Chuparosa while repelling its enemies. However, the player also has the option of doing bad things like murder, theft, and robbery. There is even a hint of [[bestiality]] when a minor character marries his horse Lucy, though the main character is rightfully flabbergasted at the reveal that the man's lost love is a horse.
*''Red Dead Redemption 2'': Set 12 years before the events of ''Red Dead Redemption'', this prequel game explores how the Dutch Van Der Linde gang had fallen, in the point of view of Arthur Morgan, one of Dutch's righthand men. Over the course of the game, the gang changes in so many ways that makes Arthur think over his past and future choices as well as question Dutch's increasingly reckless decisions. As the title of the two games suggests, it promotes redemption in the form of Arthur helping John Marston and his family escape the collapsing gang at the cost of his own life (whether from succumbing to tuberculosis or being murdered by main villain Micah Bell, which depends on whether the player has high or low honor). [[Hunting]] is portrayed positively while [[poaching]] is negatively shown, the latter showing half black/half [[Native American]] Charles Smith being angered at the sight of two poachers leaving intact [[bison]] carcasses to rot and killing one of the poachers. Like the previous game, the game shows doing good deeds, heroism, and family (whether it be with the Marston family or most of the Dutch Van Der Linde gang) in a good light. However, also like the first game, the player have a choice of doing bad things like murder, theft, and robbery, as well as the protagonist being in a gang of infamous bandits even if the player gets high honor. Dutch himself is portrayed as an early communist, believing in redistributing wealth as they steal from the rich and give to the poor, based on the [[Jacobin]] version of [[Robin Hood]] as portrayed by [[Joseph Ritson]]. Feminism is also promoted in a way by the character of the widow Sadie Adler, who insists of doing more work than helping with cooking; it's further shown when she later fights off and kills three men at once on her own in spite of a physical disadvantage.

===id Software===
*''Doom:'' The game casts satanic demons and monsters as the villains (although like most media, it depicts demons inaccurately). However, the game is controversial for its extreme violence and satanic imagery.

==Debatable Whether Great==
===Multiple Parties===
*''Home Alone'': A video game adaptation of the greatest conservative film of the same name, retaining many of its themes. However, the NES game has poor graphics and shallow gameplay.
*''Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'': A video game adaptation of the greatest conservative film of the same name, and retains many of its themes. However, it takes many liberties with the source material and has very flawed game design.
==See also==
*[[Essay:Worst Liberal Video Games]]

==References==
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[[Category:Essays]]
[[Category:Video Games]]

Republican Party

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Theocon:

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| party_logo = [[Image:Cjjfdjfty.png|200px|"Republican Party Elephant" logo]]
| website = [http://www.gop.com www.gop.com]
| headquarters = 310 K Street SE [[Washington, D.C.]] 20003
| chairman = [[Ronna Romney McDaniel]]
| houseleader = [[Kevin McCarthy]]
| housespeaker = [[Kevin McCarthy]]
| senateleader = [[Mitch McConnell]]
| foundation = March 20, 1854
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The '''Republican Party''' ('''R''') or informally the '''GOP''' (short for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the [[United States]] and founded on the principles of [[equality]] and "one person, one vote."

The Republican Party is the only major U.S. political party that is [[pro-life]]. The Republican Party is also pro-[[free enterprise]], pro-[[religious liberty]], pro-[[Second Amendment]], and pro-[[traditional marriage]], while opposing the defunding of police departments. At its first national convention, in 1856, the Republican Party platform stated, "It is the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery."<ref>http://www.ushistory.org/gop/convention_1856.htm</ref>

The Republican Party was created in 1854 by anti-slavery activists and has always stood for equal rights and the dignity of the individual. It soon swept to control of all the northern states, and in 1860 elected [[Abraham Lincoln]] president. The South seceded, and the Union side of the [[American Civil War]] was directed by Lincoln and the new party, with help from "War Democrats." The GOP (as it was increasingly made up of veterans of the GAR or Grand Army of the Republic) dominated the elections of the [[Third Party System]] (1854–1896) as well as the [[Fourth Party System]] or Progressive Era (1896–1932). However, the Democrats built a liberal [[New Deal Coalition]] under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], and dominated the [[Fifth Party System]] (1932–1968), with the GOP only electing [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in that era. The Sixth Party System, since 1968, has been dominated by the GOP.

Unable to suppress minority voting rights for another century, in the 1960s Democrats sought to make Blacks dependent for food and housing on the Democratic party again with the [[War on Poverty]], as Blacks had been in the pre-Civil War plantation system.<ref>[https://mises.org/wire/welfare-state-did-what-slavery-couldnt-do The Welfare State Did What Slavery Couldn't Do], Wendy McElroy, Mises Institute, 09/09/2020.</ref> Throughout the [[voter suppression]] of the [[Jim Crow]] era and beyond the War on Poverty, Democrats were always determined that the party that freed the slaves would not become beneficiaries of the [[Freedmen]]'s vote. The system of economic co-dependency and [[patronage]] between white liberal racists and African Americans that existed for centuries was renewed in the mid-1960s.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism/amp Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist], by Adam Serwer, MSNBC, 04/11/14</ref> Only now the system of co-dependency was paid for with federal money rather than the [[private sector]] plantation system of the pre-Civil War era.<ref>[http://www.blackandblondemedia.com/2010/03/19/the-dixiecrat-myth/ The Dixiecrat Myth]</ref>

20 of the 30 US Presidents since 1861 have been Republicans and since that same year, a Republican has won 24 of the last 38 presidential elections. The party's most recent candidates [[Free Soil]] Republicans [[Donald Trump]] of [[New York]], along with his running mate, [[Indiana]] Governor [[Mike Pence]], won the [[2016 presidential election]] against Southern Democrat challengers [[Hillary Clinton]] of [[Arkansas]] and her running mate [[Tim Kaine]] of [[Virginia]].

It is important to vote for someone who's more conservative on the issues rather than for someone who represents their party only by name due to the fact some Republicans are less conservative than typical Republicans (see: [[RINO]]).
[[image:The_off_year_nast_1877.jpg|right|thumb|1877 Thomas Nast drawing of the Republican elephant.]]

== Symbol ==
The official symbol of the Republican Party is the elephant. Although the elephant had occasionally been associated with the party earlier, a political cartoon by [[Thomas Nast]], published in ''Harper's Weekly'' on November 7, 1874, is considered the first important use of the symbol.<ref>http://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon.asp?Year=2003&Month=November&Date=7</ref> In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Republican party in some Midwestern states was the eagle, as opposed to the Democratic cock (rooster). The eagle still appears on Indiana ballots.

A political term referring to the party is "G.O.P.", which was originally an acronym of "Grand Old Party". The term was coined in 1875.

==Ideology==
The Republican Party was established to successfully end the twin relics of [[barbarism]], [[polygamy]] and [[slavery]]. Historically, the fundamental philosophy and political ideals of the Republican Party are founded on the idea that societal health is rooted in personal responsibility and actions. The Republican Party holds the belief that all material things are earned, not owed. This is seen most often in the party's push for lower taxes. This is fought for in an attempt to treat all citizens equally despite income, race, gender, or religion. They also see taxes as a drag on the economy, and believe private spending is usually more efficient than public spending.

Republicans also show concerns about having big government in charge of such vital issues as food, shelter, or health care, as they believe the private sector and/or the individual are better suited to control their own lives. President [[Ronald Reagan]] who became a Republican in the early 1960s after being a [[New Deal]]er at one time, has been quoted as saying "Government is not the solution, it is the problem."

The party tends to hold both [[conservative]] and [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] stances on social and economic issues respectively. Major policies that the party has recently supported include a conservative foreign policy, including [[War on Terror]], liberating of [[Afghanistan]] and [[Iraq]], and strong support for democracy, especially in the [[Middle East]]. Many party members and politicians have shown a distrust of the [[United Nations]] due to the organization's incompetent bureaucracy, anti-capitalist undertone, corruption on the [[Security Council]] and in UN humanitarian programs. Along with demanding radical reforms in the UN, many Republican politicians also opposes the Kyoto Protocol due the protocol's unfair application to certain countries (especially the United States) and the fact that it prevents economic growth and slows the reduction of poverty.

The Republican Party generally supported free trade to promote democracy, especially [[NAFTA]] and [[CAFTA]]. It is responsible for a series of across-the-board tax cuts since 2001 that have bolstered the economy and reduced the punitive aspect of the income tax. It has sought business deregulation, reduction of environmental regulations that restrict fair use of land and property, and other policies that are pro-capitalism. It supports gun ownership rights, and enterprise zones (low taxes for investing in poverty areas). On social issues the majority of its national and state candidates usually favor the death penalty, call for stronger state-level control on access to [[abortion]], support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage at the federal level and by the states, favor faith-based charitable initiatives, support school choice and homeschooling, social welfare benefit reform, and oppose reverse racism, such as racial quotas.

In recent years the party has called for much stronger accountability in the public schools, especially through the "No Child Left behind Act" of 2001 (which also increased [[federal funding]] for schools). The party is split on the issue of federally funding embryonic stem cell research that involves the cloning and killing of human embryos. Many in the party think it is unethical to force taxpayers who believe this type of research is morally wrong to finance it. Historically Republicans have had a strong belief in [[individualism]], limited government, and business entrepreneurship.

In recent years, the Republican party has downplayed its emphasis on small government. Under the administration of [[George W. Bush]], the federal government has been expanded to record levels, surpassing even the Great Depression era.<ref>http://www.dhs.gov/index.shtm</ref> Additionally, the Bush administration has acted to nationalize the country's banking institutions in an effort to stymie the decline of the U.S. economy<ref>https://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12078933</ref>

'''''In 2016, the Republican Party adopted the most pro-life party platform in its entire history, with strong language recognizing the right to life of unborn human beings and condemning [[Planned Parenthood]].<ref>Ertelt, Steven; Bilger, Micaiah (July 18, 2016). [https://www.lifenews.com/2016/07/18/republicans-adopt-most-pro-life-platform-ever-condemning-abortion-and-planned-parenthood/ Republicans Adopt Most Pro-Life Platform Ever Condemning Abortion and Planned Parenthood]. ''LifeNews.com''. Retrieved December 26, 2016.</ref>''''' Between 1995 and 2018, the GOP become significantly more pro-life on the issue.<ref>Williams, Thomas D. (October 20, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/20/pew-republicans-trend-pro-life-dems-align-abortion-industry/ Pew: Republicans Trend Increasingly Pro-Life as Democrats Align with Abortion Industry]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved October 20, 2018.</ref>

Contrary to the claims of liberals and Democrats, the GOP better represent the poor in the U.S., while Democrats represent the wealthy.<ref>Starr, Penny (October 21, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/21/economic-profile-50-states-republicans-represent-poor-democrats-rich/ Economic Profile of 50 States Reveals Republicans Represent the Poor, Democrats the Rich]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved October 21, 2018.</ref>

== History ==
[[File:GOP-presidents.jpg|thumb|300px|GOP Presidents by Andy Thomas; clockwise from right: Nixon, Ford, Lincoln, GHW Bush, Reagan, GW Bush, Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt]]
The party began in 1854, at the start of the [[Third Party System]]. The '''GOP''' (or "Grand Old Party" as it was nicknamed after 1880 by veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, the '''GAR''') dominated national politics as the victors of the [[American Civil War]], including most of the [[Fourth Party System]] until 1932. Then the [[Fifth Party System]] (or "New Deal Coalition") was dominant until the late 1960s. Since 1968 the GOP has won 8 of 13 presidential elections (losing in 1976, 1992, 1996, 2008 and 2012). Its great rival is the party of segregation, slavery and Jim Crow, the [[Democratic Party#History|Democrat Party]].

===Third Party System: 1854–1896===
The Republican party began as a spontaneous grassroots protest against the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]] of 1854, which allowed slavery into western territories where it had been forbidden by earlier compromises. The creation of the new party, along with the death of the [[Whig Party]], realigned American politics. The central issues were new, as were the voter alignments, and the balance of power in Congress. The central issues became slavery, race, civil war and the reconstruction of the Union into a more powerful nation, with rules changed that gave the vote to Blacks and former slaves.

====Issues: Slavery====
Republican activists denounced the Kansas-Nebraska act as proof of the power of the [[Slave Power]]—the powerful class of slaveholders who were conspiring to control the federal government and to spread slavery nationwide. The name "Republican" gained such favor in 1854 because "[[Republicanism, U.S.|republicanism]]" was the paramount political value the new party meant to uphold. The name also echoed the former Jeffersonian party of the [[First Party System]]. The party founders adopted the name "Republican" to indicate it was the carrier of "republican" beliefs about civic virtue, and opposition to aristocracy and corruption.<ref>Gould (2003) pp 14-15; republicanism is explored in depth by Foner (1970).</ref>
[[Image:Lincoln seated.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president]]
Two small cities of the Yankee diaspora, Ripon, Wisconsin, and Jackson, Michigan, claim the birthplace honors.<ref>There is also a myth that the town of Exeter, New Hampshire was first by six months, but nothing came of the secret meeting there and scholars dismiss the claim.</ref> Ripon held the first county convention on March 20, 1854. Jackson held the first statewide convention where delegates on July 6, 1854, declared their new party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories and selected a statewide slate of candidates. The Midwest took the lead in forming state party tickets, while the eastern states lagged a year or so. There were no efforts to organize the party in the South, apart from a few areas adjacent to free states. The new party was sectional, based in the northeast and northern Midwest—areas with a strong Yankee presence. It had only scattered support in slave states before the Civil War.<ref>There was some strength in border cities such as St. Louis, Louisville, Wheeling, and Baltimore.</ref>

The first presidential nomination in 1856 when to an obscure western explorer [[John C. Fremont]], as the party crusaded against the Slave Power with the slogan, "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free men, Fremont and victory!" Democrats warned darkly that disunion and Civil War would result. The remnants of the Know Nothing movement prevented the new party from sweeping the North, and the Democrats elected [[James Buchanan]]. By 1858 the Know Nothings were gone and the Republicans swept the North. The 1860 election seemed a certain victory, for the party had majorities in states with a majority of the electoral votes. In the event, the opposition split three ways, and [[Abraham Lincoln]] coasted to an easy victory, carrying 18 states with 190 electoral votes, while the opposition carried 15 states (mostly in the South) with 123 electoral votes. Lincoln had 1.9 million popular votes.

====Modernization====
Besides opposition to slavery, the new party put forward a modernizing vision—emphasizing higher education, banking, railroads, industry and cities, while promising free homesteads to farmers. It vigorously argued that free-market labor was superior to slavery and the very foundation of civic virtue and true American values - this is the "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men" ideology explored by historian Eric Foner.<ref>Foner, Eric. ''Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men''. 1993.</ref> The Republicans absorbed the previous traditions of its members, most of whom had been [[Whig Party|Whigs]], and some of whom had been Democrats or members of third parties (especially the [[Free Soil Party]] and Know-Nothings (American Party). Many [[U.S. Democratic Party, history|Democrats]] who joined up were rewarded with governorships.<ref>They included [[Nathaniel P. Banks]] of Massachusetts, [[Kinsley Bingham]] of Michigan, [[William H. Bissell]] of Illinois, [[Salmon P. Chase]] of Ohio, [[Hannibal Hamlin]] of Maine, [[Samuel J. Kirkwood]] of Iowa, [[Ralph Metcalf]] of New Hampshire, [[Lot Morrill]] of Maine, and [[Alexander Randall]] of Wisconsin).</ref> or seats in the U.S. Senate.<ref>The senators included Bingham and Hamlin, as well as [[James R. Doolittle]] of Wisconsin, [[John P. Hale]] of New Hampshire, [[Preston King]] of New York, [[Lyman Trumbull]] of Illinois, and [[David Wilmot]] of Pennsylvania.</ref> Since its inception, its chief opposition has been the Democratic Party, but the amount of flow back and forth of prominent politicians between the two parties was quite high from 1854 to 1896.

====Ethnocultural voting====
Historians have explored the ethnocultural foundations of the party, along the line that ethnic and religious groups set the moral standards for their members, who then carried those standards into politics. The churches also provided social networks that politicians used to sign up voters. The pietistic churches, heavily influenced by the revivals of the [[Second Great Awakening]], emphasized the duty of the Christian to purge sin from society. Sin took many forms—alcoholism, polygamy and slavery became special targets for the Republicans. The Yankees, who dominated New England, much of upstate New York, and much of the upper Midwest were the strongest supporters of the new party. This was especially true for the pietistic Congregationalists and Presbyterians among them and (during the war), the Methodists, along with Scandinavian Lutherans. The Quakers were a small tight-knit group that was heavily Republican. The liturgical churches (Roman Catholic, Episcopal, German Lutheran), by contrast, largely rejected the moralism of the GOP; most of their adherents voted Democratic.<ref>Kleppner (1979) has extensive detail on the voting behavior of groups.</ref>

====Politics 1854–1860====
[[John C. Frémont]] ran as the first Republican nominee for [[President of the United States|President]] in 1856, using the [[political slogan]]: "[[United States Free Soil Party#Positions|Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men]], Frémont." Although Frémont's bid was unsuccessful, the party showed a strong base. It dominated in New England, New York and the northern Midwest, and had a strong presence in the rest of the North. It had almost no support in the South, where it was roundly denounced in 1856-60 as a divisive force that threatened civil war. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ended the domination of the fragile coalition of pro-slavery southern Democrats and conciliatory northern Democrats which had existed since the days of [[Andrew Jackson]]. Instead, a new era of Republican dominance based in the industrial and agricultural north ensued. Republicans still often refer to their party as the "party of Lincoln" in honor of the first Republican President.
{{See also|Third Party System}}

====Civil War: 1861–1865====
Lincoln proved brilliantly successful in uniting the factions of his party to fight for the Union.<ref>Goodwyn 2005</ref> However he usually fought the [[Radical Republicans]] who demanded harsher measures. Most Democrats at first were [[War Democrats]], and supportive until the fall of 1862. When Lincoln added the abolition of slavery as a war goal, many war Democrats became "peace Democrats." All the state Republican parties accepted the antislavery goal except Kentucky. In Congress, the party passed major legislation to promote rapid modernization, including a national banking system, high tariffs, an income tax, many excise taxes, paper money issued without backing ("greenbacks"), a huge national debt, homestead laws, and aid to education and agriculture. The Republicans denounced the peace-oriented Democrats as [[Copperheads]] and won enough [[War Democrats]] to maintain their majority in 1862; in 1864, they formed a coalition with many War Democrats as the "National Union Party" which reelected Lincoln easily, then folded back into the Republican party. During the war, upper-middle-class men in major cities formed [[Union League]]s, to promote and help finance the war effort.

====Reconstruction: Blacks, Carpetbaggers and Scalawags====
[[File:Kkk-carpetbagger-cartoon.jpg|left|300px|thumb|A cartoon threatening that the KKK will lynch [[scalawag]]s (left) and [[carpetbagger]]s (right) on March 4, 1869, the day President Grant takes office. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Independent Monitor, September 1, 1868. A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman (2015).<ref>Hubbs, Guy W. (May 15, 2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=KIVoCQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman"]. University Alabama Press.</ref>]]
In [[Reconstruction]], how to deal with the ex-Confederates and the freed slaves, or [[Freedmen]], were the major issues. By 1864, [[Radical Republicans]] controlled Congress and demanded more aggressive action against slavery, and more vengeance toward the Confederates. Lincoln held them off, but just barely. Republicans at first welcomed President [[Andrew Johnson]]; the Radicals thought he was one of them and would take a hard line in punishing the South. Johnson, however, broke with them and formed a loose alliance with moderate Republicans and Democrats. The showdown came in the Congressional elections of 1866, in which the Radicals won a sweeping victory and took full control of Reconstruction, passing key laws over the veto. Johnson was impeached by the House, but acquitted by the Senate. With the election of [[Ulysses S. Grant]] in 1868, the Radicals had control of Congress, the party and the Army, and attempted to build a solid Republican base in the South using the votes of [[Freedmen]], [[Scalawags]] and [[Carpetbaggers]], supported directly by U.S. Army detachments. Republicans all across the South formed local clubs called [[Union League]]s that effectively mobilized the voters, discussed issues, and when necessary fought off [[Ku Klux Klan]] attacks. Thousands died on both sides.

Grant supported radical reconstruction programs in the South, the 14th Amendment, and equal civil and voting rights for the freedmen. Most of all he was the hero of the war veterans, who marched to his tune. The party had become so large that factionalism was inevitable; it was hastened by Grant's tolerance of high levels of corruption typified by the [[Whiskey Ring]]. The "[[Liberal Republican]]s" split off in 1872 on the grounds that it was time to declare the war finished and bring the troops home. Many of the founders of the GOP joined the movement, as did many powerful newspaper editors. They nominated [[Horace Greeley]], who gained unofficial Democratic support, but was defeated in a landslide. The depression of 1873 energized the Democrats. They won control of the House and formed "[[Redeemers|Redeemer]]" coalitions which recaptured control of each southern state, in some cases using threats and violence.

Reconstruction came to an end when the contested election of 1876 was awarded by a special [[Electoral Commission (United States)|electoral commission]] to Republican [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] who promised, through the unofficial [[Compromise of 1877]], to withdraw federal troops from control of the last three southern states. The region then became the [[Solid South]], giving overwhelming majorities of its electoral votes and Congressional seats to the Democrats until 1964.

In terms of racial issues, "White Republicans as well as Democrats solicited black votes but reluctantly rewarded blacks with nominations for office only when necessary, even then reserving the more choice positions for whites. The results were predictable: these half-a-loaf gestures satisfied neither black nor white Republicans. The fatal weakness of the Republican party in Alabama, as elsewhere in the South, was its inability to create a biracial political party. And while in power even briefly, they failed to protect their members from Democratic terror. Alabama Republicans were forever on the defensive, verbally and physically." [Woolfolk p 134]

Social pressure eventually forced most [[Scalawags]] to join the conservative/Democratic Redeemer coalition. A minority persisted and formed the "tan" half of the "Black and Tan" Republican party, a minority in every southern state after 1877. (DeSantis 1998)

====Gilded Age: 1877–1894====
The "GOP" (as it was now nicknamed) split into factions in the late 1870s. The Stalwarts, followers of Senator Conkling, defended the [[spoils system]]. The Half-Breeds, who followed Senator [[James G. Blaine]] of Maine, pushed for [[Civil service system|civil service reform]]. Independents who opposed the spoils system altogether were called "[[Mugwumps]]". In 1884 they rejected [[James G. Blaine]] as corrupt and helped elect Democrat [[Grover Cleveland]]; most returned to the party by 1888.

As the Northern post-bellum economy boomed with heavy and light industry, railroads, mines, and fast-growing cities, as well as prosperous agriculture, the Republicans took credit and promoted policies to keep the fast growth going. They supported [[free enterprise]] generally, hard money (i.e. the [[gold standard]]), high [[tariff]]s, and high pensions for Union veterans. By 1890, however, the Republicans had agreed to reform with the [[Sherman Anti-Trust Act]] and the [[Interstate Commerce Commission]], in response to complaints of large enterprise [[monopoly]] control by small business owners and farmers. The high [[McKinley Tariff]] of 1890 hurt the party and the Democrats swept to a landslide in the off-year elections, even defeating McKinley himself.

====Ethnocultural Voters: pietistic Republicans versus liturgical Democrats====
From 1860 to 1912, the Republicans took advantage of the association of the Democrats with "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion". Rum stood for the liquor interests and the tavern keepers, in contrast to the GOP, which had a strong dry element. "Romanism" meant Catholics, especially Irish Americans, who ran the Democrat Party in every big city, and whom the Republicans denounced for political corruption. "Rebellion" stood for the Confederates who tried to break the Union in 1861, and the [[Copperheads]] in the North who sympathized with them.

Demographic trends aided the Democrats, as the German and Irish Catholic immigrants were Democrats, and outnumbered the English and Scandinavian Republicans. During the 1880s and 1890s, the Republicans struggled against the Democrats' efforts, winning several close elections and losing two to Grover Cleveland (in [[United States presidential election, 1884|1884]] and [[United States presidential election, 1892|1892]]). Religious lines were sharply drawn [Kleppner 1979]. Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Scandinavian Lutherans and other pietists in the North were tightly linked to the GOP. In sharp contrast, liturgical groups, especially the Catholics, Episcopalians, and German Lutherans, looked to the Democratic party for protection from pietistic moralism, especially prohibition. Both parties cut across the class structure, with the Democrats more bottom-heavy.

Cultural issues, especially prohibition and foreign language schools became important because of the sharp religious divisions in the electorate. In the North, about 50% of the voters were pietistic Protestants (Methodists, Scandinavian Lutherans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Disciples of Christ) who believed the government should be used to reduce social sins, such as drinking. Liturgical churches (Roman Catholics, German Lutherans, Episcopalians) comprised over a quarter of the vote and wanted the government to stay out of the morality business. Prohibition debates and referenda heated up politics in most states over a period of decades, as national prohibition was finally passed in 1918 (and repealed in 1932), serving as a major issue between the wet Democrats and the dry GOP.<ref>See Kleppner (1979)</ref>

===Fourth Party System: 1896–1932: The Progressive Era ===
The election of [[William McKinley]] in 1896 was a realigning election that changed the balance of power, and introduced new rules, new issues and new leaders. It did not, however, see the emergence of a new major party. The Republican sweep of the 1894 Congressional elections presaged the McKinley landslide of 1896, which was repeated in 1900, thus locking the GOP in full control of the national government and most northern state governments. The GOP made major gains as well in the border states. The [[Fourth Party System]] was dominated by Republican presidents, with the exception of the two terms of Democrat segregationist [[Woodrow Wilson]], 1912-1920.

====McKinley and realignment====
McKinley promised that high tariffs would end the severe hardship caused by the [[Panic of 1893]], and that the GOP would guarantee [[pluralism]] in which all groups would benefit. He denounced [[William Jennings Bryan]], the Democratic nominee, as a dangerous radical whose plans for "Free Silver" at 16-1 (or [[Bimetallism]]) would bankrupt the economy.

McKinley relied heavily on industry and the middle classes for his support and cemented the Republicans as the party of [[liberty]]; his campaign manager, Ohio's [[Mark Hanna]], developed a detailed plan for getting contributions from the business world, and McKinley outspent his rival [[William Jennings Bryan]] by a large margin. McKinley was the first president to promote [[pluralism]], arguing that prosperity would be shared by all ethnic and religious groups.

====Progressive Republicans====
At the dawn of the 20th century, the Republican Party was regulating monopolies and promoting civil service reform, with progressivism finding a home within the GOP.

[[Theodore Roosevelt]], who became president in 1901, had the most dynamic personality in the nation. Roosevelt had to contend with men like Senator [[Mark Hanna]], whom he outmaneuvered to gain control of the convention in 1904 that renominated him. More difficult to handle was conservative House Speaker [[Joseph Gurney Cannon]].

When [[Booker T. Washington]]'s autobiography, ''Up From Slavery'', was published in 1901, it became a bestseller and had a major impact on the African American community, and its friends and allies. Washington in 1901 was the first African-American ever invited to the White House as the guest of President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] – white Democrats complained loudly, although Washington remained as an advisor to Roosevelt.<ref>Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, "A Patriot's History of the United States" (2007)</ref>

Roosevelt achieved modest legislative gains in terms of railroad legislation and pure food laws. He was more successful in Court, bringing antitrust suits that broke up the [[Northern Securities]] trust and [[Standard Oil]]. Roosevelt moved left in his last two years in office but was unable to pass major Square Deal proposals.

Roosevelt did succeed in naming his successor Secretary of War [[William Howard Taft]] who easily defeated Bryan again in 1908.

====Progressive insurgents vs. Conservatives====
The GOP was divided between insurgents and stand-patters (liberals and conservatives, to use 21st-century terms). [[Theodore Roosevelt]] was an enormously popular president (1901–1909), and he transferred the office to [[William Howard Taft]]. Taft, however, did not have TR's enormous popularity nor his ability to bring rival factions together. When Taft sided with the standpatters under Speaker [[Joe Cannon]] and Senate leader [[Nelson Aldrich]], the insurgents revolted. Led by [[George Norris]] the insurgents took control of the House away from Cannon and imposed a new system whereby committee chairmanships depended on seniority (years of membership on the committee), rather than party loyalty.

The tariff issue was pulling the GOP apart. Roosevelt tried to postpone the issue but Taft had to meet it head on in 1909 with the [[Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act]]. Eastern conservatives led by [[Nelson A. Aldrich]] wanted high tariffs on manufactured goods (especially woolens), while Midwesterners called for low tariffs. Aldrich tricked them by lowering the tariff on farm products, which outraged the farmers. In a stunning comeback, the Democrats won control of the House in 1910, as the GOP rift between insurgents and conservatives widened.

Roosevelt sided with the insurgents and, after long indecision, decided to run against Taft for the 1912 nomination. Roosevelt had to steamroll over insurgent Senator [[Robert LaFollette]] of Wisconsin, turning an ally into an enemy. Taft outmaneuvered Roosevelt and controlled the convention. Roosevelt walked out and formed a third party, the "Progressive" or "Bull Moose" party. Very few officeholders supported him, and the new party collapsed by 1914. With the GOP vote divided in half, Democrat [[Woodrow Wilson]] easily won the 1912 election, and was narrowly reelected in 1916.

With the defeat of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Bull Moose party, along with the election of Woodrow Wilson, the parties switched progressive leadership, and the Democrat Party has been the party of big government ever since.

====State and local politics====
The Republicans welcomed the [[Progressive Era]] at the state and local level. The first important reform mayor was [[Hazen S. Pingree]] of Detroit (1890–97) who was elected governor of Michigan in 1896. In New York City the Republicans joined nonpartisan reformers to battle [[Tammany Hall]], and elected Seth Low (1902–03). Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones was first elected mayor of Toledo as a Republican in 1897, but was re-elected as an independent when his party refused to renominate him. In Iowa Senator [[Albert Cummins]] came up with the "Iowa Idea" that blamed the trust or monopoly problem on the high tariff, angering the eastern industrialists and factory workers. Many Republican civic leaders, following the example of Mark Hanna, were active in the [[National Civic Federation]], which promoted urban reforms and sought to avoid wasteful strikes.

====Harding-Coolidge-Hoover, 1920–1932====
The party controlled the presidency throughout the 1920s, running on a limited government platform, opposition to the League of Nations, high tariffs, and promotion of business interests. [[Warren G. Harding]], [[Calvin Coolidge]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] were resoundingly elected in the elections of 1920, 1924 and 1928 as the Democrats were deeply split on prohibition and religion. Running on a campaign of ''returning to normalcy'', Harding and Coolidge led a repudiation election of both the war as well as the big government progressivism of Woodrow Wilson.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8iSeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover: Meet the Presidents]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LziMzAR4eD0C&pg=PA162 The Great American History Fact-finder: The Who, What, Where, When, and why of American History]</ref>
[[Image:Coolidge close.jpg|thumb|100px|left|Calvin Coolidge]]
The breakaway efforts of Senator [[Robert LaFollette]] in 1924 failed to stop a landslide for Coolidge, and his movement fell apart. The [[Teapot Dome Scandal]] threatened to hurt the party but Harding died and Coolidge blamed everything on him, as the opposition splintered in 1924. The pro-business policies of the decade seemed to produce unprecedented prosperity—until the Wall Street Crash of 1929 heralded the [[Great Depression]]. Although the party did very well in large cities and among ethnic Catholics in presidential elections of 1920-24, it was unable to hold those gains in 1928. By 1932 the cities—for the first time ever—had become Democratic strongholds.

The African American vote held for Hoover in 1932, but started moving toward Roosevelt. By 1940 the majority of northern blacks were voting Democrat. Southern blacks who could vote (in border states) were split; disenfranchised blacks in the South probably preferred the Republicans.

The [[Great Depression]] cost Hoover the presidency with the [[United States presidential election, 1932|1932 landslide election]] of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Roosevelt's [[New Deal coalition]] controlled American politics for most of the next three decades, excepting the two-term presidency of Republican [[Dwight Eisenhower]].

===Fifth Party System: 1932–1980===
[[File:Edward-clark-c.p.o-graham-jackson.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Graham Jackson shedding tears at news of FDR's death. The photo was widely circulated in ''Life'' magazine and interpreted to mean even Republicans cried at the death of FDR. It was later re-circulated in the 1960s to create the myth that [[African American]]s were beneficiaries and part of the New Deal coalition. New Deal programs often specifically excluded Blacks by legislation passed by the Democrat Congress.<ref>https://atlantablackstar.com/2015/02/04/9-ways-franklin-d-roosevelts-new-deal-purposely-excluded-blacks-people/</ref>]]
Minority parties tend to factionalize and after 1936 the GOP split into a conservative faction (dominant in the West and Southeast) and a liberal faction (dominant in the Northeast) – combined with a residual base of inherited progressive Republicanism active throughout the century. [[United States presidential election, 1936|In 1936]] Kansas governor [[Alf Landon]] and his young followers defeated the [[Herbert Hoover]] faction. Landon generally supported most New Deal programs, but carried only two states in the Roosevelt landslide.

Senator [[Robert Taft]] of Ohio represented the Midwestern wing of the party that continued to oppose [[New Deal]] reforms and continued to champion [[isolationism]]. [[Thomas Dewey]], governor of New York, represented the Northeastern wing of the party. Dewey did not reject the New Deal programs but demanded more efficiency, more support for economic growth, and less corruption. He was more willing than Taft to support Britain in 1939-40. After the war, the isolationists wing strenuously opposed the [[United Nations]], and was half-hearted in opposition to world Communism. Senator [[William F. Knowland]] of California, sobriquet ''Senator from Formosa'' (Taiwan).

[[Dwight Eisenhower]], an internationalist allied with the Dewey wing, challenged Taft in 1952 on foreign policy issues. The two men were not far apart on domestic issues. Eisenhower's victory broke a 20-year Democrat lock on the White House. Eisenhower did not try to roll back the New Deal, but he did expand the Social Security system and built the Interstate Highway system.

The conservatives in 1964 made a comeback under the leadership of [[Barry Goldwater]] who defeated [[Nelson Rockefeller]] as the Republican candidate in the [[United States presidential election, 1964|1964 presidential convention]]. Goldwater was strongly opposed to the New Deal and the United Nations, but he rejected isolationism and containment, calling for an aggressive anti-Communist foreign policy.

Any long-term movement toward the GOP was interrupted by the [[Watergate Scandal]], which forced Nixon to resign in 1974 under threat of impeachment. [[Gerald Ford]] succeeded Nixon and gave him a full pardon—thereby giving the Democrats a powerful issue they used to sweep the 1974 off-year elections. Ford never fully recovered, and in 1976 he barely defeated [[Ronald Reagan]] for the nomination. The taint of Watergate and the nation's economic difficulties contributed to the election of Democrat [[Jimmy Carter]] in [[United States presidential election, 1976|1976]], running as a Washington outsider.

====Civil Rights====
[[File:Nixon-and-Martin-Luther-King.png|right|300px|thumb|Dr. Martin Luther King's meeting with Vice President Nixon marked national recognition of King as leader of the civil rights movement.<ref>https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/29/the-switch-that-never-happened-how-the-south-really-went-gop/</ref>]]

Vice President [[Richard Nixon]] invited Dr. [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] to Washington, D.C., for a meeting on 13 June 1957. This meeting, described by [[Bayard Rustin]] as a “summit conference,” marked national recognition of King's role in the civil rights movement (Rustin, 13 June 1957). Seeking support for a voter registration initiative in the South, King appealed to Nixon to urge Republicans in Congress to pass the 1957 Civil Rights Act and to visit [[the South]] to express support for civil rights. Optimistic about Nixon's commitment to improving race relations in the United States, King told Nixon, “How deeply grateful all people of goodwill are to you for your assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the civil rights bill a reality.”

Republican Attorney General [[Herbert Brownell]] originally proposed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1957]]. The bill passed 285–126 in the House with Republicans providing the majority of votes 167–19 and Democrats 118–107.<ref>HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. PASSED. YEA SUPPORTS PRESIDENT'S POSITION. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/h42</ref> It then passed 72–18 in the Senate, with Republicans again supplying the majority of votes, 43–0 and Democrats voting 29–18. [[John Kennedy]] voted against it.<ref>HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957. PASSED. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75</ref> It was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

====Strength of Parties 1977====
How the Two Parties Stood after the 1976 Election:

{| class=wikitable
! Party
! Republican
! Democrat
! Independent
|-
! Party ID (Gallup)
| 22%
| 47%
| 31%
|-
! House
| 143
| 292
|
|-
! Senate
| 38
| 62
|
|-
! % House popular vote nationally
| 42%
| 56%
| 2%
|-
| align=right | in the East
| 41%
| 57%
| 2%
|-
| align=right | in the South
| 37%
| 62%
| 2%
|-
| align=right | in the Midwest
| 47%
| 52%
| 1%
|-
| align=right | in the West
| 43%
| 55%
| 2%
|-
! Governors
| 12
| 37
| 1
|-
! rowspan=2 | State Legislators
| 2,370
| 5,128
| 55
|-
| 31%
| 68%
| 1%
|-
! State legislature control
| 18
| 80
| 1 *
|-
| align=right | in the East
| 5
| 13
| 0
|-
| align=right | in the South
| 0
| 32
| 0
|-
| align=right | in the Midwest
| 5
| 17
| 1 *
|-
| align=right | in the West
| 8
| 18
| 0
|-
! States' one party control of legislature and governorship
| 1
| 29
| 0
|-
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>The unicameral Nebraska legislature, in fact controlled by the Republicans, is technically nonpartisan.

Source: Everett Carll Ladd Jr. ''Where Have All the Voters Gone? The Fracturing of America's Political Parties'' (1978) p. 6

====Moderate Republicans of 1960–80====
[[Image:Nelson Rockefeller.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Nelson Rockefeller]]
The term ''Rockefeller Republican'' was used mainly during 1960–80 to designate a faction of the party holding "moderate" views similar to those of the late [[Nelson Rockefeller]], governor of New York from 1959 to 1974 and vice president under President [[Gerald Ford]] in 1974–77. Before Rockefeller, [[Tom Dewey]], governor of New York 1942–54 and GOP presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948 was the leader. Dwight Eisenhower reflected many of their views. An important leader in the 1950s was Connecticut Republican Senator [[Prescott Bush]], father and grandfather of presidents of [[George H. W. Bush]] and [[George W. Bush]]. After Rockefeller left the national stage in 1976, this faction of the party was more often called "moderate Republicans," in contrast to the conservatives who rallied to [[Ronald Reagan]].

Historically, Rockefeller Republicans were moderate or liberal on domestic and social policies. They favored New Deal programs, including regulation and welfare. They were very strong supporters of civil rights. They were strongly supported by big business on Wall Street (New York City). In fiscal policy, they favored balanced budgets and relatively high tax levels to keep the budget balanced. They sought long-term economic growth through entrepreneurship, not tax cuts. In state politics, they were strong supporters of state colleges and universities, low tuition, and large research budgets. They favored infrastructure improvements, such as highway projects. In foreign policy, they were internationalists and anti-Communists. They felt the best way to counter Communism was sponsoring economic growth (through foreign aid), maintaining a strong military, and keeping close ties to [[NATO]]. Geographically their base was the Northeast, from Pennsylvania to Maine.

====Suburbia====
The suburban electorate passed the city electorate in the 1950s, as Eisenhower showed unusual strength there. The history of suburban politics is encapsulated in Nassau County (New York), just east of New York City, where a moderate Republican party machine operated. Despite predictions that the New Deal spelled the demise of the political machine, Nassau provided fertile ground for a party organization that rivaled its big-city Democrat counterparts. The traditionally GOP county underwent a booming expansion during 1945–60, with an influx of new residents, many with previous Democrat Party affiliations. In established villages and new housing developments such as [[Levittown]], under the canny leadership of J. Russel Sprague, the party used patronage and community organizing techniques to build its base among ethnic voters, young people, and new homeowners. The party expanded beyond its white Protestant base, with Italian Americans becoming particularly prominent in party leadership. Sprague was both party leader and county executive. That post was created in 1936 under a new charter engineered by Sprague to update a municipal apparatus unable to meet the infrastructure and development needs of a county that by 1960 had 1.3 million residents. Democrats and reformers had promoted charter revision for decades, and some consolidation of government services did take place. As county "boss," Sprague ruled with an iron hand. Nassau's pluralities for such candidates as Governor Thomas E. Dewey and President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sprague's fundraising prowess made him a force in national party politics. He advocated a moderate, middle-of-the-road position that recognized expectations created by the New Deal while criticizing what were claimed to be Democrat excesses. After leaving elective office and party leadership, Sprague became a major campaign issue when the Democrats, in a 1961 historic upset, won the county executive post by both lambasting Sprague, tainted by a racetrack-stock scandal, and criticizing the developer-friendly "Spragueland" regime that had governed Nassau for decades. Soon after Sprague died in 1969, the Nassau GOP regained its control of the county government and reestablished virtual one-party rule until the 1990s.<ref>Marjorie Freeman Harrison, "Machine Politics Suburban Style: J. Russel Sprague and the Nassau County (New York) Republican Party at Midcentury." PhD dissertation Columbia U. 2005. 388 pp.
DAI 2005 66(5): 1925-A. DA3174807</ref>

An even longer reign of power characterized GOP machine control of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a rural and suburban area south of Philadelphia. William McClure controlled the GOP from 1875 until his death in 1907; his son John J. McClure, was in control from 1907 until his death in 1965. McLarnon (1998) has four main findings. First, political machines were not confined to big cities; the demographic and political peculiarities of suburban counties lent themselves to continued domination by political machines long after the heyday of the city machine had passed. Secondly, neither the New Deal, immigration restriction, nor the rise of organized labor destroyed all the old Republican machines. Delaware was one of several similar counties in southeastern Pennsylvania where the GOP continued to hold sway throughout the 20th century. Thirdly, not all blacks switched their electoral loyalties to the Democrat Party in 1936. The black population of Chester, Delaware County's industrial city, generally voted Republican for offices below the presidential level. Finally, the citizens of Delaware County supported and continues to support the Republican machine because the machine delivered and continues to deliver those things that the citizens want most. At the beginning of the century, the machine provided food, work, and police protection to Chester's European and black immigrants. During Prohibition, it supplied the county with liquor. Through the Depression, patronage and close alliances with local industrialists kept a significant portion of machine loyalists employed. In the 1950s and 1960s the machine kept taxes low, initiated a war on organized vice, successfully defeated all threats to home rule, and discouraged blacks from settling in historically white communities. The trash was collected, the snow plowed, the streets repaired. The buses ran on time, the playgrounds and parks were clean, and the schools acceptably average. These were the most important concerns of a majority of county's citizens. While the citizens and their concerns changed over time, two things seem to have remained constant: the McClures', and their successors' ability to read and react to the needs of the electorate; and the fact that rarely, if ever, has a desire for honest, democratic government been high on Delaware County voters' list of priorities.<ref>John Morrison McLarnon, "Ruling Suburbia: A Biography of the McClure Machine of Delaware County, Pennsylvania." PhD dissertation U. of Delaware 1998. 616 pp. DAI 1998 58(12): 4780-A. DA9819160</ref>

The first southern states to trend Republican were on the periphery: North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Tennessee, and Florida. Democrat [[George Wallace]] lost these voters in his 1968 presidential bid. The voters who first migrated to the Republican party were [[suburban]], prosperous New South types. The more Republican the South has become, the less racist.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/</ref>

====Rise of the right====
[[Image:BarryGoldwater.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Barry Goldwater]]
[[Barry Goldwater]] crusaded against the Rockefeller Republicans, beating Rockefeller narrowly in the California primary of 1964. That set the stage for a conservative resurgence, based in the South and West, in opposition to the Northeast. Brennan (1995) stresses that conservatives in the late 1950s and early 1960s had many internal problems to overcome before they could mount an effective challenge to the hegemony of the distrusted Eastern Establishment, typified by [[Nelson A. Rockefeller]]. The conservative movement had some newspapers and magazines (especially [[William F. Buckley]]'s ''National Review'') and one charismatic national leader, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. The movement gained momentum once they had established a unity out of diverse elements on the Right with a common commitment to a militant anti-Communism, and once they had succeeded in mobilizing a grassroots base inside a number of state and local organizations in the Sun Belt on behalf of a draft Goldwater campaign in 1960. Although Nixon was acceptable to the conservatives, they worried that he compromised with Rockefeller in 1960. His defeat in 1960 removed a major obstacle and also gave ammunition to those who wanted "a choice, not an echo" (to echo a Goldwater slogan). After 1960 liberals and moderates in the Republican party failed to appreciate the magnitude of the challenge they faced on the grass-roots level. Taking up [[media bias]], they too equated their conservative opponents in the party with the "lunatic fringe" and did not take them seriously until they found themselves deposed by a grassroots insurgency of the sort unknown in the party since 1912.<ref>Brennan (1995) p, 59</ref> Goldwater's landslide defeat opened the way to a liberal Democrat resurgence, but did little to help the liberal wing of the GOP. The failures of the [[Great Society]], especially a wave of major urban [[riot]]s and a surge in [[violent crime]], led to major gains in 1966, and to Nixon's election in the chaotic 1968 election. The Democrats became deeply divided on the Vietnam war (which did not divide the GOP), and on issues of race, when Alabamian [[George C. Wallace]] set up a third party that carried much of the deep South.

As Goldwater faded to a lesser role after 1964, a new conservative hero emerged: in the largest and most trendy state film star [[Ronald Reagan]] was elected governor of California in 1966 and reelected in 1970.

With the rise of conservatism, the national Republican Party became more ideologically homogeneous. This change occurred as conservative politicians and voters joined the party and their liberal counterparts abandoned the GOP. Events in New York State during the 1960s and 1970s facilitated this transformation. Here, ideological conservatives formed a third party for the express purpose of changing a state GOP that both symbolized and contributed to the national GOP's liberal viewpoint. The [[Conservative Party, New York|Conservative Party]] relied on the state's unique election law to crash the New York GOP, either by forcing its way in or by imposing a lethal electoral price. The GOP-Conservative Party relationship began in 1962 at sword's point but achieved a high degree of harmony in 1980. Initially, New York Republicans, led by Governor [[Nelson Rockefeller]], successfully marginalized the new party. As the conservative movement matured, however, the balance of power began to shift. When Nixon was elected president in 1968, the Conservative Party gained an external ally who proved invaluable. The third party achieved partial acceptance in 1970 with the election of [[James Buckley]] to the Senate. For much of the ensuing decade, however, Conservatives struggled with success suffering a series of damaging setbacks. Only in the late 1970s, did the party recover when it embraced a more modest agenda. Finally, the 1980 election settled the overall contours of the relationship between the two parties. Conservatives formed their party to force the state GOP to the right, to drive liberal Republicans from office, and allow ideologically conservative national Republicans to succeed in the state. By 1980, it had achieved these goals changing the nature of politics in the state. This resolution affected politics beyond the state by diminishing the importance of ideological liberals in the national GOP, thus freeing a more ideologically consistent national Republican Party to promote the rise of conservatism.<ref>Timothy J. Sullivan, "Crashing the Party: The New York State Conservative and Republican Parties, 1962-1980." PhD dissertation U. of Maryland, College Park 2003. 458 pp. DAI 2004 64(11): 4181-A. DA3112508</ref>

===Sixth Party System===
====Realignment: Republican inroads in the Solid South====
:''See also: [[The South#Politics]]
In the century after Reconstruction ended in 1877, the white South identified with the [[Democrat Party]]. The Democrats' lock on power was so strong, the region was called the "Solid South." The Republicans controlled certain parts of the Appalachian and Ozark mountains (where slavery was never strong during the Civil War due to the lack of large plots of fertile soil), but they sometimes did compete for statewide office in the border states. Before 1964, the southern Democrats saw their party as the defender of the southern way of life, which included a respect for states' rights and an appreciation for traditional southern values. They repeatedly warned against the aggressive designs of Northern liberals and Republicans, as well as the civil rights activists they denounced as "outside agitators." Thus there was a serious barrier to becoming a Republican.

However, since 1964, the Democrat lock on the South has been broken. The long-term cause was that the region was becoming more like the rest of the nation and could not long stand apart in terms of racial segregation. Modernization that brought factories, businesses, and cities, and millions of migrants from the North; far more people graduated from high school and college. Meanwhile, the cotton and tobacco basis of the traditional South faded away, as former farmers moved to town or commuted to factory jobs. While liberal academics allege that the shift of the South to the Republican Party began in the 1960s, the evidence that it really began in the 1920s and the 1950s is undeniable.<ref>Trande, Sean (April 30, 2013). [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/30/southern_whites_shift_to_the_gop_predates_the_60s_118172.html Southern Whites' Shift to the GOP Predates the '60s]. ''Real Clear Politics''. Retrieved September 9, 2016.</ref>
[[File:Partycivilrights.jpeg|right|200px|thumb|]]
The immediate cause of the political transition involved civil rights. The [[civil rights movement]] caused enormous controversy among southern Democrats with many attacking it as a violation of states' rights. When segregation was outlawed by a Republican appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice and by the [[bi-partisan]] Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element resisted integration, led by Democrat governors [[Orval Faubus]] of Arkansas, [[Lester Maddox]] of Georgia, and, especially [[George Wallace]] of Alabama. These governors appealed to a less-educated, blue-collar electorate that on economic grounds was dependent on the Democrat Party, but opposed segregation. After the passage of the Civil Rights Act, most Southerners accepted the integration of most institutions, except public schools. With the old barrier to becoming a Republican removed, traditional Southerners joined the new middle class and the Northern transplants in moving toward the Republican party. Integration thus liberated Southern politics, just as [[Martin Luther King]] had promised. Meanwhile, the newly enfranchized black voters were bought off with Johnson's [[War on Poverty]] and supported Democrat candidates at the 85-90% level.

The South's transition to a Republican stronghold took decades. First the states started voting Republican in presidential elections—the Democrats countered that with a Southern Strategy that could carry some states in the region, such as [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1976 and 1980, and [[Bill Clinton]] in 1992 and 1996; the strategy did not work with [[Al Gore]] in 2000, or [[John Edwards]] in 2004. Barack Obama held Florida, North Carolina and Virginia and a sweep of House and Senate seats.

Since the 1970s some states elected Republican senators. Republicans made some inroads into legislatures and governorships and gerrymandering protected the African American and Hispanic vote (as required by the Civil Rights laws), but split up the remaining white Democrats so that Republicans mostly would win. In 2006 the Supreme Court endorsed nearly all of the redistricting engineered by [[Tom DeLay]] that swung the Texas Congressional delegation to the GOP in 2004.

In addition to its white middle-class base, Republicans attracted strong majorities from the evangelical Christian vote, which had been nonpolitical before 1980. The national Democrat Party's support for liberal social stances such as [[abortion]] drove many former Democrats into a Republican party that was embracing the conservative views on these issues. Conversely, liberal Republicans in the northeast began to join the Democrat Party. In 1969 in ''The Emerging Republican Majority'', [[Kevin Phillips]], argued that support from Southern whites and growth in the [[Sun Belt]], among other factors, was driving an enduring Republican electoral [[realigning election|realignment]]. Today, the South is again solid, but the reliable support is for Republican presidential candidates. Exit polls in 2004 showed that Bush led Kerry by 70-30% among whites, who comprised 71% of the Southern voters. Kerry had a 90-9% lead among the 18% of the voters who were black. One-third of the Southerners said they were white evangelicals; they voted for Bush by 80-20%.<ref>See [https://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.3.html exit polls]</ref>

Despite the shift towards the Republican Party on the presidential level, the South remained solidly Democratic on the state level through the 1980s, 1990s, and even into the 2000s in several states.<ref>Trande, Sean (September 9, 2010). [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/misunderstanding_the_southern_realignment_107084.html Misunderstanding the Southern Realignment]. ''Real Clear Politics''. Retrieved September 9, 2016.</ref> The Republican Party only became dominant in the state-level in the 2010 elections, when it captured several state legislatures, among many other victories.<ref name="Hamby">Hamby, Peter (December 9, 2014). [https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/03/politics/southern-democrats/ The plight of the Southern Democrat]. ''CNN''. Retrieved September 9, 2016.</ref> After the 2014 elections, the GOP controlled every state legislature in the South with the sole exception of the Kentucky State House, in which the Democrats maintained a slim majority.<ref name="Hamby"/> Additionally by 2015, the GOP was dominant in every level of government across the South.<ref name="Hamby"/><ref>Cohn, Nate (December 4, 2014). [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/upshot/demise-of-the-southern-democrat-is-now-nearly-compete.html?_r=0 Demise of the Southern Democrat Is Now Nearly Complete]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved September 9, 2016.</ref> In 2016, the GOP took the Kentucky State House in a landslide, making every legislature in the South GOP-controlled.<ref>Loftus, Tom (November 9, 2016). [http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/kentucky/2016/11/08/control-kentucky-house-up-grabs/93344114/ GOP takes Ky House in historic shift]. ''Courier-Journal''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref><ref>Brammer, Jack & Blackford, Linda (November 8, 2016). [https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article113464563.html Republicans take the Kentucky House after 95 years of Democratic control]. ''Lexington Herald-Leader''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref>

====Reagan Era====
:''Main article: [[Reagan Era]]''
In 1980, [[Ronald Reagan]] won the Republican nomination and easily beat Carter and a breakaway Republican with his strong communication skills and message of economic freedom and strength against the [[Soviet Union]]. Reagan produced a major realignment with his 1980 and 1984 landslides. In 1980 the Reagan coalition was possible because of Democrat losses in most social-economic groups. In 1984 Reagan won nearly 60% of the popular vote and carried every state except his Democrat opponent Walter Mondale's home state of [[Minnesota]] and the District of Columbia, creating a record 525 electoral vote total (of 538 possible). Even in Minnesota, Mondale won by a mere 3,761 votes,<ref>http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1984&fips=27&f=1&off=0&elect=0</ref> meaning Reagan came within fewer than 3,800 votes of winning in all fifty states.
[[Image:Reagan and Buckley.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Reagan opened his presidency proclaiming "Government is the problem".]]
Running on a "Peace Through Strength" platform to combat the Communist threat and massive tax cuts to revitalize the economy, Reagan's strong but genial persona proved too much for the ineffective and sour Carter in 1980. Reagan's election also gave Republicans control of the Senate for the first time in decades. Dubbed the "Reagan Revolution" he fundamentally altered several long standing debates in Washington, namely dealing with the Soviet threat and reviving the economy. His election saw the conservative wing of the party gain control. While reviled by liberal opponents in his day, his proponents contend his programs provided unprecedented economic growth, and spurred the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Currently regarded as one of the most popular and successful presidents in the modern era (1960–present), he inspired Conservatives to greater electoral victories by being re-elected in a landslide against Walter Mondale in 1984 but oversaw the loss of the Senate in 1986.

The so-called "Reagan Democrats" were Democrats before the Reagan years, and afterward, but who voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and for George H.W. Bush in 1988), producing their landslide victories. They were primarily Southern Democrats and ethnic Catholics in the Northeast and were frustrated by their seeing abandonment on cultural issues by the Democrat Party's national leaders.

Reagan's Vice-President, [[George H.W. Bush]], a [[World War II]] war hero, was elected in 1988 but was defeated in 1992 as domestic issues took prominence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and end of the [[Cold War]]. Democrat challenger [[Bill Clinton]] strategically repositioned the Democrats to the right. [[Ross Perot]]'s candidacy was instrumental in Clinton's victory as he took Republican votes with his criticism of deficits and the free trade movement. Perot won 19% of the popular vote, and Clinton, still a largely unknown quantity in American politics with 41% of! the popular vote took office. Despite his loss, Bush left office in 1993 with a 56 percent job approval rating.

====The Gingrich revolution====
:''Main articles: [[Republican Revolution (1994)]] and [[Contract with America]]''
House Republican Minority Whip [[Newt Gingrich]]-led the [[Republican Revolution (1994)|"Republican Revolution" of 1994]] and its famous ''[[Contract with America]]''. It was the first time since the 1952 elections that the Republicans secured control of both houses of Congress, which, with the brief exception of the Senate during 2001-2002, lasted until the 2006 mid-term elections. Democrats had controlled both houses of Congress for the forty years preceding 1994, with the exception of the 1981-1987 Congresses (in which Republicans controlled the Senate).

In the 1994 mid-term election, Republican congressional candidates ran on a platform of promising floor votes to force members of Congress to go on record on a series of popular reforms—something the Democrats had stifled for decades. These measures and others formed the Contract with America, which represented the first effort to have a party platform in a mid-term election. Seven of the ten Contract items actually became Law. The budget reforms, coupled with reduced defense spending after the Cold War, and the earlier Reagan Tax Cuts for Business Research and Development in the 1980s, led to a high tech consumer boom, rising incomes for all groups, and unprecedented, sustained economic growth in the late 1990s. Democratic President Bill Clinton opposed some of the social agenda initiatives but he co-opted the proposals for welfare reform and a balanced federal budget. The result was a major change in the welfare system, which conservatives hailed and liberals bemoaned. One Contract item, which required Democrats in a two-thirds majority to pass a Constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress, failed.

In 1995, a budget battle with [[President Clinton]] led to the brief shutdown of the federal government, an event which contributed to Clinton's victory in the 1996 election. That year the Republicans nominated [[Bob Dole]], who was unable to transfer his success in Senate leadership to a viable presidential campaign. [[Ross Perot]] ran again (this time on [[Reform Party]] ticket), once again draining away a large percentage of Dole's support and ensuring Clinton another term after the majority of Americans voters voted against him.

====War on Terror====
:Main article: [[War on Terror]]''
With the election of George W. Bush (son of former president George H. W. Bush) in an extremely close 2000 election, the Republican party controlled both the presidency and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1952. However, after [[Vermont]] Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party to become an independent aligned with the Democrats in June 2001, Republicans lost control of the Senate by a single seat.

In the wake of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks on the United States, however, Bush pursued a "War on Terrorism" that included the liberation of Afghanistan from the radical Islamic Taliban regime and the [[Patriot act|USA PATRIOT act]]. By early 2002, the Taliban was removed from power in Afghanistan. On March 20, 2003, U.S. and allied nations initiated "Operation Iraqi Freedom" to liberate the Iraqi people from the brutal regime of [[Saddam Hussein]]. By May 1, 2003, the regime of Saddam was declared officially over. Once US and allied military forces entered Iraq, they discovered that various international terrorists had been given sanctuary and ran their terrorist operations from Iraq. Notable terrorists found included Muhammad Zaidan aka Abu Abbas and Sabri Khalil al-Banna aka Abu Nidal.

The Republican Party fared well in the 2002 midterm elections, solidifying its hold on the House and regaining control of the Senate, in the run-up to the liberation of Iraq. This marked just the third time since the Civil War that the party in control of the White House gained seats in both houses of Congress in a midterm election (others were 1902 and 1934).

Bush was renominated without opposition for the [[United States presidential election, 2004]] and titled his political platform "A Safer World and a More Hopeful America". It expressed Bush's commitment to winning the War on Terror, ushering in an Ownership Era, and building an innovative economy to compete in the world.

On November 2, 2004, Bush was re-elected, while Republicans gained seats in both houses of Congress, leaving Democrats in disarray. Bush carried 31 of 50 states for 286 Electoral College votes. In that election, he also received more popular votes than any previous presidential candidate, 62.0 million votes. Democrat challenger, Senator [[John Kerry]], won 251 Electoral votes and 48% of the popular vote to Bush's 51%. It was the first time anyone won a popular majority since 1988. 2004 marked the seventh consecutive election in which the Democrat nominee failed to reach that threshold.

====The wilderness years 2009–2010====
After smashing defeats in 2006 and 2008, the GOP lost control of Congress, the White House, and many states. They confronted the president, who still retained some popularity, but were able to chip away at support for his domestic policies, as the [[recession of 2008]] dragged on. In June 2009, public opinion was favorable toward Obama personally but increasingly dubious about his plans to overhaul health care, rescue the auto industry and close the prison at Guantánamo Bay. But with a positive job approval rating of 51%, Obama has the backing of most Democrats, even as Republicans turn negative, with only 23% supporting him. Support for Obama's foreign policies and terrorism policies remains high at 57-59%. Meanwhile, the GOP weaknesses were glaring: the June poll found that the Republican Party is viewed favorably by only 28% of Americans, the lowest rating ever in a New York Times/CBS News poll. In contrast, 57% said that they had a favorable view of the Democrat Party.<ref>Jeff Zeleny and Dalia Sussman, "Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/us/politics/18poll.html?th&emc=th ''New York Times'' June 17, 2009]</ref> However, it should be noted that this poll was conducted by the [[mainstream media]] and thus is a clear example of [[liberal bias]].

====Rise of the Tea Party movement====
[[Image:TeaPartyByFreedomFan.JPG|thumb|200px|right|Tea Party movement March on DC, 2009.]]
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The Tea Party movement, which began around 2009 and supports small government, fiscal conservatism, American independence, and border security, made huge gains in the 2010 election, defeating establishment Republicans and RINOs. They continued to make gains in later elections, including the 2014 elections in [[Texas]] and the 2015 [[Kentucky]] elections, and some commentators, including liberals<ref>{{cite web | last1=Chait | first1=Jonathan | title=Donald Trump Hasn’t Killed the Tea Party. He Is the Tea Party | url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/donald-trump-is-the-tea-party.html | date=May 19, 2016 | publisher=''New York'' | accessdate=December 7, 2016}}</ref> and conservatives,<ref>{{cite web | last1=Martin | first1=Jenny Beth | title=How the Tea Party Helped Trump Win the Election | url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/11/12/how-tea-party-helped-trump-win-election.html | date=November 12, 2016 | publisher=[[Fox News]] | accessdate=December 7, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last1=Martin | first1=Jenny Beth | title=The Tea Party Movement Is Alive and Well—And We Saw Trump Coming | url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/the-tea-party-movement-is-alive-and-well-and-we-saw-trump-coming-214469 | date=November 19, 2016 | publisher=[[Politico|Politico Magazine]] | accessdate=December 7, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last1=Hayward | first1=John | title=Sarah Palin: Trump Movement Began with the GOP Establishment’s ‘Shocking Betrayals’ of Tea Party Voters | url=https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/25/sarah-palin-trump-movement-began-with-the-gop-establishments-shocking-betrayals-of-tea-party-voters/ | date=November 25, 2016 | publisher=[[Breitbart News]] | accessdate=December 7, 2016}}</ref> even believe it was responsible for Donald Trump's 2016 victory.

Despite little action on the federal level, GOP-controlled governments at the state level did deliver to voters, such as through tax reductions.<ref>Persons, Sally (May 31, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/31/republican-governors-elected-in-2010-delivering-to/ Republican governors elected in 2010 delivering to their states what Congress hasn’t]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved May 31, 2017.</ref>

====Trump Era====
:''For further information, see [[2016 U.S. presidential election#General election results]]''
Republican businessman [[Donald Trump]] won the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 presidential election]] in a major and historic upset that took the [[establishment]], pollsters and analysts completely by surprise, even winning states such as [[Wisconsin]], [[Michigan]], and [[Pennsylvania]], which Republicans had not won for years.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/08/first-polls-close-in-2016-race-trump-projected-to-win-ind-ky-clinton-wins-vt.html Trump wins presidency, defeats Clinton in historic election upset]. ''Fox News''. November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref><ref>Blake, Aaron (November 9, 2016). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/08/donald-trumps-path-to-victory-is-suddenly-looking-much-much-wider/ Donald Trump just blew up the electoral map]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> The Republican Party kept control of the House and Senate, outperforming expectations.<ref>Bresnahan, John (November 9, 2016). [https://www.politico.eu/article/republicans-on-cusp-of-keeping-the-senate/ Republicans hold the Senate in a stunner]. ''Politico''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref><ref>Hughes, Siobhan (November 9, 2016). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-are-confident-about-retaining-control-of-the-house-1478634160 Democrats Gain Seats in House, But GOP Retains Majority]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref>
[[File:Donald Trump official presidential photo.jpg|left|thumb|200px|President Donald Trump]]
In addition, the Republican Party performed well—much better than expected—in state races, winning trifectas in [[Kentucky]], [[Iowa]], [[Missouri]], and [[New Hampshire]], and Democrats only had six trifectas and total control in five states, a record low.<ref>Greenblatt, Alan (November 9, 2016). [http://www.governing.com/topics/elections/gov-republicans-add-dominance-state-legislatures.html Republicans Add to Their Dominance of State Legislatures]. ''Governing''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref><ref>Siegel, Josh (November 9, 2016). [http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/09/republicans-maintain-strong-control-of-state-capitols-what-that-means/ Republicans Maintain Strong Control of State Capitols. Here’s What That Means.] ''The Daily Signal''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> The GOP won 25 trifectas, the largest since 1952.<ref name="ReshapeLaws">Lieb, David A. (December 29, 2016). [https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-tribune/20161229/281822873464433 GOP-Controlled States Aim to Reshape Laws]. ''Chicago Tribune'' (from the Associated Press). Retrieved December 30, 2016.</ref> After the election, the GOP controlled the highest amount of governorships since 1922,<ref>Lieb, David A. (November 9, 2016). [https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2016-11-09/republicans-expand-control-of-governorships-legislatures Republicans governorships rise to highest mark since 1922]. ''U.S. News & World Report''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> and it controlled the most state legislative chambers in history.<ref>Bosman, Julie & Davey, Monica (November 11, 2016). [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/republicans-expand-control-in-a-deeply-divided-nation.html Republicans Expand Control in a Deeply Divided Nation]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved November 14, 2016.</ref> After [[West Virginia]] Governor [[Jim Justice]] left the Democratic Party and joined the GOP, the GOP had 34 Republican governors, the most since 1922.<ref>Leahy, Michael Patrick (August 7, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/07/34-states-have-republican-governors-most-since-1922/ 34 States Have Republican Governors, Most Since 1922]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 7, 2017.</ref>

While the GOP increased its vote share across the entire nation, Trump made the largest gains in the rural [[Midwest]] and [[Rust Belt]], traditionally a Democrat blue collar stronghold.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/elections/how-trump-pushed-the-election-map-to-the-right.html How Trump Reshaped the Election Map]. ''The New York Times''. November 9, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.</ref>

Because of the large gains, the GOP had a massive opportunity to pass [[Conservative|common sense conservative]] legislation and repeal leftist social and economic quagmires.<ref name="ReshapeLaws"/> At the beginning of 2017, Congressional Republicans were also more united during Trump's presidency than in any other time in recent U.S. political history.<ref>Stucky, Phillip (April 2, 2017). [https://dailycaller.com/2017/04/02/trump-smashes-records-with-party-unity/ Trump Smashes Records With Party Unity]. ''The Daily Caller''. Retrieved April 2, 2017.</ref> However, despite these opportunities, the 115th U.S. Congress saw many missed opportunities to advance conservative policies and priorities.<ref>Sherfinski, David; Dinan, Stephen (January 3, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/3/republicans-relinquish-congress-whimper-more-misse/ Republicans relinquish Congress with whimper: 'More missed opportunities than anything']. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 13, 2019. See also:
*Wolverton, Joe (January 13, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary/item/31175-gop-controlled-house-adds-nearly-8-trillion-to-national-debt GOP-controlled House Added Nearly $8 Trillion to National Debt]. ''The New American''. Retrieved January 13, 2019.</ref>

In May 2017, the RNC raised a record $10.8 million,<ref>Kew, Ben (June 21, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/21/rnc-raises-more-dems/ Dems Fundraising Lowest Since May 2003; RNC Raises Record $10.8 Million]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 21, 2017.</ref> while the DNC raised $4.29 million, the lowest raised in the month since 2003.<ref>Persons, Sally (June 21, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/21/dnc-hits-another-fundraising-low/ DNC hits another fundraising low]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved June 21, 2017.</ref><ref>Bowden, John (June 21, 2017). [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/338864-democrats-only-raised-43-million-in-may-worst-fundraising-since-2003 Democrats raised just $4.3M in May]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 22, 2017.</ref> The RNC broke another record in June 2017, raising $13.4 million,<ref>Kew, Ben (July 20, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/20/rnc-breaks-another-fundraising-record-raises-record-13-4-million-in-june/ RNC Breaks Another Fundraising Record, Raises Record $13.4 Million in June]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved July 20, 2017.</ref><ref>Siegel, Josh (July 20, 2017). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rnc-announces-it-raised-135-million-in-june-a-record-for-a-month-in-a-non-presidential-year/article/2629300 RNC announces it raised $13.5 million in June, a record for a month in a non-presidential year]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved July 20, 2017.</ref> as well as July.<ref>Kew, Ben (August 21, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/21/rnc-breaks-another-fundraising-record-as-democrats-struggle/ RNC Breaks Another Fundraising Record as Democrats Struggle]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 22, 2017.</ref> In 2017 overall, the RNC raised over $130 million, a large amount for an off-election year,<ref>Multiple references:
*Persons, Sally (December 27, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/27/rnc-set-raise-over-100-million-2017-after-leadersh/ RNC set to raise $130M in 2017 after leadership makes fundraising a top priority]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
*Moran, Sean (December 28, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/28/rnc-set-raise-record-130-million-2017/ RNC Set to Raise Record $130 Million in 2017]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
*Samuels, Brett (January 31, 2018). [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/371650-rnc-announces-record-off-year-fundraising-haul-in-2017 RNC announces record off-year fundraising haul for 2017]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
*Moran, Sean (February 1, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/01/rnc-raises-record-off-year-132-5-million-2017/ RNC Raises Record Off-Year $132.5 Million in 2017]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved February 1, 2018.</ref> and the National Republican Congressional Committee also raised a record $85 million in 2017.<ref>Moran, Sean (January 15, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/15/nrcc-raised-record-85-million-ahead-contentious-2018-midterm-elections/ NRCC Raised a Record $85 Million Ahead of Contentious 2018 Midterm Elections]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 15, 2018.</ref> The Republican Party and the Trump campaign continued raising large sums of money.<ref>Singman, Brooke; Dorman, Sam (January 3, 2020). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-campaign-gop-raised-nearly-a-half-billion-dollars-in-2019 Trump campaign, GOP raised nearly a half-billion dollars in 2019]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 3, 2020.</ref>

A September 2018 Gallup poll found that the GOP's favorability rating reached the highest level since 2011.<ref>Multiple references:
*Norman, Jim (September 24, 2018). [https://news.gallup.com/poll/242906/republican-party-favorability-highest-seven-years.aspx Republican Party Favorability Highest in Seven Years]. ''Gallup''. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
*Boyle, Matthew (September 24, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/24/gallup-with-donald-trump-at-helm-gop-rises-to-highest-approval-rating-in-nearly-a-decade/ Gallup: With Donald Trump at Helm, GOP Rises to Highest Approval Rating in Nearly a Decade]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
*Adelmann, Bob (September 25, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/30167-gop-s-favorability-rating-highest-in-seven-years GOP’s Favorability Rating Highest in Seven Years]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
*Keller, Megan (September 24, 2018). [https://thehill.com/homenews/house/408123-republican-partys-favorability-rating-comparable-with-democrats-gallup GOP's favorability hits highest mark in seven years: Gallup]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
*Lim, Naomi (September 24, 2018). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gops-favorability-rating-hits-highest-point-since-2011 GOP's favorability rating hits highest point since 2011]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
*Fordham, Evie (September 24, 2018). [https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/24/republican-party-favorability-gallup/ Poll: Republican Party Enjoys Highest Favorability Rating in Seven Years]. ''The Daily Caller''. Retrieved September 24, 2018.</ref>

In [[Kentucky]], voters overwhelmingly rejected the Democrats' racist agenda, electing the state's first black [[Attorney General]] and first Republican in 70 years, [[Daniel Cameron]]. Four years earlier, Kentucky voters elected conservative Republican Jenean Hampton as the state's first black statewide elected official, and the Republican governor they elected, [[Matt Bevin]], had adopted four children from Ethiopia.

== Contemporary Party ==
The contemporary Republican Party represents a wide array of interests such as the conservative evangelicals, economic libertarians, and anti-globalists. The party has had some internal conflict over attitudes about how governments should run and how large they should be, what the party stands for, and what the party's attitude towards [[neo-conservatism]] should be especially in regard to foreign policy. The party is also divided over immigration issues with some members (such as George W. Bush) favoring workers visas and permits and some other members favoring strict control of immigration and strong action against illegal immigration. Unlike the Democrat Party, the Republican Party routinely allows dissenting factions such as the [[Log Cabin Republicans]] to speak at National Conventions.

In the past, the Republican voter coalitions have generally comprised businessmen, military veterans and evangelical Protestants. Some groups have realigned: blacks went from the GOP to the Democrats beginning in the 1930s, while some white Southerners became Republicans in the 1980s. Catholics switched from 80% Democratic in 1960 to 50-50 in recent years, primarily due to the embrace of [[abortion]] by the Democrats (though the Hispanic community still votes predominantly Democrat due to its support for illegal immigration and sanctuary cities). Extremely wealthy businessmen (such as [[Bill Gates]] and [[Warren Buffett]]) have switched to the Democrat party, though small businessmen generally remain in the Republican party. In recent years youth (influenced by [[Hollywood values]]) and better educated professionals (influenced by [[professor values]]) have moved to the Democrats, while blue collar workers have become more Republican, due mainly to Democrats support for globalist ideals at the expense of manufacturing job losses.

==Republican Presidents==
# [[Abraham Lincoln]] (1861–1865)
# [[Ulysses S. Grant]] (1869–1877)
# [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] (1877–1881)
# [[James Garfield]] (1881)
# [[Chester A. Arthur]] (1881–1885)
# [[Benjamin Harrison]] (1889–1893)
# [[William McKinley]] (1897–1901)
# [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (1901–1909)
# [[William Howard Taft]] (1909–1913)
# [[Warren G. Harding]] (1921–1923)
# [[Calvin Coolidge]] (1923–1929)
# [[Herbert Hoover]] (1929–1933)
# [[Dwight Eisenhower]] (1953–1961)
# [[Richard Nixon]] (1969–1974)
# [[Gerald Ford]] (1974–1977)
# [[Ronald Reagan]] (1981–1989)
# [[George H. W. Bush]] (1989–1993)
# [[George W. Bush]] (2001–2009)
# [[Donald Trump]] (2017–2021)

==Notable Republicans (Non-presidential)==
An incomplete list of notable Republican leaders and politicians who were not elected president:

*[[Frederick Douglass]] (1818–1895): Abolitionist and suffragist from [[Maryland]]
*[[James G. Blaine]] (1830–1893): Senator from [[Maine]], presidential nominee
*[[Joseph Gurney Cannon]] (1836–1926): [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]]
*[[Charles Curtis]] (1860–1936): United States [[Vice President]], a Native American
*[[Charles G. Dawes]] (1865–1951): United States Vice President, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] winner
*[[Tom Dewey]] (1902–1971): Governor of [[New York]]; presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948
*[[Everett Dirksen]] (1896–1969): Senate minority leader, instrumental in passing the [[Civil Rights Act]]
*[[John C. Frémont]] (1813–1890): First Republican candidate for president
*[[Rudy Giuliani]]: Mayor of [[New York City]] (1994–2001)
*Mark Hanna (1837–1904): Senator from [[Ohio]], manager of 1896 campaign
*[[Jesse Helms]] (1921–2008): Senator from [[North Carolina]]
*[[George Frisbie Hoar]] (1826–1904): U.S. representative and senator from [[Massachusetts]]
*[[Charles Evans Hughes]]: Governor of New York; presidential nominee in 1916, United States Secretary of State, [[Chief Justice of the United States]]
*[[Perry W. Howard, II]] (1877–1961), Republican National Committee delegate from Mississippi who supported Robert Taft in 1952
*[[Jackie Robinson]] (1919–1972): first [[African American]] major league baseball player
*[[William F. Knowland]] (1908–1974), Senator from [[California]], Senate Majority Leader from 1953–1955, Senate Minority Leader from 1955–1959
*[[Henry Cabot Lodge]] (1850–1924): Senator from [[Massachusetts]], foreign policy spokesman
*[[Joseph McCarthy]] (1908–1957): Senator from [[Wisconsin]] and noted anti-communist
*Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902): Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
*[[Nelson Rockefeller]] (1908–1979): Vice President, Governor of New York, considered representative of the liberal wing of the party
*[[Thaddeus Stevens]] (1792–1868): Senator from [[Pennsylvania]], leader of Radicals in Civil War and Reconstruction
*[[Charles Sumner]] (1811–1874): Senator from Massachusetts, leader of Radicals in Civil War and Reconstruction
*[[Henry Stimson]]: Secretary of War for Taft and FDR, Secretary of State for Hoover
*[[Robert A. Taft]] (1889–1953): Senator from Ohio and presidential hopeful, leader of conservatives
*[[Arthur H. Vandenberg]] (1884–1951): Senator from Michigan, leader of internationalism in 1940s
*[[Scott Walker]]: Governor of [[Wisconsin]], presidential candidate in 2016
*[[Earl Warren]] (1891–1974): Vice presidential nominee, [[Governor of California]], and [[Chief Justice of the United States]]
*[[Barry Goldwater]] (1909–1998): Senator from [[Arizona]], presidential nominee in 1964
*[[Antonin Scalia]] (1936–2016): Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1986–2016)
*[[Clarence Thomas]]: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1991–present)
*[[John McCain]]: Senator from [[Arizona]], presidential nominee in 2008
*[[Sarah Palin]]: Governor of [[Alaska]], vice-presidential nominee in 2008
*[[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]: Governor of [[California]]
*[[Mitt Romney]]: Governor of [[Massachusetts]], presidential nominee in 2012
*[[Mike Pence]]: Vice President (2017–2021), Governor of [[Indiana]] (2013–2017)

==See also==
*[[List of political parties in the United States]]
*[[RINO]] – '''R'''epublicans '''i'''n '''N'''ame '''O'''nly
*[[Previous Breaking News/Republicans|Articles about '''Republicans''' from previous "Breaking News"]]
*[[List of African-American Republicans]]

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*Parmet, Herbert S. ''Eisenhower and the American Crusades'' (1972) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14967951 online edition]
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*Perlstein, Rick. ''Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus'' (2002) well written, broad account of 1964
*Perlstein, Rick. ''Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America'' (2008), 896pp; covers 1965 to 1972
* Reinhard, David W. ''The Republican Right since 1945'' (1983) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=91954887 online edition]
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**includes: "'To One or Another of These Parties Every Man Belongs;": 1820–1865 by Joel H. Silbey; "Change and Continuity in the Party Period: 1835–1885" by Michael F. Holt; "The Transformation of American Politics: 1865–1910" by Peter H. Argersinger; "Democracy, Republicanism, and Efficiency: 1885–1930" by Richard Jensen; "The Limits of Federal Power and Social Policy: 1910–1955" by Anthony J. Badger; "The Rise of Rights and Rights Consciousness: 1930–1980" by James T. Patterson; and "Economic Growth, Issue Evolution, and Divided Government: 1955–2000" by Byron E. Shafer
*Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr. ed. ''History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2000'' (various multivolume editions, latest is 2001). For each election includes good scholarly history and selection of primary document. Essays on the most important election are reprinted in Schlesinger, ''The Coming to Power: Critical presidential elections in American history'' (1972)
* Smith, Richard Norton. An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover, (1987) full-length scholarly biography.
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===Since 1980===
*Barone, Michael, and Grant Ujifusa, ''The Almanac of American Politics 2008: The Senators, the Representatives and the Governors: Their Records and Election Results, Their States and Districts'' (2007) covers all incumbent Congressmen and governors with amazing detail. New edition published every two years since 1975.
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* Frank, Thomas. ''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' (2005), a liberal attack [https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-America/dp/B000FTWB3K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198072365&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
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====Notes====
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==External links==
*[http://www.gop.com/ Official GOP Site]
*[http://platform.gop.com/2008Platform.pdf 2008 Republican Platform (pdf download)]
*[http://nyyrcrecord.blogspot.com/ New York Young Republican Record]
*[http://www.house.gov/hensarling/rsc/doc/rsc_action_plan.pdf The RSC’s Action Plan for House Republicans], Republican Study Committee, May 20, 2008
*[http://www.house.gov/hensarling/rsc/doc/rsc_action_plan_(broad).pdf A Detailed Action Plan For House Republicans: Bold, Simple, and Different than the Democrats], Republican Study Committee, May 20, 2008
*[http://www.aim.org/wls/category/republicans/ What Liberals Say - Category: Republicans], [[Accuracy In Media]]

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Pornography

2022-08-05T00:53:13Z

Theocon: As bad as pornography addiction may harm women and children, there are plenty of porn videos that dehumanise men and even boys too.

{{etymology|[[Greek]] πορνή (''porné'') a prostitute and γράΦω (''grapho'') I write}}[[Image:Pornography.jpg|200px|right]]
'''Pornography''' is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity used for the intent of stimulation. As an [[addiction]] it depends on patterns, comparable to addictions to [[gambling]] and televised [[football]]. These [[addiction]]s can be overcome by taking an interest in healthy patterns: geometric games such as online [[chess]] (which millions play regularly), military history, visuals as found in [[architecture]] or the outdoors, and more challenging intellectual activity such as [[mathematical]] [[topology]].

Pornography usually consists of images depicting the satisfaction of the sort of "unnatural lust" which leads to damnation. ({{Bible ref|book=Jude|chap=1|verses=6-7}}) It destroys the mind as [[gambling]] does and, even worse, '''pornography''' leads to terrible crimes against women, men (especially young ones) and children.<ref>https://www.un.org/rights/dpi1772e.htm</ref><ref>http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0388_Effects_of_Pornograp.html</ref> Pornography has also been shown to cause erectile dysfunction, even in young men. <ref>https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/erectile-dysfunction-question</ref> The Greek word πορνεία (''porneía'') appears several times in the [[New Testament]] as a sin that, unless repented of, will prevent one from entering heaven; however, such a word in Ancient Greek mostly referred to [[sexual immorality|illicit sexual relationships]] (such as adultery and incest), prostitution, and also, in a broader sense, idolatry.

* When Christ said "any man who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart," He made it clear that chastity—and unchastity—does not begin with what we do, but rather in what we think. Therefore, deliberately seeking such stimulation outside a committed marriage, even via the imagination, constitutes a sin against [[chastity]].<ref>[http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0051.html Banishing Unchaste Thoughts]</ref>

Christ makes clear in the above passage that there is no such thing as "safe, healthy use of pornography." Any viewing of pornography is neither safe nor healthy. There is no such thing as "manageable viewing of pornography" or viewing of pornography that is "normal development." Rather, the viewing of pornography is a sinful act that dishonors God and transgresses His Word.

Pornographic images have been proliferating at a remarkable rate. What was a $5 million-a-year enterprise merely 25 years ago has boomed to a $7 billion to $10 billion-a-year industry today... the fastest growing sectors of the industry are pornographic DVDs, cable television, and phone sex. Pornography is no longer confined to the seedier sections of town. With the advent of the Internet, it has become readily available to all, including children, and in the dark, sick seclusion of one's own home.<ref>[http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=759 Censorship or Education?]</ref>

==Human psychology==
Dr. [[Jerry Bergman (scientist)|Jerry Bergman]] (Ph.D.) wrote:

:Pornography distorts the natural development of personality. If the early stimulus is pornographic photographs, the [[adolescent]] can be [[conditioning|conditioned]] to become aroused through photographs. Once this pairing is rewarded a number of times, it is likely to become permanent. The result to the individual is that it becomes difficult for the person to seek out relations with appropriate persons. Furthermore, pornography teaches people to look upon others as nothing more than sex objects, therefore, possibly inducting thoughts of committing rape.<ref>Jerry Bergman, Ph.D., The Influence of Pornography on Sexual Development: Three Case Histories, IX ''Family Therapy'' 3, 1982, pg. 265.</ref>

Furthermore, research has revealed that married couples who watch pornography have a substantially higher divorce rate then married couples who do not indulge in pornography.<ref>[http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/divorce-rates-double-when-people-start-watching-porn Divorce rates double when people start watching porn]</ref>

==Illusion and addiction==

Pornography provides the illusion of intimacy,<ref>[http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-f016.html (Christian Answers)]</ref> but this is a [[satan]]ic trap (see [[sexual addiction]]).

*Pornography consumption is not something that can easily be stopped. Once the appetite for it has developed, it actually increases. In his 1988 study ''Pornography Effects: Empirical and Clinical Evidence'', [[Victor Cline]], then with the [[University of Utah]]'s Department of Psychology noted that studies show pornography is progressive and addictive for many. It often leads to the user acting out his fantasy.
*The Internet is the "crack cocaine" of sexual addiction.<ref>[http://www.soundvision.com/Info/life/porn/pornfacts.asp]</ref>

"People often act in accordance with the images and patterns they find around them,"<ref>At the crux of this issue is whether written pornography might have a causal effect in eroticizing criminal activities. One case that dealt with this issue indirectly is American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut, ... the court conceded that it saw some evidence of a causal relationship between pornography and anti-social behaviors.... People often act in accordance with the images and patterns they find around them. . . . Depictions of subordination tend to perpetuate subordination." 771 F.2d at 328-29.</ref> so looking at pornography is a dangerous practice; although being around a loving Christian family for most of the day, and instead acting in accordance with those images and patterns seems to negate this.

Pornography says that happiness is found by having the same experience over and over again with lots of different women; true ''eros'' says that happiness is found by having different experiences over and over again with the same person.<ref>[http://nopornnorthampton.org/2007/05/02/schwyzer-on-porn-pursuit-of-novelty-is-enemy-of-relationship.aspx]</ref>

==Departure from the norm==
Viewing or reading pornography day in and day out has a negative effect. It desensitizes a person, makes him more withdrawn, and makes him view others (of the opposite sex) like objects rather than the people they are.
Although some people have argued that "erotica" is okay, in the history of erotic literature it is rare to find any depiction of normal marital relations.

Cary Tennis wrote:
:And naturally whether you approve of porn in theory or not, its effect will be to displace you. Like crack, it tends to take over, to push out other hungers that tend to nurture the human community by making us dependent on one another. Since we are dependent on each other we must be civil and loving. If we are not dependent on each other then we needn't be civil and loving. We needn't have community and family.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/04/11/porn/ (Salon magazine)]</ref>

There is debate whether it is truly moral to be 'civil and loving' purely because it is necessary, as Cary Tennis seems to say here. Other Christians argue that to be 'civil and loving' purely because we are dependent on others is actually immoral and manipulative. These Christians argue that to be self-contained, independent and yet still warm and loving is a greater virtue.

Debbie Nathan wrote:
:Porn is everywhere today, everyone is looking, and the media responds with little more than gloom-and-doom talk about evils like Internet sex addiction, or rah-rah promotion of Brazilian waxing and Jenna Jameson’s fame and fortune. Meanwhile, few know the real history of this explosive media, or the truth about its business practices, working conditions, politics and actual effects on people. [http://debbienathan.com/buy-the-books/ Pornography: A Groundwork Guide.]

[[File:Larry Flynt Wheelchair.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|The pornographer [[Larry Flynt]] is an atheist.<ref>Flynt writes, "I have left my religious conversion behind and settled into a comfortable state of atheism": see the epilogue of Flynt and Ross</ref><ref>"I am not saying he don't believe in God. I am just saying I don't believe in God. That puts me at odds with him." ''[https://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9701/11/falwell.v.flynt/lkl.00.html Larry King Live]'', January 10, 1996</ref> See: [[Atheism and pornography]]

(photo obtained from [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Larry_Flynt_Wheelchair.jpg Wikimedia Commons], see: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en license agreement]) ]]

==Neuroplasticity and Pornography==
Neuroplasticity is an emerging field of neuroscience which explains how certain states of mind or thought routines can physically alter the structure of the brain, even after adulthood, when the brain is purportedly thought to be done with development. The negative effects of pornography in relation to the phenomenon of neuroplasticity is often brought up in anti-pornographic studies. However, various pseudoscientific theories have emerged, claiming that pornography can actually be used to help heal the brain and stabilize the body much in the same way as Tai Chi, Yoga, or Transcendent Meditation. Propaganda websites like Intimate Medicine have been at the forefront of perpetuating this deadly myth, as pronounced meditation on pornographic material enslaves the mind to lust and can affect work ethic. The effect of pornography on the reward centers of the brain is well documented and correlates with this evidence.

== Atheism and pornography ==

''See also:'' [[Atheism and pornography]] and [[Atheism and child pornography]]

One of the [[causes of atheism]] is a [[hedonism]]. See: [[Causes of atheism]] and [[Atheism and hedonism]].

The infamous pornographers [[Hugh Hefner]] and [[Larry Flynt]] were both [[atheism|atheists]].<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2013/02/23/10_celebs_you_didnt_know_were_atheists_partner/ 10 celebs you didn't know were atheists], ''Salon'' 2-23-2010</ref><ref>Flynt writes, "I have left my religious conversion behind and settled into a comfortable state of atheism": see the epilogue of Flynt and Ross</ref><ref>"I am not saying he don't believe in God. I am just saying I don't believe in God. That puts me at odds with him." ''[https://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9701/11/falwell.v.flynt/lkl.00.html Larry King Live]'', January 10, 1996</ref>

In 2003, ''Arena magazine'' magazine listed Flynt as #1 on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list.<ref>[http://www.onenewspage.us/people/ms9j0/Larry-Flynt.htm Larry Flynt - One News Page]</ref> Flynt is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained from a 1978 assassination attempt by the serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin.<ref>Flynt and Ross, pp. 170–171.</ref><ref>[http://www.onenewspage.us/people/ms9j0/Larry-Flynt.htm Larry Flynt - One News Page]</ref>

For more information, please see:

*[[Atheism and pornography]]

*[[Atheism and child pornography]]

=== Barna Group study relative to atheism, pornography and sexual immorality ===

The [[Barna Group]] found that atheists and [[agnostics]] in America were more likely, than [[theist]]s in America, to look upon these behaviors as being morally acceptable: [[fornication|sexual relationships outside of marriage]]; [[abortion]]; cohabitating with someone of opposite sex outside of marriage; [[Profanity|obscene language]]; pornography and obscene sexual behavior; and engaging in [[homosexuality]]/[[bisexuality]].<ref>http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/58-practical-outcomes-replace-biblical-principles-as-the-moral-standard</ref>

=== The Netherlands and the global spread of bestiality pornography ===

[[File:Netherlands location.PNG|thumbnail|150px|A 2007 survey found that distributors in the [[Netherlands]] were responsible for some 80 percent of bestiality videos worldwide.<ref>[http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/811523-bestiality-video-industry-hit-as-dutch-give-animal-sex-the-thumbs-down]</ref>]]

''See also:'' [[Atheism and bestiality]] and [[Netherlands and bestiality]] and [[Evolutionary belief and bestiality]]

In 2005, the [[Netherlands]] was ranked the 13th most atheistic country in the world and the website adherents.com reported that in 2005 39 - 44%% of the Dutch are agnostics/atheists/non-believers in God.<ref>[http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics(Zuckerman, 2005)]</ref> The Netherlands also has the 11th highest rate of belief in evolution as far as [[Western World]] nations (see: [[Evolutionary belief and bestiality]]).<ref>[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21329204.html Photo: Evolution Less Accepted in U.S. Than Other Western Countries, Study Finds]</ref>

In February 2010, the UK news website'' Metro'' reported:
{{cquote|Given the illicit nature of the product, precise figures on animal pornography video sales are difficult to find, but the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, in a 2007 survey, found that distributors in the [[Netherlands]] were responsible for some 80 percent of bestiality videos worldwide.<ref>[http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/811523-bestiality-video-industry-hit-as-dutch-give-animal-sex-the-thumbs-down]</ref>}}

In 2010, the Netherlands banned bestiality.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-03/dutch-finally-ban-bestiality/319622 Dutch Finally Ban Bestiality, ABC News]</ref>

For more information, please see: [[Atheism and bestiality]] and [[Atheism and pornography]]

=== Atheism and child pornography ===

*[[Atheism and child pornography]]

*[[Atheistic Denmark and child pornography]]

*[[Atheistic Thailand and child prostitution]]

*[[Netherlands and child pornography]]

*[[Irreligious Britain and child pornography]]

*[[Atheism, pederasty and NAMBLA]]

*[[Atheistic Czech Republic and child pornography]]

*[[Atheistic Sweden and child pornography]]

==Legal aspects==
:''See also: [[Arguments Against Pornography]]''
Due to a series of [[liberal]] decisions beginning with the [[Warren Court]], pornography is aggressively sold and distributed in the United States without meaningful law enforcement. It is a $7–10 billion industry that affects and harms 40 million Americans. Pornography destroys relationships and exploits young people.<ref>''National Catholic Register'' p. 8 (Apr. 22, 2007).</ref><ref>http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html</ref> The [[ACLU]] has also opposed any limits on the availability of pornographic content, as well as the [[Child Online Protection Act]], which would have placed restrictions on how accessible pornography would be to minors on the internet.

==Cultural effects==
During the [[Russia-Ukraine war]], many [[Russian]]s were upset to hear that an online petition was submitted to the city council of Zaporozhe, [[Ukraine]] to change the name of a city square from the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky to American gay porn star Billy Herrington.
.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/cug4PA2u9I3T/</ref> The war started basically because many Russians felt Ukraine was becoming both culturally and militarily too close to [[the West]] where pornography is protected free speech but political dissent is not.

== Deadly industry ==
Similar to [[Hollywood values]], the pornographic industry is rife with destructive [[liberal]] values that prove dangerous and even deadly. A great number of pornographic movie "stars" have died untimely deaths due to drug use, alcoholism and [[sexually transmitted disease]]. Below is a list of such cases. Note that most names below are stage names (with their real names included where available), that such public [[Prostitution|prostitutes]] adopt out of shame and acknowledgment of their depraved choices. In that same vein, suicide is very common among pornographic "actors."<ref>http://www.rame.net/faq/deadporn/</ref>

*Brad Chase (William Hobbs), suicide (hanging)
*John Holmes (John Curtis Estes), 43, died of [[AIDS]]
*Maria Christina, 41, (drug overdose)
*Vanessa Freeman, 29, murdered
*Elisa Bridges (real name), 28, drug overdose combining heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs
*Savannah (Shannon Michelle Wilsey), 23, committed suicide after a drunken car accident
*Chance Ryder, 26, drug overdose
*Roberta Pedon, 28, cirrhosis of the liver due to alcoholism
*Pierce Daniels (Rusty), 32, AIDS
*Lisa Melendez, 35, AIDS
*Teri Diver (real name), 29, drug overdose
*Wendy O. Williams (real name), 48, suicide (self-inflicted gunshot)
*Nancee Kelly (Kelly Jean Van Dyke), 33, suicide (hanging)
*Jon Vincent (Jeffrey James Vickers), 36, suicide (drug overdose)
*Caleb Carter (Ben), 31, suicide after suffering from manic depression, alcoholism
*Kyle Hazzard, 33, AIDS
*Charli Waters, 20, murdered
*Andy Mantegna, 34, suicide (hanging)
*Amber Rayne (Meghan Wren), 31, (drug overdose, cocaine and alcohol)

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==See also==
*[[Anthony Comstock]]
*[[ACLU#Pornography|ACLU]]
*[[Social effects of pornography]]
*[[Netflix]]
*[[Barack Hussein Obama#1984.E2.80.931988: community organizer|A lewd, doctored photo of Michelle Obama]]

==External links==
*[http://unitedfamilies.org/default.asp?contentID=34 Guide to Family Issues: The Harms of Pornography] : United Families Intl
*[http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-f016.html How can I tell if I'm getting addicted to sex or pornography?] - ChristianAnswers.Net
*[http://www.soundvision.com/Info/life/porn/getrid.asp Pornography & Islam] : A 12-step guide To Fight Pornography Addiction
*[http://nopornnorthampton.org/ NoPornHampton] - an anti-pornography organization with an extensive, blog-style website
*[http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=759 Censorship or Education? Feminist Views on Pornography]
*[http://www.ldsmag.com//LDSMariageNetwork/090306woman.html What's A Woman To Do? How Pornography Affects Women and What They Can Do], Geoff Steurer, ''Meridian Magazine''
*[http://www.obscenitycrimes.org/news/HowAdultPornographyHarmsChildren.pdf How Adult Pornography Contributes To Sexual Exploitation of Children], by Robert Peters, President of Morality in Media (September 2009)
*[https://www.theepochtimes.com/chapter-fourteen-popular-culture-a-decadent-indulgence_2685394.html Chapter Fourteen: Popular Culture–A Decadent Indulgence], ''The Epoch Times'' (from ''How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World'').

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Red state

2022-07-14T00:01:23Z

Theocon: /* Composition */Nevada was already mentioned earlier in the previous list, my mistake

In the [[United States]], a '''red state''' is a state where a simple majority has voted for the [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate in a presidential [[election]]. The term originates from the news networks, which during the [[2000 presidential election]] decided to agree on one color to represent the Republicans and one for the [[Democrat]]s in the states that the respective parties won in.

The choice of red to represent the United States' major conservative-leaning party is a departure from the practice used in other countries (such as Canada and the United Kingdom), where red is the color of liberal-leaning parties (while blue is the color of conservative-leaning ones), but liberals in the United States did not want to be red so they would not be associated with [[communism]].{{citation needed}}

In the [[Cold War]] era, Republican states were [[blue state]]s and Democrat states were Red states. In the post-Cold War era, the [[liberal media]] made the switch because of the [[Democrat Party]]'s long association with [[Communist]] [[revolution]]ary Reds, and communism at that time was a highly discredited [[genocidal]] ideology, and Blue is regarded as the color of tranquility.

==Definition==
Voters in red states are considered generally more [[conservative]] as a whole than voters in other states. People in red states generally consider themselves committed to conservative [[Christian]] [[morality]], [[abortion|pro-life]], [[family values]], economic self-sufficiency, and a desire to reduce the [[tax]] burden, be sufficiently armed for [[self-defense]], and reduce the degree of [[government]] intervention in their lives. This is opposed to, say, the liberal [[San Francisco values]] of the blue states. Red states are generally in the southern, western (except the Pacific coast), and Midwestern [[United States]]. These states are also collectively known as the [[real America]].

== Composition ==
These states tend to favor Republicans in both presidential and statewide/local elections:

*[[Idaho]]
*[[Utah]]
*[[Arizona]]
*[[Wyoming]]
*[[North Dakota]]
*[[South Dakota]]
*[[Nebraska]]
*[[Kansas]]
*[[Oklahoma]]
*[[Texas]]
*[[Louisiana]]
*[[Mississippi]]
*[[Alabama]]
*[[Georgia]]
*[[South Carolina]]
*[[Tennessee]]
*[[Indiana]]
*[[Florida]] (in more recent years beginning in 2016)

These states tend to favor Republicans in Presidential elections but will frequently favor Democrats in statewide/local elections:

*[[Montana]]
*[[North Carolina]]
*[[Arkansas]]
*[[Kentucky]]
*[[Missouri]]
*[[Iowa]]
*[[Ohio]]

These states tend to vote Republican in statewide/local elections but will frequently favor Democrats in Presidential elections:

*[[Wisconsin]]
*[[Nevada]]

These states historically tended to be strong Republican supporters in either presidential or statewide/local elections, but changed their political orientation in favor of the Democrats over the past years or decades:

*[[California]]
*[[Colorado]]
*[[New York]]
*[[Virginia]]

==See also==
* [[Blue state]]s or [[Essay:Free States Movement#Naughty State List|Unfree states]] of [[Big Government]]-[[Welfare state]]-[[Nanny state]]-[[Statist]]-[[Police state]]
* [[Purple state]]s - swing states that can vote either [[Republican]] or [[Democrat]]
* [[Essay:Free States Movement|Free States Movement]]
* [[Strategic relocation]]: [[Vote with your feet]]
* [[Free State Wyoming]] - [[Free State Project]]

==References==
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Red state

2022-07-12T06:52:53Z

Theocon: /* Composition */

In the [[United States]], a '''red state''' is a state where a simple majority has voted for the [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate in a presidential [[election]]. The term originates from the news networks, which during the [[2000 presidential election]] decided to agree on one color to represent the Republicans and one for the [[Democrat]]s in the states that the respective parties won in.

The choice of red to represent the United States' major conservative-leaning party is a departure from the practice used in other countries (such as Canada and the United Kingdom), where red is the color of liberal-leaning parties (while blue is the color of conservative-leaning ones), but liberals in the United States did not want to be red so they would not be associated with [[communism]].{{citation needed}}

In the [[Cold War]] era, Republican states were [[blue state]]s and Democrat states were Red states. In the post-Cold War era, the [[liberal media]] made the switch because of the [[Democrat Party]]'s long association with [[Communist]] [[revolution]]ary Reds, and communism at that time was a highly discredited [[genocidal]] ideology, and Blue is regarded as the color of tranquility.

==Definition==
Voters in red states are considered generally more [[conservative]] as a whole than voters in other states. People in red states generally consider themselves committed to conservative [[Christian]] [[morality]], [[abortion|pro-life]], [[family values]], economic self-sufficiency, and a desire to reduce the [[tax]] burden, be sufficiently armed for [[self-defense]], and reduce the degree of [[government]] intervention in their lives. This is opposed to, say, the liberal [[San Francisco values]] of the blue states. Red states are generally in the southern, western (except the Pacific coast), and Midwestern [[United States]]. These states are also collectively known as the [[real America]].

== Composition ==
These states tend to favor Republicans in both presidential and statewide/local elections:

*[[Idaho]]
*[[Utah]]
*[[Arizona]]
*[[Wyoming]]
*[[North Dakota]]
*[[South Dakota]]
*[[Nebraska]]
*[[Kansas]]
*[[Oklahoma]]
*[[Texas]]
*[[Louisiana]]
*[[Mississippi]]
*[[Alabama]]
*[[Georgia]]
*[[South Carolina]]
*[[Tennessee]]
*[[Indiana]]
*[[Florida]] (in more recent years beginning in 2016)

These states tend to favor Republicans in Presidential elections but will frequently favor Democrats in statewide/local elections:

*[[Montana]]
*[[North Carolina]]
*[[Arkansas]]
*[[Kentucky]]
*[[Missouri]]
*[[Iowa]]
*[[Ohio]]

These states tend to vote Republican in statewide/local elections but will frequently favor Democrats in Presidential elections:

*[[Wisconsin]]
*[[Nevada]]

These states historically tended to be strong Republican supporters in either presidential or statewide/local elections, but changed their political orientation in favor of the Democrats over the past years or decades:

*[[California]]
*[[Colorado]]
*[[Nevada]]
*[[New York]]
*[[Virginia]]

==See also==
* [[Blue state]]s or [[Essay:Free States Movement#Naughty State List|Unfree states]] of [[Big Government]]-[[Welfare state]]-[[Nanny state]]-[[Statist]]-[[Police state]]
* [[Purple state]]s - swing states that can vote either [[Republican]] or [[Democrat]]
* [[Essay:Free States Movement|Free States Movement]]
* [[Strategic relocation]]: [[Vote with your feet]]
* [[Free State Wyoming]] - [[Free State Project]]

==References==
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Talk:Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies

2022-02-18T22:24:59Z

Theocon: /* Jesus (1979) */

[[Talk:Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies/archive1|Archive 1]]
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== Public Discussion Here ==

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Okay who keeps mispelling "Mr. Skeffington"? THERE IS A G IN THE NAME see www.imdb.com/title/tt0037094/

The Conservapedia entry for "Gen. George S. Patton" has a great section on the classic 1969 film, "Patton;" why is it not on the list?? A few years back "National Review" listed 100 great conservative films ("A Man for All Seasons" led NR editors' list). Immediately readers (including me) sent in their own nominations and "Patton" came in #1!!!!

CW Miller PhD

:It should be. Would you like to add it? Note, however, that the film was not as conservative as the person it featured!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:00, 30 August 2011 (EDT)

I think 'Tears of the Sun' should've definitely been on the list. Its extremely pro-military.

:Perhaps, would you like to add it with an explanation of why?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:00, 30 August 2011 (EDT)

What is the conservative message taught by "The Way We Were"? Just curious.

:Pretty obvious, isn't it? The [[liberal]] rants predictably got too tiresome for the man to put up with, and he inevitably broke off the relationship with the woman in order to find a replacement.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:00, 30 August 2011 (EDT)
::And in the process of breaking off the relationship, he broke his marriage vows and committed adultery. --[[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 23:44, 30 August 2011 (EDT)

I think The Graduate (1967) needs to be on this list. This is a film about a boy growing up, by facing harsh reality, owning up to his mistakes, and making a decision about his life, thus becoming a man. It's also about how we can overcome sin and corruption by taking control of our lives. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 14:47, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

:I'm not too sure about that one. A common interpretation of the ending is that Benjamin has actions in the climax were purely spur-of-the-moment, at that he's just figuring out in doing so he's failed to accomplish anything meaningful and is left with a wholly uncertain future. --[[User:Lord Zedd|Lord Zedd]], 11 January 2017

Another film is the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film Rope, starring James Stewart, John Dall, and Stewart Granger. Based loosely on the Leopold-Loeb killing, Rope is about two Harvard scholars who decide to kill an acquaintance of their simply for the sake of killing, because they believe they are superior to others, all taught from one of their headmasters (James Stewart). This film goes into one of the reasons why we have laws, why we cherish human life, and slightly goes into the immorality taught by ivory tower intellectuals that seems so prevalent today.--[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 22:00, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

Hud (1963), starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, and Patricia Neal, needs to be in this roster too. At the heart of Conservative Philosophy lies the strength of a man's character and how that character influences others. Hud, played by Newman, is a man who's completely selfish in a way that liberals are. He doesn't care about anyone but himself, and his own ego, and he gives no restraint to his appetites. He doesn't give a damn about anything, because to him the world is full of excrement. And that sooner or later, you're going to have to swim in that muck like everybody else. A great line is said that "The look of the country changes by the people we admire." As you watch this film, things get progressively worse for the ranch that Hud lives on, part and parcel because of his own crass behavior. Hud's willingness both to pass bad beef off onto his neighbors and take the ranch out from his old father indicates the sourness of his character. A brilliant film about human character.--[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 22:28, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

== Man of Steel ==
Could it not be argued that the movie is promoting idolatry by having the people of Earth view Superman, a non-human, as a "Christ-like redeemer?"

Not likely. Superman never sought the worship of people. Neither did Zod for that matter. Interestingly, in this movie, Zod is an anti-hero. He may have intended well, as his patriotism is to be admired, and I really don't blame him for killing some corrupt self-absorbed Kryptonian government officials that had doomed the planet due to their own self-interest, but, tragically, in the planned economy, he was predesigned to be a warrior to continue the corrupt planned economy of Krypton. True, there is free will in the predesigned society (Jor El and his wife did break the law by having Kal naturally and Jor El broke the law by taking Kal from the Genesis chamber and sending him to earth. It was that Jor El believed that the whole society was too corrupted to be continued along the Krypton way and thus that Zod's idea of only keeping the good bloodlines, as he put it, wouldn't solve the problem. What made Zod a villain wasn't his efforts to save Krypton, but his efforts to kill everyone on earth when he could have just assimilated like Kal. (So the movie isn't pro-open borders either (though I heard a super man comic was lately!!!) as Kal adjusts but the alien Zod comes in and tries to transform the planet to his liking just like the illegals and Muslims are trying to transform the USA.) Also, Kal El/Clark Kent just wanted to be left alone (even ticking off the military when they tried to track him and he destroyed some pricey equipment to get them off his back). [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 01:53, 13 October 2017 (EDT)

== Bio-Dome ==
Granted this film is a blunt crude stoner comedy. However upon analysis, years later the film reigns true the themes of inconsistancy of modern environmentalism.
Namely despite the stupidity and antics..... the films message is that the environment is salvageable with a lot of hard work.
The film ridicules contemporary education especially college, modern environmentalism (and what weve seen 20 years later) and social trending.
Despite being college students, the two girlfriends are for lack of better word poorly educated on environment around them. They question the tactics of "raising awarness" of those who think sit ins and hackey sack are suitable ways for environmental stewardship yet contribute no actual work. Their concerns are only satiated by activism; not labor. Environmentalism is a very labor intensive practice. Meanwhile the two slackers inherit a mess (admittedly one of their doing) and when their backs are against the wall; work very hard to fix it all whilst gaining social outlook, popularity and press attention. The film brings to light public/celebrity endorsement of environmental awareness, where it's popular and trendy. The dissertation from the Pope and various media outlets when Bud/Doyle are known for locking themselves inside.
The film attacks the insanity of utopian dreamers (Faulkner and the other scientists) who have grand visions for the environment and world around them only to break down and quit at the sight of reality. Doyle (stephen baldwin) passionate plea.
"Now, you guys have spent your whole lives trying to make the world a better place, right? Well, here's your chance. Only its not perfect. Its like it is out there." With passion and now incentive, they fix the calamity with a lot of hard work, ingenuity. Incentive and hard work are more important than facts and data crunching; they turn their focus on cleaning a degraded environment around them unlike the scientists that began having shuttered themselves in a pristine one.

== Leaving Las Vegas ==
While clearly not originally intended to portray a conservative message, I feel that one strongly comes across in the film. Semi-autobiographical story of an alcoholic writer who loses everything because of his drinking and continues to spiral until it eventually costs him his life. opinions? [[User:Fnarrow|Fnarrow]] 11:07, 6 April 2013 (EDT)

:Not quite sure as to how this portrays a 'conservative message' of any kind. --[[User:Lord Zedd|Lord Zedd]], 11 January 2017

== The Blind Side ==
It's a story about the shortcomings of public education and how the power of private Christian charity helped a young homeless man overcome his disadvantages and play in the NFL.[[User:AdamDiscordia|AdamDiscordia]] 19:03, 14 May 2011 (EDT)

== Brokeback Mountain ==

I was thinking about this topic earlier and had an interesting thought about a seemingly non-conservative movie that, in a way, is actually quite so. I'm going to throw this out there for some (hopefully productive and civil) debate and see what people think.

The movie is Brokeback Mountain. Now hold on to your outrage, people. I have justifications for my point. Please hear me out. (Oh, and spoilers, just in case you planned to see/read it and hadn't)

As you probably know, the movie (and the novella on which its based) is about two men who fall into a homosexual lifestyle. But what struck me as conservative about this film is that it doesn't glorify the lifestyle; the two mens' choice to indulge in homosexuality is a disastrous choice that ends up ruining both their lives. One man's marriage is destroyed and his relationship with his child is forever tainted. The other man's choice actually leads to his violent death (Incidentally, I'm not saying that killing someone for being gay is a conservative value. But the point is that this movie is actually very up-front about acknowledging the catastrophic consequences of a homosexual lifestyle).

Considering all that, my next though was whether this movie might be unintentionally conservative, in which case it certainly doesn't belong on this list. But I don't think it is (haven't seen it since it first came out though, so I could be wrong).

So, there's my point. I would appreciate some discussion. I imagine some CPers will think I'm trolling or just trying to start an argument. Not so. I feel like it's a valid point but that there are probably strong arguments for and against, and I'd really like to hear what other people think. [[User:EMorris|EMorris]] 17:11, 25 June 2010 (EDT)

:You are partially right, but I think the homosexuals were meant to be sympathetic and on that basis alone, I don't think that movie belongs on this list. [[User:AdamDiscordia|AdamDiscordia]] 19:05, 14 May 2011 (EDT)

: I agree that the movie is anti-homosexuality. Based on the publicity, I expected the movie to be pro-homosexuality, but I was quite surprised by what was actually in the movie. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 16:15, 31 August 2011 (EDT)

:This would be true, except that you have to consider the film's intent. It's not necessarily suggesting that what these men did is the result of their choice. It's suggesting that what happens to these men is the result of bigotry, prejudice, and hate on the part of the world around them. That they are blameless, in spite of their choices. A stark contrast, which I think also ought to be listed as a Conservative Film, would be Midnight Cowboy. In Midnight Cowboy, Joe Buck (played by Jon Voight) recognizes that the life he chose, as a male prostitute, and begins to make an effort to change, to get out of New York, with Ratso (Dustin Hoffman). Ratso's death underscored the decadent life they had led in NYC, and how Joe barely escaped with his own. In Brokeback Mountain, you do not see such recognition on the part of Ennis and Jack. They don't really consider what they did as wrong, necessarily. So where Midnight Cowboy underscores the devastation the immoral life can lead, Brokeback Mountain places the responsibility for that devastation on everyone else but the two men most responsible. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 19:56, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

== U-571 ==

I deleted U-571 from this list. It portrays the capture of an Enigma machine from a German U-boat by US forces. As pretty much everyone with any interest in WW2 knows, the naval Enigma machine was stolen by Polish forces and decoded by British code-breakers at Bletchley. My Brit friends think U-571 is a joke because it minimises the role of the British ("you arrogant Yankees"). Poles are offended because it cuts out the Polish involvement altogether - including the very brave men who risked their lives to steal an Enigma machine and hand it over to British Intelligence. (BTW, Britain and Poland were allies of ours in WW2 and still are now.) Deceit isn't a conservative virtue - so I crossed U-571 off the list. [[User:BenjyB|BenjyB]] 16:51, 20 September 2010 (EDT)

: I'd say it's very questionable whether there's any deceit involved. The movie makes an on-screen written acknowledgment that the the first (and the majority) of enigmas were captured by British sailors. The whole movie is so over-the-top that nobody with a lick of intelligence would believe it's true. American sailors did capture an enigma machine during the war too, so this movie is obviously "inspired by a true story" even if it's not especially true. Most of the movie-going public knows that Hollywood "true" stories are highly fictionalized. [[User:EMorris|EMorris]] 13:13, 21 September 2010 (EDT)

==The Lives of Others==

Where on earth is The Lives of Others? it is, surely, the best recent critique of Communism and, for that matter, one of the best films ''of any type'' released in the past five years. It certainly deserves a place ahead of, for example, the obscure Dark Matter. --[[User:Jdixon|Jdixon]] 12:13, 28 November 2010 (EST)

: It's in German, right, and about the former [[East Germany]]? I'll add it on your recommendation, but I can't agree it ranks higher than the English-language Dark Matter, which speaks to today and not just the past.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 12:41, 28 November 2010 (EST)

::Fair enough, Andy. Though I don't quite understand the argument against foreign-language films. If the issue is obscurity, The Lives of Others was seen by far more people in the US than Dark Matter. A glance at Box-Office Mojo confirms that Dark Matter took in a staggeringly tiny $30,591 on its domestic run. The Lives of Others took in $11,286,112 in the US (plus another $66 million in the rest of the world). I am, however, content to abide by your criteria. --[[User:Jdixon|Jdixon]] 15:40, 28 November 2010 (EST)

:::Oprah Winfrey's daytime talk show rakes in far higher revenues than both, but I'm not sure what that proves. Dark Matter was apparently victimized and downplayed by liberals who finally figured out its conservative message, after it won first place in one of the Sundance Film Festival categories. The liberal backlash against Dark Matter is particularly surprising given that Meryl Streep starred in it.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 18:48, 28 November 2010 (EST)

::::P.S. Your suggestion of "The Lives of Others" is a fine addition. Thanks.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 19:02, 28 November 2010 (EST)
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::::No problem. Keep up the good work. --[[User:Jdixon|Jdixon]] 20:47, 28 November 2010 (EST)

== Fiddler on the Roof? ==

A film celebrating the value of community, tradition, family, and faith, all against the historical context of the harm done by the rise of Communism in Russia...worthy of a spot on the list? --[[User:Benp|Benp]] 18:30, 6 January 2011 (EST)

:Sounds good to me ... please add it as you think best!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 18:48, 6 January 2011 (EST)

:I disagree. Look at the overall film/play. This was definitely a counter-culture film thinly disguised as a quaint musical drama. The message was that Tradition is bad, illogical, and keeps people stuck in their ways when they should embrace the new, simply because it's new. When Tevye explains the traditions and why they're there in the beginning, he mentioned that they keep their heads covered and they wear their prayer shawl. He then asks, "How did this tradition get started?," and he responds, "I don't know." This sets up the rest of the show. Because never do they explain why they use a Matchmaker, or why they don't let people arrange their own matches, or why men and women dance separately. They even have the old rabbi getting down with the new changes, never defending what was before. Message: Traditions are stale and old and have no place in the modern world. Relax and just let things happen. Then the film gives us the drama of Chava marrying a Christian, marrying outside of her faith, and that's where Tevye can't abide it. By then, it seems that Tevye's objection is only based on ridiculous emotion, rather than anything objective. All this, in spite of the fact that change is coming, one that cannot be stopped by the traditions these people hold. This is not a Conservative message at all, but one that is quite subversive. If this had been written from a Conservative approach, we would've gone into the reasons behind the traditions, because they're not irrational or unreasonable. The reason for a Matchmaker, the way they dress, and the way they eat, and the dancing, all is meant to preserve their heritage as Jews living in Tsarist Russia. The Matchmaker keeps the Jewish men and women within the community, and within the faith, all the while helping to maintain peace and stability within the community itself. The point I'm making is that Traditions have a purpose, even if we disagree with them. And the notion that happiness comes from something material, as in the case of the marriage between Motel and Tzeital, is a direct message against a person's obligations to his or her duty, both to themselves and their community they live in. No, I'd say Fiddler on the Roof is not a Conservative film. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 20:15, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

: I disagree Wayfinder. Much of Jewish culture is based around the concept that Jews follow tradition for no other reason than because God expects us to. Take Kosher laws. Certainly, there can health reasons for being Kosher, but that is not why Jews become Kosher; it is because it is expected by God. Kosher laws don't change or update with new dietary findings. There are no Kosher fad diets. Ask a random Jewish person who keeps Kosher why he/she does and, 9 times out of 10, they will either say, "Because I always have" or "Because God expects me to". In the later case, performing an act because God expects it is logical, in an of itself.

And in Fiddler, there is an extra point to tradition. As Tevye says, "Because of tradition, we've kept our balance for many, many years." To wit, tradition is the only thing keeping Jews from falling into the abyss. And, in fact, the more Tevye gives in to the modern times, the more his culture is ravaged until he is forced to leave his homeland. Tradition is deeply respected in the film, as much as, and for the same reasons as, it is in the Jewish culture. And for that reason, I would consider it a Conservative film. --[[User:Sirreality|Sirrealtiy]] 12:16, 7 July 2012 (EDT)

: You make some good points, Sirrealtiy, but I must reiterate that the film isn't about Tradition's strengths, but giving into change for its own sake. Not once does Tevye ever consider why there are these traditions in the first place. When he argues with himself over Tzeitel marrying Motel or Hodel marrying Perchik, and so forth, he never considers the traditions at all or even explains their use. He almost casually disregards them. When it comes down to Chava, though, he can't get around it, and, again, he has no real good reason for any of them. So Tevye comes off as rigid and petty. This is important because Fiddler on the Roof came out at the height of the first wave of hippy counter-culture in America, and it ran with it. By the time the film gets to the conclusion, that the Tsar is running them out of Anatevka, the message is loud and clear: You can't resist change at all, so don't even try. This would, on the other hand, be more of a conservative film if we went into the reasons for these traditions, a lot of which would've been known, especially to the likes of the Rabbi, before casually discarding them. : --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 01:45, 24 January 2013 (EST)
Fiddler on the Roof is a classic movie.

A remember this: "Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ 5 But you say that if a man says to his father and mother, ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ 6 he is not to ‘honor his father’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: 8 ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men’.” 10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. 11 What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean’.” 12 Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you not know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?” 13 He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. 14 Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

So not all traditions are good.

I love Thanksgiving though. And I like eggnog on December 25. :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:54, 10 July 2017 (EDT)

== Gattaca ==

A condemnation of genetic experiments on humans, and a wonderful triumph of individualism in an extremely controlled society. No matter how much scientists play to be God, and try to improve the human race by using genetics, there will always be an individual, based on original God design, who, despite his health shortcomings, will triumph over this genetically modified, supposedly perfect human beings.

I don’t immediately put it on the list because the movie is a bit atheist. In the final scene, the hero finally managed to travel to space and cites the phrase: “They say every atom in our bodies was once a part of a star. So, maybe I'm not leaving, maybe I'm going home."

So, I’ll say that the movie has a conservative message, unfortunately diluted with atheist overtones. I’ll wait for someone else opinion before posting this. --[[User:AlejandroH|AlejandroH]] 23:03, 10 March 2011 (EST)

:Feel free to post this with the caveat you mention. Thanks for explaining it.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:33, 25 March 2011 (EDT)
::We talked about this movie at my fellowship a few months ago - pure hokum about a guy who might have been alright on his own but for a disgusting patriarchy forcing human engineering. I'll write this if AlejandroJ doesn't. [[User:NKeaton|Nate]] 00:51, 25 March 2011 (EDT)
:::Thanks, I posted it. --[[User:AlejandroH|AlejandroH]] 15:31, 25 March 2011 (EDT)

The argument that this film has atheistic overtones actually adds to this film. It shows how we have reduced a person not to his ability but to purely material characteristics, and the effects this has on society. In Gattaca, people are judged not by their ability, not by their merit or accomplishments, but their potential. Gore Vidal, who plays the director of Gattaca, says "No one exceeds their potential." This is, I think, a fundamental statement in the whole movie; that it is the potential that is important, not the action, not the accomplishment. If Vincent became exposed even after he is confirmed to go to Titan, we know what would happen; he would be expelled from Gattaca, and possibly imprisoned for using a "borrowed ladder." Which also points to Eugene's suicide and why he took his own life. Eugene doesn't value his life, but his potential. "Jerome Morrow," he said, "was never meant to be one step lower on the podium." In such an atheistic society that only values the material, the potential, the beautiful, but not the competent or the accomplished, Eugene's suicide underscores this conceit. Eugene could not be anything less than what he felt his potential was. Or, put it another way, he could not be anything less but what others said he should be. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 14:58, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

== Disney cartoons ==

Most, and perhaps all, of the Disney cartoons for the past 15 or so years have pushed the [[feminist]] ideology. I welcome any counterexamples, but doubt there are any. Hence the reversion of the "Princess and the Frog (2009)" addition.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:31, 25 March 2011 (EDT)
:''The Lion King'', a 1994 Disney movie, is definitely conservative. A main message of the movie is honoring thy father, and the power-hungry main antagonist, once he becomes ruler, favors big government, pushes [[liberal values]] and destroys their territory. I'll add it with your approval. [[User:DennyW66|DennyW66]] 15:45, 25 March 2011 (EDT)

::Sounds like a good choice. Please add and if anyone has a different view of the movie, then he can let us know.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 16:26, 25 March 2011 (EDT)

:::Added. [[User:DennyW66|DennyW66]] 16:41, 25 March 2011 (EDT)

Mr Schlafly I would agree with your reversion of my contribution of the Princess and the Frog if that movie were feminist-ideology-promoting (like, for instance Mulan (1998)) but frankly, it is not a feminist movie. I am not a woman, nor a feminist - I am staunchly conservative. The Princess and the Frog promotes monogamous marriage (which feminism does not) as well as the other conservative values I listed (such as saving money, hard work, free enterprise etc). In fact, the main character is so pro-marriage that she changes her licentious friend's behavior from debauchery (which feminism promotes) to monogamy. It is possibly the most conservative-value-laden animated movie I have ever seen.

''The Lion King'' on the other hand promotes re-incarnation with its "Circle of Life" song. Jack, the hero of ''Titanic'' commits fornication and mocks a man reciting the 23rd Psalm; Cal, the main antagonist is depicted as a church-service-attending hypocrite.

You are doubtless correct about the feminist ideology pushed by many Disney animations, but this is not one of them. I respectfully request that you consider returning my contribution of 'The Princess and the Frog'. [[User:Spotsbunch|Spotsbunch]] 23:17, 25 March 2011 (EDT)

:I have to disagree with you about The Lion King. As far as I can interpret, "The Circle of Life" is either about the bond all humans share or the journey from life to death and the afterlife, not reincarnation. [[User:DennyW66|DennyW66]] 00:36, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

::Spotsbunch, I think you have a valid point about the Lion King, but from what I've heard about the "Princess and the Frog," it's feminist claptrap with the woman wearing the pants and doing everything except having children and homeschooling her kids. It's more Disney tripe about a successful businesswoman towing along an inept man, which is hardly typical in the real world.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:56, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

:::Arguably, any movie where people turn into frogs, or where in Beauty and the Beast, people have transmogrified into furniture is not "real world". Fantasies they may be, (like many movies listed here) but they are still conservative. I (finally) put it to your kind consideration that if you would watch the Princess and the Frog, you would find it contains less feminism and more conservativism than Beauty and the Beast. Whatever your judgment, I respect your decision and will refrain from further debate, even though I (thus far) disagree. Kindest regards [[User:Spotsbunch|Spotsbunch]] 08:43, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

::::[[Feminism]] is unmistakable: it has women acting like men and vice-versa, contrary to reality. Disney cartoons have been ''heavily'' feminist for at least 15 years. ''Beauty and the Beast'', made 20 years ago, was not feminist in any way. But having a "Princess" act like a businessman and aspire to run a restaurant is feminist. What's next - Cinderella aspires to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company???--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 10:10, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

:::::Is there any reason a woman can't run a restaurant or a fortune 500 company? No really, Andy, I want to know. Why is it feminist to portray a woman doing anything but cooking, cleaning, and rearing children? [[User:TerryB|TerryB]] 13:40, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

::::::Who said anything about cooking and cleaning? And, no, there isn't a reason why a woman can't aspire to any field, such as plumbers (almost no women plumbers), gas station attendants (ditto), or professional football players (ditto). The fact is that the vast majority of women ''do not aspire'' to do such activities (or running a restaurant or a Fortune 500 company), and it's false for feminists or feminist movies to repeatedly pretend otherwise.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 13:48, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

:::::::I apologize for my abrasiveness, it just seemed that you were implying that's all they're supposed to do. I can see where you're coming from. While a woman can do what she wants, feminists are wrong for telling woman that they should only aspire to do things traditionally done by men. Men normally aren't beauty consultants, clothing designers, or nail salon technicians, so why don't we see any men urging more men to do these things? [[User:TerryB|TerryB]] 14:00, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

::::::::[[Feminism]] repeatedly tries to persuade women not to have children and raise them, pretending that aspiring to work in a job is somehow better. I can't think of a single Disney movie in the last 15 years that has been realistic about the homemaker role that most women prefer.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 15:00, 26 March 2011 (EDT)
::::::::::Up. A key part of the story is that the old man's wife had given up her dreams of being an explorer as real life concerns around the home took precedence. [[User:Martyp|Martyp]] 15:03, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

:::::::::::As promised, I will make my petition no further. However, as others have continued this debate, I will contribute to that. The Bible, our ultimate authority, disagrees (as I read it) that "a woman aspiring to run a business" (restaurant or otherwise) is feminist. Proverbs 31:10-31 describes at length "the wife of noble character" to be involved in business by working with eager hands; importing food from merchant ships; providing food for her family; purchasing property for farming; trading profitably; making and selling expensive cloth and having enough money left over to give to the poor. Anyone with a definition of feminism which includes activities like these, who also respects the Bible as God's authoritative Word should reconsider his definition. Respectfully and with kindest regards, [[User:Spotsbunch|Spotsbunch]] 19:15, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

::::::::::::Not surprisingly, you left out the verse saying "her children wake up, and call her 'blessed,' so does her husband" ([[CBP]] version), as well as several other verses that feminist movies do not include.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:06, 27 March 2011 (EDT)

:::::::::::::Then would it be acceptable to put the Princess and the Frog in the "Debatable Whether Conservative" section of this page? [[User:Spotsbunch|Spotsbunch]] 15:44, 30 March 2011 (EDT)

::::::::::::::There are high quality movies in the "Debatable" section. The [[feminist]] "Princess and the Frog" doesn't even come close to that level of quality and arguably conservatism.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:46, 30 March 2011 (EDT)

:::::::::::::::Since we're talking Disney cartoons here, would films like The Little Mermaid qualify under Conservative or Liberal? I want to make sure so I don't end up making a big mistake later on. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] 16:56, 29 June 2013 (EDT)

:::::::::::::::Actually, I think Beauty and the Beast would qualify as feminist propaganda, and thus make its Conservative status debatable. True, it didn't have Belle trying to work as a CEO or something (then again, given the time period, I don't think "CEOs" even existed at that time) unlike the films for the past 15 years, but it does push the feminist propaganda that women couldn't get an education until the 1960s, and all education was supplied to rich white males, and that Belle was somehow breaking societal standards by reading (which there have been women who read during that time as well and wasn't even looked down upon. Marie Antoinette for one.). Trust me, I'd recognize that propaganda when I see it because I had to be subject to that propaganda from a militant feminist professor by the name of Heather Lucas (who did actually imply the above thing about women not getting an education until the 1960s). Plus the fact that she was refusing to marry for children can easily be construed as being anti-family. Also, as some people pointed out, there were some left-wing stuff in Titanic as well (I think Jack basically made some comments that were negative towards capitalism in that film. That as well as the aforementioned scene with Rose qualifying as pornography, and heck, technically she was committing pedastry with Jack as well). I took the liberty to moving them to the debatable whether Conservative section. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] 22:36, 10 December 2013 (EST)
:::::::::::::::Edit: It should also be worth mentioning that the village, while "shallow," was not really materialistic, not under the definition of matter being the most important thing, and certainly not in regards to the aspect of wealth, race, and jobs. Probably the closest they've gotten to materialism was their considering Belle to be "odd" due to her reading a book all the time, which even then seems to speak more to the feminist propaganda of Women not being educated at all until the 1960s. There wasn't exactly anything materialistic about the village. I had removed the reference to the village as being materialistic since it really didn't fit the definition at all. Also, the so-called "wedding" had a brief shot of a priest (specifically when Gaston makes that opening joke), making materialism in the village even less likely (materialism is atheistic, and the presence of a priest likewise implies the village was Christian, something that cannot intermingle with each other). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] 17:26, 17 December 2013 (EST)

:Actually, after giving it some thought, I think The Princess and the Frog would qualify more as conservative at this point (certainly far more than the 1991 ''Beauty and the Beast'' ever did, which even Linda Woolverton, its screenwriter, not to mention Don Hahn, has admitted to being feminist claptrap since Jeffrey Katzenberg demanded for its third rewrite.). Technically, at least from what I gather as I haven't actually seen the film, the only reason why Tiana is even trying to run a shop is because her dad was dead and there was no male heir to run it, so under that sense, it's not actually feminist (and aside from that, it also somewhat condemns her obsession with trying to act as a CEO, especially when the main villain Dr. Facilier actually does try to convince her to pursue her dreams as a form of tempting her, and her ultimately rejecting it upon realizing what truly matters). I might as well point out that the film has Charlotte LeBeouf, a girl who most certainly is not a feminist, and if anything very traditionally feminine, who is actually portrayed in a very positive light, being a genuine friend for Tiana, and even attempting to restore Tiana and Naveen from the curse when granted the opportunity to do so (and only failed because Marti Gras ended at the worst possible time). And as another person pointed out, The Princess and the Frog actually DOES promote traditional marriage, and as a matter of fact, is the first Disney Feature Length film to actually do so since ''The Little Mermaid'' two decades before. Not saying it really should be listed as one of the greatest conservative films of all time (it's got evidence of plagiarizing ''The Little Mermaid'' at times, and aside from that, it did depict Voodoo in an ambiguous light, meaning that at best it can go under debatable whether Conservative or debatable whether Great), but it definitely shouldn't really be listed as a liberal film, period. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 09:33, 1 January 2019 (EST)

== Titanic ==

The movie ''Titanic'' also shows the rich and privileged getting on the half-empty life boats while the poor and lower class passengers are locked below (which is actually historical). Should it truly be included in this list? [[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 16:50, 6 April 2011 (EDT)

:No, I disagree. The movie accurately portrays the wealthiest men on the boat (Guggenheim, Astor, etc.) giving up their lives so that poorer women and children could be saved.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 21:53, 6 April 2011 (EDT)

::While I'm ''not'' denying there were individual acts of chivalry and that Guggenheim et al declined seats (although there is historical conflicting testimony about Astor) on the lifeboats (of which there were too few given the number of people on the ship), the numbers show a definite declining survival rate by class. This was also a theme in the movie and not one that should be ignored.

::The movie showed the lower class passengers being locked in the bowels of the ship, blocking escape. There is historical conflicting testimony on this subject as well: several people reported gates between decks being locked and armed guards blocking passageways while one steerage passenger testified that the gates were not locked. Another passenger stated that not only did the staff ''not'' sound an alarm in third class, but that steerage passengers who came up on deck were told to return to their rooms because there was no danger.

::'''First Class''' Women - 4/141 died (97% survival rate)1; Children: 1/7 died2 (86% survival rate); Men - 104/171 died (39% survival rate); Totals: 109/319 died (66% overall survival rate)

::12 of the 4 first class female passengers who died chose to remain with their husbands. *corrected mistype.

::2Lorraine Allison remained on board with her family because they had been separated from her infant brother, who was on a lifeboat with his nurse. The entire family died, with the exception of the baby.

::'''Second Class''' Women: 13/92 died (86% survival rate); Children: 0/25 died (100% survival rate); Men: 135/152 died (11% survival rate); Totals: 148/269 died (45% overall survival rate)

::'''Third Class''' Women: 91/179 died (49% survival rate); Children: 55/80 died (31% survival rate); Men: 381/440 died (13% survival rate); Totals: 527/699 died (25% overall survival rate)

::'''Staff and crew''' Female: 2/22 died (91% survival rate); Male: 701/896 died (22% survival rate); Overall: 703/918 died (23% overall survival rate)

::There are some servants left out of these numbers due to confusion

::Sorry for the over-long reply, but the ''Titanic'' has been a subject of fascination to me since my teenage years (about a century ago!) so I'm rather verbose about it. 8^) I don't agree with you on the subject, but I won't remove the movie from the list. [[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 11:51, 7 April 2011 (EDT)

Conservative? Some guy says all the right words to a vulnerable girl, then gets her to strip naked so he can draw her (that's porn). Then he gets her into the back of a car and they fornicate. Not exactly my definition of conservative. --[[User:Crubs|Crubs]] 15:58, 30 April 2013 (EDT)

==Move The Dark Knight To the Debatable category?==
I'm wondering whether of not The Dark Knight should be truly considered conservative-while it does have the message of not giving in to terrorist, it also includes themes of everyone being corruptible and having their limits (like the good public defendant, Harvey Dent, turning into a villain, Two Face) and seems fascinated with darkness and chaos ("Madness is like gravity all you need is a little push"). Given this all, and the fact that Patrick Leahy had a cameo in it, I think this might well be reconsidered. Thoughts?
Armond White, who generally sees through liberal bias and is a more conservative viewer, wrote this about it: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fTJ_tj1IKooJ:www.nypress.com/article-18545-knight-to-remember.html+armond+white+the+dark+knightr&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com]

:Thanks for your comments. I'll move "Dark Knight" to the debatable category as you suggest.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 23:22, 13 April 2011 (EDT)

::I watched it when it came out, and I didn't notice anything particularly Conservative about it. The only thing really good about it was the citizen response to the terrorist dilemma the arch-villain sets up, whereby two boatloads of passengers "must" each ensure their own survival by blowing up the other's boat; a quick-witted passenger takes the remote control and throws it overboard. But this has nothing to do with Batman.

::The movie shows how vicious bad people can be, and how bullies support (and recruit) other bullies. But that is hardly fodder for the liberal-conservative debate. Both sides claim to despise bullying.

::I daresay the [[Batman]] character of the 1960s comic books had some "[[conservative]]" qualities, such as the ''noblesse oblige'' of the superior man and idea that society can be benefited by the actions of a heroic individual. Both of these run counter to Communist ideas of history. But the Batman movies I've seen are about a different, darker man. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 11:45, 14 April 2011 (EDT)

:Let me help explain why this film needs to be in the list. At the beginning of this film, crime had been quelled enough that when you saw the Bat-Signal a drug dealer, who probably would've made a quick buck and easily got away with it, chose not to make a deal (you see this guy just refuse a deal to some other man in a car). But this didn't mean that the city was totally crime free, or that corruption was gone. Bruce realized that Batman could not change Gotham. He could help, but he was only one man. Gotham needed someone to be the influence Batman could never be. And that man was Harvey Dent. This speaks to how important culture is to a society. There's a great saying from another film, called Hud, which says "The look of the country changes by the people we admire." Meaning, that if you want a good, upstanding, moral society, you back people who are good, upstanding, and moral. You choose good, even if it means your death. I think the best moment in this film is where the Joker has got the two ferries, one loaded with convicts and the other loaded with civilians, each rigged to blow. But it's a convict that understands the problem, and makes a decision not to play Joker's game. What does this mean? I nearly cried when I saw that scene. It meant that someone understood that there's more to life than living. There's more to life than just existing. There's more to life than doing what is expected, rather than doing what is GOOD. Because GOOD has VALUE, which, I believe, is at the heart of the Conservative Philosophy. Liberals believe quite the opposite. Or rather, they believe that there is no Good or Evil, that everything is relative. Just as the Joker believes. It is what we stand for, and are willing to die for, that make us good or evil. This is what Christ said. To take up your Cross, even if it means your death, even if it means the deaths of others, because Life is not predicated strictly on comfort or survival, but on the propagation of Good. That's why The Dark Knight needs to be here. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 22:20, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

::He may be darker in the movies, that's not to say he still doesn't have conservative values, and he does whatever he can so other people don't go through what he want through. [[User:Jm920|Jm920]] 19:00, 15 September 2011 (EDT)

== "The Sandlot" as 1950s America as a time when "every boy had a chance to be great." ==

I suppose, maybe. It's harder to achieve greatness when one couldn't necessarily ride at the front of the bus/use the same drinking fountain/eat at the same counter/go to the same university as other folks. [[User:LloydR|LloydR]] 14:15, 28 May 2011 (EDT)

: Your point is valid. Feel free to include your point in the entry itself. I don't think the 1950s were as [[conservative]] as today. In addition to your comment, [[homeschooling]] was prohibited in the 1950s, for example.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:29, 28 May 2011 (EDT)

== Rollerball (1975) ==

Rollerball (1975) is frequently overlooked as one of the great conservative films. A dystopian tale in which a corporate oligarchy maintains control over the peoples of the world by distracting them with a hedonistic culture of sex, drugs, and violent entertainment. Rollerball was designed by the corporations to hypnotize and distract the minions with gladiatorial combat disguised as sport. The world watches these spectacles and subconsciously receives the message their corporate masters are feeding them - that individual achievement is not possible, because every Rollerballer ultimately faces the same gruesome fate. However, when Jonathan E (James Caan) proves dominate and (more importantly) invincible in the sport - the corporations attempt to force him to retire through an ever horriflying series of rule changes designed to bring about his death or capitulation.
Jonathan E's defiance is a captivating and uplifting example of a man asserting the freedom of the individual in the face
of totalitarianism. JFarren 17:38, 7 June 2011 (EDT)

== Indiana Jones ==

I am very surprised that the Indiana Jones films are not included in here, when they are certainly conservative. [[User:NickP|NickP]] 23:25, 28 July 2011 (EDT)

:Would you like to add them?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 20:25, 5 August 2011 (EDT)

== Rebuilt ==
I've rewritten the page as a table. Everything is sortable now. The gross is the US gross value, not worldwide (with one referenced exception). Everything else is the same. Films listed with NA - TV means that they were a TV program, and thus did not have a gross. NA - DVD means that they were released straight to DVD. None of the values are adjusted for inflation. While that would be interesting to do, I don't think wikis support computed columns, and it seems like a waste of time to update every number here. [[user:CGoodwin|CGoodwin]]

: Well done. Your format is better, and your additional information about revenues is interesting, although not of great significance due to (1) inflation and (2) popularity typically doesn't mean much.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 20:24, 5 August 2011 (EDT)

==Space Jam is not a "Great" film==
Conservative or not, Space Jam sucks! It must be removed.

== Two Thoughts ==

1. What about "Fiddler on the Roof"? About the important role of tradition in societies.

2. Also, the caption for "Hilary: The Movie" is awkward if not misleading. It didn't result in the McCain-Feingold Act being overturned so much as it was the impetus for the lawsuit. The current description seems to imply that it was a crucial piece of evidence or something similar.

Would anyone be opposed to these changes? [[User:Ayzmo|Ayzmo :)]] 14:17, 1 November 2011 (EDT)

==Film suggestions==

The Whit Stillman film, "Metropolitan", has been included on various lists of conservative films, including one by National Review. The story is of a group of bourgeois college students who meet a middle-class socialist peer. he later becomes good friends with them. Another National Review's list is "Ghostbusters" for its portrayal of an EPA bureaucrat as the main antagonist human antagonist and a message that "the solution to a public menace comes from the private sector". Another on the list I think may be worthy of inclusion is "Groundhog Day."

The full article from National Review can be viewed here [http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/article/?q=YWQ4MDlhMWRkZDQ5YmViMDM1Yzc0MTE3ZTllY2E3MGM=] --[[User:TedM|TedM]] 22:42, 10 March 2012 (EST)

:update; Another film I saw a while ago, while containing some crude humor, may still qualify. It would probably fit in the "debatable whether great" category. The film is "House Arrest" and is about some teenagers who go to extreme lengths (locking them in the basement) to stop their fighting parents from getting a divorce. --[[User:TedM|TedM]] 13:46, 12 March 2012 (EDT)

== The Iron Lady ==

I highly suggest seeing The Iron Lady. I'm not sure how widespread the release was but it received critical acclaim in Britain, and a good insight into the other side of the Atlantic during the time of Reaganism. [[User:HumanGeographer|HumanGeographer]] 15:06, 12 March 2012 (EDT)

== Add "Back to the Future" to the Debatable category? ==

According to the article for [[Back to the Future]], the film contains both positive and negative values. Should it be included in the "Debatable" category?--[[User:GOPFan2011|GOPFan2011]] 23:52, 16 March 2012 (EDT)

==Batman 3==

This review [http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/occupy-batman-storms-gotham-city/] calls "The Dark Knight Rises" a conservative film which compares the Occupy movement to the ill-fated French Revolution. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 21:04, 23 July 2012 (EDT)

==Zulu==

Zulu is definitely a Conservative film. Since when do Leftists (I never call them Liberals) have the character to do their duty even if it means their death? What you see here is an emergency situation, where the officers in command put aside both their differences and their peculiar ways of life to do what was important. Chard put away being an engineer for a couple of days, and Bromhead put aside being a societal-gentleman/officer. They were determined not only to do their duty, but to win. If they abandoned their post, they cede it to the enemy and they probably would've been hunted down and destroyed, as the force at Isandwana was. They fought for reasons a bit higher than themselves, and in the end they prevailed. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 15:34, 11 February 2013 (EST)

== Additional films to consider ==

*Saving Private Ryan-World War II, June 1944.
*We Were Soldiers-based on the memoir by Lt. Col. Hal Moore; 1965, Vietnam.
*Cinderella Man-The story of James Braddock; heavyweight champion from 1935–37.
--[[User:JohnJustice|JohnJustice]] 23:32, 9 February 2013 (EST)
:I still believe the three above should be included. --[[User:JohnJustice|JohnJustice]] 20:36, 3 June 2015 (EDT)
::I suggest that you bring this up on the [[Community Portal]] page. Pages sometimes find themsevles in a frenzy of vandalism, and the administrators lock the page. Then the vandalism stops, obviously, and people forget that the page was locked. This page has been locked long enough that it's probably safe to unlock it, and so you should request that. Or at least the admins could directly act on your three requests. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 22:42, 3 June 2015 (EDT)

== Bee Movie ==

Why is Bee Movie a conservative Movie?--[[User:JoeyJ|JoeyJ]] 06:27, 7 December 2013 (EST)

== 187 ==

I thought 187 should be on this list --[[User:Burkean|Burkean]] 17:44, 16 February 2014 (EST)

:Don't know about that. Doesn't ''187'' portray [[public schools]] as a victim, rather than the cause of the problems?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 19:26, 16 February 2014 (EST)

I suppose one could see it that way. And obviously in real life I detest Samuel Jackson's radical racial politics. I don't remember much whining in the film about more money being the solution or celebration of teacher's unions. To me the overriding message was that we have degenerate youth in this country who wish to be decadent and apathetic and do not value a good education and a teacher who believes that students should be motivated and want to learn has finally had enough. Thomas Sowell has discussed the youth in inner city schools who actually want to learn being denied that by the thugs ruining the learning environment or because they get beat up for wanting to achieve. The film captures this unacceptable state of affairs wonderfully. That part struck a chord with me as a conservative. I certainly didn't see apologia for the public school system going on. The lack of discipline and the complicity of bureaucratic nonentities is thoroughly critiqued. Obviously, I would agree with you that breaking the public school government created monopoly is the solution. But this film as I see it is more about the problem than the solution. --[[User:Burkean|Burkean]] 21:15, 16 February 2014 (EST)

:You make great points, and please feel free to add the movie to the entry. That said, I doubt that outside gangs are a major reason why so many kids are not learning basic skills in public school. The real problem is that the liberals who control public schools don't want kids to learn and be able to think for themselves. Someone who can't read is more likely to vote a straight Democratic Party-line ticket than someone who can.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:06, 17 February 2014 (EST)
You're absolutely right. Most of the time, there's no difference between the hooligan thugs and the liberals, as lack of discipline in our public school system facilitates their existence. Also, with bureaucratic control, and the war on homeschooling, cadres of teachers who care about their job and not education are protected and those who could provide a better education (because they are motivated, because they don't teach a mindless curriculum and because they believe in discipline) see their schools shutdown by teachers who would sacrifice a child's future (much like a child sacrifice in the heathen societies of old) on the altar of their precious careers. It's high time parents held them accountable. And for that, we will need an end to the century old progressive inspired idiocy of government control of schools and a free market in education. At least the progressives were honest about their intentions back then, as they quite explicitly stated that their purpose was to mold, indoctrinate, and otherwise turn children into loyal and obedient servants of the state, as opposed to God or family or their own individuality. Children are taught to lap up content free curriculum like cattle. It's disgusting. --[[User:Burkean|Burkean]] 17:26, 7 May 2014 (EDT)

==National Treasure==

It has positive messages of patriotism, respect for history and the founding fathers, standing up for what you believe in rather than going alone with the crowd, and many others.
:It also promotes the Free Masons, so I'm not confident this should be here. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 09:40, 27 June 2016 (EDT)

== Star Wars conservative? ==

Hi.

Can we really list the entire Star Wars films as being solidly conservative? I'll give you the first film and Empire Strikes Back (original releases, at least: The first film's rerelease may be debatable now thanks to George Lucas deciding to rework a certain scene to effectively promote gun control), but Return of the Jedi is debatable as while it ''does'' promote good over evil, and actually features redemption in the form of Vader giving up his life to save Luke from the Emperor, it also was mentioned by George Lucas to promote the Vietcong's exploits against American soldiers during the Vietnam War via the Ewoks. Similarly, the Prequel Trilogy seems to hint at a morally relativistic view, and ironically the bad guys are stated to believe in moral absolutes at one point (Obi-Wan, shortly before dueling with Anakin Skywalker-turned-Darth Vader, mentioned "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" after Vader said that Obi-Wan's his enemy if he's not with him), and there have been quite a few unsubtle jabs at the Bush administration in the Prequel Trilogy (and in the case of Return of the Jedi, the Nixon administration, even though Nixon was the one who ended the Vietnam War, while Johnson was the one who pretty much expanded the conflict and Kennedy was effectively the one who started it). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] 08:07, 5 June 2015 (EDT)

== Reopening the page ==

Hi.

Can someone reopen the page? I think it's been long enough for that person to have lost interest. And besides, there have been several movies that came out anyways. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 15:08, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

:Unlocked as requested. Thanks for asking.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 15:31, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

::You're welcome. I took the liberty of moving Star Wars to "Debatable whether conservative" largely because there actually have been some hints at a left-wing agenda in the film (I think Empire Strikes Back is the only film with narely a shred of leftism, actually), including promotion of the Vietcong and demonizing American involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as adding in some sources and additional stuff to the Beauty and the Beast thing (that reminds me, I may need to make a new topic regarding that). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 16:10, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

== Should Beauty and the Beast really be on here? ==

Hi.

Should Beauty and the Beast really be among even the Debatable whether Conservative page, let alone the Greatest Conservative Movies section?

I initially moved it from the Greatest Conservative movies section to Debatable whether Conservative section due to certain things that were being subtly pushed in the film (and speaking as someone who had to be forced to ingest a lot of tripe in college that was the same as what BATB pushed, I can recognize it when I see it and am doubtful it makes for conservative material), but right now, I'm not sure whether it even belongs there, either. If anything, it's probably a better fit for the Worst Liberal Movies article.

The first reason why I think this is simple: [http://articles.mcall.com/1991-11-22/features/2825583_1_beast-s-castle-fairy-tale-madame-gabrielle There] [http://time.com/2798136/maleficent-beauty-beast-writer/ are] [http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-01-25/lifestyle/9201241028_1_linda-woolverton-belle-show-scripts more] [http://www.mouseplanet.com/8500/Linda_Woolverton_and_Belle than] [http://girlsincapes.com/2014/04/07/princess-evolution/ a] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111009063303/http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1991/11/17/just-the-way-walt-made-em.html few] [http://www.urj.ucf.edu/vol5issue2/dickens/essay.php articles] on the development process that make it pretty clear from the writing staff, especially Linda Woolverton, that the film was supposed to push the feminist agenda (heck, Woolverton herself even explicitly stated that she modeled Belle after the Women's Movement in Time Magazine), and Woolverton also made it pretty clear in interviews that she believed the princesses before her were weak, insipid creatures that only wanted marriage and love as goals, and only waited for their prince to come (she even included, rather insultingly, Ariel from ''The Little Mermaid'' among those characters despite that character being very proactive). There was also a rather subtle anti-family/anti-marriage agenda being pushed considering Belle reacted with disgust to the idea of even having children and also being treated as being in the right for shoving her suitor into the mud instead of just saying no and apparently taking amusement in ruining a wedding. It also doesn't help that the opening song and Gaston himself strongly implied that Belle's literacy was not supported at all by the rest of the village. It also doesn't help that most of the men aren't really treated in a very flattering light (let's see, Gaston, LeFou, and most of the village males are painted in a rather negative light, Cogsworth was depicted as a pompous jerk, Lumiere's a womanizer, and Beast was mostly a jerk even with his complexity), and the women who actually seem to value marriage weren't treated well either (those blonde triplets were called the bimbettes despite their not actually doing anything that would mandate them being called bimbos besides supporting marriage). Heck, Lumiere's womanizing is treated as an implied virtue as well, and Belle ends up being treated as being in the right far too many times especially in instances that actually were largely her own fault (like the wolf attack scene). Heck, the film actually seems to push [[misandry]], and the [http://beautybeast.enchanted-rose.org/library/displayimage.php?pid=13702&fullsize=1 Disney Comics] and [http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141210031917/disney/images/2/20/Tumblr_ng92xaGNbc1r2nlopo1_500.jpg WDW pins] don't exactly help in quelling any concerns for the film's agenda either. Heck, Belle was even cited by Woolverton to be based on herself. If feminism could get Princess and the Frog and Pocahontas onto the Worst Liberal Movies page, this most certainly can as well.

Probably the second reason, and probably the most damning, is the fact that Beauty and the Beast and some of its writing was actually reused for the 2014 ''Maleficent'' movie (which, BTW, both films were even written by the same person: Linda Woolverton). Keep in mind, the ''Maleficent'' movie was the kind of film that ''The Federalist'' actually [http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/06/maleficent-once-upon-a-screed/ denounced] as pushing an extreme left-wing agenda, so if Beauty and the Beast inspired a movie in writing that was probably undebatably one of the worst liberal movies, that's a strong case going against Beauty and the Beast being even a slightly conservative film. Maybe I'm a bit screwed up in my thinking, maybe I am actually right. I don't know. But what I do know is that there's plenty in the film that would strongly suggest against it even being debatably conservative, let alone fully conservative. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 16:48, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

== Politics of ''Captain America: Civil War'' ==

I'm debating whether ''Captain America: Civil War'' should be included on this list, similar to the first two films in the ''Captain America'' trilogy, as even though the film contains some obvious conservative messages due to Captain America refusing to give into intimidation by the government and the United Nations by signing the Zakovia Accords, in addition to both the federal government and international governments shown to be corrupt with the villain Baron Zemo infiltrating the facility in Europe to brainwash the Winter Soldier and unleash chaos (in that regard showing proof that regulating the Avengers is illogical when the superheros are banned from taking action in the event a threat emerges on the inside which the government is unaware of, as I viewed it).

However, the film also arguably contains some liberal messages as demonstrated by Iron Man's side in agreeing to the Zakovia Accords as a consequence for the civilian deaths caused by the Avengers, which presents an "anti-war" message, which is further pushed by the villain's actual plot to initiate conflict between the Avengers as revenge for the death of his family during the events of "Avengers: Age of Ultron".

Should the film be included in the list, or under the "Debatable" section? --[[User:GOPFan2011|GOPFan2011]] ([[User talk:GOPFan2011|talk]]) 12:50, 13 May 2016 (EDT)

:I haven't seen it, but from what you say, it sounds a bit questionable. Even the liberals admit the government is corrupt--they just blame it on the conservatives while the same liberals continue making it worse. I'd call it "Debatable" at best, but I can't say for sure, since as I said, I haven't seen it. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 09:23, 27 June 2016 (EDT)

== Gods and Generals ==

I don't know if any of you have seen it, but should Gods and Generals be on this list? It's a hard movie to find (after release, it was "censored" by a number of companies, which means few people know much about it) but it shows loyalty to God, country, and beliefs. It takes place during the Civil War, I believe, though it's been a long time since I've seen it. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|talk]]) 13:04, 13 May 2016 (EDT)

==Star Wars==
While it is clear that Star Wars is, as this page speaks of, about good vs. evil, I question whether it should really be labelled as even a "Greatest Conservative Movie." I find a number of things concerning, including:
*The teaching of a universal force, ''which is neither good nor evil'' (There is no such thing as a neutral God-like power)
*The general idea there there is no God and Satin, but just a neutral power that can be used by men (and aliens) for God-like or Satan-like purposes
*The teaching of "trust your feelings" and that what is needed can be found withing you (see Jeremiah 17:9, and others)
*The trance-like state which is required to learn from and use the force (demon possession, anyone?)
*The "worship" of "the force." (They do call it a Jedi ''temple'', after all)
*And while I'm making points against this series: almost all Sci-Fi fiction implies if not states that there is not God. Life of many different kinds simply appeared or evolved on many different planets, and there are many life-supporting planets on which there being live.
Need I go on? I could, but I think I've made my point. If everyone wants to keep this on the list, I will not argue about it, but I would not have put this movie here. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 09:14, 27 June 2016 (EDT)
:In all fairness, I had moved it to the Debatable whether Conservative section for a reason.
:And technically, Star Wars isn't "sci-fi", it's "space fantasy," so the bit about there lacking a god or supernatural elements won't apply.
:I do agree that it's status as a conservative film is debatable, though. Heck, the heroes were explicitly derived from the Vietcong in the original trilogy, which alongside the Empire being explicitly based on America during that time period would alone destroy any ideas of it being conservative. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 09:26, 27 June 2016 (EDT)
:EDIT: BTW, think you can comment on my topic regarding whether Beauty and the Beast can truly be considered even debatably a conservative film, let alone one of the greatest conservative films? [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 09:29, 27 June 2016 (EDT)

::You're right--I'd missed the section break there at first, but still thought I'd argue the point. I forgot to go back and change that. I must say I didn't know there was a difference between "sci-fi" and "space fantasy," but I still say that it does matter somewhat how they present the fantasy, as to whether with or without God. 
''"...the heroes were explicitly derived from the Vietcong...alongside the Empire being explicitly based on America during that time period..."'' 
::You've got to be joking... So why is this still on the list? 
::Also, you're welcome, but I don't know how helpful I can be. I really don't watch a lot of television. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 09:35, 27 June 2016 (EDT)
:::No, I'm not joking about the Rebels and Empire's inspiration. That said, I really WISH I were. You can read more here:
*http://www.yomyomf.com/star-wars-is-a-metaphor-for-the-vietcong-kicking-american-ass-in-the-vietnam-war/
*http://www.inquisitr.com/1491688/star-wars-was-meant-as-protest-against-vietnam-war-new-book-claims/
:::In fact, it's precisely BECAUSE of that bombshell that I am even an Empire supporter now after years of loyalty to the Rebel Alliance under the naïve belief that they were derived from the American Minutemen or even the French Resistance during World War II.
:::Probably the only reason why it's still on the list is because ultimately, it's still a film about good vs. evil, which is a conservative viewpoint. That, and possibly Ronald Reagan invoking Star Wars when denouncing the USSR as the Evil Empire.
:::As far as Beauty and the Beast, I was meaning the Disney version, not the TV series. You can read up my commentary on why it may need to be removed from the article altogether here: http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies#Should_Beauty_and_the_Beast_really_be_on_here.3F [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 09:43, 27 June 2016 (EDT)
=== I removed Star Wars ===

I removed Star Wars. See editors commentary above. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 14:11, 20 February 2017 (EST)

:Thanks. BTW, think you can look over Beauty and the Beast and see whether it should stay or begone? It seems to have more liberal values than conservative values in there, especially given what Linda Woolverton repeatedly stated. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 14:54, 20 February 2017 (EST)
::I will remove it. As far as future edits, you can remove any movie you wish as you have good judgment and have been a productive editor for some time.

::In addition, I haven't watched a lot of movies for awhile. I just haven't liked the quality of many movies that Hollywood has put out in recent times.

::Lastly, I don't have much interest in this topic/article. I don't want to edit that article for the foreseeable future given my knowledge of recent movies and my interest level of this topics. I do realize that entertainment effects the culture though and would appreciate your edits. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 15:02, 20 February 2017 (EST)

:::Okay, fair enough. I'm not sure we should automatically dismiss any Disney films from being Conservative due to Disney being left-wing right now, though (which is what you implied when you removed it in the comment section). The Lion King and The Little Mermaid did push definite conservative themes in there, and I do know The Incredibles pushed very conservative ideas. And that's not even counting the three original DP movies (ie, Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty).

:::I'll also keep your suggestion about not needing to ask for permission in mind. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 15:10, 20 February 2017 (EST)

== Wall E duplication ==

We seem to have some disagreement as to whether Wall-E is a liberal or conservative movie. As a result, it is listed both here and [[Essay:Worst Liberal Movies]]. I'm in no position to say one way or the other, but someone should probably remove it from one list, or perhaps both, if it can't be either "greatest conservative" or "worst liberal." --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 02:33, 24 July 2016 (EDT)

== Why is the room here? ==

To me this seems to be the work of trolls.The Room is an absolutely awful film and even if it was conservative, (which it isn't, the main character has premarital sex) it cannot be considered "great" in any regard. Terrible acting, subplots that lead to nowhere, rampant sex and hedonism as well as a poorly written story. I'm starting to doubt the integrity of this page if a film of such poor constitution made it on the list of Greatest Films. If anything the film should be considered an accidental comedy.

:Sure is entertaining though. --[[User:Lord Zedd|Lord Zedd]], 11 January 2017

== The Incredibles is extremely conservative, and should not be in the debatable section ==

Recently The Incredibles, was moved to the debatable section, for one slight detail. I do not believe it should remain in this section, I believe that it should be put back in the Greatest Conservative Movies sections for many reasons. First of all it might be the most conservative animation film ever made. Second it's only reason for being debatable is very minor. Almost every film has at least one conservative and liberal aspect. Third you really have to push it, to say that the boss; Gilbert Huph is a demonization of Capitalism. Yes he is heartless, but he is just a person, and to be fair to him he does not know that Bob Parr has superhero powers, all he knows that Bob Parr is not focusing on his work, with that logic, you could argue that J. Jonah Jameson is demonization of capitalism, as he is Peter Parker's boss, and he twists the paper, and often displays Spider-man in the paper as a bad guy, (and he too is unaware of his worker's powers). Fourth one of the reasons that Gilbert Huph, tells Bob not help his costumers, is because when Bob asks if he should, Gilbert Huph tells him that "the law requires that I answer no", which in no ways a negativity on capitalism, as the government is requiring him not help people and not the business. Finally the movie does promote capitalism, as the main lesson of the movie is to shown the negativity of an enforced mediocrity, from the government, which highly mocks socialism, not capitalism.
*Okay, fair enough. Feel free to revert, I just was concerned especially when [http://pixar.wikia.com/wiki/Gilbert_Huph#Trivia Gilbert Huph's page] on Pixar Wiki made it sound as though he WAS a demonization of capitalism (and it doesn't help that Wallace Shawn was specifically mentioned to not only be the opposite of Huph, but also implied he was a socialist due to his appearing in Michael Moore's film "Capitalism: A Love Story" and being a friend of Moore). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 14:39, 10 December 2016 (EST)

== There needs to be some kind of criteria for inclusion here ==

I'd seriously like to know how so many rated "R" movies, especially slasher films like Halloween, classify as "conservative movies." It seems someone has been adding just about everything which doesn't hug trees or glorify liberalism to this list. Do any senior administrators have any objection to me removing some of these apolitical films from the list? [[User:DMorris|DMorris]] ([[User talk:DMorris|talk]]) 12:55, 31 December 2016 (EST)

:I removed Halloween, Scarface and Saw. See paragraph below about gratuitous violence and movies.

:Biblical criteria for Christian behavior could be used since Christianity has been a very influential force in the West for an extended time. For example, the Apostle Paul says to dwell on good things. While I understand that there is violence in war movies, the is the concept of Just War in Christendom. Horror movies are just violence for entertainment sake.

:The article [[conservative]] probably would be helpful in establishing criteria too.

:One problem is just the sufficient policing of the article.

:Another problem is that there was no very dominant founder or founders of conservatism who defined what exactly what it means to be a conservative. So you have competing notions of what is truly conservative. You also have completing notions due to differing notions of what it is to be a conservative due to countries/regions having different political definitions of what it means to be a conservative. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]])

:Fair enough about removing Saw. I realize more or less shut down my own argument, when I said that Jigsaw was playing God. [[User:newconservative|newconservative]] ([[User talk:newconservative|talk]])
::Then most of these belong in the debatable section, because it is debatable depending on how one defines "conservative." Many of these have conservative elements, but few of them are strictly conservative. [[User:DMorris|DMorris]] ([[User talk:DMorris|talk]]) 23:48, 14 June 2017 (EDT)

== Suggestion to remove suicide squad and zootopia. ==

I feel both should be removed for their own respective reasons. Zootopia's themes are decidedly liberal, and as critics pointed out there seems to be quite a bit of anti-Donald Trump, pro-gay subtext that I feel effectively rules this film out as "conservative.]," so to speak. While certain "conservative" themes may or may not be present, the general intent of the filmmakers have to be taken into account, and this film certainly leans to the left in that regard (still a great movie though). At the very least, I believe this should be moved to 'debatable.' I'm also quite confused to the addition of Suicide Squad. Besides the obvious fact that the received, at best, mixed critical and audience reception, the movie doesn't appear to have any sort of real political agenda aside from making money. Harley Quinn's fantasies about becoming a housewife become less inspiring when you take into a account that she's a deluded psychopath trapped in an abusive relationship with an equally insane partner who also happens to be underworld crime boss, and that the scene was more likely intended as a satirical jab at the "nuclear family" stereotype.--[[User: Lord Zedd|Lord Zedd]] 11 January 2017

== Fake news in "Pride and Prejudice" ==

Elizabeth is tricked by Mr. Wickham's lies about Mr. Darcy. This is akin to CNN and other media presenting false, disparaging information based on a single source. I won't roll back your edit, but I don't agree with it. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 12:07, 8 July 2017 (EDT)

:I think a better way to describe it is that Wickham lied to her about Darcy. People lie all the time, including in works of fiction. Fictional stories would be much less interesting (and real life would be less interesting too!) if everyone told the complete truth. Wickham and Darcy told very different stories about each other, and Elizabeth had to decide who was telling the truth. She made the wrong decision at first.

:Elizabeth's low opinion of Darcy came from two sources, apparently equally: what Wickham said, and the fact that Darcy separated Jane from Mr. Bingley, which neither Darcy nor anyone else lied about. Elizabeth's "who's telling the truth?" instincts failed her. Darcy's cold and aloof manner contributed to this.

:I can't believe that two men are discussing ''Pride and Prejudice''! :-) :-) :-) You realize that this is a women's story, a "chick flick", right? In fact, the fact that men can't relate to the story is discussed in the movie ''You've got Mail''. But I do like the story and the BBC serialization, even if Colin Firth in wet clothing doesn't do it for me. :-) Now I guess I have to go watch a baseball game to reset my equilibrium, [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 13:02, 8 July 2017 (EDT)

::I daresay the notion that men can't understand a women's story is [[fake news]]. Eh, what? ;-) --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 20:35, 8 July 2017 (EDT)

== Debatable whether conservative movies and debatable whether great movies were piles of junk ==

With the exception of Frank's Capra's classic movie ''It's a Wonderful Life'' the "Debatable whether conservative" movies and "debatable whether great" movies were piles of junk. I deleted those sections. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 06:21, 9 July 2017 (EDT)

:If they aren't allowed, I guess they aren't allowed. Don't know why they were created in the first place, if they weren't going to be anything more than junk. Must admit, some of them did have some conservative principles. Also, wouldn't pro-War, being the opposite of anti-War, be Conservative while the latter's more liberal? Just asking... [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 07:38, 9 July 2017 (EDT)
::I don't see the point of having a "Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies" and then having a big list of movies that are debatable. Newspapers don't publish "Best vacation spots" or "Best stocks to buy" and then also include a big list of debatable contenders in those type of articles.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:30, 10 July 2017 (EDT)
:::Fair point. Think we can create separate articles dealing with each debatable category? [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 05:30, 10 July 2017 (EDT)
::::Go for it if you want. I don't think they will be popular articles though. It is kind of like people abandoning liberal Christianity. People want the real thing or not be bothered with it. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 16:21, 10 July 2017 (EDT)
:::::Well, okay, I probably won't bother with a debatable whether conservative article (as you said, most people wouldn't want an article that doesn't even deal with real and pure conservativism, like how people don't want Liberal Christianity). But I can create a "debatable whether great" article. At least those films conservative principles are not in question, just whether they are actually good films. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 17:01, 10 July 2017 (EDT)
These edits may be good, but they removed about 70,000 bytes of information, possibly that other editor might find useful. I am recording the edits here before they got lost in the page history. Here they are: [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359742&oldid=1359725][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359743&oldid=1359742][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359744&oldid=1359743][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359746&oldid=1359744][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359748&oldid=1359747][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359749&oldid=1359748] --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 02:37, 10 July 2017 (EDT)

== Inside Out? ==

Other than some celebration of family unity in the end, that movie seems politically neutral to me. Who put it on the list, and why is it conservative?
--[[User:MacTavish|MacTavish]] ([[User talk:MacTavish|talk]]) 14:53, 10 July 2017 (EDT)

== Bambi ==

How exactly is Bambi pro-family? Now I am not saying that it is not, but is it conservative enough to even be the debatable section? --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 15:40, 1 September 2017 (EDT)
*Well, for starters, Bambi's mom gave her life to make sure Bambi survived when the hunter killed her. There's also the fact that the Prince and the Forest escorted both Bambi and his mom away in Man's first appearance. Plus, the Prince of the Forest, who is heavily implied to be Bambi's father, goes out of his way to save him in the climax during the forest fire. Actually, I think there's at least one other thing that makes it conservative: It also refutes the homosexual agenda with the character Flower, who is initially shown as a very effeminate skunk despite being male, yet by adulthood, he clearly is in love with a female skunk, thus being ahead of its time in proving that animals do not embrace homosexuality by nature contrary to what gay activists might claim. And to be fair, technically, "Man" is closer to a poacher than a true hunter (a true hunter does NOT target fawns or any does that are nursing fawns). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 07:33, 18 February 2018 (EST)

==Lion King should be labeled conservative==

There is another reason for it. It is a very good at showing why some people (like the hyenas) should be kept OUT of a country (and so isn't open borders) because they will only hurt the place (quite unlike the "let the Muslims and the illegals in" message being given today.). Furthermore, Scar's speech to the hyenas about getting even and what is owed to them could have a few words altered from "Be Prepared" and be an Obama speech. Scar essentially brings in foreigners who will back him and in exchange he gives them goodies, though, he openly admits he'll get most of them (which is true that politicians and the elite are the ones REALLY benefiting from open borders.). What the hyenas get is, presumably, the lionesses to get all the food for them and deplete the food supply and turn the ones great Pride Lands into a ruin (a great picture of what the Democrats and open borders are doing to America!) and, then, when things get low, kinda like Venezuela, he coldly tells his own hyena allies to "eat Zazu" (they don't do it, luckily) when they are hungry. And he even sells out his own allies, blaming them for Scar's death, when it is convenient for him (just like the Left), a move that, ironically, leads to his own demise. All in all, I think the movie has a very anti-open borders message, something that is needed nowadays! [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:45, 11 October 2017 (EDT)

Note, I don't know about Lion Guard, the latest TV Series with Lion King, if it's conservative (it's probably not with Iger at the helm). I do know that the statement that Timon and Pumba are gay, which I've seen going around, is false. Timon had a girlfriend in one the Timon and Pumba TV Series episodes. What caused him to leave is that he could never see Pumba again, and Pumba was his best friend and the meerkat village was bigoted against warthogs. (Also, his girlfriend could have come with him if she loved him enough, but she didn't, so it's HER fault then.) However, that said, I would NOT be surprised if Iger made Timon and Pumba gay in the upcoming Lion King live action. (After the gay LeFou, I wouldn't put it past him.) [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:45, 11 October 2017 (EDT)

Also, I do think Finding Nemo and Finding Dory are conservative. Ellen DeGeneres at least makes a good Dory, if not a human being. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:45, 11 October 2017 (EDT)

:I'll make sure to note the bit about it being anti-open borders on The Lion King's entry.

:So far as Lion Guard and/or The Lion King With Timon & Pumbaa, that's better fit with [[Essay:Greatest Conservative TV Shows]], so you might want to note that bit there.

:As far as Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, Finding Nemo is definitely already listed on here. I'll see if I can list Finding Dory on here (though given that it's technically a retread of Finding Nemo due to being a sequel, I'm not sure if it qualifies as truly great.). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 07:06, 12 October 2017 (EDT)

I believe that Finding Dory should be considered great, despite being a sequel. There are other sequels on this list that are considered great. Plus it got great reviews and is the fourth highest grossing animated film of all time. --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 10:25, 12 October 2017 (EDT)

:Okay, point taken. Moved it. May need an expansion, though. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 10:31, 12 October 2017 (EDT)

:BTW, Speaking of Iger and Lion King and gays, I just uncovered something very interesting. Turns out, the oft-reported bit about how LeFou was gay in the movie, according to Josh Gad, [https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/03/03/josh-gad-lefou-beauty-and-the-beast/98679284/ wasn't even in the actual script for the film], which strongly suggests that the whole "gay promotion" thing was on the part of the producers like Bill Condon mouthing off and not the actual film itself (and may also imply that the brief scene with Stanley and LeFou was an ad-lib added in by Condon.). Not that this is at all a good thing because it isn't, but in that light, we can probably assume that the script at least didn't intend to promote the gay agenda. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 10:47, 12 October 2017 (EDT)

==What about the Movie "Up"?==

It's kinda borderline. It does promote faithfulness in marriage and other good traits. The beginning part of them trying to force him out of his house could be considered anti-capitalism, but, on the other hand, eminent domain was only supposed to be used for public use, but it appeared that some company wanted the land and he wasn't willing to sell so they went and tried to make him look like he was getting senile or something so they could take him away and use his land, which is little better than the government doing the same to someone with the EPA and they, like the Obamacare panels, ruled him a burden on society rather than a human being with value. Also, it could possibly have an environmental theme, as they did try to save a rare bird. On the other hand, with the kind of brain to develop the talking device for the dogs, Mentz could have done other things with his life than spend all of those years trying to get that bird and be willing to take her away from her children. Also, I don't think the movie is really anti-capitalistic as it was left open if Mentz was good or bad until the moment he went after the bird and even went so far as to try and kill Russel and Fredrickson to do it. Also, on the other hand, Fredrickson was a sort of father figure to Russel as his father was never around. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 20:15, 13 October 2017 (EDT)

"Up" is actually on this list, you do make some good points on the film being borderline. Yes, they try to save the bird, but it's not really in an environmental way, it's more in a human saving a pet way as Russell found this specific bird, and he was saving that bird because it was like his friend, not because it was an endangered bird. Plus Mentz was almost like a poacher, so I do really think the film could be considered environmental. --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 21:12, 13 October 2017 (EDT)

==I think All Dogs Go to Heaven should be removed==

I don't know why All Dogs Go to Heaven is on here. Generally I'd put all of the Don Bluth works on here, but this one is the EXCEPTION, due to the fact that pretty much all scoundrels (Charlie, Itchy, Car Face, etc) are able to get into heaven and the concept of damnation is pretty much an afterthought. Now if Charlie had reformed at the end of the first movie, that would be one thing, but apparently, in the sequel, he's back to his old ways again. All in all, it's generally not good if the "hero" of your story is little better morally than your villain. Also, it does send the liberal message that you can do whatever the heck you want in life and there are no consequences for it (save that Car Face finally got his at the end of the second movie, though Charlie kept getting breaks for his bad behavior.) [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 23:47, 13 October 2017 (EDT)

I am confused are you saying that is not good if the hero is more moral than the villain? --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 00:09, 14 October 2017 (EDT)

The opposite. I'm saying it's not good if the hero is little more moral than the villain. Now, it would be one thing if the hero was more of an antihero and learned their lesson at the end and changed and became better in the sequels, but that's not the case with Charlie. If anything, we could argue he was even worse in a way in the sequel. (In the first movie, the most damage he did was to himself, but in the second movie, his actions allowed one of the devil creatures to imprison most of the dogs in dog heaven and his actions were more selfish than noble that led him to giving away that horn. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 21:43, 14 October 2017 (EDT)

==I think the Princess and the Frog deserves a chance===

Here is another reason: the portrayal of Tiana's father. While Lotti's (I think that's her name) father spoils her rotten, Tiana's father teaches her the value of hard work, that love is more important than money or possessions, was the one who inspired her to open her own restaurant (it was her father's dream and she finished what he started after he died) and he was in the military and was killed in action in WWI (good portrayal of the military in this movie). You don't often see the father portrayed in a good light in Disney movies, or, indeed, many modern movies in general. Triton seemed always to always be holding Arial back, Aladdin's father Kassim was the King of Thieves and had abandoned him and his his mother to go after the Hand of Midas, (Mufasa was good to Simba, I admit, but, then again, Lion King was listed as conservative on this list), Marlin, albeit too paranoid, was good (but Finding Nemo was also on this list), Lilo's parents weren't around in Lilo and Stitch (though they both died in some accident I think), Russel's father wasn't really around for him in Up, we never see Andy's father in Toy Story (only his mother and sister) (Heck, we don't see Sid's father either and we only see the mother of Jessie's former owner, never her father, so apparently fathers were unimportant in Toy Story (yeah, I know it's about the toys, not the people, but that still is disturbing if you look at it.), etc.

Come to think of it, that is a good argument against the claim that Princess and the Frog is a feminist movie. It was also later stated by Dr. Facilier that Tiana's father would sometimes do double and triple shifts to try and aim for his planned restaurant, yet he always made sure, despite being bone tired, to find time for his family.

Also, another thing to consider is Lottie, though spoiled, rich, and white, she is NOT a villain, but was actually the one who bought a lot of stuff (admittedly with daddy's money) to help Tiana get enough money for her restaurant. (They even said so in the director's commentary that she was designed that way.). That's another thing that makes the film anti-liberal. If it'd been a liberal film, Lottie and her father would have been villainous jerks, not supporting good guys.

Also, lest someone bring in that the film's agenda is racist, it should be noted that it appears that the film's villain, Dr. Facilier, is darker skinned (not quite black, but not white either).

Also, I might add that originally, Louis the alligator, was going to be a human turned into an alligator by Dr. Facilier, but the plot was dropped on that part. However, that said, Lois the alligator and Ray the firefly (who actually died fighting Facilier), were also portrayed in a good light and not as incompetent. That is another strike against it being a feminist movie. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:27, 28 October 2017 (EDT)

Also, I might add that Tiana and Naveen do seem more like a reasonable couple. Naveen is lazy and rich. Tiana, though poor and hardworking, perhaps is quite possibly going over the line on working TOO hard, as even her own mother points out to her. And she never bothers to spend time with her friends as she's always busy working. In the end, Naveen becomes less lazy and Tiana learns to have fun once in a while. If it was a more feminist film by the way, it would have Tiana remain the same while Naveen became less lazy. However, Naveen changed Tiana too for the better. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:34, 28 October 2017 (EDT)

:Even King Triton at least was willing to trade his freedom for Ariel's when push came to shove, so he wasn't all that bad (I'd argue Sultan and to a lesser extent Maurice got far more raw of a deal, TBH). I'm still not sure about Louisiana Voodoo being treated in a positive light though. We probably could move it to Debatable, IF Aschlafly allows it. Ultimately, he has the final say since he was the one who had it be designated liberal in the first place. And personally, even with the whole restaurant bit, Tiana came across as less feminist than Belle did in Beauty and the Beast. Plus, it's actually one of the few Disney feature movies that DOESN'T demonize marriage outright (and the first Disney Princess feature movie to actually treat traditional marriage in a positive light since The Little Mermaid two decades prior), so that's probably another aspect pointing to it being conservative. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 22:54, 28 October 2017 (EDT)

I think that even one movie you called conservative (Lion King 2: Simba's Pride) could be considered feminist. Both the central protagonist (Kiara) and the central antagonist (Zira) are females and generally seem to be portrayed to be the most competent. On the flip side, the only male, other than Rafiki of course, portrayed in a good light was Kovu (and he was originally bad but turned good when he fell in love with Kiara. Also, after being unjustly banished, Kovu suggested that they run away together and escape their problems. It was Kiara who suggested that they go back and stop the fighting. Again, another arguement that Lion King 2: Simba's Pride could be labeled feminist.). (Also, I might add that poor Nunca was allowed to be neglected, try and take out Simba to get Zira's love, and die trying. Vitani, on the other hand, was allowed to live to see Zira for what she was and to be able to get redemption.) Even Simba was portrayed as a father who just didn't seem to want what's best for his daughter (however, to Simba's defense, I don't recall Nala having that many lines at all in Lion King 2). If Lion King 2 can be labeled conservative, so should The Princess and the Frog. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 23:57, 28 October 2017 (EDT)

:To be fair regarding Simba, he actually DID have a valid point considering the Outlanders had served Scar earlier (and quite frankly, he's still an A-Okay Dad overall compared to Maurice and Sultan (who many times actually NEEDED rescuing by their daughters and usually don't succeed in saving their daughters even once. Not to mention more than once were largely depicted as doofuses.), or ESPECIALLY King Stefan from Maleficent). Besides, not all females were depicted as being good or even redeemable in the film. Zira most certainly wasn't. But yeah, like I said, we probably should wait for Aschlafly's response, since he's the one who decreed it a worst liberal film in the first place. For that matter, I'll see what Asclafly's response regarding Simba's Pride is. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 08:20, 29 October 2017 (EDT)

==I think Hacksaw Ridge should be removed from debatable==

While the film's main protagonist is against the practice of killing and the handling of a weapon (attributed because of his strong faith) the film at no point espouses gun control. At worst, it espouses gun ownership preference, as the film does take time to demonstrate and explain the necessity for firearms and killing in accordance with war. Hacksaw ridge was based on the real life of Desmond Doss and to change that aspect of his character would invoke historical revisionism and strike face of his moral christian beliefs. --[[User:AirForceMan92|AirForceMan92]] ([[User talk:AirForceMan92|talk]]) 01:36, 1 November 2017 (EDT)

== TV specials go under Movies or TV Shows? ==

Hi.

I was thinking of adding in some TV specials of various conservative and liberal stripes (and will go in the respective articles). However, I need to know, where do TV specials best qualify? Are they movies, or TV shows? I know made-for-TV movies are best placed here, but I'm not sure about TV specials. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 16:02, 11 December 2017 (EST)

That is a tough one, I know we have A Charlie Brown Christmas listed here. But Perhaps to avoid confusion on the TV Shows page, we could add another section labeled "TV Specials." Also maybe we should add A Charlie Brown Christmas to that section as well. --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 16:47, 11 December 2017 (EST)

:Yeah, that might work. For now, I added various specials on the animated films section here. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 16:57, 11 December 2017 (EST)

I fixed it and added a TV Specials section because they really belong in the TV page not the Movie Page. [[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 14:44, 15 December 2017 (EST)

:Fine by me. Seemed odd that they'd be here anyways. BTW, speaking of TV specials, should ''[https://youtu.be/S3a5j8PgQxg The Star Wars Holiday Special]'' go under Greatest Conservative TV shows or Worst Liberal TV shows? I'm tempted to put it under the latter due to Itchy basically... well, let's just say he ends up doing something EXTREMELY inappropriate in front of his own family, ESPECIALLY considering the family nature of the special. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 15:00, 15 December 2017 (EST)

That I do not know I have never seen the movie. [[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 15:09, 15 December 2017 (EST)

== Home Alone 2 a critical failure? ==

Home Alone 2 was recently moved into the debatable whether great section for being a critical failure, but I do not believe this is true. I believe both the original and the sequel have gained popularity throughout the years and became cult classics. Yes, it recycles the same format, but it introduces new characters, new jokes, and some other new situations. If anything its the sequels after the second film, that are debatable whether great. [[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 15:41, 12 December 2017 (EST)

:Thank you for saying that. Tell that to MacTavish if he changes it again. [[User:Shobson20|Shobson20]] ([[User talk:Shobson20|talk]]) 18:35, 28 December 2017 (EST)

::I also lean towards keeping it out of the "debatable" section, but I'm open to counter-arguments. I haven't thoroughly thought it through, so I could be missing something.
::I thought it was cute how they made it obvious that it was a play on the first, and added too it. (i.e. rather than just two paint cans at the stairs, it was those then a pipe. If you have the extended version, he also cuts the rope, dropping the pipe on them afterwards.) I think it was their intention to play on and too the first. Doing that with the third might have been pushing it, but they didn't. In the fourth, I think they went too far in the other direction, and made it too different. It didn't have the same creative flair as in its prequels. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 19:06, 28 December 2017 (EST)

==Correction on Alladdin 3==

I think that whoever wrote that article calling Alladin's father the main villain didn't really pay much attention to the movie. Even a casual watching of the movie would show that Saluk (and perhaps, to a lesser extent, the other thieves) was the actual villain. At worst, Kassim was like Iago in Return of Jafar, more like an anti-hero who couldn't be quite called good or bad. (Heck Iago isn't perfect in this one here as he helps Kassim try to steal the Oracle.) --Unsigned comment by [[User:PatriotMongoose]]

:I know, and I did actually watch the film pretty closely as a kid (and yes, Iago does help steal the Oracle as well, I can confirm that), but Cassim technically was the central antagonist to the story since a large part of the story involved Aladdin trying to redeem him. Think of it like the Original Trilogy of Star Wars. Technically, Palpatine was the main antagonist of the three films, but the central antagonist was Darth Vader, the one who gets the most screentime and played a large prominent role in the overall plot. That's what the edit was trying to convey. I'll reword it to "central antagonist" rather than "main antagonist" since that's more accurate. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 16:29, 17 December 2017 (EST)

== Where does RoboCop fit on the spectrum? ==

It's pro-law and order, anti-crime and anti-drugs. But it's also anti-capitalism with the way OCP is represented and its creators are very liberal.

== Songs of the South ==

Hi.

I was thinking of adding the movie Songs of the South by Disney (which unfortunately thanks to race-baiters can't be watched other than via bootleg, which is a shame, as Uncle Remus actually seemed like a very good role model for his race), which effectively acted as an adaptation of the Uncle Remus stories. Problem is, I'm not entirely sure where to place it due to the split between live-action and animated films. After all, Songs of the South technically has elements of both, so I can't exactly place it in one category only. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 10:12, 30 October 2018 (EDT)

== Some suggestions ==

A suggestion:
- '''The Aviator''' (2004) - yes, it is directed by Martin Scorsese, whose films are often quite violent and include a lot of profanity, but this film is almost entirely free of both and seems to advance a conservative agenda. It is a biopic that lauds the life of Howard Hughes (a Republican and supporter of Richard Nixon), portraying him as exemplifying American values of commerce, vision and entrepreneurialism. Hughes is a tragic figure who struggles with mental illness, obsessive-compulsive disorder and politically-motivated and fabricated allegations of war profiteering (which were levied against him by the corrupt senator Owen Brewster, who was formerly associated with the Ku Klux Klan). Despite never overcoming his mental illness, Hughes does manage to expose Brewster's corruption and double-dealing - a victory for an individualist, capitalist entrepreneur against bureaucratic government authority and cronyism. The film also portrays left-wing actress Katherine Hepburn in a negative light, ironically juxtaposing her belief in socialism with the luxurious life she enjoys in the New York 'jet set' (a 'champagne socialist'), and depicting how she treats Hughes coldly and abandons him when his obsessive-compulsive disorder worsens. - [[User:LibertyMatters]] 17:29, 06 November 2018 (GMT)

In fact, I have a couple more suggestions now:
- '''The Hunt for Red October''' (1990) - an atmospheric and tense thriller about a Soviet naval captain trying to defect to America during the Cold War. The film overall has a very positive view of America as an oasis of freedom, with the Soviet officers desperate to escape the totalitarian communist police state - one of the Soviets is surprised when he learns that in America, unlike in Soviet Russia, one is allowed to travel between states, a vivid illustration of just how repressive the USSR must have been. Based on a thriller by conservative author Tom Clancy.

- '''Inception''' (2010) - Christopher Nolan, who directed this well-received science fiction film about lucid dreaming, is considered one of the most conservative Hollywood directors (he directed the war film Dunkirk, which already appears on this list). Inception at first appears a completely apolitical film, but some reviewers have pointed out a subtle but definite Christian allegory at play here.

Buckle up, because this one - as befits a complex film - is a complicated one. But I really don't think I'm reading more into it than is actually there, and plenty of people have pointed this out. Spoilers are very much coming up, too, as a warning.

A quick précis of the plot - Cobb, the main character, is an 'extractor', who performs corporate espionage by attempting to infiltrate the subconscious of targets while they are dreaming and extract information. He has been hired by Saito, an unscrupulous businessman, to perform an act of 'inception' - placing the germ of an idea in someone's subconsciousness. In return, Saito will clear Cobb of a (false) murder charge and allow him to come back home to his children in America.

To embed an idea in someone's subconsciousness, it requires creating a 'dream within a dream within a dream' and embedding the idea deep within the bottom layer so that the person will not reject it as foreign. The way to wake up from a deeper dream layer into the one above it is to die in that layer (the idea that we have to die to wake up should suggest where this might be going). But there is also the possibility of getting lost in 'limbo' - a world so deep in the subconscious that the dreamer can construct the entire world with their own mind, and risks forgetting they are in a dream at all. Cobb, as is revealed later on, was once trapped in limbo with his now-deceased wife Mal, who spent years in limbo (the equivalent of hours in the real world) constructing a world out of their own memories.

The film opens with a shot of a fake vision of Cobb's children in Limbo, who are building sandcastles on a beach. It ends with a shot of Cobb reunited with his real children, James and Philippa (both named after Christian apostles), who, in the final line of dialogue in the film, say that they are building a house 'on the cliff.' Some reviewers have puzzled over the meaning of this line. To me, it's pretty clear. The film is bracketed by the two halves of the parable of the wise and foolish builders (Matthew 7:24).

What does this mean in context? It means that limbo is identified with the mortal world, where the foolish builders construct their lives on materialism rather than faith. In limbo, people have the power to use their imagination to make the world whatever they want it to be, as Cobb and Mal did for years - but none of it is real, it is just a figment of the subconscious. Near the end of the film, Cobb encounters a subconscious projection of Mal (malevolent?), who tries to persuade him to stay with her in limbo - not on the grounds that it is real, but that "you don't believe in anything anymore." Cobb rejects this materialistic relativism, in favour of an affirmation in the objective reality that his children do exist in the real world, 'up above' - in other words, he repudiates the temptation to live in a faithless world where mankind sets himself up as all-powerful and can build whatever he wants, instead having faith in the idea that there's something more real and meaningful than this.

The film is thus metaphorical. Cobb starts as essentially a glorified thief, obsessed with the idea of 'buying his way home' back to his children through his deal with Saito. Having failed to get his way into heaven (which, for him, is a return to his children) this way, he takes a leap of faith. He rejects Mal's temptation, refuses to use violence against a character who betrays the team, and risks his life to save that of Saito (who is in danger of getting lost in limbo). After this act of self-sacrifice, he dives into a river (a metaphorical baptism promising both death and rebirth), wakes up in reality on a plane, passes through immigration and customs (a metaphorical judgment of one's sins), is reunited with his father-in-law and finally returns to an Eden-like garden where his children are waiting for him. Whether this is intended to be a literal journey to heaven or a more metaphorical spiritual experience, the symbolism is all pretty clear. Once more, we end with the dialogue of constructing a house on the cliff - on the real and tangible substance of faith, a line that makes no sense without being viewed in a Christian context.

Christianity is admittedly not synonymous with conservatism, but I think the religious metaphor of this film is something conservatives would tend to appreciate. There is plenty more symbolism, which is summarised best in this article:
http://popupchinese.com/Inception.pdf
If we pop this one on the list it might be better to link to the article as this takes so long to explain. But I thought I'd lay out all the reasoning for you.

[[User:LibertyMatters]] 23:14, 10 November 2018 (GMT)

== Letters From Iwo Jima ==

I've been thinking about putting letters from Iwo Jima on one of these lists. If you truly understand it, it is a film that, while it paints the rank-and-file Japanese field soldier in a sympathetic light, it depicts the higher Japanese leadership in a negative light. For instance, it depicts Japan's "Kenpeitai" (the Japanese equivalent of the Russian Commissars) in a very negative light. The impression given by the movie is that young Japanese men are being drafted against their will to fight in a war that they don't understand. With all of the anti-war films that Hollywood makes, I think this one is different in that it shows the terrible battlefield conditions faced by the country that actually really started the war in the first place. [[User:Shobson20|Shobson20]] ([[User talk:Shobson20|talk]]) 01:14, 24 December 2018 (EST)

== Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Not Great? ==

Should Ace Ventura Pet Detective really be in the debatable if great section? It is one of my favorites, it was moved there for its crude behavior and because it stars liberal Jim Carrey, but there are other movies on this list, with crude behavior and other Jim Carrey movies.
--[[User:SaltLakeCityLover|SaltLakeCityLover]] ([[User talk:SaltLakeCityLover|talk]]) 10:06, 7 June 2019 (EDT)

I think it's definitely conservative (in fact, given how Pixar is going Left, it may be the LAST conservative one they ever make as they've fallen a long way from the conservative days of Toy Story and A Bugs Life)) but it also has a weak storyline and was Pixar's first box office disappointment. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 15:15, 17 August 2019 (EDT)
:Wait, I don't see how Ace Ventura has anything to do with Pixar. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 15:55, 17 August 2019 (EDT)

Okay, I am going to move it back.
--[[User:SaltLakeCityLover|SaltLakeCityLover]] ([[User talk:SaltLakeCityLover|talk]]) 12:01, 4 January 2020 (EST)

==A mild concern about a Dog's Purpose and a similar recent film (also mostly conservative), The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)==

Both of them seem to promote reincarnation. In A Dog's Purpose, Bailey comes back as several other dogs (including a female, once, which I wondered if it was a subtle transgender reference). In Art of Racing in the Rain, Enzo dies (off screen) at the end and, per his long time desire, appears to have come back as a human boy named Enzo. I'm just wondering if these movies are secretly pushing Hinduism or that mentality. I suppose every film has it's questionable elements, though. Otherwise two good movies.

[[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:52, 28 August 2019 (EDT)

==Batman V Superman and Zack Snyder's Justice League==
As these movies are sequels to Man of Steel, and have been considered as righ-wing for some of the themes touched. Here are some articles about it:

https://www.filminquiry.com/zack-snyder-master-right-wing-propaganda/

https://elamerican.com/zack-snyders-justice-league-is-not-the-leftist-justice-league-anymore/

--[[User:Davidurso2d|Davidurso2d]] ([[User talk:Davidurso2d|talk]]) 11:04, January 30, 2022 (EST)

== Jesus (1979) ==
I'm quite surprised that nobody has mentioned the 1979 film adaptation of the Gospel of Luke. It is a very good flick about the Christ, in my opinion, definitely better than overly violent The Passion of the Christ (2004), so maybe we should mention this movie on the list.

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== Public Discussion Here ==

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Okay who keeps mispelling "Mr. Skeffington"? THERE IS A G IN THE NAME see www.imdb.com/title/tt0037094/

The Conservapedia entry for "Gen. George S. Patton" has a great section on the classic 1969 film, "Patton;" why is it not on the list?? A few years back "National Review" listed 100 great conservative films ("A Man for All Seasons" led NR editors' list). Immediately readers (including me) sent in their own nominations and "Patton" came in #1!!!!

CW Miller PhD

:It should be. Would you like to add it? Note, however, that the film was not as conservative as the person it featured!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:00, 30 August 2011 (EDT)

I think 'Tears of the Sun' should've definitely been on the list. Its extremely pro-military.

:Perhaps, would you like to add it with an explanation of why?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:00, 30 August 2011 (EDT)

What is the conservative message taught by "The Way We Were"? Just curious.

:Pretty obvious, isn't it? The [[liberal]] rants predictably got too tiresome for the man to put up with, and he inevitably broke off the relationship with the woman in order to find a replacement.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:00, 30 August 2011 (EDT)
::And in the process of breaking off the relationship, he broke his marriage vows and committed adultery. --[[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 23:44, 30 August 2011 (EDT)

I think The Graduate (1967) needs to be on this list. This is a film about a boy growing up, by facing harsh reality, owning up to his mistakes, and making a decision about his life, thus becoming a man. It's also about how we can overcome sin and corruption by taking control of our lives. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 14:47, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

:I'm not too sure about that one. A common interpretation of the ending is that Benjamin has actions in the climax were purely spur-of-the-moment, at that he's just figuring out in doing so he's failed to accomplish anything meaningful and is left with a wholly uncertain future. --[[User:Lord Zedd|Lord Zedd]], 11 January 2017

Another film is the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film Rope, starring James Stewart, John Dall, and Stewart Granger. Based loosely on the Leopold-Loeb killing, Rope is about two Harvard scholars who decide to kill an acquaintance of their simply for the sake of killing, because they believe they are superior to others, all taught from one of their headmasters (James Stewart). This film goes into one of the reasons why we have laws, why we cherish human life, and slightly goes into the immorality taught by ivory tower intellectuals that seems so prevalent today.--[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 22:00, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

Hud (1963), starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, and Patricia Neal, needs to be in this roster too. At the heart of Conservative Philosophy lies the strength of a man's character and how that character influences others. Hud, played by Newman, is a man who's completely selfish in a way that liberals are. He doesn't care about anyone but himself, and his own ego, and he gives no restraint to his appetites. He doesn't give a damn about anything, because to him the world is full of excrement. And that sooner or later, you're going to have to swim in that muck like everybody else. A great line is said that "The look of the country changes by the people we admire." As you watch this film, things get progressively worse for the ranch that Hud lives on, part and parcel because of his own crass behavior. Hud's willingness both to pass bad beef off onto his neighbors and take the ranch out from his old father indicates the sourness of his character. A brilliant film about human character.--[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 22:28, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

== Man of Steel ==
Could it not be argued that the movie is promoting idolatry by having the people of Earth view Superman, a non-human, as a "Christ-like redeemer?"

Not likely. Superman never sought the worship of people. Neither did Zod for that matter. Interestingly, in this movie, Zod is an anti-hero. He may have intended well, as his patriotism is to be admired, and I really don't blame him for killing some corrupt self-absorbed Kryptonian government officials that had doomed the planet due to their own self-interest, but, tragically, in the planned economy, he was predesigned to be a warrior to continue the corrupt planned economy of Krypton. True, there is free will in the predesigned society (Jor El and his wife did break the law by having Kal naturally and Jor El broke the law by taking Kal from the Genesis chamber and sending him to earth. It was that Jor El believed that the whole society was too corrupted to be continued along the Krypton way and thus that Zod's idea of only keeping the good bloodlines, as he put it, wouldn't solve the problem. What made Zod a villain wasn't his efforts to save Krypton, but his efforts to kill everyone on earth when he could have just assimilated like Kal. (So the movie isn't pro-open borders either (though I heard a super man comic was lately!!!) as Kal adjusts but the alien Zod comes in and tries to transform the planet to his liking just like the illegals and Muslims are trying to transform the USA.) Also, Kal El/Clark Kent just wanted to be left alone (even ticking off the military when they tried to track him and he destroyed some pricey equipment to get them off his back). [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 01:53, 13 October 2017 (EDT)

== Bio-Dome ==
Granted this film is a blunt crude stoner comedy. However upon analysis, years later the film reigns true the themes of inconsistancy of modern environmentalism.
Namely despite the stupidity and antics..... the films message is that the environment is salvageable with a lot of hard work.
The film ridicules contemporary education especially college, modern environmentalism (and what weve seen 20 years later) and social trending.
Despite being college students, the two girlfriends are for lack of better word poorly educated on environment around them. They question the tactics of "raising awarness" of those who think sit ins and hackey sack are suitable ways for environmental stewardship yet contribute no actual work. Their concerns are only satiated by activism; not labor. Environmentalism is a very labor intensive practice. Meanwhile the two slackers inherit a mess (admittedly one of their doing) and when their backs are against the wall; work very hard to fix it all whilst gaining social outlook, popularity and press attention. The film brings to light public/celebrity endorsement of environmental awareness, where it's popular and trendy. The dissertation from the Pope and various media outlets when Bud/Doyle are known for locking themselves inside.
The film attacks the insanity of utopian dreamers (Faulkner and the other scientists) who have grand visions for the environment and world around them only to break down and quit at the sight of reality. Doyle (stephen baldwin) passionate plea.
"Now, you guys have spent your whole lives trying to make the world a better place, right? Well, here's your chance. Only its not perfect. Its like it is out there." With passion and now incentive, they fix the calamity with a lot of hard work, ingenuity. Incentive and hard work are more important than facts and data crunching; they turn their focus on cleaning a degraded environment around them unlike the scientists that began having shuttered themselves in a pristine one.

== Leaving Las Vegas ==
While clearly not originally intended to portray a conservative message, I feel that one strongly comes across in the film. Semi-autobiographical story of an alcoholic writer who loses everything because of his drinking and continues to spiral until it eventually costs him his life. opinions? [[User:Fnarrow|Fnarrow]] 11:07, 6 April 2013 (EDT)

:Not quite sure as to how this portrays a 'conservative message' of any kind. --[[User:Lord Zedd|Lord Zedd]], 11 January 2017

== The Blind Side ==
It's a story about the shortcomings of public education and how the power of private Christian charity helped a young homeless man overcome his disadvantages and play in the NFL.[[User:AdamDiscordia|AdamDiscordia]] 19:03, 14 May 2011 (EDT)

== Brokeback Mountain ==

I was thinking about this topic earlier and had an interesting thought about a seemingly non-conservative movie that, in a way, is actually quite so. I'm going to throw this out there for some (hopefully productive and civil) debate and see what people think.

The movie is Brokeback Mountain. Now hold on to your outrage, people. I have justifications for my point. Please hear me out. (Oh, and spoilers, just in case you planned to see/read it and hadn't)

As you probably know, the movie (and the novella on which its based) is about two men who fall into a homosexual lifestyle. But what struck me as conservative about this film is that it doesn't glorify the lifestyle; the two mens' choice to indulge in homosexuality is a disastrous choice that ends up ruining both their lives. One man's marriage is destroyed and his relationship with his child is forever tainted. The other man's choice actually leads to his violent death (Incidentally, I'm not saying that killing someone for being gay is a conservative value. But the point is that this movie is actually very up-front about acknowledging the catastrophic consequences of a homosexual lifestyle).

Considering all that, my next though was whether this movie might be unintentionally conservative, in which case it certainly doesn't belong on this list. But I don't think it is (haven't seen it since it first came out though, so I could be wrong).

So, there's my point. I would appreciate some discussion. I imagine some CPers will think I'm trolling or just trying to start an argument. Not so. I feel like it's a valid point but that there are probably strong arguments for and against, and I'd really like to hear what other people think. [[User:EMorris|EMorris]] 17:11, 25 June 2010 (EDT)

:You are partially right, but I think the homosexuals were meant to be sympathetic and on that basis alone, I don't think that movie belongs on this list. [[User:AdamDiscordia|AdamDiscordia]] 19:05, 14 May 2011 (EDT)

: I agree that the movie is anti-homosexuality. Based on the publicity, I expected the movie to be pro-homosexuality, but I was quite surprised by what was actually in the movie. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 16:15, 31 August 2011 (EDT)

:This would be true, except that you have to consider the film's intent. It's not necessarily suggesting that what these men did is the result of their choice. It's suggesting that what happens to these men is the result of bigotry, prejudice, and hate on the part of the world around them. That they are blameless, in spite of their choices. A stark contrast, which I think also ought to be listed as a Conservative Film, would be Midnight Cowboy. In Midnight Cowboy, Joe Buck (played by Jon Voight) recognizes that the life he chose, as a male prostitute, and begins to make an effort to change, to get out of New York, with Ratso (Dustin Hoffman). Ratso's death underscored the decadent life they had led in NYC, and how Joe barely escaped with his own. In Brokeback Mountain, you do not see such recognition on the part of Ennis and Jack. They don't really consider what they did as wrong, necessarily. So where Midnight Cowboy underscores the devastation the immoral life can lead, Brokeback Mountain places the responsibility for that devastation on everyone else but the two men most responsible. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 19:56, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

== U-571 ==

I deleted U-571 from this list. It portrays the capture of an Enigma machine from a German U-boat by US forces. As pretty much everyone with any interest in WW2 knows, the naval Enigma machine was stolen by Polish forces and decoded by British code-breakers at Bletchley. My Brit friends think U-571 is a joke because it minimises the role of the British ("you arrogant Yankees"). Poles are offended because it cuts out the Polish involvement altogether - including the very brave men who risked their lives to steal an Enigma machine and hand it over to British Intelligence. (BTW, Britain and Poland were allies of ours in WW2 and still are now.) Deceit isn't a conservative virtue - so I crossed U-571 off the list. [[User:BenjyB|BenjyB]] 16:51, 20 September 2010 (EDT)

: I'd say it's very questionable whether there's any deceit involved. The movie makes an on-screen written acknowledgment that the the first (and the majority) of enigmas were captured by British sailors. The whole movie is so over-the-top that nobody with a lick of intelligence would believe it's true. American sailors did capture an enigma machine during the war too, so this movie is obviously "inspired by a true story" even if it's not especially true. Most of the movie-going public knows that Hollywood "true" stories are highly fictionalized. [[User:EMorris|EMorris]] 13:13, 21 September 2010 (EDT)

==The Lives of Others==

Where on earth is The Lives of Others? it is, surely, the best recent critique of Communism and, for that matter, one of the best films ''of any type'' released in the past five years. It certainly deserves a place ahead of, for example, the obscure Dark Matter. --[[User:Jdixon|Jdixon]] 12:13, 28 November 2010 (EST)

: It's in German, right, and about the former [[East Germany]]? I'll add it on your recommendation, but I can't agree it ranks higher than the English-language Dark Matter, which speaks to today and not just the past.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 12:41, 28 November 2010 (EST)

::Fair enough, Andy. Though I don't quite understand the argument against foreign-language films. If the issue is obscurity, The Lives of Others was seen by far more people in the US than Dark Matter. A glance at Box-Office Mojo confirms that Dark Matter took in a staggeringly tiny $30,591 on its domestic run. The Lives of Others took in $11,286,112 in the US (plus another $66 million in the rest of the world). I am, however, content to abide by your criteria. --[[User:Jdixon|Jdixon]] 15:40, 28 November 2010 (EST)

:::Oprah Winfrey's daytime talk show rakes in far higher revenues than both, but I'm not sure what that proves. Dark Matter was apparently victimized and downplayed by liberals who finally figured out its conservative message, after it won first place in one of the Sundance Film Festival categories. The liberal backlash against Dark Matter is particularly surprising given that Meryl Streep starred in it.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 18:48, 28 November 2010 (EST)

::::P.S. Your suggestion of "The Lives of Others" is a fine addition. Thanks.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 19:02, 28 November 2010 (EST)
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::::No problem. Keep up the good work. --[[User:Jdixon|Jdixon]] 20:47, 28 November 2010 (EST)

== Fiddler on the Roof? ==

A film celebrating the value of community, tradition, family, and faith, all against the historical context of the harm done by the rise of Communism in Russia...worthy of a spot on the list? --[[User:Benp|Benp]] 18:30, 6 January 2011 (EST)

:Sounds good to me ... please add it as you think best!--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 18:48, 6 January 2011 (EST)

:I disagree. Look at the overall film/play. This was definitely a counter-culture film thinly disguised as a quaint musical drama. The message was that Tradition is bad, illogical, and keeps people stuck in their ways when they should embrace the new, simply because it's new. When Tevye explains the traditions and why they're there in the beginning, he mentioned that they keep their heads covered and they wear their prayer shawl. He then asks, "How did this tradition get started?," and he responds, "I don't know." This sets up the rest of the show. Because never do they explain why they use a Matchmaker, or why they don't let people arrange their own matches, or why men and women dance separately. They even have the old rabbi getting down with the new changes, never defending what was before. Message: Traditions are stale and old and have no place in the modern world. Relax and just let things happen. Then the film gives us the drama of Chava marrying a Christian, marrying outside of her faith, and that's where Tevye can't abide it. By then, it seems that Tevye's objection is only based on ridiculous emotion, rather than anything objective. All this, in spite of the fact that change is coming, one that cannot be stopped by the traditions these people hold. This is not a Conservative message at all, but one that is quite subversive. If this had been written from a Conservative approach, we would've gone into the reasons behind the traditions, because they're not irrational or unreasonable. The reason for a Matchmaker, the way they dress, and the way they eat, and the dancing, all is meant to preserve their heritage as Jews living in Tsarist Russia. The Matchmaker keeps the Jewish men and women within the community, and within the faith, all the while helping to maintain peace and stability within the community itself. The point I'm making is that Traditions have a purpose, even if we disagree with them. And the notion that happiness comes from something material, as in the case of the marriage between Motel and Tzeital, is a direct message against a person's obligations to his or her duty, both to themselves and their community they live in. No, I'd say Fiddler on the Roof is not a Conservative film. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 20:15, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

: I disagree Wayfinder. Much of Jewish culture is based around the concept that Jews follow tradition for no other reason than because God expects us to. Take Kosher laws. Certainly, there can health reasons for being Kosher, but that is not why Jews become Kosher; it is because it is expected by God. Kosher laws don't change or update with new dietary findings. There are no Kosher fad diets. Ask a random Jewish person who keeps Kosher why he/she does and, 9 times out of 10, they will either say, "Because I always have" or "Because God expects me to". In the later case, performing an act because God expects it is logical, in an of itself.

And in Fiddler, there is an extra point to tradition. As Tevye says, "Because of tradition, we've kept our balance for many, many years." To wit, tradition is the only thing keeping Jews from falling into the abyss. And, in fact, the more Tevye gives in to the modern times, the more his culture is ravaged until he is forced to leave his homeland. Tradition is deeply respected in the film, as much as, and for the same reasons as, it is in the Jewish culture. And for that reason, I would consider it a Conservative film. --[[User:Sirreality|Sirrealtiy]] 12:16, 7 July 2012 (EDT)

: You make some good points, Sirrealtiy, but I must reiterate that the film isn't about Tradition's strengths, but giving into change for its own sake. Not once does Tevye ever consider why there are these traditions in the first place. When he argues with himself over Tzeitel marrying Motel or Hodel marrying Perchik, and so forth, he never considers the traditions at all or even explains their use. He almost casually disregards them. When it comes down to Chava, though, he can't get around it, and, again, he has no real good reason for any of them. So Tevye comes off as rigid and petty. This is important because Fiddler on the Roof came out at the height of the first wave of hippy counter-culture in America, and it ran with it. By the time the film gets to the conclusion, that the Tsar is running them out of Anatevka, the message is loud and clear: You can't resist change at all, so don't even try. This would, on the other hand, be more of a conservative film if we went into the reasons for these traditions, a lot of which would've been known, especially to the likes of the Rabbi, before casually discarding them. : --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 01:45, 24 January 2013 (EST)
Fiddler on the Roof is a classic movie.

A remember this: "Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ 5 But you say that if a man says to his father and mother, ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ 6 he is not to ‘honor his father’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: 8 ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men’.” 10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. 11 What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean’.” 12 Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you not know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?” 13 He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. 14 Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

So not all traditions are good.

I love Thanksgiving though. And I like eggnog on December 25. :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 19:54, 10 July 2017 (EDT)

== Gattaca ==

A condemnation of genetic experiments on humans, and a wonderful triumph of individualism in an extremely controlled society. No matter how much scientists play to be God, and try to improve the human race by using genetics, there will always be an individual, based on original God design, who, despite his health shortcomings, will triumph over this genetically modified, supposedly perfect human beings.

I don’t immediately put it on the list because the movie is a bit atheist. In the final scene, the hero finally managed to travel to space and cites the phrase: “They say every atom in our bodies was once a part of a star. So, maybe I'm not leaving, maybe I'm going home."

So, I’ll say that the movie has a conservative message, unfortunately diluted with atheist overtones. I’ll wait for someone else opinion before posting this. --[[User:AlejandroH|AlejandroH]] 23:03, 10 March 2011 (EST)

:Feel free to post this with the caveat you mention. Thanks for explaining it.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:33, 25 March 2011 (EDT)
::We talked about this movie at my fellowship a few months ago - pure hokum about a guy who might have been alright on his own but for a disgusting patriarchy forcing human engineering. I'll write this if AlejandroJ doesn't. [[User:NKeaton|Nate]] 00:51, 25 March 2011 (EDT)
:::Thanks, I posted it. --[[User:AlejandroH|AlejandroH]] 15:31, 25 March 2011 (EDT)

The argument that this film has atheistic overtones actually adds to this film. It shows how we have reduced a person not to his ability but to purely material characteristics, and the effects this has on society. In Gattaca, people are judged not by their ability, not by their merit or accomplishments, but their potential. Gore Vidal, who plays the director of Gattaca, says "No one exceeds their potential." This is, I think, a fundamental statement in the whole movie; that it is the potential that is important, not the action, not the accomplishment. If Vincent became exposed even after he is confirmed to go to Titan, we know what would happen; he would be expelled from Gattaca, and possibly imprisoned for using a "borrowed ladder." Which also points to Eugene's suicide and why he took his own life. Eugene doesn't value his life, but his potential. "Jerome Morrow," he said, "was never meant to be one step lower on the podium." In such an atheistic society that only values the material, the potential, the beautiful, but not the competent or the accomplished, Eugene's suicide underscores this conceit. Eugene could not be anything less than what he felt his potential was. Or, put it another way, he could not be anything less but what others said he should be. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 14:58, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

== Disney cartoons ==

Most, and perhaps all, of the Disney cartoons for the past 15 or so years have pushed the [[feminist]] ideology. I welcome any counterexamples, but doubt there are any. Hence the reversion of the "Princess and the Frog (2009)" addition.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:31, 25 March 2011 (EDT)
:''The Lion King'', a 1994 Disney movie, is definitely conservative. A main message of the movie is honoring thy father, and the power-hungry main antagonist, once he becomes ruler, favors big government, pushes [[liberal values]] and destroys their territory. I'll add it with your approval. [[User:DennyW66|DennyW66]] 15:45, 25 March 2011 (EDT)

::Sounds like a good choice. Please add and if anyone has a different view of the movie, then he can let us know.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 16:26, 25 March 2011 (EDT)

:::Added. [[User:DennyW66|DennyW66]] 16:41, 25 March 2011 (EDT)

Mr Schlafly I would agree with your reversion of my contribution of the Princess and the Frog if that movie were feminist-ideology-promoting (like, for instance Mulan (1998)) but frankly, it is not a feminist movie. I am not a woman, nor a feminist - I am staunchly conservative. The Princess and the Frog promotes monogamous marriage (which feminism does not) as well as the other conservative values I listed (such as saving money, hard work, free enterprise etc). In fact, the main character is so pro-marriage that she changes her licentious friend's behavior from debauchery (which feminism promotes) to monogamy. It is possibly the most conservative-value-laden animated movie I have ever seen.

''The Lion King'' on the other hand promotes re-incarnation with its "Circle of Life" song. Jack, the hero of ''Titanic'' commits fornication and mocks a man reciting the 23rd Psalm; Cal, the main antagonist is depicted as a church-service-attending hypocrite.

You are doubtless correct about the feminist ideology pushed by many Disney animations, but this is not one of them. I respectfully request that you consider returning my contribution of 'The Princess and the Frog'. [[User:Spotsbunch|Spotsbunch]] 23:17, 25 March 2011 (EDT)

:I have to disagree with you about The Lion King. As far as I can interpret, "The Circle of Life" is either about the bond all humans share or the journey from life to death and the afterlife, not reincarnation. [[User:DennyW66|DennyW66]] 00:36, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

::Spotsbunch, I think you have a valid point about the Lion King, but from what I've heard about the "Princess and the Frog," it's feminist claptrap with the woman wearing the pants and doing everything except having children and homeschooling her kids. It's more Disney tripe about a successful businesswoman towing along an inept man, which is hardly typical in the real world.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:56, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

:::Arguably, any movie where people turn into frogs, or where in Beauty and the Beast, people have transmogrified into furniture is not "real world". Fantasies they may be, (like many movies listed here) but they are still conservative. I (finally) put it to your kind consideration that if you would watch the Princess and the Frog, you would find it contains less feminism and more conservativism than Beauty and the Beast. Whatever your judgment, I respect your decision and will refrain from further debate, even though I (thus far) disagree. Kindest regards [[User:Spotsbunch|Spotsbunch]] 08:43, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

::::[[Feminism]] is unmistakable: it has women acting like men and vice-versa, contrary to reality. Disney cartoons have been ''heavily'' feminist for at least 15 years. ''Beauty and the Beast'', made 20 years ago, was not feminist in any way. But having a "Princess" act like a businessman and aspire to run a restaurant is feminist. What's next - Cinderella aspires to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company???--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 10:10, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

:::::Is there any reason a woman can't run a restaurant or a fortune 500 company? No really, Andy, I want to know. Why is it feminist to portray a woman doing anything but cooking, cleaning, and rearing children? [[User:TerryB|TerryB]] 13:40, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

::::::Who said anything about cooking and cleaning? And, no, there isn't a reason why a woman can't aspire to any field, such as plumbers (almost no women plumbers), gas station attendants (ditto), or professional football players (ditto). The fact is that the vast majority of women ''do not aspire'' to do such activities (or running a restaurant or a Fortune 500 company), and it's false for feminists or feminist movies to repeatedly pretend otherwise.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 13:48, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

:::::::I apologize for my abrasiveness, it just seemed that you were implying that's all they're supposed to do. I can see where you're coming from. While a woman can do what she wants, feminists are wrong for telling woman that they should only aspire to do things traditionally done by men. Men normally aren't beauty consultants, clothing designers, or nail salon technicians, so why don't we see any men urging more men to do these things? [[User:TerryB|TerryB]] 14:00, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

::::::::[[Feminism]] repeatedly tries to persuade women not to have children and raise them, pretending that aspiring to work in a job is somehow better. I can't think of a single Disney movie in the last 15 years that has been realistic about the homemaker role that most women prefer.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 15:00, 26 March 2011 (EDT)
::::::::::Up. A key part of the story is that the old man's wife had given up her dreams of being an explorer as real life concerns around the home took precedence. [[User:Martyp|Martyp]] 15:03, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

:::::::::::As promised, I will make my petition no further. However, as others have continued this debate, I will contribute to that. The Bible, our ultimate authority, disagrees (as I read it) that "a woman aspiring to run a business" (restaurant or otherwise) is feminist. Proverbs 31:10-31 describes at length "the wife of noble character" to be involved in business by working with eager hands; importing food from merchant ships; providing food for her family; purchasing property for farming; trading profitably; making and selling expensive cloth and having enough money left over to give to the poor. Anyone with a definition of feminism which includes activities like these, who also respects the Bible as God's authoritative Word should reconsider his definition. Respectfully and with kindest regards, [[User:Spotsbunch|Spotsbunch]] 19:15, 26 March 2011 (EDT)

::::::::::::Not surprisingly, you left out the verse saying "her children wake up, and call her 'blessed,' so does her husband" ([[CBP]] version), as well as several other verses that feminist movies do not include.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:06, 27 March 2011 (EDT)

:::::::::::::Then would it be acceptable to put the Princess and the Frog in the "Debatable Whether Conservative" section of this page? [[User:Spotsbunch|Spotsbunch]] 15:44, 30 March 2011 (EDT)

::::::::::::::There are high quality movies in the "Debatable" section. The [[feminist]] "Princess and the Frog" doesn't even come close to that level of quality and arguably conservatism.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:46, 30 March 2011 (EDT)

:::::::::::::::Since we're talking Disney cartoons here, would films like The Little Mermaid qualify under Conservative or Liberal? I want to make sure so I don't end up making a big mistake later on. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] 16:56, 29 June 2013 (EDT)

:::::::::::::::Actually, I think Beauty and the Beast would qualify as feminist propaganda, and thus make its Conservative status debatable. True, it didn't have Belle trying to work as a CEO or something (then again, given the time period, I don't think "CEOs" even existed at that time) unlike the films for the past 15 years, but it does push the feminist propaganda that women couldn't get an education until the 1960s, and all education was supplied to rich white males, and that Belle was somehow breaking societal standards by reading (which there have been women who read during that time as well and wasn't even looked down upon. Marie Antoinette for one.). Trust me, I'd recognize that propaganda when I see it because I had to be subject to that propaganda from a militant feminist professor by the name of Heather Lucas (who did actually imply the above thing about women not getting an education until the 1960s). Plus the fact that she was refusing to marry for children can easily be construed as being anti-family. Also, as some people pointed out, there were some left-wing stuff in Titanic as well (I think Jack basically made some comments that were negative towards capitalism in that film. That as well as the aforementioned scene with Rose qualifying as pornography, and heck, technically she was committing pedastry with Jack as well). I took the liberty to moving them to the debatable whether Conservative section. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] 22:36, 10 December 2013 (EST)
:::::::::::::::Edit: It should also be worth mentioning that the village, while "shallow," was not really materialistic, not under the definition of matter being the most important thing, and certainly not in regards to the aspect of wealth, race, and jobs. Probably the closest they've gotten to materialism was their considering Belle to be "odd" due to her reading a book all the time, which even then seems to speak more to the feminist propaganda of Women not being educated at all until the 1960s. There wasn't exactly anything materialistic about the village. I had removed the reference to the village as being materialistic since it really didn't fit the definition at all. Also, the so-called "wedding" had a brief shot of a priest (specifically when Gaston makes that opening joke), making materialism in the village even less likely (materialism is atheistic, and the presence of a priest likewise implies the village was Christian, something that cannot intermingle with each other). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] 17:26, 17 December 2013 (EST)

:Actually, after giving it some thought, I think The Princess and the Frog would qualify more as conservative at this point (certainly far more than the 1991 ''Beauty and the Beast'' ever did, which even Linda Woolverton, its screenwriter, not to mention Don Hahn, has admitted to being feminist claptrap since Jeffrey Katzenberg demanded for its third rewrite.). Technically, at least from what I gather as I haven't actually seen the film, the only reason why Tiana is even trying to run a shop is because her dad was dead and there was no male heir to run it, so under that sense, it's not actually feminist (and aside from that, it also somewhat condemns her obsession with trying to act as a CEO, especially when the main villain Dr. Facilier actually does try to convince her to pursue her dreams as a form of tempting her, and her ultimately rejecting it upon realizing what truly matters). I might as well point out that the film has Charlotte LeBeouf, a girl who most certainly is not a feminist, and if anything very traditionally feminine, who is actually portrayed in a very positive light, being a genuine friend for Tiana, and even attempting to restore Tiana and Naveen from the curse when granted the opportunity to do so (and only failed because Marti Gras ended at the worst possible time). And as another person pointed out, The Princess and the Frog actually DOES promote traditional marriage, and as a matter of fact, is the first Disney Feature Length film to actually do so since ''The Little Mermaid'' two decades before. Not saying it really should be listed as one of the greatest conservative films of all time (it's got evidence of plagiarizing ''The Little Mermaid'' at times, and aside from that, it did depict Voodoo in an ambiguous light, meaning that at best it can go under debatable whether Conservative or debatable whether Great), but it definitely shouldn't really be listed as a liberal film, period. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 09:33, 1 January 2019 (EST)

== Titanic ==

The movie ''Titanic'' also shows the rich and privileged getting on the half-empty life boats while the poor and lower class passengers are locked below (which is actually historical). Should it truly be included in this list? [[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 16:50, 6 April 2011 (EDT)

:No, I disagree. The movie accurately portrays the wealthiest men on the boat (Guggenheim, Astor, etc.) giving up their lives so that poorer women and children could be saved.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 21:53, 6 April 2011 (EDT)

::While I'm ''not'' denying there were individual acts of chivalry and that Guggenheim et al declined seats (although there is historical conflicting testimony about Astor) on the lifeboats (of which there were too few given the number of people on the ship), the numbers show a definite declining survival rate by class. This was also a theme in the movie and not one that should be ignored.

::The movie showed the lower class passengers being locked in the bowels of the ship, blocking escape. There is historical conflicting testimony on this subject as well: several people reported gates between decks being locked and armed guards blocking passageways while one steerage passenger testified that the gates were not locked. Another passenger stated that not only did the staff ''not'' sound an alarm in third class, but that steerage passengers who came up on deck were told to return to their rooms because there was no danger.

::'''First Class''' Women - 4/141 died (97% survival rate)1; Children: 1/7 died2 (86% survival rate); Men - 104/171 died (39% survival rate); Totals: 109/319 died (66% overall survival rate)

::12 of the 4 first class female passengers who died chose to remain with their husbands. *corrected mistype.

::2Lorraine Allison remained on board with her family because they had been separated from her infant brother, who was on a lifeboat with his nurse. The entire family died, with the exception of the baby.

::'''Second Class''' Women: 13/92 died (86% survival rate); Children: 0/25 died (100% survival rate); Men: 135/152 died (11% survival rate); Totals: 148/269 died (45% overall survival rate)

::'''Third Class''' Women: 91/179 died (49% survival rate); Children: 55/80 died (31% survival rate); Men: 381/440 died (13% survival rate); Totals: 527/699 died (25% overall survival rate)

::'''Staff and crew''' Female: 2/22 died (91% survival rate); Male: 701/896 died (22% survival rate); Overall: 703/918 died (23% overall survival rate)

::There are some servants left out of these numbers due to confusion

::Sorry for the over-long reply, but the ''Titanic'' has been a subject of fascination to me since my teenage years (about a century ago!) so I'm rather verbose about it. 8^) I don't agree with you on the subject, but I won't remove the movie from the list. [[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 11:51, 7 April 2011 (EDT)

Conservative? Some guy says all the right words to a vulnerable girl, then gets her to strip naked so he can draw her (that's porn). Then he gets her into the back of a car and they fornicate. Not exactly my definition of conservative. --[[User:Crubs|Crubs]] 15:58, 30 April 2013 (EDT)

==Move The Dark Knight To the Debatable category?==
I'm wondering whether of not The Dark Knight should be truly considered conservative-while it does have the message of not giving in to terrorist, it also includes themes of everyone being corruptible and having their limits (like the good public defendant, Harvey Dent, turning into a villain, Two Face) and seems fascinated with darkness and chaos ("Madness is like gravity all you need is a little push"). Given this all, and the fact that Patrick Leahy had a cameo in it, I think this might well be reconsidered. Thoughts?
Armond White, who generally sees through liberal bias and is a more conservative viewer, wrote this about it: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fTJ_tj1IKooJ:www.nypress.com/article-18545-knight-to-remember.html+armond+white+the+dark+knightr&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com]

:Thanks for your comments. I'll move "Dark Knight" to the debatable category as you suggest.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 23:22, 13 April 2011 (EDT)

::I watched it when it came out, and I didn't notice anything particularly Conservative about it. The only thing really good about it was the citizen response to the terrorist dilemma the arch-villain sets up, whereby two boatloads of passengers "must" each ensure their own survival by blowing up the other's boat; a quick-witted passenger takes the remote control and throws it overboard. But this has nothing to do with Batman.

::The movie shows how vicious bad people can be, and how bullies support (and recruit) other bullies. But that is hardly fodder for the liberal-conservative debate. Both sides claim to despise bullying.

::I daresay the [[Batman]] character of the 1960s comic books had some "[[conservative]]" qualities, such as the ''noblesse oblige'' of the superior man and idea that society can be benefited by the actions of a heroic individual. Both of these run counter to Communist ideas of history. But the Batman movies I've seen are about a different, darker man. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 11:45, 14 April 2011 (EDT)

:Let me help explain why this film needs to be in the list. At the beginning of this film, crime had been quelled enough that when you saw the Bat-Signal a drug dealer, who probably would've made a quick buck and easily got away with it, chose not to make a deal (you see this guy just refuse a deal to some other man in a car). But this didn't mean that the city was totally crime free, or that corruption was gone. Bruce realized that Batman could not change Gotham. He could help, but he was only one man. Gotham needed someone to be the influence Batman could never be. And that man was Harvey Dent. This speaks to how important culture is to a society. There's a great saying from another film, called Hud, which says "The look of the country changes by the people we admire." Meaning, that if you want a good, upstanding, moral society, you back people who are good, upstanding, and moral. You choose good, even if it means your death. I think the best moment in this film is where the Joker has got the two ferries, one loaded with convicts and the other loaded with civilians, each rigged to blow. But it's a convict that understands the problem, and makes a decision not to play Joker's game. What does this mean? I nearly cried when I saw that scene. It meant that someone understood that there's more to life than living. There's more to life than just existing. There's more to life than doing what is expected, rather than doing what is GOOD. Because GOOD has VALUE, which, I believe, is at the heart of the Conservative Philosophy. Liberals believe quite the opposite. Or rather, they believe that there is no Good or Evil, that everything is relative. Just as the Joker believes. It is what we stand for, and are willing to die for, that make us good or evil. This is what Christ said. To take up your Cross, even if it means your death, even if it means the deaths of others, because Life is not predicated strictly on comfort or survival, but on the propagation of Good. That's why The Dark Knight needs to be here. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 22:20, 3 November 2011 (EDT)

::He may be darker in the movies, that's not to say he still doesn't have conservative values, and he does whatever he can so other people don't go through what he want through. [[User:Jm920|Jm920]] 19:00, 15 September 2011 (EDT)

== "The Sandlot" as 1950s America as a time when "every boy had a chance to be great." ==

I suppose, maybe. It's harder to achieve greatness when one couldn't necessarily ride at the front of the bus/use the same drinking fountain/eat at the same counter/go to the same university as other folks. [[User:LloydR|LloydR]] 14:15, 28 May 2011 (EDT)

: Your point is valid. Feel free to include your point in the entry itself. I don't think the 1950s were as [[conservative]] as today. In addition to your comment, [[homeschooling]] was prohibited in the 1950s, for example.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 14:29, 28 May 2011 (EDT)

== Rollerball (1975) ==

Rollerball (1975) is frequently overlooked as one of the great conservative films. A dystopian tale in which a corporate oligarchy maintains control over the peoples of the world by distracting them with a hedonistic culture of sex, drugs, and violent entertainment. Rollerball was designed by the corporations to hypnotize and distract the minions with gladiatorial combat disguised as sport. The world watches these spectacles and subconsciously receives the message their corporate masters are feeding them - that individual achievement is not possible, because every Rollerballer ultimately faces the same gruesome fate. However, when Jonathan E (James Caan) proves dominate and (more importantly) invincible in the sport - the corporations attempt to force him to retire through an ever horriflying series of rule changes designed to bring about his death or capitulation.
Jonathan E's defiance is a captivating and uplifting example of a man asserting the freedom of the individual in the face
of totalitarianism. JFarren 17:38, 7 June 2011 (EDT)

== Indiana Jones ==

I am very surprised that the Indiana Jones films are not included in here, when they are certainly conservative. [[User:NickP|NickP]] 23:25, 28 July 2011 (EDT)

:Would you like to add them?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 20:25, 5 August 2011 (EDT)

== Rebuilt ==
I've rewritten the page as a table. Everything is sortable now. The gross is the US gross value, not worldwide (with one referenced exception). Everything else is the same. Films listed with NA - TV means that they were a TV program, and thus did not have a gross. NA - DVD means that they were released straight to DVD. None of the values are adjusted for inflation. While that would be interesting to do, I don't think wikis support computed columns, and it seems like a waste of time to update every number here. [[user:CGoodwin|CGoodwin]]

: Well done. Your format is better, and your additional information about revenues is interesting, although not of great significance due to (1) inflation and (2) popularity typically doesn't mean much.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 20:24, 5 August 2011 (EDT)

==Space Jam is not a "Great" film==
Conservative or not, Space Jam sucks! It must be removed.

== Two Thoughts ==

1. What about "Fiddler on the Roof"? About the important role of tradition in societies.

2. Also, the caption for "Hilary: The Movie" is awkward if not misleading. It didn't result in the McCain-Feingold Act being overturned so much as it was the impetus for the lawsuit. The current description seems to imply that it was a crucial piece of evidence or something similar.

Would anyone be opposed to these changes? [[User:Ayzmo|Ayzmo :)]] 14:17, 1 November 2011 (EDT)

==Film suggestions==

The Whit Stillman film, "Metropolitan", has been included on various lists of conservative films, including one by National Review. The story is of a group of bourgeois college students who meet a middle-class socialist peer. he later becomes good friends with them. Another National Review's list is "Ghostbusters" for its portrayal of an EPA bureaucrat as the main antagonist human antagonist and a message that "the solution to a public menace comes from the private sector". Another on the list I think may be worthy of inclusion is "Groundhog Day."

The full article from National Review can be viewed here [http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/article/?q=YWQ4MDlhMWRkZDQ5YmViMDM1Yzc0MTE3ZTllY2E3MGM=] --[[User:TedM|TedM]] 22:42, 10 March 2012 (EST)

:update; Another film I saw a while ago, while containing some crude humor, may still qualify. It would probably fit in the "debatable whether great" category. The film is "House Arrest" and is about some teenagers who go to extreme lengths (locking them in the basement) to stop their fighting parents from getting a divorce. --[[User:TedM|TedM]] 13:46, 12 March 2012 (EDT)

== The Iron Lady ==

I highly suggest seeing The Iron Lady. I'm not sure how widespread the release was but it received critical acclaim in Britain, and a good insight into the other side of the Atlantic during the time of Reaganism. [[User:HumanGeographer|HumanGeographer]] 15:06, 12 March 2012 (EDT)

== Add "Back to the Future" to the Debatable category? ==

According to the article for [[Back to the Future]], the film contains both positive and negative values. Should it be included in the "Debatable" category?--[[User:GOPFan2011|GOPFan2011]] 23:52, 16 March 2012 (EDT)

==Batman 3==

This review [http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/occupy-batman-storms-gotham-city/] calls "The Dark Knight Rises" a conservative film which compares the Occupy movement to the ill-fated French Revolution. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 21:04, 23 July 2012 (EDT)

==Zulu==

Zulu is definitely a Conservative film. Since when do Leftists (I never call them Liberals) have the character to do their duty even if it means their death? What you see here is an emergency situation, where the officers in command put aside both their differences and their peculiar ways of life to do what was important. Chard put away being an engineer for a couple of days, and Bromhead put aside being a societal-gentleman/officer. They were determined not only to do their duty, but to win. If they abandoned their post, they cede it to the enemy and they probably would've been hunted down and destroyed, as the force at Isandwana was. They fought for reasons a bit higher than themselves, and in the end they prevailed. --[[User:Wayfinder|Wayfinder]] 15:34, 11 February 2013 (EST)

== Additional films to consider ==

*Saving Private Ryan-World War II, June 1944.
*We Were Soldiers-based on the memoir by Lt. Col. Hal Moore; 1965, Vietnam.
*Cinderella Man-The story of James Braddock; heavyweight champion from 1935–37.
--[[User:JohnJustice|JohnJustice]] 23:32, 9 February 2013 (EST)
:I still believe the three above should be included. --[[User:JohnJustice|JohnJustice]] 20:36, 3 June 2015 (EDT)
::I suggest that you bring this up on the [[Community Portal]] page. Pages sometimes find themsevles in a frenzy of vandalism, and the administrators lock the page. Then the vandalism stops, obviously, and people forget that the page was locked. This page has been locked long enough that it's probably safe to unlock it, and so you should request that. Or at least the admins could directly act on your three requests. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 22:42, 3 June 2015 (EDT)

== Bee Movie ==

Why is Bee Movie a conservative Movie?--[[User:JoeyJ|JoeyJ]] 06:27, 7 December 2013 (EST)

== 187 ==

I thought 187 should be on this list --[[User:Burkean|Burkean]] 17:44, 16 February 2014 (EST)

:Don't know about that. Doesn't ''187'' portray [[public schools]] as a victim, rather than the cause of the problems?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 19:26, 16 February 2014 (EST)

I suppose one could see it that way. And obviously in real life I detest Samuel Jackson's radical racial politics. I don't remember much whining in the film about more money being the solution or celebration of teacher's unions. To me the overriding message was that we have degenerate youth in this country who wish to be decadent and apathetic and do not value a good education and a teacher who believes that students should be motivated and want to learn has finally had enough. Thomas Sowell has discussed the youth in inner city schools who actually want to learn being denied that by the thugs ruining the learning environment or because they get beat up for wanting to achieve. The film captures this unacceptable state of affairs wonderfully. That part struck a chord with me as a conservative. I certainly didn't see apologia for the public school system going on. The lack of discipline and the complicity of bureaucratic nonentities is thoroughly critiqued. Obviously, I would agree with you that breaking the public school government created monopoly is the solution. But this film as I see it is more about the problem than the solution. --[[User:Burkean|Burkean]] 21:15, 16 February 2014 (EST)

:You make great points, and please feel free to add the movie to the entry. That said, I doubt that outside gangs are a major reason why so many kids are not learning basic skills in public school. The real problem is that the liberals who control public schools don't want kids to learn and be able to think for themselves. Someone who can't read is more likely to vote a straight Democratic Party-line ticket than someone who can.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:06, 17 February 2014 (EST)
You're absolutely right. Most of the time, there's no difference between the hooligan thugs and the liberals, as lack of discipline in our public school system facilitates their existence. Also, with bureaucratic control, and the war on homeschooling, cadres of teachers who care about their job and not education are protected and those who could provide a better education (because they are motivated, because they don't teach a mindless curriculum and because they believe in discipline) see their schools shutdown by teachers who would sacrifice a child's future (much like a child sacrifice in the heathen societies of old) on the altar of their precious careers. It's high time parents held them accountable. And for that, we will need an end to the century old progressive inspired idiocy of government control of schools and a free market in education. At least the progressives were honest about their intentions back then, as they quite explicitly stated that their purpose was to mold, indoctrinate, and otherwise turn children into loyal and obedient servants of the state, as opposed to God or family or their own individuality. Children are taught to lap up content free curriculum like cattle. It's disgusting. --[[User:Burkean|Burkean]] 17:26, 7 May 2014 (EDT)

==National Treasure==

It has positive messages of patriotism, respect for history and the founding fathers, standing up for what you believe in rather than going alone with the crowd, and many others.
:It also promotes the Free Masons, so I'm not confident this should be here. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 09:40, 27 June 2016 (EDT)

== Star Wars conservative? ==

Hi.

Can we really list the entire Star Wars films as being solidly conservative? I'll give you the first film and Empire Strikes Back (original releases, at least: The first film's rerelease may be debatable now thanks to George Lucas deciding to rework a certain scene to effectively promote gun control), but Return of the Jedi is debatable as while it ''does'' promote good over evil, and actually features redemption in the form of Vader giving up his life to save Luke from the Emperor, it also was mentioned by George Lucas to promote the Vietcong's exploits against American soldiers during the Vietnam War via the Ewoks. Similarly, the Prequel Trilogy seems to hint at a morally relativistic view, and ironically the bad guys are stated to believe in moral absolutes at one point (Obi-Wan, shortly before dueling with Anakin Skywalker-turned-Darth Vader, mentioned "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" after Vader said that Obi-Wan's his enemy if he's not with him), and there have been quite a few unsubtle jabs at the Bush administration in the Prequel Trilogy (and in the case of Return of the Jedi, the Nixon administration, even though Nixon was the one who ended the Vietnam War, while Johnson was the one who pretty much expanded the conflict and Kennedy was effectively the one who started it). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] 08:07, 5 June 2015 (EDT)

== Reopening the page ==

Hi.

Can someone reopen the page? I think it's been long enough for that person to have lost interest. And besides, there have been several movies that came out anyways. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 15:08, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

:Unlocked as requested. Thanks for asking.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 15:31, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

::You're welcome. I took the liberty of moving Star Wars to "Debatable whether conservative" largely because there actually have been some hints at a left-wing agenda in the film (I think Empire Strikes Back is the only film with narely a shred of leftism, actually), including promotion of the Vietcong and demonizing American involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as adding in some sources and additional stuff to the Beauty and the Beast thing (that reminds me, I may need to make a new topic regarding that). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 16:10, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

== Should Beauty and the Beast really be on here? ==

Hi.

Should Beauty and the Beast really be among even the Debatable whether Conservative page, let alone the Greatest Conservative Movies section?

I initially moved it from the Greatest Conservative movies section to Debatable whether Conservative section due to certain things that were being subtly pushed in the film (and speaking as someone who had to be forced to ingest a lot of tripe in college that was the same as what BATB pushed, I can recognize it when I see it and am doubtful it makes for conservative material), but right now, I'm not sure whether it even belongs there, either. If anything, it's probably a better fit for the Worst Liberal Movies article.

The first reason why I think this is simple: [http://articles.mcall.com/1991-11-22/features/2825583_1_beast-s-castle-fairy-tale-madame-gabrielle There] [http://time.com/2798136/maleficent-beauty-beast-writer/ are] [http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-01-25/lifestyle/9201241028_1_linda-woolverton-belle-show-scripts more] [http://www.mouseplanet.com/8500/Linda_Woolverton_and_Belle than] [http://girlsincapes.com/2014/04/07/princess-evolution/ a] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111009063303/http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1991/11/17/just-the-way-walt-made-em.html few] [http://www.urj.ucf.edu/vol5issue2/dickens/essay.php articles] on the development process that make it pretty clear from the writing staff, especially Linda Woolverton, that the film was supposed to push the feminist agenda (heck, Woolverton herself even explicitly stated that she modeled Belle after the Women's Movement in Time Magazine), and Woolverton also made it pretty clear in interviews that she believed the princesses before her were weak, insipid creatures that only wanted marriage and love as goals, and only waited for their prince to come (she even included, rather insultingly, Ariel from ''The Little Mermaid'' among those characters despite that character being very proactive). There was also a rather subtle anti-family/anti-marriage agenda being pushed considering Belle reacted with disgust to the idea of even having children and also being treated as being in the right for shoving her suitor into the mud instead of just saying no and apparently taking amusement in ruining a wedding. It also doesn't help that the opening song and Gaston himself strongly implied that Belle's literacy was not supported at all by the rest of the village. It also doesn't help that most of the men aren't really treated in a very flattering light (let's see, Gaston, LeFou, and most of the village males are painted in a rather negative light, Cogsworth was depicted as a pompous jerk, Lumiere's a womanizer, and Beast was mostly a jerk even with his complexity), and the women who actually seem to value marriage weren't treated well either (those blonde triplets were called the bimbettes despite their not actually doing anything that would mandate them being called bimbos besides supporting marriage). Heck, Lumiere's womanizing is treated as an implied virtue as well, and Belle ends up being treated as being in the right far too many times especially in instances that actually were largely her own fault (like the wolf attack scene). Heck, the film actually seems to push [[misandry]], and the [http://beautybeast.enchanted-rose.org/library/displayimage.php?pid=13702&fullsize=1 Disney Comics] and [http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141210031917/disney/images/2/20/Tumblr_ng92xaGNbc1r2nlopo1_500.jpg WDW pins] don't exactly help in quelling any concerns for the film's agenda either. Heck, Belle was even cited by Woolverton to be based on herself. If feminism could get Princess and the Frog and Pocahontas onto the Worst Liberal Movies page, this most certainly can as well.

Probably the second reason, and probably the most damning, is the fact that Beauty and the Beast and some of its writing was actually reused for the 2014 ''Maleficent'' movie (which, BTW, both films were even written by the same person: Linda Woolverton). Keep in mind, the ''Maleficent'' movie was the kind of film that ''The Federalist'' actually [http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/06/maleficent-once-upon-a-screed/ denounced] as pushing an extreme left-wing agenda, so if Beauty and the Beast inspired a movie in writing that was probably undebatably one of the worst liberal movies, that's a strong case going against Beauty and the Beast being even a slightly conservative film. Maybe I'm a bit screwed up in my thinking, maybe I am actually right. I don't know. But what I do know is that there's plenty in the film that would strongly suggest against it even being debatably conservative, let alone fully conservative. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 16:48, 8 August 2015 (EDT)

== Politics of ''Captain America: Civil War'' ==

I'm debating whether ''Captain America: Civil War'' should be included on this list, similar to the first two films in the ''Captain America'' trilogy, as even though the film contains some obvious conservative messages due to Captain America refusing to give into intimidation by the government and the United Nations by signing the Zakovia Accords, in addition to both the federal government and international governments shown to be corrupt with the villain Baron Zemo infiltrating the facility in Europe to brainwash the Winter Soldier and unleash chaos (in that regard showing proof that regulating the Avengers is illogical when the superheros are banned from taking action in the event a threat emerges on the inside which the government is unaware of, as I viewed it).

However, the film also arguably contains some liberal messages as demonstrated by Iron Man's side in agreeing to the Zakovia Accords as a consequence for the civilian deaths caused by the Avengers, which presents an "anti-war" message, which is further pushed by the villain's actual plot to initiate conflict between the Avengers as revenge for the death of his family during the events of "Avengers: Age of Ultron".

Should the film be included in the list, or under the "Debatable" section? --[[User:GOPFan2011|GOPFan2011]] ([[User talk:GOPFan2011|talk]]) 12:50, 13 May 2016 (EDT)

:I haven't seen it, but from what you say, it sounds a bit questionable. Even the liberals admit the government is corrupt--they just blame it on the conservatives while the same liberals continue making it worse. I'd call it "Debatable" at best, but I can't say for sure, since as I said, I haven't seen it. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 09:23, 27 June 2016 (EDT)

== Gods and Generals ==

I don't know if any of you have seen it, but should Gods and Generals be on this list? It's a hard movie to find (after release, it was "censored" by a number of companies, which means few people know much about it) but it shows loyalty to God, country, and beliefs. It takes place during the Civil War, I believe, though it's been a long time since I've seen it. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|talk]]) 13:04, 13 May 2016 (EDT)

==Star Wars==
While it is clear that Star Wars is, as this page speaks of, about good vs. evil, I question whether it should really be labelled as even a "Greatest Conservative Movie." I find a number of things concerning, including:
*The teaching of a universal force, ''which is neither good nor evil'' (There is no such thing as a neutral God-like power)
*The general idea there there is no God and Satin, but just a neutral power that can be used by men (and aliens) for God-like or Satan-like purposes
*The teaching of "trust your feelings" and that what is needed can be found withing you (see Jeremiah 17:9, and others)
*The trance-like state which is required to learn from and use the force (demon possession, anyone?)
*The "worship" of "the force." (They do call it a Jedi ''temple'', after all)
*And while I'm making points against this series: almost all Sci-Fi fiction implies if not states that there is not God. Life of many different kinds simply appeared or evolved on many different planets, and there are many life-supporting planets on which there being live.
Need I go on? I could, but I think I've made my point. If everyone wants to keep this on the list, I will not argue about it, but I would not have put this movie here. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 09:14, 27 June 2016 (EDT)
:In all fairness, I had moved it to the Debatable whether Conservative section for a reason.
:And technically, Star Wars isn't "sci-fi", it's "space fantasy," so the bit about there lacking a god or supernatural elements won't apply.
:I do agree that it's status as a conservative film is debatable, though. Heck, the heroes were explicitly derived from the Vietcong in the original trilogy, which alongside the Empire being explicitly based on America during that time period would alone destroy any ideas of it being conservative. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 09:26, 27 June 2016 (EDT)
:EDIT: BTW, think you can comment on my topic regarding whether Beauty and the Beast can truly be considered even debatably a conservative film, let alone one of the greatest conservative films? [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 09:29, 27 June 2016 (EDT)

::You're right--I'd missed the section break there at first, but still thought I'd argue the point. I forgot to go back and change that. I must say I didn't know there was a difference between "sci-fi" and "space fantasy," but I still say that it does matter somewhat how they present the fantasy, as to whether with or without God. 
''"...the heroes were explicitly derived from the Vietcong...alongside the Empire being explicitly based on America during that time period..."'' 
::You've got to be joking... So why is this still on the list? 
::Also, you're welcome, but I don't know how helpful I can be. I really don't watch a lot of television. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 09:35, 27 June 2016 (EDT)
:::No, I'm not joking about the Rebels and Empire's inspiration. That said, I really WISH I were. You can read more here:
*http://www.yomyomf.com/star-wars-is-a-metaphor-for-the-vietcong-kicking-american-ass-in-the-vietnam-war/
*http://www.inquisitr.com/1491688/star-wars-was-meant-as-protest-against-vietnam-war-new-book-claims/
:::In fact, it's precisely BECAUSE of that bombshell that I am even an Empire supporter now after years of loyalty to the Rebel Alliance under the naïve belief that they were derived from the American Minutemen or even the French Resistance during World War II.
:::Probably the only reason why it's still on the list is because ultimately, it's still a film about good vs. evil, which is a conservative viewpoint. That, and possibly Ronald Reagan invoking Star Wars when denouncing the USSR as the Evil Empire.
:::As far as Beauty and the Beast, I was meaning the Disney version, not the TV series. You can read up my commentary on why it may need to be removed from the article altogether here: http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies#Should_Beauty_and_the_Beast_really_be_on_here.3F [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 09:43, 27 June 2016 (EDT)
=== I removed Star Wars ===

I removed Star Wars. See editors commentary above. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 14:11, 20 February 2017 (EST)

:Thanks. BTW, think you can look over Beauty and the Beast and see whether it should stay or begone? It seems to have more liberal values than conservative values in there, especially given what Linda Woolverton repeatedly stated. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 14:54, 20 February 2017 (EST)
::I will remove it. As far as future edits, you can remove any movie you wish as you have good judgment and have been a productive editor for some time.

::In addition, I haven't watched a lot of movies for awhile. I just haven't liked the quality of many movies that Hollywood has put out in recent times.

::Lastly, I don't have much interest in this topic/article. I don't want to edit that article for the foreseeable future given my knowledge of recent movies and my interest level of this topics. I do realize that entertainment effects the culture though and would appreciate your edits. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 15:02, 20 February 2017 (EST)

:::Okay, fair enough. I'm not sure we should automatically dismiss any Disney films from being Conservative due to Disney being left-wing right now, though (which is what you implied when you removed it in the comment section). The Lion King and The Little Mermaid did push definite conservative themes in there, and I do know The Incredibles pushed very conservative ideas. And that's not even counting the three original DP movies (ie, Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty).

:::I'll also keep your suggestion about not needing to ask for permission in mind. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 15:10, 20 February 2017 (EST)

== Wall E duplication ==

We seem to have some disagreement as to whether Wall-E is a liberal or conservative movie. As a result, it is listed both here and [[Essay:Worst Liberal Movies]]. I'm in no position to say one way or the other, but someone should probably remove it from one list, or perhaps both, if it can't be either "greatest conservative" or "worst liberal." --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 02:33, 24 July 2016 (EDT)

== Why is the room here? ==

To me this seems to be the work of trolls.The Room is an absolutely awful film and even if it was conservative, (which it isn't, the main character has premarital sex) it cannot be considered "great" in any regard. Terrible acting, subplots that lead to nowhere, rampant sex and hedonism as well as a poorly written story. I'm starting to doubt the integrity of this page if a film of such poor constitution made it on the list of Greatest Films. If anything the film should be considered an accidental comedy.

:Sure is entertaining though. --[[User:Lord Zedd|Lord Zedd]], 11 January 2017

== The Incredibles is extremely conservative, and should not be in the debatable section ==

Recently The Incredibles, was moved to the debatable section, for one slight detail. I do not believe it should remain in this section, I believe that it should be put back in the Greatest Conservative Movies sections for many reasons. First of all it might be the most conservative animation film ever made. Second it's only reason for being debatable is very minor. Almost every film has at least one conservative and liberal aspect. Third you really have to push it, to say that the boss; Gilbert Huph is a demonization of Capitalism. Yes he is heartless, but he is just a person, and to be fair to him he does not know that Bob Parr has superhero powers, all he knows that Bob Parr is not focusing on his work, with that logic, you could argue that J. Jonah Jameson is demonization of capitalism, as he is Peter Parker's boss, and he twists the paper, and often displays Spider-man in the paper as a bad guy, (and he too is unaware of his worker's powers). Fourth one of the reasons that Gilbert Huph, tells Bob not help his costumers, is because when Bob asks if he should, Gilbert Huph tells him that "the law requires that I answer no", which in no ways a negativity on capitalism, as the government is requiring him not help people and not the business. Finally the movie does promote capitalism, as the main lesson of the movie is to shown the negativity of an enforced mediocrity, from the government, which highly mocks socialism, not capitalism.
*Okay, fair enough. Feel free to revert, I just was concerned especially when [http://pixar.wikia.com/wiki/Gilbert_Huph#Trivia Gilbert Huph's page] on Pixar Wiki made it sound as though he WAS a demonization of capitalism (and it doesn't help that Wallace Shawn was specifically mentioned to not only be the opposite of Huph, but also implied he was a socialist due to his appearing in Michael Moore's film "Capitalism: A Love Story" and being a friend of Moore). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 14:39, 10 December 2016 (EST)

== There needs to be some kind of criteria for inclusion here ==

I'd seriously like to know how so many rated "R" movies, especially slasher films like Halloween, classify as "conservative movies." It seems someone has been adding just about everything which doesn't hug trees or glorify liberalism to this list. Do any senior administrators have any objection to me removing some of these apolitical films from the list? [[User:DMorris|DMorris]] ([[User talk:DMorris|talk]]) 12:55, 31 December 2016 (EST)

:I removed Halloween, Scarface and Saw. See paragraph below about gratuitous violence and movies.

:Biblical criteria for Christian behavior could be used since Christianity has been a very influential force in the West for an extended time. For example, the Apostle Paul says to dwell on good things. While I understand that there is violence in war movies, the is the concept of Just War in Christendom. Horror movies are just violence for entertainment sake.

:The article [[conservative]] probably would be helpful in establishing criteria too.

:One problem is just the sufficient policing of the article.

:Another problem is that there was no very dominant founder or founders of conservatism who defined what exactly what it means to be a conservative. So you have competing notions of what is truly conservative. You also have completing notions due to differing notions of what it is to be a conservative due to countries/regions having different political definitions of what it means to be a conservative. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]])

:Fair enough about removing Saw. I realize more or less shut down my own argument, when I said that Jigsaw was playing God. [[User:newconservative|newconservative]] ([[User talk:newconservative|talk]])
::Then most of these belong in the debatable section, because it is debatable depending on how one defines "conservative." Many of these have conservative elements, but few of them are strictly conservative. [[User:DMorris|DMorris]] ([[User talk:DMorris|talk]]) 23:48, 14 June 2017 (EDT)

== Suggestion to remove suicide squad and zootopia. ==

I feel both should be removed for their own respective reasons. Zootopia's themes are decidedly liberal, and as critics pointed out there seems to be quite a bit of anti-Donald Trump, pro-gay subtext that I feel effectively rules this film out as "conservative.]," so to speak. While certain "conservative" themes may or may not be present, the general intent of the filmmakers have to be taken into account, and this film certainly leans to the left in that regard (still a great movie though). At the very least, I believe this should be moved to 'debatable.' I'm also quite confused to the addition of Suicide Squad. Besides the obvious fact that the received, at best, mixed critical and audience reception, the movie doesn't appear to have any sort of real political agenda aside from making money. Harley Quinn's fantasies about becoming a housewife become less inspiring when you take into a account that she's a deluded psychopath trapped in an abusive relationship with an equally insane partner who also happens to be underworld crime boss, and that the scene was more likely intended as a satirical jab at the "nuclear family" stereotype.--[[User: Lord Zedd|Lord Zedd]] 11 January 2017

== Fake news in "Pride and Prejudice" ==

Elizabeth is tricked by Mr. Wickham's lies about Mr. Darcy. This is akin to CNN and other media presenting false, disparaging information based on a single source. I won't roll back your edit, but I don't agree with it. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 12:07, 8 July 2017 (EDT)

:I think a better way to describe it is that Wickham lied to her about Darcy. People lie all the time, including in works of fiction. Fictional stories would be much less interesting (and real life would be less interesting too!) if everyone told the complete truth. Wickham and Darcy told very different stories about each other, and Elizabeth had to decide who was telling the truth. She made the wrong decision at first.

:Elizabeth's low opinion of Darcy came from two sources, apparently equally: what Wickham said, and the fact that Darcy separated Jane from Mr. Bingley, which neither Darcy nor anyone else lied about. Elizabeth's "who's telling the truth?" instincts failed her. Darcy's cold and aloof manner contributed to this.

:I can't believe that two men are discussing ''Pride and Prejudice''! :-) :-) :-) You realize that this is a women's story, a "chick flick", right? In fact, the fact that men can't relate to the story is discussed in the movie ''You've got Mail''. But I do like the story and the BBC serialization, even if Colin Firth in wet clothing doesn't do it for me. :-) Now I guess I have to go watch a baseball game to reset my equilibrium, [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 13:02, 8 July 2017 (EDT)

::I daresay the notion that men can't understand a women's story is [[fake news]]. Eh, what? ;-) --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 20:35, 8 July 2017 (EDT)

== Debatable whether conservative movies and debatable whether great movies were piles of junk ==

With the exception of Frank's Capra's classic movie ''It's a Wonderful Life'' the "Debatable whether conservative" movies and "debatable whether great" movies were piles of junk. I deleted those sections. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 06:21, 9 July 2017 (EDT)

:If they aren't allowed, I guess they aren't allowed. Don't know why they were created in the first place, if they weren't going to be anything more than junk. Must admit, some of them did have some conservative principles. Also, wouldn't pro-War, being the opposite of anti-War, be Conservative while the latter's more liberal? Just asking... [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 07:38, 9 July 2017 (EDT)
::I don't see the point of having a "Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies" and then having a big list of movies that are debatable. Newspapers don't publish "Best vacation spots" or "Best stocks to buy" and then also include a big list of debatable contenders in those type of articles.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:30, 10 July 2017 (EDT)
:::Fair point. Think we can create separate articles dealing with each debatable category? [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 05:30, 10 July 2017 (EDT)
::::Go for it if you want. I don't think they will be popular articles though. It is kind of like people abandoning liberal Christianity. People want the real thing or not be bothered with it. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 16:21, 10 July 2017 (EDT)
:::::Well, okay, I probably won't bother with a debatable whether conservative article (as you said, most people wouldn't want an article that doesn't even deal with real and pure conservativism, like how people don't want Liberal Christianity). But I can create a "debatable whether great" article. At least those films conservative principles are not in question, just whether they are actually good films. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 17:01, 10 July 2017 (EDT)
These edits may be good, but they removed about 70,000 bytes of information, possibly that other editor might find useful. I am recording the edits here before they got lost in the page history. Here they are: [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359742&oldid=1359725][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359743&oldid=1359742][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359744&oldid=1359743][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359746&oldid=1359744][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359748&oldid=1359747][http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Movies&diff=1359749&oldid=1359748] --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 02:37, 10 July 2017 (EDT)

== Inside Out? ==

Other than some celebration of family unity in the end, that movie seems politically neutral to me. Who put it on the list, and why is it conservative?
--[[User:MacTavish|MacTavish]] ([[User talk:MacTavish|talk]]) 14:53, 10 July 2017 (EDT)

== Bambi ==

How exactly is Bambi pro-family? Now I am not saying that it is not, but is it conservative enough to even be the debatable section? --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 15:40, 1 September 2017 (EDT)
*Well, for starters, Bambi's mom gave her life to make sure Bambi survived when the hunter killed her. There's also the fact that the Prince and the Forest escorted both Bambi and his mom away in Man's first appearance. Plus, the Prince of the Forest, who is heavily implied to be Bambi's father, goes out of his way to save him in the climax during the forest fire. Actually, I think there's at least one other thing that makes it conservative: It also refutes the homosexual agenda with the character Flower, who is initially shown as a very effeminate skunk despite being male, yet by adulthood, he clearly is in love with a female skunk, thus being ahead of its time in proving that animals do not embrace homosexuality by nature contrary to what gay activists might claim. And to be fair, technically, "Man" is closer to a poacher than a true hunter (a true hunter does NOT target fawns or any does that are nursing fawns). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 07:33, 18 February 2018 (EST)

==Lion King should be labeled conservative==

There is another reason for it. It is a very good at showing why some people (like the hyenas) should be kept OUT of a country (and so isn't open borders) because they will only hurt the place (quite unlike the "let the Muslims and the illegals in" message being given today.). Furthermore, Scar's speech to the hyenas about getting even and what is owed to them could have a few words altered from "Be Prepared" and be an Obama speech. Scar essentially brings in foreigners who will back him and in exchange he gives them goodies, though, he openly admits he'll get most of them (which is true that politicians and the elite are the ones REALLY benefiting from open borders.). What the hyenas get is, presumably, the lionesses to get all the food for them and deplete the food supply and turn the ones great Pride Lands into a ruin (a great picture of what the Democrats and open borders are doing to America!) and, then, when things get low, kinda like Venezuela, he coldly tells his own hyena allies to "eat Zazu" (they don't do it, luckily) when they are hungry. And he even sells out his own allies, blaming them for Scar's death, when it is convenient for him (just like the Left), a move that, ironically, leads to his own demise. All in all, I think the movie has a very anti-open borders message, something that is needed nowadays! [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:45, 11 October 2017 (EDT)

Note, I don't know about Lion Guard, the latest TV Series with Lion King, if it's conservative (it's probably not with Iger at the helm). I do know that the statement that Timon and Pumba are gay, which I've seen going around, is false. Timon had a girlfriend in one the Timon and Pumba TV Series episodes. What caused him to leave is that he could never see Pumba again, and Pumba was his best friend and the meerkat village was bigoted against warthogs. (Also, his girlfriend could have come with him if she loved him enough, but she didn't, so it's HER fault then.) However, that said, I would NOT be surprised if Iger made Timon and Pumba gay in the upcoming Lion King live action. (After the gay LeFou, I wouldn't put it past him.) [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:45, 11 October 2017 (EDT)

Also, I do think Finding Nemo and Finding Dory are conservative. Ellen DeGeneres at least makes a good Dory, if not a human being. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:45, 11 October 2017 (EDT)

:I'll make sure to note the bit about it being anti-open borders on The Lion King's entry.

:So far as Lion Guard and/or The Lion King With Timon & Pumbaa, that's better fit with [[Essay:Greatest Conservative TV Shows]], so you might want to note that bit there.

:As far as Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, Finding Nemo is definitely already listed on here. I'll see if I can list Finding Dory on here (though given that it's technically a retread of Finding Nemo due to being a sequel, I'm not sure if it qualifies as truly great.). [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 07:06, 12 October 2017 (EDT)

I believe that Finding Dory should be considered great, despite being a sequel. There are other sequels on this list that are considered great. Plus it got great reviews and is the fourth highest grossing animated film of all time. --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 10:25, 12 October 2017 (EDT)

:Okay, point taken. Moved it. May need an expansion, though. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 10:31, 12 October 2017 (EDT)

:BTW, Speaking of Iger and Lion King and gays, I just uncovered something very interesting. Turns out, the oft-reported bit about how LeFou was gay in the movie, according to Josh Gad, [https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/03/03/josh-gad-lefou-beauty-and-the-beast/98679284/ wasn't even in the actual script for the film], which strongly suggests that the whole "gay promotion" thing was on the part of the producers like Bill Condon mouthing off and not the actual film itself (and may also imply that the brief scene with Stanley and LeFou was an ad-lib added in by Condon.). Not that this is at all a good thing because it isn't, but in that light, we can probably assume that the script at least didn't intend to promote the gay agenda. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 10:47, 12 October 2017 (EDT)

==What about the Movie "Up"?==

It's kinda borderline. It does promote faithfulness in marriage and other good traits. The beginning part of them trying to force him out of his house could be considered anti-capitalism, but, on the other hand, eminent domain was only supposed to be used for public use, but it appeared that some company wanted the land and he wasn't willing to sell so they went and tried to make him look like he was getting senile or something so they could take him away and use his land, which is little better than the government doing the same to someone with the EPA and they, like the Obamacare panels, ruled him a burden on society rather than a human being with value. Also, it could possibly have an environmental theme, as they did try to save a rare bird. On the other hand, with the kind of brain to develop the talking device for the dogs, Mentz could have done other things with his life than spend all of those years trying to get that bird and be willing to take her away from her children. Also, I don't think the movie is really anti-capitalistic as it was left open if Mentz was good or bad until the moment he went after the bird and even went so far as to try and kill Russel and Fredrickson to do it. Also, on the other hand, Fredrickson was a sort of father figure to Russel as his father was never around. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 20:15, 13 October 2017 (EDT)

"Up" is actually on this list, you do make some good points on the film being borderline. Yes, they try to save the bird, but it's not really in an environmental way, it's more in a human saving a pet way as Russell found this specific bird, and he was saving that bird because it was like his friend, not because it was an endangered bird. Plus Mentz was almost like a poacher, so I do really think the film could be considered environmental. --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 21:12, 13 October 2017 (EDT)

==I think All Dogs Go to Heaven should be removed==

I don't know why All Dogs Go to Heaven is on here. Generally I'd put all of the Don Bluth works on here, but this one is the EXCEPTION, due to the fact that pretty much all scoundrels (Charlie, Itchy, Car Face, etc) are able to get into heaven and the concept of damnation is pretty much an afterthought. Now if Charlie had reformed at the end of the first movie, that would be one thing, but apparently, in the sequel, he's back to his old ways again. All in all, it's generally not good if the "hero" of your story is little better morally than your villain. Also, it does send the liberal message that you can do whatever the heck you want in life and there are no consequences for it (save that Car Face finally got his at the end of the second movie, though Charlie kept getting breaks for his bad behavior.) [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 23:47, 13 October 2017 (EDT)

I am confused are you saying that is not good if the hero is more moral than the villain? --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 00:09, 14 October 2017 (EDT)

The opposite. I'm saying it's not good if the hero is little more moral than the villain. Now, it would be one thing if the hero was more of an antihero and learned their lesson at the end and changed and became better in the sequels, but that's not the case with Charlie. If anything, we could argue he was even worse in a way in the sequel. (In the first movie, the most damage he did was to himself, but in the second movie, his actions allowed one of the devil creatures to imprison most of the dogs in dog heaven and his actions were more selfish than noble that led him to giving away that horn. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 21:43, 14 October 2017 (EDT)

==I think the Princess and the Frog deserves a chance===

Here is another reason: the portrayal of Tiana's father. While Lotti's (I think that's her name) father spoils her rotten, Tiana's father teaches her the value of hard work, that love is more important than money or possessions, was the one who inspired her to open her own restaurant (it was her father's dream and she finished what he started after he died) and he was in the military and was killed in action in WWI (good portrayal of the military in this movie). You don't often see the father portrayed in a good light in Disney movies, or, indeed, many modern movies in general. Triton seemed always to always be holding Arial back, Aladdin's father Kassim was the King of Thieves and had abandoned him and his his mother to go after the Hand of Midas, (Mufasa was good to Simba, I admit, but, then again, Lion King was listed as conservative on this list), Marlin, albeit too paranoid, was good (but Finding Nemo was also on this list), Lilo's parents weren't around in Lilo and Stitch (though they both died in some accident I think), Russel's father wasn't really around for him in Up, we never see Andy's father in Toy Story (only his mother and sister) (Heck, we don't see Sid's father either and we only see the mother of Jessie's former owner, never her father, so apparently fathers were unimportant in Toy Story (yeah, I know it's about the toys, not the people, but that still is disturbing if you look at it.), etc.

Come to think of it, that is a good argument against the claim that Princess and the Frog is a feminist movie. It was also later stated by Dr. Facilier that Tiana's father would sometimes do double and triple shifts to try and aim for his planned restaurant, yet he always made sure, despite being bone tired, to find time for his family.

Also, another thing to consider is Lottie, though spoiled, rich, and white, she is NOT a villain, but was actually the one who bought a lot of stuff (admittedly with daddy's money) to help Tiana get enough money for her restaurant. (They even said so in the director's commentary that she was designed that way.). That's another thing that makes the film anti-liberal. If it'd been a liberal film, Lottie and her father would have been villainous jerks, not supporting good guys.

Also, lest someone bring in that the film's agenda is racist, it should be noted that it appears that the film's villain, Dr. Facilier, is darker skinned (not quite black, but not white either).

Also, I might add that originally, Louis the alligator, was going to be a human turned into an alligator by Dr. Facilier, but the plot was dropped on that part. However, that said, Lois the alligator and Ray the firefly (who actually died fighting Facilier), were also portrayed in a good light and not as incompetent. That is another strike against it being a feminist movie. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:27, 28 October 2017 (EDT)

Also, I might add that Tiana and Naveen do seem more like a reasonable couple. Naveen is lazy and rich. Tiana, though poor and hardworking, perhaps is quite possibly going over the line on working TOO hard, as even her own mother points out to her. And she never bothers to spend time with her friends as she's always busy working. In the end, Naveen becomes less lazy and Tiana learns to have fun once in a while. If it was a more feminist film by the way, it would have Tiana remain the same while Naveen became less lazy. However, Naveen changed Tiana too for the better. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:34, 28 October 2017 (EDT)

:Even King Triton at least was willing to trade his freedom for Ariel's when push came to shove, so he wasn't all that bad (I'd argue Sultan and to a lesser extent Maurice got far more raw of a deal, TBH). I'm still not sure about Louisiana Voodoo being treated in a positive light though. We probably could move it to Debatable, IF Aschlafly allows it. Ultimately, he has the final say since he was the one who had it be designated liberal in the first place. And personally, even with the whole restaurant bit, Tiana came across as less feminist than Belle did in Beauty and the Beast. Plus, it's actually one of the few Disney feature movies that DOESN'T demonize marriage outright (and the first Disney Princess feature movie to actually treat traditional marriage in a positive light since The Little Mermaid two decades prior), so that's probably another aspect pointing to it being conservative. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 22:54, 28 October 2017 (EDT)

I think that even one movie you called conservative (Lion King 2: Simba's Pride) could be considered feminist. Both the central protagonist (Kiara) and the central antagonist (Zira) are females and generally seem to be portrayed to be the most competent. On the flip side, the only male, other than Rafiki of course, portrayed in a good light was Kovu (and he was originally bad but turned good when he fell in love with Kiara. Also, after being unjustly banished, Kovu suggested that they run away together and escape their problems. It was Kiara who suggested that they go back and stop the fighting. Again, another arguement that Lion King 2: Simba's Pride could be labeled feminist.). (Also, I might add that poor Nunca was allowed to be neglected, try and take out Simba to get Zira's love, and die trying. Vitani, on the other hand, was allowed to live to see Zira for what she was and to be able to get redemption.) Even Simba was portrayed as a father who just didn't seem to want what's best for his daughter (however, to Simba's defense, I don't recall Nala having that many lines at all in Lion King 2). If Lion King 2 can be labeled conservative, so should The Princess and the Frog. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 23:57, 28 October 2017 (EDT)

:To be fair regarding Simba, he actually DID have a valid point considering the Outlanders had served Scar earlier (and quite frankly, he's still an A-Okay Dad overall compared to Maurice and Sultan (who many times actually NEEDED rescuing by their daughters and usually don't succeed in saving their daughters even once. Not to mention more than once were largely depicted as doofuses.), or ESPECIALLY King Stefan from Maleficent). Besides, not all females were depicted as being good or even redeemable in the film. Zira most certainly wasn't. But yeah, like I said, we probably should wait for Aschlafly's response, since he's the one who decreed it a worst liberal film in the first place. For that matter, I'll see what Asclafly's response regarding Simba's Pride is. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 08:20, 29 October 2017 (EDT)

==I think Hacksaw Ridge should be removed from debatable==

While the film's main protagonist is against the practice of killing and the handling of a weapon (attributed because of his strong faith) the film at no point espouses gun control. At worst, it espouses gun ownership preference, as the film does take time to demonstrate and explain the necessity for firearms and killing in accordance with war. Hacksaw ridge was based on the real life of Desmond Doss and to change that aspect of his character would invoke historical revisionism and strike face of his moral christian beliefs. --[[User:AirForceMan92|AirForceMan92]] ([[User talk:AirForceMan92|talk]]) 01:36, 1 November 2017 (EDT)

== TV specials go under Movies or TV Shows? ==

Hi.

I was thinking of adding in some TV specials of various conservative and liberal stripes (and will go in the respective articles). However, I need to know, where do TV specials best qualify? Are they movies, or TV shows? I know made-for-TV movies are best placed here, but I'm not sure about TV specials. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 16:02, 11 December 2017 (EST)

That is a tough one, I know we have A Charlie Brown Christmas listed here. But Perhaps to avoid confusion on the TV Shows page, we could add another section labeled "TV Specials." Also maybe we should add A Charlie Brown Christmas to that section as well. --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 16:47, 11 December 2017 (EST)

:Yeah, that might work. For now, I added various specials on the animated films section here. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 16:57, 11 December 2017 (EST)

I fixed it and added a TV Specials section because they really belong in the TV page not the Movie Page. [[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 14:44, 15 December 2017 (EST)

:Fine by me. Seemed odd that they'd be here anyways. BTW, speaking of TV specials, should ''[https://youtu.be/S3a5j8PgQxg The Star Wars Holiday Special]'' go under Greatest Conservative TV shows or Worst Liberal TV shows? I'm tempted to put it under the latter due to Itchy basically... well, let's just say he ends up doing something EXTREMELY inappropriate in front of his own family, ESPECIALLY considering the family nature of the special. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 15:00, 15 December 2017 (EST)

That I do not know I have never seen the movie. [[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 15:09, 15 December 2017 (EST)

== Home Alone 2 a critical failure? ==

Home Alone 2 was recently moved into the debatable whether great section for being a critical failure, but I do not believe this is true. I believe both the original and the sequel have gained popularity throughout the years and became cult classics. Yes, it recycles the same format, but it introduces new characters, new jokes, and some other new situations. If anything its the sequels after the second film, that are debatable whether great. [[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 15:41, 12 December 2017 (EST)

:Thank you for saying that. Tell that to MacTavish if he changes it again. [[User:Shobson20|Shobson20]] ([[User talk:Shobson20|talk]]) 18:35, 28 December 2017 (EST)

::I also lean towards keeping it out of the "debatable" section, but I'm open to counter-arguments. I haven't thoroughly thought it through, so I could be missing something.
::I thought it was cute how they made it obvious that it was a play on the first, and added too it. (i.e. rather than just two paint cans at the stairs, it was those then a pipe. If you have the extended version, he also cuts the rope, dropping the pipe on them afterwards.) I think it was their intention to play on and too the first. Doing that with the third might have been pushing it, but they didn't. In the fourth, I think they went too far in the other direction, and made it too different. It didn't have the same creative flair as in its prequels. --[[User:DavidB4|David B]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]]) 19:06, 28 December 2017 (EST)

==Correction on Alladdin 3==

I think that whoever wrote that article calling Alladin's father the main villain didn't really pay much attention to the movie. Even a casual watching of the movie would show that Saluk (and perhaps, to a lesser extent, the other thieves) was the actual villain. At worst, Kassim was like Iago in Return of Jafar, more like an anti-hero who couldn't be quite called good or bad. (Heck Iago isn't perfect in this one here as he helps Kassim try to steal the Oracle.) --Unsigned comment by [[User:PatriotMongoose]]

:I know, and I did actually watch the film pretty closely as a kid (and yes, Iago does help steal the Oracle as well, I can confirm that), but Cassim technically was the central antagonist to the story since a large part of the story involved Aladdin trying to redeem him. Think of it like the Original Trilogy of Star Wars. Technically, Palpatine was the main antagonist of the three films, but the central antagonist was Darth Vader, the one who gets the most screentime and played a large prominent role in the overall plot. That's what the edit was trying to convey. I'll reword it to "central antagonist" rather than "main antagonist" since that's more accurate. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 16:29, 17 December 2017 (EST)

== Where does RoboCop fit on the spectrum? ==

It's pro-law and order, anti-crime and anti-drugs. But it's also anti-capitalism with the way OCP is represented and its creators are very liberal.

== Songs of the South ==

Hi.

I was thinking of adding the movie Songs of the South by Disney (which unfortunately thanks to race-baiters can't be watched other than via bootleg, which is a shame, as Uncle Remus actually seemed like a very good role model for his race), which effectively acted as an adaptation of the Uncle Remus stories. Problem is, I'm not entirely sure where to place it due to the split between live-action and animated films. After all, Songs of the South technically has elements of both, so I can't exactly place it in one category only. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 10:12, 30 October 2018 (EDT)

== Some suggestions ==

A suggestion:
- '''The Aviator''' (2004) - yes, it is directed by Martin Scorsese, whose films are often quite violent and include a lot of profanity, but this film is almost entirely free of both and seems to advance a conservative agenda. It is a biopic that lauds the life of Howard Hughes (a Republican and supporter of Richard Nixon), portraying him as exemplifying American values of commerce, vision and entrepreneurialism. Hughes is a tragic figure who struggles with mental illness, obsessive-compulsive disorder and politically-motivated and fabricated allegations of war profiteering (which were levied against him by the corrupt senator Owen Brewster, who was formerly associated with the Ku Klux Klan). Despite never overcoming his mental illness, Hughes does manage to expose Brewster's corruption and double-dealing - a victory for an individualist, capitalist entrepreneur against bureaucratic government authority and cronyism. The film also portrays left-wing actress Katherine Hepburn in a negative light, ironically juxtaposing her belief in socialism with the luxurious life she enjoys in the New York 'jet set' (a 'champagne socialist'), and depicting how she treats Hughes coldly and abandons him when his obsessive-compulsive disorder worsens. - [[User:LibertyMatters]] 17:29, 06 November 2018 (GMT)

In fact, I have a couple more suggestions now:
- '''The Hunt for Red October''' (1990) - an atmospheric and tense thriller about a Soviet naval captain trying to defect to America during the Cold War. The film overall has a very positive view of America as an oasis of freedom, with the Soviet officers desperate to escape the totalitarian communist police state - one of the Soviets is surprised when he learns that in America, unlike in Soviet Russia, one is allowed to travel between states, a vivid illustration of just how repressive the USSR must have been. Based on a thriller by conservative author Tom Clancy.

- '''Inception''' (2010) - Christopher Nolan, who directed this well-received science fiction film about lucid dreaming, is considered one of the most conservative Hollywood directors (he directed the war film Dunkirk, which already appears on this list). Inception at first appears a completely apolitical film, but some reviewers have pointed out a subtle but definite Christian allegory at play here.

Buckle up, because this one - as befits a complex film - is a complicated one. But I really don't think I'm reading more into it than is actually there, and plenty of people have pointed this out. Spoilers are very much coming up, too, as a warning.

A quick précis of the plot - Cobb, the main character, is an 'extractor', who performs corporate espionage by attempting to infiltrate the subconscious of targets while they are dreaming and extract information. He has been hired by Saito, an unscrupulous businessman, to perform an act of 'inception' - placing the germ of an idea in someone's subconsciousness. In return, Saito will clear Cobb of a (false) murder charge and allow him to come back home to his children in America.

To embed an idea in someone's subconsciousness, it requires creating a 'dream within a dream within a dream' and embedding the idea deep within the bottom layer so that the person will not reject it as foreign. The way to wake up from a deeper dream layer into the one above it is to die in that layer (the idea that we have to die to wake up should suggest where this might be going). But there is also the possibility of getting lost in 'limbo' - a world so deep in the subconscious that the dreamer can construct the entire world with their own mind, and risks forgetting they are in a dream at all. Cobb, as is revealed later on, was once trapped in limbo with his now-deceased wife Mal, who spent years in limbo (the equivalent of hours in the real world) constructing a world out of their own memories.

The film opens with a shot of a fake vision of Cobb's children in Limbo, who are building sandcastles on a beach. It ends with a shot of Cobb reunited with his real children, James and Philippa (both named after Christian apostles), who, in the final line of dialogue in the film, say that they are building a house 'on the cliff.' Some reviewers have puzzled over the meaning of this line. To me, it's pretty clear. The film is bracketed by the two halves of the parable of the wise and foolish builders (Matthew 7:24).

What does this mean in context? It means that limbo is identified with the mortal world, where the foolish builders construct their lives on materialism rather than faith. In limbo, people have the power to use their imagination to make the world whatever they want it to be, as Cobb and Mal did for years - but none of it is real, it is just a figment of the subconscious. Near the end of the film, Cobb encounters a subconscious projection of Mal (malevolent?), who tries to persuade him to stay with her in limbo - not on the grounds that it is real, but that "you don't believe in anything anymore." Cobb rejects this materialistic relativism, in favour of an affirmation in the objective reality that his children do exist in the real world, 'up above' - in other words, he repudiates the temptation to live in a faithless world where mankind sets himself up as all-powerful and can build whatever he wants, instead having faith in the idea that there's something more real and meaningful than this.

The film is thus metaphorical. Cobb starts as essentially a glorified thief, obsessed with the idea of 'buying his way home' back to his children through his deal with Saito. Having failed to get his way into heaven (which, for him, is a return to his children) this way, he takes a leap of faith. He rejects Mal's temptation, refuses to use violence against a character who betrays the team, and risks his life to save that of Saito (who is in danger of getting lost in limbo). After this act of self-sacrifice, he dives into a river (a metaphorical baptism promising both death and rebirth), wakes up in reality on a plane, passes through immigration and customs (a metaphorical judgment of one's sins), is reunited with his father-in-law and finally returns to an Eden-like garden where his children are waiting for him. Whether this is intended to be a literal journey to heaven or a more metaphorical spiritual experience, the symbolism is all pretty clear. Once more, we end with the dialogue of constructing a house on the cliff - on the real and tangible substance of faith, a line that makes no sense without being viewed in a Christian context.

Christianity is admittedly not synonymous with conservatism, but I think the religious metaphor of this film is something conservatives would tend to appreciate. There is plenty more symbolism, which is summarised best in this article:
http://popupchinese.com/Inception.pdf
If we pop this one on the list it might be better to link to the article as this takes so long to explain. But I thought I'd lay out all the reasoning for you.

[[User:LibertyMatters]] 23:14, 10 November 2018 (GMT)

== Letters From Iwo Jima ==

I've been thinking about putting letters from Iwo Jima on one of these lists. If you truly understand it, it is a film that, while it paints the rank-and-file Japanese field soldier in a sympathetic light, it depicts the higher Japanese leadership in a negative light. For instance, it depicts Japan's "Kenpeitai" (the Japanese equivalent of the Russian Commissars) in a very negative light. The impression given by the movie is that young Japanese men are being drafted against their will to fight in a war that they don't understand. With all of the anti-war films that Hollywood makes, I think this one is different in that it shows the terrible battlefield conditions faced by the country that actually really started the war in the first place. [[User:Shobson20|Shobson20]] ([[User talk:Shobson20|talk]]) 01:14, 24 December 2018 (EST)

== Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Not Great? ==

Should Ace Ventura Pet Detective really be in the debatable if great section? It is one of my favorites, it was moved there for its crude behavior and because it stars liberal Jim Carrey, but there are other movies on this list, with crude behavior and other Jim Carrey movies.
--[[User:SaltLakeCityLover|SaltLakeCityLover]] ([[User talk:SaltLakeCityLover|talk]]) 10:06, 7 June 2019 (EDT)

I think it's definitely conservative (in fact, given how Pixar is going Left, it may be the LAST conservative one they ever make as they've fallen a long way from the conservative days of Toy Story and A Bugs Life)) but it also has a weak storyline and was Pixar's first box office disappointment. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 15:15, 17 August 2019 (EDT)
:Wait, I don't see how Ace Ventura has anything to do with Pixar. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 15:55, 17 August 2019 (EDT)

Okay, I am going to move it back.
--[[User:SaltLakeCityLover|SaltLakeCityLover]] ([[User talk:SaltLakeCityLover|talk]]) 12:01, 4 January 2020 (EST)

==A mild concern about a Dog's Purpose and a similar recent film (also mostly conservative), The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)==

Both of them seem to promote reincarnation. In A Dog's Purpose, Bailey comes back as several other dogs (including a female, once, which I wondered if it was a subtle transgender reference). In Art of Racing in the Rain, Enzo dies (off screen) at the end and, per his long time desire, appears to have come back as a human boy named Enzo. I'm just wondering if these movies are secretly pushing Hinduism or that mentality. I suppose every film has it's questionable elements, though. Otherwise two good movies.

[[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 22:52, 28 August 2019 (EDT)

==Batman V Superman and Zack Snyder's Justice League==
As these movies are sequels to Man of Steel, and have been considered as righ-wing for some of the themes touched. Here are some articles about it:

https://www.filminquiry.com/zack-snyder-master-right-wing-propaganda/

https://elamerican.com/zack-snyders-justice-league-is-not-the-leftist-justice-league-anymore/

--[[User:Davidurso2d|Davidurso2d]] ([[User talk:Davidurso2d|talk]]) 11:04, January 30, 2022 (EST)

== Jesus (1979) ==
I'm quite surprised that nobody mentioned the 1979 film adaptation of the Gospel of Luke. It is a very good flick about the Christ, in my opinion, definitely better than overly violent The Passion of the Christ (2004), so maybe we should include this movie in the list.

Talk:Joseph Stalin

2022-02-13T15:10:45Z

Theocon: /* Quotes */

"forced women to work in factories just like men" - Is the intent of this to say that women should not be working in factories and/or holding jobs that men hold? I would think that idea is somewhat ''passe'' now. The fragment should be removed from the article.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 23:22, 7 March 2007 (EST)

: The statement is factual and I see no reason to delete. The reader can decide for himself whether forcing women to work in factories just like men is a good thing. --[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 23:24, 7 March 2007 (EST)

:: I would think that anyone would agree that coercing anyone to work isn't a good thing. But the "just like men" part is opinion, not fact. That is what should be removed.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 23:48, 7 March 2007 (EST)

==Stalin's death==
''Following a stroke on 1 March 1953, Stalin died ''

Stalin may have actually been assassinated by other members of the Politburo who feared another 1938 style-purge growing out of the Doctor's Plot. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 17:49, 9 April 2007 (EDT)

==Odd conclusion==
The article says,

:''Most of this, however, was pure propaganda ... Soviet growth was impressive. Between 1929 and 1937, 8,000 factories were constructed, average GDP growth was around 10%''

Which of those two statements is true? Was it "pure propaganda," or a successful campaign of industrial development? -[[User:Harmil|Harmil]] 12:25, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

== Purges ==

I removed someone's addition of the subplot of Stalin's Okhranka file because it was tangential to the overview of the purges and too specific for this article. It should form its own entry if valid.

:I would suggest, if you think it is important, not to remove accurate additional information added by RobS, a sysop, and instead perhaps give it a sub-head, instead of just dumping enlightening information, that goes to their state of mind. Do you have some suggestions for this, other than making an entirely new article on this deal? --[[User:TK|₮K]][[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]] 22:45, 28 March 2008 (EDT)

==Motives==

Xgood, please work with me to develop your ideas on Stalin's motives. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 16:31, 15 May 2008 (EDT)

==Tsaritsyn spelled wrong in the introduction==
It currently says ''Tsaritsen'', while correctly the town is spelled ''Tsaritsyn'' or ''Tsaritsin'' (''Царицин'' in Russian).[[User:SimonW|SimonW]] 11:53, 22 May 2008 (EDT)

== Lead ==

There should be an end parenthesis after his name in Cyrillic, and the Cyrillic name shouldn't be italicized (though I'm not entirely sure on the latter point). --[[User:SamY|sam(m)y]] 13:27, 14 December 2008 (EST)
:<s>Also, although it's more common to transliterate the Cyrillic letters de and zhe as two distinct letters, the name "Джугашвили" is more often rendered with a J in English (i.e., Jugashvili). --[[User:SamY|sam(m)y]] 13:56, 14 December 2008 (EST)</s>

== Additional Information ==

I'm studying the period in history at the moment-- most notably, the differences between Lenin and Stalin. Could I add, for example, that Stalin was a hardline believer in family values, as he altered the soviet school system to reflect this? Or could I add that he re-initiated the persecution of homosexuals?

I'm not trying to be contrary or anything, I'm honestly not sure whether to add these things-- they're facts, but they're elements of conservative ideology that you might not want associated with Stalin. -- Dollfuss.

*I would say you need to study at greater length, rather than post something so absurd. This is the danger of all students, reading something that might be factual, and accepting it as "truth" when in reading more, understanding more, one would realize that is isn't really the truth at all. Many things, in one context can be truthful, however taken in the greater, historical context, have entirely a different meaning or truth. "Persecution" of Homosexuals, given the times and overwhelming world view of the time, wasn't persecution as we know it today. You cannot judge historical events in today's accepted context. That is called revisionist history. --[[User:TK|'''₮K''']]/Admin[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]] 20:56, 4 April 2009 (EDT)

==[[Simon Sebag Montefiore]]==
I am really rather surprised that no one has used Simon Sebag Montefiore's recent bestseller "Young Stalin" as a source for this article. There are a large number of urban legends about Stalin's life prior to 1917. For more than a decade, Mr. Montefiore has been examining thousands of pages of formerly classified documents and memoirs from the former Soviet Union. He has also tracked down and interviewed the descendants of the many illegitimate children who Stalin fathered prior to the Revolution. It is all there in black and white, including how and why Stalin lost his faith in the Christian God, the Atheistic subculture which he encouraged in the seminary in Tbilisi, and the many criminal activities which he used to finance Lenin's Bolsheviks. It is a vital source which should be used extensively by conservative historians, as it reveals just how and why the Bolsheviks defeated both the Tsar's Secret Police and the Provisional Government of Aleksandr Kerensky. If we are to compete successfully with Wikipedia, we must not deal in urban legends. Unfortunately, the Stalin article here seems to have been doing exactly that. [[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 17:59, 15 April 2009 (EDT)

*Well, you are an editor here, no? Propose what you would like added, post it here, and if no objection, move on to adding the bits to the article, with citation, of course. --[[User:TK|'''₮K''']]/Admin[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]] 18:57, 15 April 2009 (EDT)

**Well, for one thing, the section describing Stalin as an Okhrana informant definitely needs a complete overhaul. Mr. Sebag Montefiore deals at length with this in his book. He cites both the evidence for and against the rumors of Stalin's Okhrana ties. At the time of his alleged "treason," Stalin was actually one of the Bolshevik movement's top intelligence men and was charged with trying to ''recruit Okhrana men'' as informants. According to Montefiore, the Okhrana ordered the agents Stalin approached to feed him false information in hopes of creating an internal war within the Bolshevik Movement. This, and the subsequent exposal of Okhrana spy Roman Malinovsky, made Stalin so unspeakably paranoid that decades after the Revolution he was still certain that he was surrounded by traitors. This was the ''real'' reason for the Purge of 1937. [[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 22:14, 15 April 2009 (EDT)

==Possible Quotes to be Added==
* "Before your eyes, rises the hero of [[Gogol]]'s story who, in a fit of abberation, imagined that he was the King of [[Spain]]. Such is the fate of all megalomaniacs."
--Joseph Stalin, ''Proletariatis Brdzola'', August 1905. Quoted by Simon Sebag Montefiore, ''Young Stalin'', page 376.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 19:14, 16 April 2009 (EDT)

* "God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist. We've been deceived. If God existed, he'd have made the world more just... I'll lend you a book and you'll see."
--A teenaged Stalin after reading ''The Origin of Species'' by [[Charles Darwin]]. Quoted by Simon Sebag Montefiore, ''Young Stalin'', page 49.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 19:30, 16 April 2009 (EDT)

* "Comrade Koba told you that we were against you and demanded your sacking from the Committee, but I promise you nothing of the sort happened and everything Koba told you was a malicious lie! Yes: a calumny to discredit us! I just wonder at the man's impudence. I know how worthless he is, but I didn't expect such 'courage.' But it turns out that he'll use any means if he thinks the ends justify them. The end in this case - the ambition - is to present himself as a great man before the nation. But... God didn't grant him the right gifts, so he has to resort to intrigues, lies and other 'bagatelles.' Such a filthy person wanted to pollute our sacred mission with sewage!"
--Georgian [[Menshevik]] Noe Khomeriki in a 1904 letter to a member of the Social Democratic Central Committee for the Caucausus region. Simon Sebag Montefiore, ''Young Stalin'', page 125.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 19:30, 16 April 2009 (EDT)

*"Does Djilas, who is himself a writer, not know what human suffering and the human heart are? Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?"
--In response to complaints about the rapes and looting commited by the [[Red Army]] during the [[Second World War]]. [[Milovan Djilas]], ''Conversations with Stalin'', page 95.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 09:03, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

== Last name ==

Stalin's real last name was Dzhugashvili, it was edited out but it should be put back. Right now, the article states that his real name was "Josif Vissarionovich", which means "Josif son of Vissarion"; Vissarionovich isn't the first of two last names, it's a patronym, and as such it cannot replace the last name. --[[User:MarcoT|MarcoT]] 16:45, 10 June 2010 (EDT)

== Link to his Experiments? ==

Someone creates an article specifically related to Joseph Stalin and his ape-men experiments, but there's no mention of it here. Why is that? [[User:JonG|~ ]][[User_talk:JonG|JonG]][[Special:Contributions/JonG| ~]] 02:34, 23 September 2011 (EDT)

== Stalin being viewed more favorably currently? ==

Hi.

I heard that apparently, Russians are viewing Stalin in a more favorable light. Is this true? I really hope it isn't. The last thing we need is Stalinism to rear its ugly head once again. If it is true, should we note it as well? [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 22:34, 28 April 2017 (EDT)

:I haven't read anything about this recently, but this would be a realistic trend. Many Russians see the USSR as a time of greatness and Stalin as the epitome of that greatness. I think they wrong to think so for multiple reasons, but the USSR was strong back then, had a larger military, and was stable. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 22:40, 28 April 2017 (EDT)
::Here is a video on the big reason why Joseph Stalin is seen more favorably by the Russians today: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJ_zsYUsXg Understanding Militant Atheism in the Soviet Union].

::In short, it is based on ignorance, apathy and governments often whitewashing their history.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]])

== Quotes ==
''"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem"''
Why is this written in Stalin's quotes section? This is a quote said by General Dzhuga (Alexey Nikolaevich Krylov) during his conversation with Stalin about the liquidation of Josip Broz Tito (then leader of Yugoslavia) in August 1950.
:I dunno; provide a cite a fix it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:33, February 12, 2022 (EST)
::https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/stalin/t16/t16_28.htm English translation: https://c21ch-newcastle-edu-au.translate.goog/stalin/t16/t16_28.htm?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp Juga: "''One unmarked bomber from the territory of Albania - and there is no palace, no US-British agent Tito. If there is a person, there is a problem; if there is no person, there is no problem.''" The information about 20 million dead Russian soldiers is also incorrect.
:::P.S. I have tried to find a source of Stalin himself saying this quote, but the maximum that I could find was the novel "Children of the Arbat" https://en.mikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Arbat, which has no connection with reality. This, along with the link I provided, confirms the correctness of my first post.{{unsigned}}
::::I've always heard the quote to be, "No person, no problem." Google shows dozens of sources for that, including Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Goodreads, NYT, etc. [https://www.google.com/search?q=no+person+no+problem&sxsrf=APq-WBu2Klo77ZJAMDbX1sxZpSENXZmpwQ%3A1644730665210&source=hp&ei=KZkIYqGQCa6gptQP_o-5-AM&iflsig=AHkkrS4AAAAAYginOQ0-WsDR3c-r2YC8Hy2pq8mGGrEh&ved=0ahUKEwjhyLCY-_v1AhUukIkEHf5HDj8Q4dUDCAk&uact=5&oq=no+person+no+problem&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCGAzoGCLMBEIUEOg4IABDqAhC0AhDZAhDlAjoOCC4QgAQQsQMQxwEQ0QM6CwguEIAEELEDENQCOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToICAAQgAQQsQM6DgguEIAEELEDEIMBENQCOgUILhCABDoICC4QgAQQsQM6CAguEIAEENQCOgsILhCxAxCDARDUAjoGCAAQFhAeOggIABAWEAoQHjoECAAQDToECAAQClCHCVjeSWDyTGgDcAB4AYABoAmIAc59kgEINS00LjEzLjOYAQCgAQGwAQk&sclient=gws-wiz] Now, it could be that somebody put the idea in his head, and he paraphrased or repeated it. However, if he used the quote in any official capacity or discussion, the words can be directly attributed to him. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:40, February 13, 2022 (EST)
:::::I understand. Misquotations are really nothing new, many of them are attributed to all famous leaders, even Washington or Lincoln. Even though Stalin, being a real dictator, is a special case, we still need to look for verified information, unlike Wikipedia or RationalWiki.

Talk:Joseph Stalin

2022-02-13T15:09:49Z

Theocon: /* Quotes */

"forced women to work in factories just like men" - Is the intent of this to say that women should not be working in factories and/or holding jobs that men hold? I would think that idea is somewhat ''passe'' now. The fragment should be removed from the article.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 23:22, 7 March 2007 (EST)

: The statement is factual and I see no reason to delete. The reader can decide for himself whether forcing women to work in factories just like men is a good thing. --[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 23:24, 7 March 2007 (EST)

:: I would think that anyone would agree that coercing anyone to work isn't a good thing. But the "just like men" part is opinion, not fact. That is what should be removed.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 23:48, 7 March 2007 (EST)

==Stalin's death==
''Following a stroke on 1 March 1953, Stalin died ''

Stalin may have actually been assassinated by other members of the Politburo who feared another 1938 style-purge growing out of the Doctor's Plot. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 17:49, 9 April 2007 (EDT)

==Odd conclusion==
The article says,

:''Most of this, however, was pure propaganda ... Soviet growth was impressive. Between 1929 and 1937, 8,000 factories were constructed, average GDP growth was around 10%''

Which of those two statements is true? Was it "pure propaganda," or a successful campaign of industrial development? -[[User:Harmil|Harmil]] 12:25, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

== Purges ==

I removed someone's addition of the subplot of Stalin's Okhranka file because it was tangential to the overview of the purges and too specific for this article. It should form its own entry if valid.

:I would suggest, if you think it is important, not to remove accurate additional information added by RobS, a sysop, and instead perhaps give it a sub-head, instead of just dumping enlightening information, that goes to their state of mind. Do you have some suggestions for this, other than making an entirely new article on this deal? --[[User:TK|₮K]][[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]] 22:45, 28 March 2008 (EDT)

==Motives==

Xgood, please work with me to develop your ideas on Stalin's motives. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 16:31, 15 May 2008 (EDT)

==Tsaritsyn spelled wrong in the introduction==
It currently says ''Tsaritsen'', while correctly the town is spelled ''Tsaritsyn'' or ''Tsaritsin'' (''Царицин'' in Russian).[[User:SimonW|SimonW]] 11:53, 22 May 2008 (EDT)

== Lead ==

There should be an end parenthesis after his name in Cyrillic, and the Cyrillic name shouldn't be italicized (though I'm not entirely sure on the latter point). --[[User:SamY|sam(m)y]] 13:27, 14 December 2008 (EST)
:<s>Also, although it's more common to transliterate the Cyrillic letters de and zhe as two distinct letters, the name "Джугашвили" is more often rendered with a J in English (i.e., Jugashvili). --[[User:SamY|sam(m)y]] 13:56, 14 December 2008 (EST)</s>

== Additional Information ==

I'm studying the period in history at the moment-- most notably, the differences between Lenin and Stalin. Could I add, for example, that Stalin was a hardline believer in family values, as he altered the soviet school system to reflect this? Or could I add that he re-initiated the persecution of homosexuals?

I'm not trying to be contrary or anything, I'm honestly not sure whether to add these things-- they're facts, but they're elements of conservative ideology that you might not want associated with Stalin. -- Dollfuss.

*I would say you need to study at greater length, rather than post something so absurd. This is the danger of all students, reading something that might be factual, and accepting it as "truth" when in reading more, understanding more, one would realize that is isn't really the truth at all. Many things, in one context can be truthful, however taken in the greater, historical context, have entirely a different meaning or truth. "Persecution" of Homosexuals, given the times and overwhelming world view of the time, wasn't persecution as we know it today. You cannot judge historical events in today's accepted context. That is called revisionist history. --[[User:TK|'''₮K''']]/Admin[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]] 20:56, 4 April 2009 (EDT)

==[[Simon Sebag Montefiore]]==
I am really rather surprised that no one has used Simon Sebag Montefiore's recent bestseller "Young Stalin" as a source for this article. There are a large number of urban legends about Stalin's life prior to 1917. For more than a decade, Mr. Montefiore has been examining thousands of pages of formerly classified documents and memoirs from the former Soviet Union. He has also tracked down and interviewed the descendants of the many illegitimate children who Stalin fathered prior to the Revolution. It is all there in black and white, including how and why Stalin lost his faith in the Christian God, the Atheistic subculture which he encouraged in the seminary in Tbilisi, and the many criminal activities which he used to finance Lenin's Bolsheviks. It is a vital source which should be used extensively by conservative historians, as it reveals just how and why the Bolsheviks defeated both the Tsar's Secret Police and the Provisional Government of Aleksandr Kerensky. If we are to compete successfully with Wikipedia, we must not deal in urban legends. Unfortunately, the Stalin article here seems to have been doing exactly that. [[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 17:59, 15 April 2009 (EDT)

*Well, you are an editor here, no? Propose what you would like added, post it here, and if no objection, move on to adding the bits to the article, with citation, of course. --[[User:TK|'''₮K''']]/Admin[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]] 18:57, 15 April 2009 (EDT)

**Well, for one thing, the section describing Stalin as an Okhrana informant definitely needs a complete overhaul. Mr. Sebag Montefiore deals at length with this in his book. He cites both the evidence for and against the rumors of Stalin's Okhrana ties. At the time of his alleged "treason," Stalin was actually one of the Bolshevik movement's top intelligence men and was charged with trying to ''recruit Okhrana men'' as informants. According to Montefiore, the Okhrana ordered the agents Stalin approached to feed him false information in hopes of creating an internal war within the Bolshevik Movement. This, and the subsequent exposal of Okhrana spy Roman Malinovsky, made Stalin so unspeakably paranoid that decades after the Revolution he was still certain that he was surrounded by traitors. This was the ''real'' reason for the Purge of 1937. [[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 22:14, 15 April 2009 (EDT)

==Possible Quotes to be Added==
* "Before your eyes, rises the hero of [[Gogol]]'s story who, in a fit of abberation, imagined that he was the King of [[Spain]]. Such is the fate of all megalomaniacs."
--Joseph Stalin, ''Proletariatis Brdzola'', August 1905. Quoted by Simon Sebag Montefiore, ''Young Stalin'', page 376.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 19:14, 16 April 2009 (EDT)

* "God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist. We've been deceived. If God existed, he'd have made the world more just... I'll lend you a book and you'll see."
--A teenaged Stalin after reading ''The Origin of Species'' by [[Charles Darwin]]. Quoted by Simon Sebag Montefiore, ''Young Stalin'', page 49.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 19:30, 16 April 2009 (EDT)

* "Comrade Koba told you that we were against you and demanded your sacking from the Committee, but I promise you nothing of the sort happened and everything Koba told you was a malicious lie! Yes: a calumny to discredit us! I just wonder at the man's impudence. I know how worthless he is, but I didn't expect such 'courage.' But it turns out that he'll use any means if he thinks the ends justify them. The end in this case - the ambition - is to present himself as a great man before the nation. But... God didn't grant him the right gifts, so he has to resort to intrigues, lies and other 'bagatelles.' Such a filthy person wanted to pollute our sacred mission with sewage!"
--Georgian [[Menshevik]] Noe Khomeriki in a 1904 letter to a member of the Social Democratic Central Committee for the Caucausus region. Simon Sebag Montefiore, ''Young Stalin'', page 125.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 19:30, 16 April 2009 (EDT)

*"Does Djilas, who is himself a writer, not know what human suffering and the human heart are? Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?"
--In response to complaints about the rapes and looting commited by the [[Red Army]] during the [[Second World War]]. [[Milovan Djilas]], ''Conversations with Stalin'', page 95.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 09:03, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

== Last name ==

Stalin's real last name was Dzhugashvili, it was edited out but it should be put back. Right now, the article states that his real name was "Josif Vissarionovich", which means "Josif son of Vissarion"; Vissarionovich isn't the first of two last names, it's a patronym, and as such it cannot replace the last name. --[[User:MarcoT|MarcoT]] 16:45, 10 June 2010 (EDT)

== Link to his Experiments? ==

Someone creates an article specifically related to Joseph Stalin and his ape-men experiments, but there's no mention of it here. Why is that? [[User:JonG|~ ]][[User_talk:JonG|JonG]][[Special:Contributions/JonG| ~]] 02:34, 23 September 2011 (EDT)

== Stalin being viewed more favorably currently? ==

Hi.

I heard that apparently, Russians are viewing Stalin in a more favorable light. Is this true? I really hope it isn't. The last thing we need is Stalinism to rear its ugly head once again. If it is true, should we note it as well? [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 22:34, 28 April 2017 (EDT)

:I haven't read anything about this recently, but this would be a realistic trend. Many Russians see the USSR as a time of greatness and Stalin as the epitome of that greatness. I think they wrong to think so for multiple reasons, but the USSR was strong back then, had a larger military, and was stable. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 22:40, 28 April 2017 (EDT)
::Here is a video on the big reason why Joseph Stalin is seen more favorably by the Russians today: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJ_zsYUsXg Understanding Militant Atheism in the Soviet Union].

::In short, it is based on ignorance, apathy and governments often whitewashing their history.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]])

== Quotes ==
''"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem"''
Why is this written in Stalin's quotes section? This is a quote said by General Dzhuga (Alexey Nikolaevich Krylov) during his conversation with Stalin about the liquidation of Josip Broz Tito (then leader of Yugoslavia) in August 1950.
:I dunno; provide a cite a fix it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:33, February 12, 2022 (EST)
::https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/stalin/t16/t16_28.htm English translation: https://c21ch-newcastle-edu-au.translate.goog/stalin/t16/t16_28.htm?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp Juga: "''One unmarked bomber from the territory of Albania - and there is no palace, no US-British agent Tito. If there is a person, there is a problem; if there is no person, there is no problem.''" The information about 20 million dead Russian soldiers is also incorrect.
:::P.S. I have tried to find a source of Stalin himself saying this quote, but the maximum that I could find was the novel "Children of the Arbat" https://en.mikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Arbat, which has no connection with reality. This, along with the link I provided, confirms the correctness of my first post.{{unsigned}}
::::I've always heard the quote to be, "No person, no problem." Google shows dozens of sources for that, including Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Goodreads, NYT, etc. [https://www.google.com/search?q=no+person+no+problem&sxsrf=APq-WBu2Klo77ZJAMDbX1sxZpSENXZmpwQ%3A1644730665210&source=hp&ei=KZkIYqGQCa6gptQP_o-5-AM&iflsig=AHkkrS4AAAAAYginOQ0-WsDR3c-r2YC8Hy2pq8mGGrEh&ved=0ahUKEwjhyLCY-_v1AhUukIkEHf5HDj8Q4dUDCAk&uact=5&oq=no+person+no+problem&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCGAzoGCLMBEIUEOg4IABDqAhC0AhDZAhDlAjoOCC4QgAQQsQMQxwEQ0QM6CwguEIAEELEDENQCOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToICAAQgAQQsQM6DgguEIAEELEDEIMBENQCOgUILhCABDoICC4QgAQQsQM6CAguEIAEENQCOgsILhCxAxCDARDUAjoGCAAQFhAeOggIABAWEAoQHjoECAAQDToECAAQClCHCVjeSWDyTGgDcAB4AYABoAmIAc59kgEINS00LjEzLjOYAQCgAQGwAQk&sclient=gws-wiz] Now, it could be that somebody put the idea in his head, and he paraphrased or repeated it. However, if he used the quote in any official capacity or discussion, the words can be directly attributed to him. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 00:40, February 13, 2022 (EST)
:::::I understand. Misquotations are really nothing new, many of them are attributed to all famous leaders, even Washington or Lincoln. Although Stalin, being a real dictator, is a special case, we still need to look for verified information unlike Wikipedia or RationalWiki.

Joseph Stalin

2022-02-13T05:32:51Z

Theocon:

{{Dictator bio
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| name =Joseph Stalin
| birth =December 18, 1878 Gori, Tiflis Governorate ([[Republic of Georgia|Georgia]]), Russian Empire
| parents =Vissarion Dzhugashvili Catherine Dzhugashvili
| religion =Georgian Orthodoxy (rejected) [[Atheism]]
| education =Tiflis Theological Seminary, Georgia
| spouse =Ekaterina Svanidze (d. 1906-1907) Nadezhda Alliluyeva (d. 1919-1932)
| children =Yakov Dzhugashvili Vasily Dzhugashvili Svetlana Alliluyeva
| death =March 5, 1953 Kuntsevo Dacha, Moscow
| deathmanner =Complications of a stroke
| burial =Near the Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Russia
| country =[[Soviet Union]]
| military =Soviet Armed Forces (1943–1953)
| rank =Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943–1945) (de jure) Generalissimus of the Soviet Union (1945–1953) (de facto)
| polbeliefs =[[Communism]] [[Marxism-Leninism]]
| party =[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| dictatordate =By 1929
| war =[[Great Purge]]
| deathnumber =8,000,000 according to soviet records 20,000,000 is the average estimate while 62,000,000 is the high estimate
}}
'''Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin''' (born '''Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili '''; Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли) (1878 - 1953) was the dictator of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the [[Communist Party]] of the [[Soviet Union]] ([[CPSU]]) from 1922 until his death from a stroke in 1953. <ref name="BBC Stalin">https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml</ref> Joseph Stalin, who was a brutal proponent of [[atheism|atheistic]] [[Communism]], was greatly influenced by the work of the [[evolution|neo-Lamarckian]] [[Trofim Denisovich Lysenko]] as were other Communist leaders.<ref>https://creation.com/the-darwinian-foundation-of-communism</ref><ref>https://creation.com/stalins-ape-man-superwarriors</ref><ref>https://creation.com/a-tale-of-four-countries</ref><ref>https://creation.com/darwin-trotsky-connection</ref> During 1942 - 1943, knowing that few people were inspired by Communism, Stalin reinstated the Russian Orthodox Church in order to boost morale while The USSR was at war with [[Nazi Germany]].<ref>http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2008/08/stalin-reinstates-church-1942-43.html</ref><ref>http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/frroman1.aspx</ref> When the war ended, many Red Army soldiers and Christians who defeated [[fascism]] were shipped off to Soviet [[concentration camp]]s - the [[gulag]]. On a similar note, largely because his predecessor Vladimir Lenin's passage of unrestricted abortion threatening to cause all of the USSR to die out quickly, Stalin also ended up making abortions temporarily illegal during the 1930s.<ref>https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/11/17/november-1920-2020-a-century-of-abortion-in-russia/</ref>

The son of a poor Georgian cobbler, Stalin was a former seminary student who joined the Communist Party when Georgia was still under the rule of the Russian Tsar. He became one of [[Lenin|Lenin's]] closest allies when the Kerensky regime was overthrown by Lenin's faction in 1917. During the [[Russian Civil War]] Stalin, who chose his name from the Russian word for steel, held the city of Tsaritsen on the Volga from counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin later renamed Tsaritsen [[Stalingrad]] in honor of his victory; Stalingrad would be the site of [[Germany]]'s massive defeat in [[World War II]].

Stalin was affectionately known as "Uncle Joe"<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Joe-FDR-DEEP-STATE/dp/0692939784</ref> by [[Democrat]]s before [[Joseph Biden]] adopted the nickname.<ref>https://archive.is/XjGXa</ref>

==Rise to Power==
Stalin was tapped by the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, as a low-level informer shortly after he was expelled from the Tiflis seminary in 1899. Stalin then began to systematically inform on revolutionary comrades in party organizations in Tiflis, Baku, and Batum over the next few years. He acquired a highly unsavory reputation among the [[Social democracy|Social Democrats]] of these cities and was finally arrested for cover purposes in 1902 when suspicions about him were about to boil over. It was the Okhrana that furnished the invisible means of support for the family he acquired after 1904.

In 1917, the Commissariat of Nationalities was formed with Stalin as its Commissar (Minister). The Commissariat addressed the question of the nationalities of the Russian Empire, and helped integrate them into the [[Soviet Union]]. From 1919-1922 he was also the People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection (Rabkrin, from the Russian), which was founded to be a check on the burgeoning Soviet bureaucracy.

In 1920, Stalin was tasked with invading Poland and then Germany, after having chased the Polish army out of a Ukrainian revolt it had aided. However, when the Red Army reached Warsaw, they were defeated in battle and forced to retreat back to Russia. This damaged Stalin's reputation as a general and helped persuade Lenin to adopt the long-term strategy of inducing another European war through political agitation and seizing the opportunity to invade when the nations were thought to be at their weakest.

In 1922, Lenin named Stalin General Secretary of the CPSU. In 1924 Stalin in turn created the "Secret Department," a unit of 94 of his personal functionaries that maintained special privileges as the ''[[nomenklatura]]'', or a list of trusted individuals. He also appointed regional party secretaries who all, of course, supported Stalin. Through the Secret Department Stalin gained control of the [[Red Army]] after removing [[Leon Trotsky]] in 1925 and the OGPU (later, [[KGB]]) when its leader [[Felix Dzerzhinsky]] died in 1926. Lenin had foreseen all of this and had warned in his last testament that Stalin should be removed from General Secretary because the position's power was unlimited.
[[Image:Stalin-Lenin.jpg|right|thumb|[[Lenin]] left, Stalin right]]
Stalin, however, did not allow this to happen. His most powerful rival, Leon Trotsky, who was the commander of the Red Army, was painted as a danger to the Revolution, because he continued to push the idea of international revolution; the "left opposition." Other Soviet leaders, like [[Zinoviev]], leader of the [[Comintern]], and [[Kaminev]], the head of the Communist Party in Moscow, were painted with the same brush because they supported Trotsky and did not wish to expel him from the CPSU in 1927. Later, he accused his ally [[Bukharin]] of being a member of the "right opposition," i.e. he was in favor of a more capitalistic economic system, as seen under the [[New Economic Policy]] (NEP) of the early 1920s. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 by [[Ramón Mercader]] in an extensive conspiracy that included underground operatives from the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA). Zinoviev, Kaminev, and Bukharin were the center of the infamous "[[Great Purge|show trials]]" of the 1930s. All were put to death.

==Objectives of the Comintern==
In 1932, [[Sergei Ivanovich Gussev]], who had served as [[Comintern]] agent and Stalin's personal representative in the United States, "commanded the [[Communist Party of the United States|Communists in the United States]] to take up four tasks. Two of them were the defence of the Soviet Union and the furtherance of Red conquest of [[China]]." In 1933 the notorious [[Gerhart Eisler]] "was secretly sent into the United States by Moscow to make sure these orders were carried out."<ref>[[Louis F. Budenz]], ''The Techniques of Communism'', (Chicago: Henry Regnery and Company, 1954), pp. 162-163.</ref> [[Edgar Snow]] wrote in his 1937 book, ''Red Star Over China,'' "The political ideology, tactical line and theoretical leadership of the [[Chinese Communists]] have been under the close guidance, if not positive direction, of the Communist International, which during the last decade has become virtually a bureau of the [[Russian Communist Party]]. In the final analysis this means that for better or worse, the policies of the Chinese Communists, like the Communists in every other country, have had to fall in line with, and usually subordinate themselves to, the broad strategic requirements of [[Soviet Russia]], under the dictatorship of Stalin."<ref>''Red Star Over China'' by Edgar Snow, New York, 1937, pg. 374.</ref>

==Catch and Overtake==
In 1928 Stalin decided that the Soviet Union was not properly industrialized to enjoy a communist future, so he initiated the First Five Year Plan and the campaign to collectivize agriculture in order to "build socialism," and to "catch and overtake" the capitalist world. Stalin fanned the fires of collectivization, claiming that peasants had been hoarding grain and that they needed to be controlled. Under this program, rich peasants (kulaks), were exiled or killed for being enemies of the people, and peasants' land was taken in order to introduce collective farming to expedite grain appropriations. Many were called kulaks by jealous neighbors, while the peasants who remained were often the laziest and most ill-suited to producing enough grain. Collectivization caused massive famine in Russia, particularly in [[Ukraine]] (see [[Holodomor]]), where Stalin ordered the Red Army to blockade certain regions and take grain by force. It is estimated that the famine of 1931-33 killed 6-7 million people, while 20 million starved.

The First Five Year Plan was a program of crash-industrialization. After [[World War I]] and the Russian Civil War Russia had an industrial capacity equal to that of its 1861 capacity. The only way for Russia to be able to break the "capitalist encirclement," Stalin declared, was to industrialize. Brigades of shock workers were formed to work faster and harder than the world had ever seen. Most of this, however, was pure propaganda, although the shock workers did set the record for concrete poured in a single shift. Compared to the capitalist world which was experiencing the Great Depression, Soviet growth was impressive. Between 1929 and 1937, 8,000 factories were constructed, average GDP growth was around 10%, and the official unemployment statistics, which included gulag detainees, was 0. In 1936, after the Second Five Year Plan, Stalin declared socialism "built." Nevertheless, the capitalist world lived better than the Soviet Union, despite the Great Depression. [[John Scott]], an American CPUSA member and Comintern operative who was living in the Soviet Union during the Five Year Plans, notes this in his memoirs of that period ''Behind the Urals.'' The legacy of the Five Year Plans (most of which Stalin declared "completed" in 4 years) injured the Soviet's production models, because the encouraged quantity and speed over quality. However, the planning of the 1930s enabled the Russians to defeat the Nazis in the 1940s.<ref>Suvorov, Viktor. ''Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?// (Viking Press/Hamish Hamilton; 1990) ISBN 0241126223.</ref>

==Famine of 1933==
{{main|Holodomor}}
* "This famine was deliberately engineered by the regime of Joseph Stalin {{years since|1933}} years ago claimed millions of lives, mostly in [[Ukraine]] but also in some other parts of the [[Soviet Union]]. It is today considered one of the worst [[atrocities]] of the Soviet regime and a terrifying act of [[genocide]]. Even so, the famine of 1933 is relatively unknown. ... Estimates of how many people died in Stalin's engineered [[famine]] of 1933 vary. But they are staggering in their scale -- between seven and 11 million people."<ref>[http://www.ukemonde.com/news/rferl.html Stalin's Starvation of Ukraine – Seventy Years Later, World Still Largely Unaware Of Tragedy], By Askold Krushelnycky, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague, 8 April 2003.</ref>

Besides Ukraine, the Northern Caucasus, Volga Region and Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia were also affected.<ref>[https://www.philosophy.nsc.ru/sites/default/files/journals-old/humscience/2_98/15-MAL.HTM] (Russian)</ref><ref>http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2003/0101/analit02.php (Russian)</ref>

==Stalin's Terror==
In 1934, Sergei Kirov was approached by Communist Party delegates to run against Stalin for Secretary General. This initiated Stalin's campaign to destroy the independence of the Communist Party along with all other Soviet groups that might provide independent centers of power. By the next Party Congress in 1939, 98% of its former delegates had been executed or sent to the Gulag.

Between 1936 and 1938, Joseph Stalin launched his purges to rid the Soviet Union of "fifth columnists," or spies who were loyal to the [[capitalist]] world. During the Terror 3 million people were arrested on various and often made-up charges, while 750,000 were executed. Due to the interrogation techniques of the NKVD (later, KGB), which often were torturous, most of those arrested confessed and were sent to work camps, called the [[Gulag]] for 10 years and sometimes even 25. Here, prisoners were forced to labor in mines, to log forests, or to do construction. Few lived through their sentences.

In early 1937, a senior officer of the OGPU (KGB) stumbled upon a highly classified file in the old archives of the Tsarist secret police, the Okhrana. It detailed the work of one J. V. Djugashvili as an informant and agent provocateur for the Okhrana inside the Bolshevik Party before the Russian Revolution. The OGPU officer, Stein, was shocked. Djugashvili was the true name of Stalin who was now purging the Old Bolsheviks on charges of being foreign spies and counter-revolutionaries.

Stein took the file to a close friend, the head of the OGPU in the Ukraine, who went over it carefully with his trusted deputy, Zinovy Katsnelson, a cousin and close friend of Alexander Orlov. Convinced of its authenticity, they shared it with Jonah Yakir, commander of the Red Army in the Ukraine, and Stanislav Kossior, secretary of the Communist Party in the Ukraine. Alarmed by the file's revelations, Yakir flew to Moscow and revealed its contents to [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]], Supreme Commander of the Red Army. They brought his deputy, Yan Gamarnik, into their confidence and decided to overthrow Stalin in a coup d'état, denounce him and execute him.

As the coup plan was being developed, Katsnelson traveled to Paris and informed Orlov. The plot was foiled and Orlov's fate was sealed.

The infamous show trials of former leaders of the Soviet Union occurred during this period, where they were accused of working with Trotsky or sabotaging the Soviet Union. Stalin also eviscerated the high command of the Red Army, killing 90% of the leadership. The minions of oppression were not spared either; of the NKVD's 809 officials, 43 lived through the purges. The leadership of the communist party was persecuted as well. For example, in 1934 130 members of the 139-member Central Committee were arrested. The Terror forever made Russians afraid to speak out against the government, and also made sure that no one but Stalin could ever rule the Soviet Union as effectively. This also ensured that the Red Army could not fight effectively when Nazi Germany invaded the USSR during Operation Barbarossa.

==Censorship and propaganda policies==
{{Main|Atheism and historical revisionism}}

During Stalin's time in power, Stalin often altered various newspapers to push his agenda, and even edited out anyone who displeased him, which was most infamously evident with former NKVD head [[Nikolai Yezhov]] subsequent to his death in 1940 via execution, where a photograph of him walking with Stalin near the Moscow-Volga Canal had Yezhov airbrushed out. Ironically, after his death and Khrushchev's secret speech, Stalin himself would end up falling victim to the very same censorship policies he himself had used against his enemies, with footage of him in Soviet propaganda films depicting Lenin's rise to power often adding in a silhouette of a soldier conveniently placed in where Stalin was in the original footage.

==World War II==
To avoid war with [[Nazi Germany]], Stalin ordered the Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, [[Molotov]], to sign a non-aggression pact with [[Adolf Hitler]], named the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact]], on August 19, 1939. The treaty detailed the agreement to split up [[Poland]] between Germany and the Soviet Union, give Stalin the Baltic Republics of [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], and [[Estonia]], and to allow the Soviets to wage war on [[Finland]], a war that ended in a humiliating Soviet defeat. Part of the reason why Stalin arranged for the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was so he would use Nazi Germany and have them fight a prolonged front against France and Britain so as to weaken Europe enough to have Communism spread quickly through the continent, largely because he realized war would have benefitted Communism's spread better than peace. Both sides, however, knew that they would eventually engage in hostilities.<ref>Albert L. Weeks: Stalin`s Other War. Soviet Grand Strategy 1939-1941 Rowman & Littlefield, USA 2002 '''STALIN:''' ''"The question of war or peace has entered a critical phase for us. If we conclude a mutual assistance treaty with France and Great Britain, Germany will back off of Poland and seek a modus vivendi with the Western Powers. War would thus be prevented but future events could take a serious turn for the USSR.'' ''"If we accept Germany’s proposal to conclude with it a non-aggression pact, Germany will then attack Poland and Europe will be thrown into serious acts of unrest and disorder. Under these circumstances we will have many chances of remaining out of the conflict while being able to hope for our own timely entrance into war.'' ''"The experience of the past 20 years shows that in peacetime it is impossible to maintain a Communist movement throughout Europe that would be strong enough so that a Bolshevik party could seize power. A dictatorship by this party becomes possible only as a result of a big war. We are making our choice and it is clear. We must accept the German proposal and politely send the Anglo-French delegations back home. The first advantage we will get will be the destruction of Poland up to the very approaches to Warsaw, including Ukrainian Galicia.'' ''"Germany has given us full leeway in the Baltic countries and has no objection to returning Bessarabia to the USSR. Germany is also prepared to yield on giving us a sphere of influence in Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The question of Yugoslavia still remains open.'' ''"At the same time we must anticipate what will ensue from the destruction of Germany in war as well as from a German victory. If it is destroyed, the sovietization of Germany follows inevitably and a Communist government will be established. We must not forget that a sovietized Germany would face great danger if such sovietization occurred after the defeat of Germany in a short war. England and France would be powerful enough to seize Berlin and destroy a Soviet Germany. We would not be able to come to the aid of our Bolshevik comrades in Germany.'' ''"Therefore, our task consists in helping Germany wage war for as long as possible with the aim in view that England and France would be in no condition to defeat a sovietized Germany. While hewing to a policy of neutrality and while waiting for its hour to come, the USSR will lend aid to today’s Germany and supply it with raw materials and foodstuff. Of course, it follows that we will not allow such shipments to jeopardize our economy or weaken our armed might."'' ''"At the same time we must conduct active Communist propaganda especially as directed at the Anglo-French bloc and primarily in France. We must be prepared for the fact that in France in wartime the Communist Party there must abandon legal activities and go underground. We realize that such work will require an enormous sacrifice in lives. However, we have no doubts about our French comrades. Above all, their task will be to break up and demoralize the French army and police. If this preparatory work is completed in a satisfactory way, the security of Soviet Germany is assured. This will likewise ensure the sovietization of France.'' ''"To realize these plans it is necessary that war last as long as possible and that all efforts should be made, whether in Western Europe or the Balkans, to see that this happens.'' ''"Let us look now at the second possibility – namely, that Germany becomes the victor. Some propose that this turn of events would present us with a serious danger. There is some truth in this notion. But it would be erroneous to believe that such a danger is as near and as great as they assume. If Germany achieves victory in the war, it will emerge from it in such a depleted state that to start a conflict with the USSR will take at least 10 years.'' ''"Germany’s main task would be then to keep watch on the defeated England and France to prevent their restoration. On the other hand, a victorious Germany would have at its disposal a large territory. Over the course of many years, Germany would be preoccupied with the exploitation of these territories and establishing in them the German order. Obviously, Germany would be too preoccupied to move against us.'' ''"There is still another factor that enhances our security. In the defeated France, the French Communist Party would be very strong. A Communist revolution would follow inevitably. We would exploit this in order to come to the aid of France and to win it over as an ally. Later these peoples who fell under the “protection” of a victorious Germany likewise would become our allies. We would have a large arena in which to develop the world revolution.'' ''Comrades! It is in the interests of the USSR, the Land of the Toilers, that war breaks out between the Reich and the capitalist Anglo-French bloc. Everything must be done so that the war lasts as long as possible in order that both sides become exhausted. Namely for this reason we must agree to the pact proposed by Germany and use it so that once this war is declared, it will last for a maximum amount of time. We must step up our propaganda within the combatant countries so that they are prepared for that time when the war ends."''</ref>

It seems that Stalin anticipated this less than Hitler, who, in June 1941 invaded the Soviet Union with the largest land army ever assembled. It consisted of 170 divisions, or 3.5 million troops. Stalin was caught off guard, and the [[Nazis]] blazed a path through the Ukraine and European Russia. Reaching [[Moscow]] in October 1941, the Nazis threatened Stalin and the entire Soviet Union with defeat. In only 6 months, the Nazis controlled one third of the Soviet economy, a total of 5% of the Earth's surface. Hitler's troops were defeated at Moscow during the winter of 1941-42 after Stalin appointed [[Yorky Zhukov]] as commander of the Red Army. A spy in the German embassy in Tokyo, [[Richard Sorge]], informed Stalin that Japan was not going to attack [[Siberia]], freeing thousands of winter ski-troops to move to Moscow to defeat the Nazis. It was during this time that Stalin famously invoked the name of [[God]] and allowed religious services to be conducted after 20 plus years of repression. Also, 1500 factories were evacuated and restored in Siberia and 12-15 million workers were moved east of the [[Urals]], where Soviet production was higher than Germany's in 1942, despite Germany holding some 50% of Soviet industry.

The Red Army went on the offensive after the defense of Moscow, but soon the Nazis gained the advantage and pushed to Stalingrad. More than one million troops fought on each side in urban combat. Hitler refused to allow surrender, and eventually the Nazis were encircled and routed. After turning the tide of war in Stalingrad, the 1943 [[Kursk]] tank battle was decisive in pushing the Nazis from European Russia. In two years, the Red Army pushed the Nazis all the way back to [[Berlin]]. Stalin used his control of Eastern Europe to extract concessions from [[President Roosevelt]] at Allied conferences, including control over the region. [[Winston Churchill]] warned against this very control, for he greatly feared Soviet hegemony in Europe. Victorious, Stalin named himself Generalissimo and became more popular than ever in the Soviet Union and more dangerous than ever to the capitalist world.

Over the course of World War II, around 26 million Russians died. Eight million were in the armed services and about 18 million were innocent civilians. The total number of 26 million reflects half of the worldwide losses of human life during World War II. The population did not recover until 1956. Many Soviet POWs, like famous writer [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], were sent to the Gulag after the war because they had fallen into German hands, and were accused of being spies. This swelled the prison camps by the thousands.

==Post-War Period and Death==
Similar to the 1930s, Stalin undertook a harsh campaign of industrialization, which hurt the Soviets as much as it helped them rebuild. Money was devalued to one-tenth of its previous value, 2 million German and Japanese POWs were forced to stay in the Soviet Union and rebuild the country, and 10% of investment from 1945-46 was from looted machinery. The crops produced by household plots were collected by the government to sell, and a famine in 1947 caused by drought and Soviet single-crop farming killed 2 million. The recovery was built on the Soviet subjects.
[[Image:Stalinfuneral.jpg|250px|right|thumb|''Right to left:'' Lavrenti Beria, Georgi Malenkov, Vassily Stalin, V.M. Molotov, Nikolai Bulganin]]
After World War II, Stalin's [[cult of personality]] emerged as the dominant force of Soviet life. He was credited as the savior of the Soviet Union and the architect of victory, though it was really General Zhukov who was responsible for most of this. The communist youth group, the [[Komsomol]], devoted songs to "the Father of All Nations" or "the Driver of the Locomotive of History." Party membership increased by one million people between 1945 and 1953. Books quoted Stalin as an expert in communism, while he was often photographed surrounded by children to make him seem friendlier. This all served to form a deep, personal connection with Stalin for many Soviets. Indeed, he was loved by the Soviets. Between 1949 and 1952 Stalin increasingly took vacations and met with the [[Politburo]] less and less.

The atheistic Stalin became increasingly paranoid as he grew older.<ref name="BBC Stalin"/> He eventually suffered from a stroke on March 1, 1953. Ironically, his own megalomaniacal nature beforehand ensured no one dared try to check up on him, as his own guards feared checking up on him lest they be executed due to his leaving explicit orders to not disturb him in his room. Following a stroke on March 1, 1953, Stalin died on March 5 after a period of declining performance. On his deathbed, he also glared at the attendees with disgust and wordlessly pointed at each of them before eventually pointing at a wall, with Svetlina, his daughter, recalling this event, indicating this was the most haunting event she ever experienced. When he died in 1953 an anxious mob at his viewing crushed and trampled some mourners to death. Dissidents like Sakharov, the man forced in a prison to build the Soviet atom bomb, cried upon hearing that Stalin had died, despite their intense hatred of him. Despite his terror, he had convinced millions that he was their father. When he died a short power struggle ensued, one which led to the execution of KGB head [[Beria]] as a spy. Eventually [[Khrushchev]] became the General Secretary of the CPSU and denounced Stalin's repressive tactics, his purges, gulags, and his cult of personality in the [[Secret Speech]] at the 20th Party Congress of 1956. Gulags were dismantled and the political climate was slightly less tense, but Soviet oppression still continued. The period following Stalin's rule is called the "thaw," the start of life again after a long winter.

==Quotes==
* "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." ~ to Churchill, 1945.

* "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

* "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything"

* "The only real power comes out of a long rifle."

* "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."

* “Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.”

* [[C.S. Lewis]] wrote:
:Of all tyrannies, a [[tyranny]] sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most [[oppression|oppressive]]. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral [[busybody|busybodies]]. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own [[conscience]]. [http://www.tsowell.com/quotes.html]

* "The one aim of these [[banker|financiers]] is [[New World Order|world control]] by the creation of inextinguishable [[debt]]." - [[Henry Ford]]

* "Educate and inform the whole mass of [[citizen|the people]]... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our [[liberty]]." -- [[Thomas Jefferson]]

==See also==
* [[Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism]]
* [[Stalinism]]
* [[Darwin-Stalin connection]]
* [[List of dictators]]
* [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]]
* [[List of Communist States]]
* [[List of Socialist States]]
* [[Death toll of communism]]
* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]
*[[The Gulag Archipelago]]

==References==
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==Sources==

*Hosking, Geoffrey. ''The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

*Kotkin, Stephen. ''Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization.'' Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

*Scott, John. ''Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel''. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.

*Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]], 1918-1956''; an experiment in literary investigation'', Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney, Publisher New York, Harper & Row (1974–78), 1st Edition, pg. 67n.

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Talk:Joseph Stalin

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Theocon:

Talk:Joseph Stalin

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Talk:Joseph Stalin

2022-02-12T20:57:04Z

Theocon:

"forced women to work in factories just like men" - Is the intent of this to say that women should not be working in factories and/or holding jobs that men hold? I would think that idea is somewhat ''passe'' now. The fragment should be removed from the article.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 23:22, 7 March 2007 (EST)

: The statement is factual and I see no reason to delete. The reader can decide for himself whether forcing women to work in factories just like men is a good thing. --[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 23:24, 7 March 2007 (EST)

:: I would think that anyone would agree that coercing anyone to work isn't a good thing. But the "just like men" part is opinion, not fact. That is what should be removed.--[[User:Dave3172|Dave3172]] 23:48, 7 March 2007 (EST)

==Stalin's death==
''Following a stroke on 1 March 1953, Stalin died ''

Stalin may have actually been assassinated by other members of the Politburo who feared another 1938 style-purge growing out of the Doctor's Plot. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 17:49, 9 April 2007 (EDT)

==Odd conclusion==
The article says,

:''Most of this, however, was pure propaganda ... Soviet growth was impressive. Between 1929 and 1937, 8,000 factories were constructed, average GDP growth was around 10%''

Which of those two statements is true? Was it "pure propaganda," or a successful campaign of industrial development? -[[User:Harmil|Harmil]] 12:25, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

== Purges ==

I removed someone's addition of the subplot of Stalin's Okhranka file because it was tangential to the overview of the purges and too specific for this article. It should form its own entry if valid.

:I would suggest, if you think it is important, not to remove accurate additional information added by RobS, a sysop, and instead perhaps give it a sub-head, instead of just dumping enlightening information, that goes to their state of mind. Do you have some suggestions for this, other than making an entirely new article on this deal? --[[User:TK|₮K]][[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]] 22:45, 28 March 2008 (EDT)

==Motives==

Xgood, please work with me to develop your ideas on Stalin's motives. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 16:31, 15 May 2008 (EDT)

==Tsaritsyn spelled wrong in the introduction==
It currently says ''Tsaritsen'', while correctly the town is spelled ''Tsaritsyn'' or ''Tsaritsin'' (''Царицин'' in Russian).[[User:SimonW|SimonW]] 11:53, 22 May 2008 (EDT)

== Lead ==

There should be an end parenthesis after his name in Cyrillic, and the Cyrillic name shouldn't be italicized (though I'm not entirely sure on the latter point). --[[User:SamY|sam(m)y]] 13:27, 14 December 2008 (EST)
:<s>Also, although it's more common to transliterate the Cyrillic letters de and zhe as two distinct letters, the name "Джугашвили" is more often rendered with a J in English (i.e., Jugashvili). --[[User:SamY|sam(m)y]] 13:56, 14 December 2008 (EST)</s>

== Additional Information ==

I'm studying the period in history at the moment-- most notably, the differences between Lenin and Stalin. Could I add, for example, that Stalin was a hardline believer in family values, as he altered the soviet school system to reflect this? Or could I add that he re-initiated the persecution of homosexuals?

I'm not trying to be contrary or anything, I'm honestly not sure whether to add these things-- they're facts, but they're elements of conservative ideology that you might not want associated with Stalin. -- Dollfuss.

*I would say you need to study at greater length, rather than post something so absurd. This is the danger of all students, reading something that might be factual, and accepting it as "truth" when in reading more, understanding more, one would realize that is isn't really the truth at all. Many things, in one context can be truthful, however taken in the greater, historical context, have entirely a different meaning or truth. "Persecution" of Homosexuals, given the times and overwhelming world view of the time, wasn't persecution as we know it today. You cannot judge historical events in today's accepted context. That is called revisionist history. --[[User:TK|'''₮K''']]/Admin[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]] 20:56, 4 April 2009 (EDT)

==[[Simon Sebag Montefiore]]==
I am really rather surprised that no one has used Simon Sebag Montefiore's recent bestseller "Young Stalin" as a source for this article. There are a large number of urban legends about Stalin's life prior to 1917. For more than a decade, Mr. Montefiore has been examining thousands of pages of formerly classified documents and memoirs from the former Soviet Union. He has also tracked down and interviewed the descendants of the many illegitimate children who Stalin fathered prior to the Revolution. It is all there in black and white, including how and why Stalin lost his faith in the Christian God, the Atheistic subculture which he encouraged in the seminary in Tbilisi, and the many criminal activities which he used to finance Lenin's Bolsheviks. It is a vital source which should be used extensively by conservative historians, as it reveals just how and why the Bolsheviks defeated both the Tsar's Secret Police and the Provisional Government of Aleksandr Kerensky. If we are to compete successfully with Wikipedia, we must not deal in urban legends. Unfortunately, the Stalin article here seems to have been doing exactly that. [[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 17:59, 15 April 2009 (EDT)

*Well, you are an editor here, no? Propose what you would like added, post it here, and if no objection, move on to adding the bits to the article, with citation, of course. --[[User:TK|'''₮K''']]/Admin[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]] 18:57, 15 April 2009 (EDT)

**Well, for one thing, the section describing Stalin as an Okhrana informant definitely needs a complete overhaul. Mr. Sebag Montefiore deals at length with this in his book. He cites both the evidence for and against the rumors of Stalin's Okhrana ties. At the time of his alleged "treason," Stalin was actually one of the Bolshevik movement's top intelligence men and was charged with trying to ''recruit Okhrana men'' as informants. According to Montefiore, the Okhrana ordered the agents Stalin approached to feed him false information in hopes of creating an internal war within the Bolshevik Movement. This, and the subsequent exposal of Okhrana spy Roman Malinovsky, made Stalin so unspeakably paranoid that decades after the Revolution he was still certain that he was surrounded by traitors. This was the ''real'' reason for the Purge of 1937. [[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 22:14, 15 April 2009 (EDT)

==Possible Quotes to be Added==
* "Before your eyes, rises the hero of [[Gogol]]'s story who, in a fit of abberation, imagined that he was the King of [[Spain]]. Such is the fate of all megalomaniacs."
--Joseph Stalin, ''Proletariatis Brdzola'', August 1905. Quoted by Simon Sebag Montefiore, ''Young Stalin'', page 376.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 19:14, 16 April 2009 (EDT)

* "God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist. We've been deceived. If God existed, he'd have made the world more just... I'll lend you a book and you'll see."
--A teenaged Stalin after reading ''The Origin of Species'' by [[Charles Darwin]]. Quoted by Simon Sebag Montefiore, ''Young Stalin'', page 49.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 19:30, 16 April 2009 (EDT)

* "Comrade Koba told you that we were against you and demanded your sacking from the Committee, but I promise you nothing of the sort happened and everything Koba told you was a malicious lie! Yes: a calumny to discredit us! I just wonder at the man's impudence. I know how worthless he is, but I didn't expect such 'courage.' But it turns out that he'll use any means if he thinks the ends justify them. The end in this case - the ambition - is to present himself as a great man before the nation. But... God didn't grant him the right gifts, so he has to resort to intrigues, lies and other 'bagatelles.' Such a filthy person wanted to pollute our sacred mission with sewage!"
--Georgian [[Menshevik]] Noe Khomeriki in a 1904 letter to a member of the Social Democratic Central Committee for the Caucausus region. Simon Sebag Montefiore, ''Young Stalin'', page 125.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 19:30, 16 April 2009 (EDT)

*"Does Djilas, who is himself a writer, not know what human suffering and the human heart are? Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?"
--In response to complaints about the rapes and looting commited by the [[Red Army]] during the [[Second World War]]. [[Milovan Djilas]], ''Conversations with Stalin'', page 95.[[User:Kingstowngalway|Kingstowngalway]] 09:03, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

== Last name ==

Stalin's real last name was Dzhugashvili, it was edited out but it should be put back. Right now, the article states that his real name was "Josif Vissarionovich", which means "Josif son of Vissarion"; Vissarionovich isn't the first of two last names, it's a patronym, and as such it cannot replace the last name. --[[User:MarcoT|MarcoT]] 16:45, 10 June 2010 (EDT)

== Link to his Experiments? ==

Someone creates an article specifically related to Joseph Stalin and his ape-men experiments, but there's no mention of it here. Why is that? [[User:JonG|~ ]][[User_talk:JonG|JonG]][[Special:Contributions/JonG| ~]] 02:34, 23 September 2011 (EDT)

== Stalin being viewed more favorably currently? ==

Hi.

I heard that apparently, Russians are viewing Stalin in a more favorable light. Is this true? I really hope it isn't. The last thing we need is Stalinism to rear its ugly head once again. If it is true, should we note it as well? [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 22:34, 28 April 2017 (EDT)

:I haven't read anything about this recently, but this would be a realistic trend. Many Russians see the USSR as a time of greatness and Stalin as the epitome of that greatness. I think they wrong to think so for multiple reasons, but the USSR was strong back then, had a larger military, and was stable. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 22:40, 28 April 2017 (EDT)
::Here is a video on the big reason why Joseph Stalin is seen more favorably by the Russians today: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJ_zsYUsXg Understanding Militant Atheism in the Soviet Union].

::In short, it is based on ignorance, apathy and governments often whitewashing their history.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]])

== Quotes ==
''"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem"''
Why is this written in Stalin's quotes section? This is a quote said by General Dzhuga (Alexey Nikolaevich Krylov) during his conversation with Stalin about the liquidation of Josip Broz Tito (then leader of Yugoslavia) in August 1950.
:I dunno; provide a cite a fix it. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]][[User talk:RobSmith|Let's Go Brandon!]] 15:33, February 12, 2022 (EST)
::https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/stalin/t16/t16_28.htm English translation: https://c21ch-newcastle-edu-au.translate.goog/stalin/t16/t16_28.htm?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp The information about 20 million dead Russian soldiers is also incorrect.

Joseph Stalin

2022-02-12T20:21:54Z

Theocon: /* World War II */

{{Dictator bio
| image =[[Image:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|260px]]
| name =Joseph Stalin
| birth =December 18, 1878 Gori, Tiflis Governorate ([[Republic of Georgia|Georgia]]), Russian Empire
| parents =Vissarion Dzhugashvili Catherine Dzhugashvili
| religion =Georgian Orthodoxy (rejected) [[Atheism]]
| education =Tiflis Theological Seminary, Georgia
| spouse =Ekaterina Svanidze (d. 1906-1907) Nadezhda Alliluyeva (d. 1919-1932)
| children =Yakov Dzhugashvili Vasily Dzhugashvili Svetlana Alliluyeva
| death =March 5, 1953 Kuntsevo Dacha, Moscow
| deathmanner =Complications of a stroke
| burial =Near the Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Russia
| country =[[Soviet Union]]
| military =Soviet Armed Forces (1943–1953)
| rank =Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943–1945) (de jure) Generalissimus of the Soviet Union (1945–1953) (de facto)
| polbeliefs =[[Communism]] [[Marxism-Leninism]]
| party =[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| dictatordate =By 1929
| war =[[Great Purge]]
| deathnumber =8,000,000 according to soviet records 20,000,000 is the average estimate while 62,000,000 is the high estimate
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'''Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin''' (born '''Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili '''; Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли) (1878 - 1953) was the dictator of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the [[Communist Party]] of the [[Soviet Union]] ([[CPSU]]) from 1922 until his death from a stroke in 1953. <ref name="BBC Stalin">https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml</ref> Joseph Stalin, who was a brutal proponent of [[atheism|atheistic]] [[Communism]], was greatly influenced by the work of the [[evolution|neo-Lamarckian]] [[Trofim Denisovich Lysenko]] as were other Communist leaders.<ref>https://creation.com/the-darwinian-foundation-of-communism</ref><ref>https://creation.com/stalins-ape-man-superwarriors</ref><ref>https://creation.com/a-tale-of-four-countries</ref><ref>https://creation.com/darwin-trotsky-connection</ref> During 1942 - 1943, knowing that few people were inspired by Communism, Stalin reinstated the Russian Orthodox Church in order to boost morale while The USSR was at war with [[Nazi Germany]].<ref>http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2008/08/stalin-reinstates-church-1942-43.html</ref><ref>http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/frroman1.aspx</ref> When the war ended, many Red Army soldiers and Christians who defeated [[fascism]] were shipped off to Soviet [[concentration camp]]s - the [[gulag]]. On a similar note, largely because his predecessor Vladimir Lenin's passage of unrestricted abortion threatening to cause all of the USSR to die out quickly, Stalin also ended up making abortions temporarily illegal during the 1930s.<ref>https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/11/17/november-1920-2020-a-century-of-abortion-in-russia/</ref>

The son of a poor Georgian cobbler, Stalin was a former seminary student who joined the Communist Party when Georgia was still under the rule of the Russian Tsar. He became one of [[Lenin|Lenin's]] closest allies when the Kerensky regime was overthrown by Lenin's faction in 1917. During the [[Russian Civil War]] Stalin, who chose his name from the Russian word for steel, held the city of Tsaritsen on the Volga from counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin later renamed Tsaritsen [[Stalingrad]] in honor of his victory; Stalingrad would be the site of [[Germany]]'s massive defeat in [[World War II]].

Stalin was affectionately known as "Uncle Joe"<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Joe-FDR-DEEP-STATE/dp/0692939784</ref> by [[Democrat]]s before [[Joseph Biden]] adopted the nickname.<ref>https://archive.is/XjGXa</ref>

==Rise to Power==
Stalin was tapped by the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, as a low-level informer shortly after he was expelled from the Tiflis seminary in 1899. Stalin then began to systematically inform on revolutionary comrades in party organizations in Tiflis, Baku, and Batum over the next few years. He acquired a highly unsavory reputation among the [[Social democracy|Social Democrats]] of these cities and was finally arrested for cover purposes in 1902 when suspicions about him were about to boil over. It was the Okhrana that furnished the invisible means of support for the family he acquired after 1904.

In 1917, the Commissariat of Nationalities was formed with Stalin as its Commissar (Minister). The Commissariat addressed the question of the nationalities of the Russian Empire, and helped integrate them into the [[Soviet Union]]. From 1919-1922 he was also the People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection (Rabkrin, from the Russian), which was founded to be a check on the burgeoning Soviet bureaucracy.

In 1920, Stalin was tasked with invading Poland and then Germany, after having chased the Polish army out of a Ukrainian revolt it had aided. However, when the Red Army reached Warsaw, they were defeated in battle and forced to retreat back to Russia. This damaged Stalin's reputation as a general and helped persuade Lenin to adopt the long-term strategy of inducing another European war through political agitation and seizing the opportunity to invade when the nations were thought to be at their weakest.

In 1922, Lenin named Stalin General Secretary of the CPSU. In 1924 Stalin in turn created the "Secret Department," a unit of 94 of his personal functionaries that maintained special privileges as the ''[[nomenklatura]]'', or a list of trusted individuals. He also appointed regional party secretaries who all, of course, supported Stalin. Through the Secret Department Stalin gained control of the [[Red Army]] after removing [[Leon Trotsky]] in 1925 and the OGPU (later, [[KGB]]) when its leader [[Felix Dzerzhinsky]] died in 1926. Lenin had foreseen all of this and had warned in his last testament that Stalin should be removed from General Secretary because the position's power was unlimited.
[[Image:Stalin-Lenin.jpg|right|thumb|[[Lenin]] left, Stalin right]]
Stalin, however, did not allow this to happen. His most powerful rival, Leon Trotsky, who was the commander of the Red Army, was painted as a danger to the Revolution, because he continued to push the idea of international revolution; the "left opposition." Other Soviet leaders, like [[Zinoviev]], leader of the [[Comintern]], and [[Kaminev]], the head of the Communist Party in Moscow, were painted with the same brush because they supported Trotsky and did not wish to expel him from the CPSU in 1927. Later, he accused his ally [[Bukharin]] of being a member of the "right opposition," i.e. he was in favor of a more capitalistic economic system, as seen under the [[New Economic Policy]] (NEP) of the early 1920s. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 by [[Ramón Mercader]] in an extensive conspiracy that included underground operatives from the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA). Zinoviev, Kaminev, and Bukharin were the center of the infamous "[[Great Purge|show trials]]" of the 1930s. All were put to death.

==Objectives of the Comintern==
In 1932, [[Sergei Ivanovich Gussev]], who had served as [[Comintern]] agent and Stalin's personal representative in the United States, "commanded the [[Communist Party of the United States|Communists in the United States]] to take up four tasks. Two of them were the defence of the Soviet Union and the furtherance of Red conquest of [[China]]." In 1933 the notorious [[Gerhart Eisler]] "was secretly sent into the United States by Moscow to make sure these orders were carried out."<ref>[[Louis F. Budenz]], ''The Techniques of Communism'', (Chicago: Henry Regnery and Company, 1954), pp. 162-163.</ref> [[Edgar Snow]] wrote in his 1937 book, ''Red Star Over China,'' "The political ideology, tactical line and theoretical leadership of the [[Chinese Communists]] have been under the close guidance, if not positive direction, of the Communist International, which during the last decade has become virtually a bureau of the [[Russian Communist Party]]. In the final analysis this means that for better or worse, the policies of the Chinese Communists, like the Communists in every other country, have had to fall in line with, and usually subordinate themselves to, the broad strategic requirements of [[Soviet Russia]], under the dictatorship of Stalin."<ref>''Red Star Over China'' by Edgar Snow, New York, 1937, pg. 374.</ref>

==Catch and Overtake==
In 1928 Stalin decided that the Soviet Union was not properly industrialized to enjoy a communist future, so he initiated the First Five Year Plan and the campaign to collectivize agriculture in order to "build socialism," and to "catch and overtake" the capitalist world. Stalin fanned the fires of collectivization, claiming that peasants had been hoarding grain and that they needed to be controlled. Under this program, rich peasants (kulaks), were exiled or killed for being enemies of the people, and peasants' land was taken in order to introduce collective farming to expedite grain appropriations. Many were called kulaks by jealous neighbors, while the peasants who remained were often the laziest and most ill-suited to producing enough grain. Collectivization caused massive famine in Russia, particularly in [[Ukraine]] (see [[Holodomor]]), where Stalin ordered the Red Army to blockade certain regions and take grain by force. It is estimated that the famine of 1931-33 killed 6-7 million people, while 20 million starved.

The First Five Year Plan was a program of crash-industrialization. After [[World War I]] and the Russian Civil War Russia had an industrial capacity equal to that of its 1861 capacity. The only way for Russia to be able to break the "capitalist encirclement," Stalin declared, was to industrialize. Brigades of shock workers were formed to work faster and harder than the world had ever seen. Most of this, however, was pure propaganda, although the shock workers did set the record for concrete poured in a single shift. Compared to the capitalist world which was experiencing the Great Depression, Soviet growth was impressive. Between 1929 and 1937, 8,000 factories were constructed, average GDP growth was around 10%, and the official unemployment statistics, which included gulag detainees, was 0. In 1936, after the Second Five Year Plan, Stalin declared socialism "built." Nevertheless, the capitalist world lived better than the Soviet Union, despite the Great Depression. [[John Scott]], an American CPUSA member and Comintern operative who was living in the Soviet Union during the Five Year Plans, notes this in his memoirs of that period ''Behind the Urals.'' The legacy of the Five Year Plans (most of which Stalin declared "completed" in 4 years) injured the Soviet's production models, because the encouraged quantity and speed over quality. However, the planning of the 1930s enabled the Russians to defeat the Nazis in the 1940s.<ref>Suvorov, Viktor. ''Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?// (Viking Press/Hamish Hamilton; 1990) ISBN 0241126223.</ref>

==Famine of 1933==
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* "This famine was deliberately engineered by the regime of Joseph Stalin {{years since|1933}} years ago claimed millions of lives, mostly in [[Ukraine]] but also in some other parts of the [[Soviet Union]]. It is today considered one of the worst [[atrocities]] of the Soviet regime and a terrifying act of [[genocide]]. Even so, the famine of 1933 is relatively unknown. ... Estimates of how many people died in Stalin's engineered [[famine]] of 1933 vary. But they are staggering in their scale -- between seven and 11 million people."<ref>[http://www.ukemonde.com/news/rferl.html Stalin's Starvation of Ukraine – Seventy Years Later, World Still Largely Unaware Of Tragedy], By Askold Krushelnycky, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague, 8 April 2003.</ref>

Besides Ukraine, the Northern Caucasus, Volga Region and Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia were also affected.<ref>[https://www.philosophy.nsc.ru/sites/default/files/journals-old/humscience/2_98/15-MAL.HTM] (Russian)</ref><ref>http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2003/0101/analit02.php (Russian)</ref>

==Stalin's Terror==
In 1934, Sergei Kirov was approached by Communist Party delegates to run against Stalin for Secretary General. This initiated Stalin's campaign to destroy the independence of the Communist Party along with all other Soviet groups that might provide independent centers of power. By the next Party Congress in 1939, 98% of its former delegates had been executed or sent to the Gulag.

Between 1936 and 1938, Joseph Stalin launched his purges to rid the Soviet Union of "fifth columnists," or spies who were loyal to the [[capitalist]] world. During the Terror 3 million people were arrested on various and often made-up charges, while 750,000 were executed. Due to the interrogation techniques of the NKVD (later, KGB), which often were torturous, most of those arrested confessed and were sent to work camps, called the [[Gulag]] for 10 years and sometimes even 25. Here, prisoners were forced to labor in mines, to log forests, or to do construction. Few lived through their sentences.

In early 1937, a senior officer of the OGPU (KGB) stumbled upon a highly classified file in the old archives of the Tsarist secret police, the Okhrana. It detailed the work of one J. V. Djugashvili as an informant and agent provocateur for the Okhrana inside the Bolshevik Party before the Russian Revolution. The OGPU officer, Stein, was shocked. Djugashvili was the true name of Stalin who was now purging the Old Bolsheviks on charges of being foreign spies and counter-revolutionaries.

Stein took the file to a close friend, the head of the OGPU in the Ukraine, who went over it carefully with his trusted deputy, Zinovy Katsnelson, a cousin and close friend of Alexander Orlov. Convinced of its authenticity, they shared it with Jonah Yakir, commander of the Red Army in the Ukraine, and Stanislav Kossior, secretary of the Communist Party in the Ukraine. Alarmed by the file's revelations, Yakir flew to Moscow and revealed its contents to [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]], Supreme Commander of the Red Army. They brought his deputy, Yan Gamarnik, into their confidence and decided to overthrow Stalin in a coup d'état, denounce him and execute him.

As the coup plan was being developed, Katsnelson traveled to Paris and informed Orlov. The plot was foiled and Orlov's fate was sealed.

The infamous show trials of former leaders of the Soviet Union occurred during this period, where they were accused of working with Trotsky or sabotaging the Soviet Union. Stalin also eviscerated the high command of the Red Army, killing 90% of the leadership. The minions of oppression were not spared either; of the NKVD's 809 officials, 43 lived through the purges. The leadership of the communist party was persecuted as well. For example, in 1934 130 members of the 139-member Central Committee were arrested. The Terror forever made Russians afraid to speak out against the government, and also made sure that no one but Stalin could ever rule the Soviet Union as effectively. This also ensured that the Red Army could not fight effectively when Nazi Germany invaded the USSR during Operation Barbarossa.

==Censorship and propaganda policies==
{{Main|Atheism and historical revisionism}}

During Stalin's time in power, Stalin often altered various newspapers to push his agenda, and even edited out anyone who displeased him, which was most infamously evident with former NKVD head [[Nikolai Yezhov]] subsequent to his death in 1940 via execution, where a photograph of him walking with Stalin near the Moscow-Volga Canal had Yezhov airbrushed out. Ironically, after his death and Khrushchev's secret speech, Stalin himself would end up falling victim to the very same censorship policies he himself had used against his enemies, with footage of him in Soviet propaganda films depicting Lenin's rise to power often adding in a silhouette of a soldier conveniently placed in where Stalin was in the original footage.

==World War II==
To avoid war with [[Nazi Germany]], Stalin ordered the Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, [[Molotov]], to sign a non-aggression pact with [[Adolf Hitler]], named the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact]], on August 19, 1939. The treaty detailed the agreement to split up [[Poland]] between Germany and the Soviet Union, give Stalin the Baltic Republics of [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], and [[Estonia]], and to allow the Soviets to wage war on [[Finland]], a war that ended in a humiliating Soviet defeat. Part of the reason why Stalin arranged for the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was so he would use Nazi Germany and have them fight a prolonged front against France and Britain so as to weaken Europe enough to have Communism spread quickly through the continent, largely because he realized war would have benefitted Communism's spread better than peace. Both sides, however, knew that they would eventually engage in hostilities.<ref>Albert L. Weeks: Stalin`s Other War. Soviet Grand Strategy 1939-1941 Rowman & Littlefield, USA 2002 '''STALIN:''' ''"The question of war or peace has entered a critical phase for us. If we conclude a mutual assistance treaty with France and Great Britain, Germany will back off of Poland and seek a modus vivendi with the Western Powers. War would thus be prevented but future events could take a serious turn for the USSR.'' ''"If we accept Germany’s proposal to conclude with it a non-aggression pact, Germany will then attack Poland and Europe will be thrown into serious acts of unrest and disorder. Under these circumstances we will have many chances of remaining out of the conflict while being able to hope for our own timely entrance into war.'' ''"The experience of the past 20 years shows that in peacetime it is impossible to maintain a Communist movement throughout Europe that would be strong enough so that a Bolshevik party could seize power. A dictatorship by this party becomes possible only as a result of a big war. We are making our choice and it is clear. We must accept the German proposal and politely send the Anglo-French delegations back home. The first advantage we will get will be the destruction of Poland up to the very approaches to Warsaw, including Ukrainian Galicia.'' ''"Germany has given us full leeway in the Baltic countries and has no objection to returning Bessarabia to the USSR. Germany is also prepared to yield on giving us a sphere of influence in Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The question of Yugoslavia still remains open.'' ''"At the same time we must anticipate what will ensue from the destruction of Germany in war as well as from a German victory. If it is destroyed, the sovietization of Germany follows inevitably and a Communist government will be established. We must not forget that a sovietized Germany would face great danger if such sovietization occurred after the defeat of Germany in a short war. England and France would be powerful enough to seize Berlin and destroy a Soviet Germany. We would not be able to come to the aid of our Bolshevik comrades in Germany.'' ''"Therefore, our task consists in helping Germany wage war for as long as possible with the aim in view that England and France would be in no condition to defeat a sovietized Germany. While hewing to a policy of neutrality and while waiting for its hour to come, the USSR will lend aid to today’s Germany and supply it with raw materials and foodstuff. Of course, it follows that we will not allow such shipments to jeopardize our economy or weaken our armed might."'' ''"At the same time we must conduct active Communist propaganda especially as directed at the Anglo-French bloc and primarily in France. We must be prepared for the fact that in France in wartime the Communist Party there must abandon legal activities and go underground. We realize that such work will require an enormous sacrifice in lives. However, we have no doubts about our French comrades. Above all, their task will be to break up and demoralize the French army and police. If this preparatory work is completed in a satisfactory way, the security of Soviet Germany is assured. This will likewise ensure the sovietization of France.'' ''"To realize these plans it is necessary that war last as long as possible and that all efforts should be made, whether in Western Europe or the Balkans, to see that this happens.'' ''"Let us look now at the second possibility – namely, that Germany becomes the victor. Some propose that this turn of events would present us with a serious danger. There is some truth in this notion. But it would be erroneous to believe that such a danger is as near and as great as they assume. If Germany achieves victory in the war, it will emerge from it in such a depleted state that to start a conflict with the USSR will take at least 10 years.'' ''"Germany’s main task would be then to keep watch on the defeated England and France to prevent their restoration. On the other hand, a victorious Germany would have at its disposal a large territory. Over the course of many years, Germany would be preoccupied with the exploitation of these territories and establishing in them the German order. Obviously, Germany would be too preoccupied to move against us.'' ''"There is still another factor that enhances our security. In the defeated France, the French Communist Party would be very strong. A Communist revolution would follow inevitably. We would exploit this in order to come to the aid of France and to win it over as an ally. Later these peoples who fell under the “protection” of a victorious Germany likewise would become our allies. We would have a large arena in which to develop the world revolution.'' ''Comrades! It is in the interests of the USSR, the Land of the Toilers, that war breaks out between the Reich and the capitalist Anglo-French bloc. Everything must be done so that the war lasts as long as possible in order that both sides become exhausted. Namely for this reason we must agree to the pact proposed by Germany and use it so that once this war is declared, it will last for a maximum amount of time. We must step up our propaganda within the combatant countries so that they are prepared for that time when the war ends."''</ref>

It seems that Stalin anticipated this less than Hitler, who, in June 1941 invaded the Soviet Union with the largest land army ever assembled. It consisted of 170 divisions, or 3.5 million troops. Stalin was caught off guard, and the [[Nazis]] blazed a path through the Ukraine and European Russia. Reaching [[Moscow]] in October 1941, the Nazis threatened Stalin and the entire Soviet Union with defeat. In only 6 months, the Nazis controlled one third of the Soviet economy, a total of 5% of the Earth's surface. Hitler's troops were defeated at Moscow during the winter of 1941-42 after Stalin appointed [[Yorky Zhukov]] as commander of the Red Army. A spy in the German embassy in Tokyo, [[Richard Sorge]], informed Stalin that Japan was not going to attack [[Siberia]], freeing thousands of winter ski-troops to move to Moscow to defeat the Nazis. It was during this time that Stalin famously invoked the name of [[God]] and allowed religious services to be conducted after 20 plus years of repression. Also, 1500 factories were evacuated and restored in Siberia and 12-15 million workers were moved east of the [[Urals]], where Soviet production was higher than Germany's in 1942, despite Germany holding some 50% of Soviet industry.

The Red Army went on the offensive after the defense of Moscow, but soon the Nazis gained the advantage and pushed to Stalingrad. More than one million troops fought on each side in urban combat. Hitler refused to allow surrender, and eventually the Nazis were encircled and routed. After turning the tide of war in Stalingrad, the 1943 [[Kursk]] tank battle was decisive in pushing the Nazis from European Russia. In two years, the Red Army pushed the Nazis all the way back to [[Berlin]]. Stalin used his control of Eastern Europe to extract concessions from [[President Roosevelt]] at Allied conferences, including control over the region. [[Winston Churchill]] warned against this very control, for he greatly feared Soviet hegemony in Europe. Victorious, Stalin named himself Generalissimo and became more popular than ever in the Soviet Union and more dangerous than ever to the capitalist world.

Over the course of World War II, around 26 million Russians died. Eight million were in the armed services and about 18 million were innocent civilians. The total number of 26 million reflects half of the worldwide losses of human life during World War II. The population did not recover until 1956. Many Soviet POWs, like famous writer [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], were sent to the Gulag after the war because they had fallen into German hands, and were accused of being spies. This swelled the prison camps by the thousands.

==Post-War Period and Death==
Similar to the 1930s, Stalin undertook a harsh campaign of industrialization, which hurt the Soviets as much as it helped them rebuild. Money was devalued to one-tenth of its previous value, 2 million German and Japanese POWs were forced to stay in the Soviet Union and rebuild the country, and 10% of investment from 1945-46 was from looted machinery. The crops produced by household plots were collected by the government to sell, and a famine in 1947 caused by drought and Soviet single-crop farming killed 2 million. The recovery was built on the Soviet subjects.
[[Image:Stalinfuneral.jpg|250px|right|thumb|''Right to left:'' Lavrenti Beria, Georgi Malenkov, Vassily Stalin, V.M. Molotov, Nikolai Bulganin]]
After World War II, Stalin's [[cult of personality]] emerged as the dominant force of Soviet life. He was credited as the savior of the Soviet Union and the architect of victory, though it was really General Zhukov who was responsible for most of this. The communist youth group, the [[Komsomol]], devoted songs to "the Father of All Nations" or "the Driver of the Locomotive of History." Party membership increased by one million people between 1945 and 1953. Books quoted Stalin as an expert in communism, while he was often photographed surrounded by children to make him seem friendlier. This all served to form a deep, personal connection with Stalin for many Soviets. Indeed, he was loved by the Soviets. Between 1949 and 1952 Stalin increasingly took vacations and met with the [[Politburo]] less and less.

The atheistic Stalin became increasingly paranoid as he grew older.<ref name="BBC Stalin"/> He eventually suffered from a stroke on March 1, 1953. Ironically, his own megalomaniacal nature beforehand ensured no one dared try to check up on him, as his own guards feared checking up on him lest they be executed due to his leaving explicit orders to not disturb him in his room. Following a stroke on March 1, 1953, Stalin died on March 5 after a period of declining performance. On his deathbed, he also glared at the attendees with disgust and wordlessly pointed at each of them before eventually pointing at a wall, with Svetlina, his daughter, recalling this event, indicating this was the most haunting event she ever experienced. When he died in 1953 an anxious mob at his viewing crushed and trampled some mourners to death. Dissidents like Sakharov, the man forced in a prison to build the Soviet atom bomb, cried upon hearing that Stalin had died, despite their intense hatred of him. Despite his terror, he had convinced millions that he was their father. When he died a short power struggle ensued, one which led to the execution of KGB head [[Beria]] as a spy. Eventually [[Khrushchev]] became the General Secretary of the CPSU and denounced Stalin's repressive tactics, his purges, gulags, and his cult of personality in the [[Secret Speech]] at the 20th Party Congress of 1956. Gulags were dismantled and the political climate was slightly less tense, but Soviet oppression still continued. The period following Stalin's rule is called the "thaw," the start of life again after a long winter.

==Quotes==
* "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." ~ to Churchill, 1945.

* "Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem"

* "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

* "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything"

* "The only real power comes out of a long rifle."

* "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."

* “Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.”

* [[C.S. Lewis]] wrote:
:Of all tyrannies, a [[tyranny]] sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most [[oppression|oppressive]]. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral [[busybody|busybodies]]. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own [[conscience]]. [http://www.tsowell.com/quotes.html]

* "The one aim of these [[banker|financiers]] is [[New World Order|world control]] by the creation of inextinguishable [[debt]]." - [[Henry Ford]]

* "Educate and inform the whole mass of [[citizen|the people]]... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our [[liberty]]." -- [[Thomas Jefferson]]

==See also==
* [[Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism]]
* [[Stalinism]]
* [[Darwin-Stalin connection]]
* [[List of dictators]]
* [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]]
* [[List of Communist States]]
* [[List of Socialist States]]
* [[Death toll of communism]]
* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]
*[[The Gulag Archipelago]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==Sources==

*Hosking, Geoffrey. ''The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

*Kotkin, Stephen. ''Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization.'' Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

*Scott, John. ''Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel''. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.

*Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]], 1918-1956''; an experiment in literary investigation'', Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney, Publisher New York, Harper & Row (1974–78), 1st Edition, pg. 67n.

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Joseph Stalin

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| name =Joseph Stalin
| birth =December 18, 1878 Gori, Tiflis Governorate ([[Republic of Georgia|Georgia]]), Russian Empire
| parents =Vissarion Dzhugashvili Catherine Dzhugashvili
| religion =Georgian Orthodoxy (rejected) [[Atheism]]
| education =Tiflis Theological Seminary, Georgia
| spouse =Ekaterina Svanidze (d. 1906-1907) Nadezhda Alliluyeva (d. 1919-1932)
| children =Yakov Dzhugashvili Vasily Dzhugashvili Svetlana Alliluyeva
| death =March 5, 1953 Kuntsevo Dacha, Moscow
| deathmanner =Complications of a stroke
| burial =Near the Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Russia
| country =[[Soviet Union]]
| military =Soviet Armed Forces (1943–1953)
| rank =Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943–1945) (de jure) Generalissimus of the Soviet Union (1945–1953) (de facto)
| polbeliefs =[[Communism]] [[Marxism-Leninism]]
| party =[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
| dictatordate =By 1929
| war =[[Great Purge]]
| deathnumber =8,000,000 according to soviet records 20,000,000 is the average estimate while 62,000,000 is the high estimate
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'''Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin''' (born '''Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili '''; Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Джугашви́ли) (1878 - 1953) was the dictator of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the [[Communist Party]] of the [[Soviet Union]] ([[CPSU]]) from 1922 until his death from a stroke in 1953. <ref name="BBC Stalin">https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml</ref> Joseph Stalin, who was a brutal proponent of [[atheism|atheistic]] [[Communism]], was greatly influenced by the work of the [[evolution|neo-Lamarckian]] [[Trofim Denisovich Lysenko]] as were other Communist leaders.<ref>https://creation.com/the-darwinian-foundation-of-communism</ref><ref>https://creation.com/stalins-ape-man-superwarriors</ref><ref>https://creation.com/a-tale-of-four-countries</ref><ref>https://creation.com/darwin-trotsky-connection</ref> During 1942 - 1943, knowing that few people were inspired by Communism, Stalin reinstated the Russian Orthodox Church in order to boost morale while The USSR was at war with [[Nazi Germany]].<ref>http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2008/08/stalin-reinstates-church-1942-43.html</ref><ref>http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/frroman1.aspx</ref> When the war ended, many Red Army soldiers and Christians who defeated [[fascism]] were shipped off to Soviet [[concentration camp]]s - the [[gulag]]. On a similar note, largely because his predecessor Vladimir Lenin's passage of unrestricted abortion threatening to cause all of the USSR to die out quickly, Stalin also ended up making abortions temporarily illegal during the 1930s.<ref>https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/11/17/november-1920-2020-a-century-of-abortion-in-russia/</ref>

The son of a poor Georgian cobbler, Stalin was a former seminary student who joined the Communist Party when Georgia was still under the rule of the Russian Tsar. He became one of [[Lenin|Lenin's]] closest allies when the Kerensky regime was overthrown by Lenin's faction in 1917. During the [[Russian Civil War]] Stalin, who chose his name from the Russian word for steel, held the city of Tsaritsen on the Volga from counter-revolutionary forces. Stalin later renamed Tsaritsen [[Stalingrad]] in honor of his victory; Stalingrad would be the site of [[Germany]]'s massive defeat in [[World War II]].

Stalin was affectionately known as "Uncle Joe"<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Joe-FDR-DEEP-STATE/dp/0692939784</ref> by [[Democrat]]s before [[Joseph Biden]] adopted the nickname.<ref>https://archive.is/XjGXa</ref>

==Rise to Power==
Stalin was tapped by the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, as a low-level informer shortly after he was expelled from the Tiflis seminary in 1899. Stalin then began to systematically inform on revolutionary comrades in party organizations in Tiflis, Baku, and Batum over the next few years. He acquired a highly unsavory reputation among the [[Social democracy|Social Democrats]] of these cities and was finally arrested for cover purposes in 1902 when suspicions about him were about to boil over. It was the Okhrana that furnished the invisible means of support for the family he acquired after 1904.

In 1917, the Commissariat of Nationalities was formed with Stalin as its Commissar (Minister). The Commissariat addressed the question of the nationalities of the Russian Empire, and helped integrate them into the [[Soviet Union]]. From 1919-1922 he was also the People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection (Rabkrin, from the Russian), which was founded to be a check on the burgeoning Soviet bureaucracy.

In 1920, Stalin was tasked with invading Poland and then Germany, after having chased the Polish army out of a Ukrainian revolt it had aided. However, when the Red Army reached Warsaw, they were defeated in battle and forced to retreat back to Russia. This damaged Stalin's reputation as a general and helped persuade Lenin to adopt the long-term strategy of inducing another European war through political agitation and seizing the opportunity to invade when the nations were thought to be at their weakest.

In 1922, Lenin named Stalin General Secretary of the CPSU. In 1924 Stalin in turn created the "Secret Department," a unit of 94 of his personal functionaries that maintained special privileges as the ''[[nomenklatura]]'', or a list of trusted individuals. He also appointed regional party secretaries who all, of course, supported Stalin. Through the Secret Department Stalin gained control of the [[Red Army]] after removing [[Leon Trotsky]] in 1925 and the OGPU (later, [[KGB]]) when its leader [[Felix Dzerzhinsky]] died in 1926. Lenin had foreseen all of this and had warned in his last testament that Stalin should be removed from General Secretary because the position's power was unlimited.
[[Image:Stalin-Lenin.jpg|right|thumb|[[Lenin]] left, Stalin right]]
Stalin, however, did not allow this to happen. His most powerful rival, Leon Trotsky, who was the commander of the Red Army, was painted as a danger to the Revolution, because he continued to push the idea of international revolution; the "left opposition." Other Soviet leaders, like [[Zinoviev]], leader of the [[Comintern]], and [[Kaminev]], the head of the Communist Party in Moscow, were painted with the same brush because they supported Trotsky and did not wish to expel him from the CPSU in 1927. Later, he accused his ally [[Bukharin]] of being a member of the "right opposition," i.e. he was in favor of a more capitalistic economic system, as seen under the [[New Economic Policy]] (NEP) of the early 1920s. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 by [[Ramón Mercader]] in an extensive conspiracy that included underground operatives from the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA). Zinoviev, Kaminev, and Bukharin were the center of the infamous "[[Great Purge|show trials]]" of the 1930s. All were put to death.

==Objectives of the Comintern==
In 1932, [[Sergei Ivanovich Gussev]], who had served as [[Comintern]] agent and Stalin's personal representative in the United States, "commanded the [[Communist Party of the United States|Communists in the United States]] to take up four tasks. Two of them were the defence of the Soviet Union and the furtherance of Red conquest of [[China]]." In 1933 the notorious [[Gerhart Eisler]] "was secretly sent into the United States by Moscow to make sure these orders were carried out."<ref>[[Louis F. Budenz]], ''The Techniques of Communism'', (Chicago: Henry Regnery and Company, 1954), pp. 162-163.</ref> [[Edgar Snow]] wrote in his 1937 book, ''Red Star Over China,'' "The political ideology, tactical line and theoretical leadership of the [[Chinese Communists]] have been under the close guidance, if not positive direction, of the Communist International, which during the last decade has become virtually a bureau of the [[Russian Communist Party]]. In the final analysis this means that for better or worse, the policies of the Chinese Communists, like the Communists in every other country, have had to fall in line with, and usually subordinate themselves to, the broad strategic requirements of [[Soviet Russia]], under the dictatorship of Stalin."<ref>''Red Star Over China'' by Edgar Snow, New York, 1937, pg. 374.</ref>

==Catch and Overtake==
In 1928 Stalin decided that the Soviet Union was not properly industrialized to enjoy a communist future, so he initiated the First Five Year Plan and the campaign to collectivize agriculture in order to "build socialism," and to "catch and overtake" the capitalist world. Stalin fanned the fires of collectivization, claiming that peasants had been hoarding grain and that they needed to be controlled. Under this program, rich peasants (kulaks), were exiled or killed for being enemies of the people, and peasants' land was taken in order to introduce collective farming to expedite grain appropriations. Many were called kulaks by jealous neighbors, while the peasants who remained were often the laziest and most ill-suited to producing enough grain. Collectivization caused massive famine in Russia, particularly in [[Ukraine]] (see [[Holodomor]]), where Stalin ordered the Red Army to blockade certain regions and take grain by force. It is estimated that the famine of 1931-33 killed 6-7 million people, while 20 million starved.

The First Five Year Plan was a program of crash-industrialization. After [[World War I]] and the Russian Civil War Russia had an industrial capacity equal to that of its 1861 capacity. The only way for Russia to be able to break the "capitalist encirclement," Stalin declared, was to industrialize. Brigades of shock workers were formed to work faster and harder than the world had ever seen. Most of this, however, was pure propaganda, although the shock workers did set the record for concrete poured in a single shift. Compared to the capitalist world which was experiencing the Great Depression, Soviet growth was impressive. Between 1929 and 1937, 8,000 factories were constructed, average GDP growth was around 10%, and the official unemployment statistics, which included gulag detainees, was 0. In 1936, after the Second Five Year Plan, Stalin declared socialism "built." Nevertheless, the capitalist world lived better than the Soviet Union, despite the Great Depression. [[John Scott]], an American CPUSA member and Comintern operative who was living in the Soviet Union during the Five Year Plans, notes this in his memoirs of that period ''Behind the Urals.'' The legacy of the Five Year Plans (most of which Stalin declared "completed" in 4 years) injured the Soviet's production models, because the encouraged quantity and speed over quality. However, the planning of the 1930s enabled the Russians to defeat the Nazis in the 1940s.<ref>Suvorov, Viktor. ''Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?// (Viking Press/Hamish Hamilton; 1990) ISBN 0241126223.</ref>

==Famine of 1933==
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* "This famine was deliberately engineered by the regime of Joseph Stalin {{years since|1933}} years ago claimed millions of lives, mostly in [[Ukraine]] but also in some other parts of the [[Soviet Union]]. It is today considered one of the worst [[atrocities]] of the Soviet regime and a terrifying act of [[genocide]]. Even so, the famine of 1933 is relatively unknown. ... Estimates of how many people died in Stalin's engineered [[famine]] of 1933 vary. But they are staggering in their scale -- between seven and 11 million people."<ref>[http://www.ukemonde.com/news/rferl.html Stalin's Starvation of Ukraine – Seventy Years Later, World Still Largely Unaware Of Tragedy], By Askold Krushelnycky, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague, 8 April 2003.</ref>

Besides Ukraine, the Northern Caucasus, Volga Region and Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia were also affected.<ref>[https://www.philosophy.nsc.ru/sites/default/files/journals-old/humscience/2_98/15-MAL.HTM] (Russian)</ref><ref>http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2003/0101/analit02.php (Russian)</ref>

==Stalin's Terror==
In 1934, Sergei Kirov was approached by Communist Party delegates to run against Stalin for Secretary General. This initiated Stalin's campaign to destroy the independence of the Communist Party along with all other Soviet groups that might provide independent centers of power. By the next Party Congress in 1939, 98% of its former delegates had been executed or sent to the Gulag.

Between 1936 and 1938, Joseph Stalin launched his purges to rid the Soviet Union of "fifth columnists," or spies who were loyal to the [[capitalist]] world. During the Terror 3 million people were arrested on various and often made-up charges, while 750,000 were executed. Due to the interrogation techniques of the NKVD (later, KGB), which often were torturous, most of those arrested confessed and were sent to work camps, called the [[Gulag]] for 10 years and sometimes even 25. Here, prisoners were forced to labor in mines, to log forests, or to do construction. Few lived through their sentences.

In early 1937, a senior officer of the OGPU (KGB) stumbled upon a highly classified file in the old archives of the Tsarist secret police, the Okhrana. It detailed the work of one J. V. Djugashvili as an informant and agent provocateur for the Okhrana inside the Bolshevik Party before the Russian Revolution. The OGPU officer, Stein, was shocked. Djugashvili was the true name of Stalin who was now purging the Old Bolsheviks on charges of being foreign spies and counter-revolutionaries.

Stein took the file to a close friend, the head of the OGPU in the Ukraine, who went over it carefully with his trusted deputy, Zinovy Katsnelson, a cousin and close friend of Alexander Orlov. Convinced of its authenticity, they shared it with Jonah Yakir, commander of the Red Army in the Ukraine, and Stanislav Kossior, secretary of the Communist Party in the Ukraine. Alarmed by the file's revelations, Yakir flew to Moscow and revealed its contents to [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]], Supreme Commander of the Red Army. They brought his deputy, Yan Gamarnik, into their confidence and decided to overthrow Stalin in a coup d'état, denounce him and execute him.

As the coup plan was being developed, Katsnelson traveled to Paris and informed Orlov. The plot was foiled and Orlov's fate was sealed.

The infamous show trials of former leaders of the Soviet Union occurred during this period, where they were accused of working with Trotsky or sabotaging the Soviet Union. Stalin also eviscerated the high command of the Red Army, killing 90% of the leadership. The minions of oppression were not spared either; of the NKVD's 809 officials, 43 lived through the purges. The leadership of the communist party was persecuted as well. For example, in 1934 130 members of the 139-member Central Committee were arrested. The Terror forever made Russians afraid to speak out against the government, and also made sure that no one but Stalin could ever rule the Soviet Union as effectively. This also ensured that the Red Army could not fight effectively when Nazi Germany invaded the USSR during Operation Barbarossa.

==Censorship and propaganda policies==
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During Stalin's time in power, Stalin often altered various newspapers to push his agenda, and even edited out anyone who displeased him, which was most infamously evident with former NKVD head [[Nikolai Yezhov]] subsequent to his death in 1940 via execution, where a photograph of him walking with Stalin near the Moscow-Volga Canal had Yezhov airbrushed out. Ironically, after his death and Khrushchev's secret speech, Stalin himself would end up falling victim to the very same censorship policies he himself had used against his enemies, with footage of him in Soviet propaganda films depicting Lenin's rise to power often adding in a silhouette of a soldier conveniently placed in where Stalin was in the original footage.

==World War II==
To avoid war with [[Nazi Germany]], Stalin ordered the Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, [[Molotov]], to sign a non-aggression pact with [[Adolf Hitler]], named the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact]], on August 19, 1939. The treaty detailed the agreement to split up [[Poland]] between Germany and the Soviet Union, give Stalin the Baltic Republics of [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], and [[Estonia]], and to allow the Soviets to wage war on [[Finland]], a war that ended in a humiliating Soviet defeat. Part of the reason why Stalin arranged for the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was so he would use Nazi Germany and have them fight a prolonged front against France and Britain so as to weaken Europe enough to have Communism spread quickly through the continent, largely because he realized war would have benefitted Communism's spread better than peace. Both sides, however, knew that they would eventually engage in hostilities.<ref>Albert L. Weeks: Stalin`s Other War. Soviet Grand Strategy 1939-1941 Rowman & Littlefield, USA 2002 '''STALIN:''' ''"The question of war or peace has entered a critical phase for us. If we conclude a mutual assistance treaty with France and Great Britain, Germany will back off of Poland and seek a modus vivendi with the Western Powers. War would thus be prevented but future events could take a serious turn for the USSR.'' ''"If we accept Germany’s proposal to conclude with it a non-aggression pact, Germany will then attack Poland and Europe will be thrown into serious acts of unrest and disorder. Under these circumstances we will have many chances of remaining out of the conflict while being able to hope for our own timely entrance into war.'' ''"The experience of the past 20 years shows that in peacetime it is impossible to maintain a Communist movement throughout Europe that would be strong enough so that a Bolshevik party could seize power. A dictatorship by this party becomes possible only as a result of a big war. We are making our choice and it is clear. We must accept the German proposal and politely send the Anglo-French delegations back home. The first advantage we will get will be the destruction of Poland up to the very approaches to Warsaw, including Ukrainian Galicia.'' ''"Germany has given us full leeway in the Baltic countries and has no objection to returning Bessarabia to the USSR. Germany is also prepared to yield on giving us a sphere of influence in Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The question of Yugoslavia still remains open.'' ''"At the same time we must anticipate what will ensue from the destruction of Germany in war as well as from a German victory. If it is destroyed, the sovietization of Germany follows inevitably and a Communist government will be established. We must not forget that a sovietized Germany would face great danger if such sovietization occurred after the defeat of Germany in a short war. England and France would be powerful enough to seize Berlin and destroy a Soviet Germany. We would not be able to come to the aid of our Bolshevik comrades in Germany.'' ''"Therefore, our task consists in helping Germany wage war for as long as possible with the aim in view that England and France would be in no condition to defeat a sovietized Germany. While hewing to a policy of neutrality and while waiting for its hour to come, the USSR will lend aid to today’s Germany and supply it with raw materials and foodstuff. Of course, it follows that we will not allow such shipments to jeopardize our economy or weaken our armed might."'' ''"At the same time we must conduct active Communist propaganda especially as directed at the Anglo-French bloc and primarily in France. We must be prepared for the fact that in France in wartime the Communist Party there must abandon legal activities and go underground. We realize that such work will require an enormous sacrifice in lives. However, we have no doubts about our French comrades. Above all, their task will be to break up and demoralize the French army and police. If this preparatory work is completed in a satisfactory way, the security of Soviet Germany is assured. This will likewise ensure the sovietization of France.'' ''"To realize these plans it is necessary that war last as long as possible and that all efforts should be made, whether in Western Europe or the Balkans, to see that this happens.'' ''"Let us look now at the second possibility – namely, that Germany becomes the victor. Some propose that this turn of events would present us with a serious danger. There is some truth in this notion. But it would be erroneous to believe that such a danger is as near and as great as they assume. If Germany achieves victory in the war, it will emerge from it in such a depleted state that to start a conflict with the USSR will take at least 10 years.'' ''"Germany’s main task would be then to keep watch on the defeated England and France to prevent their restoration. On the other hand, a victorious Germany would have at its disposal a large territory. Over the course of many years, Germany would be preoccupied with the exploitation of these territories and establishing in them the German order. Obviously, Germany would be too preoccupied to move against us.'' ''"There is still another factor that enhances our security. In the defeated France, the French Communist Party would be very strong. A Communist revolution would follow inevitably. We would exploit this in order to come to the aid of France and to win it over as an ally. Later these peoples who fell under the “protection” of a victorious Germany likewise would become our allies. We would have a large arena in which to develop the world revolution.'' ''Comrades! It is in the interests of the USSR, the Land of the Toilers, that war breaks out between the Reich and the capitalist Anglo-French bloc. Everything must be done so that the war lasts as long as possible in order that both sides become exhausted. Namely for this reason we must agree to the pact proposed by Germany and use it so that once this war is declared, it will last for a maximum amount of time. We must step up our propaganda within the combatant countries so that they are prepared for that time when the war ends."''</ref>

It seems that Stalin anticipated this less than Hitler, who, in June 1941 invaded the Soviet Union with the largest land army ever assembled. It consisted of 170 divisions, or 3.5 million troops. Stalin was caught off guard, and the [[Nazis]] blazed a path through the Ukraine and European Russia. Reaching [[Moscow]] in October 1941, the Nazis threatened Stalin and the entire Soviet Union with defeat. In only 6 months, the Nazis controlled one third of the Soviet economy, a total of 5% of the Earth's surface. Hitler's troops were defeated at Moscow during the winter of 1941-42 after Stalin appointed [[Yorky Zhukov]] as commander of the Red Army. A spy in the German embassy in Tokyo, [[Richard Sorge]], informed Stalin that Japan was not going to attack [[Siberia]], freeing thousands of winter ski-troops to move to Moscow to defeat the Nazis. It was during this time that Stalin famously invoked the name of [[God]] and allowed religious services to be conducted after 20 plus years of repression. Also, 1500 factories were evacuated and restored in Siberia and 12-15 million workers were moved east of the [[Urals]], where Soviet production was higher than Germany's in 1942, despite Germany holding some 50% of Soviet industry.

The Red Army went on the offensive after the defense of Moscow, but soon the Nazis gained the advantage and pushed to Stalingrad. More than one million troops fought on each side in urban combat. Hitler refused to allow surrender, and eventually the Nazis were encircled and routed. After turning the tide of war in Stalingrad, the 1943 [[Kursk]] tank battle was decisive in pushing the Nazis from European Russia. In two years, the Red Army pushed the Nazis all the way back to [[Berlin]]. Stalin used his control of Eastern Europe to extract concessions from [[President Roosevelt]] at Allied conferences, including control over the region. [[Winston Churchill]] warned against this very control, for he greatly feared Soviet hegemony in Europe. Victorious, Stalin named himself Generalissimo and became more popular than ever in the Soviet Union and more dangerous than ever to the capitalist world.

Over the course of World War II, around 26 million Russians died. Eight million were in the armed services and about 18 million were innocent civilians. The total number of 25 million reflects half of the worldwide losses of human life during World War II. The population did not recover until 1956. Many Soviet POWs, like famous writer [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], were sent to the Gulag after the war because they had fallen into German hands, and were accused of being spies. This swelled the prison camps by the thousands.

==Post-War Period and Death==
Similar to the 1930s, Stalin undertook a harsh campaign of industrialization, which hurt the Soviets as much as it helped them rebuild. Money was devalued to one-tenth of its previous value, 2 million German and Japanese POWs were forced to stay in the Soviet Union and rebuild the country, and 10% of investment from 1945-46 was from looted machinery. The crops produced by household plots were collected by the government to sell, and a famine in 1947 caused by drought and Soviet single-crop farming killed 2 million. The recovery was built on the Soviet subjects.
[[Image:Stalinfuneral.jpg|250px|right|thumb|''Right to left:'' Lavrenti Beria, Georgi Malenkov, Vassily Stalin, V.M. Molotov, Nikolai Bulganin]]
After World War II, Stalin's [[cult of personality]] emerged as the dominant force of Soviet life. He was credited as the savior of the Soviet Union and the architect of victory, though it was really General Zhukov who was responsible for most of this. The communist youth group, the [[Komsomol]], devoted songs to "the Father of All Nations" or "the Driver of the Locomotive of History." Party membership increased by one million people between 1945 and 1953. Books quoted Stalin as an expert in communism, while he was often photographed surrounded by children to make him seem friendlier. This all served to form a deep, personal connection with Stalin for many Soviets. Indeed, he was loved by the Soviets. Between 1949 and 1952 Stalin increasingly took vacations and met with the [[Politburo]] less and less.

The atheistic Stalin became increasingly paranoid as he grew older.<ref name="BBC Stalin"/> He eventually suffered from a stroke on March 1, 1953. Ironically, his own megalomaniacal nature beforehand ensured no one dared try to check up on him, as his own guards feared checking up on him lest they be executed due to his leaving explicit orders to not disturb him in his room. Following a stroke on March 1, 1953, Stalin died on March 5 after a period of declining performance. On his deathbed, he also glared at the attendees with disgust and wordlessly pointed at each of them before eventually pointing at a wall, with Svetlina, his daughter, recalling this event, indicating this was the most haunting event she ever experienced. When he died in 1953 an anxious mob at his viewing crushed and trampled some mourners to death. Dissidents like Sakharov, the man forced in a prison to build the Soviet atom bomb, cried upon hearing that Stalin had died, despite their intense hatred of him. Despite his terror, he had convinced millions that he was their father. When he died a short power struggle ensued, one which led to the execution of KGB head [[Beria]] as a spy. Eventually [[Khrushchev]] became the General Secretary of the CPSU and denounced Stalin's repressive tactics, his purges, gulags, and his cult of personality in the [[Secret Speech]] at the 20th Party Congress of 1956. Gulags were dismantled and the political climate was slightly less tense, but Soviet oppression still continued. The period following Stalin's rule is called the "thaw," the start of life again after a long winter.

==Quotes==
* "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." ~ to Churchill, 1945.

* "Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem"

* "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

* "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything"

* "The only real power comes out of a long rifle."

* "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."

* “Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.”

* [[C.S. Lewis]] wrote:
:Of all tyrannies, a [[tyranny]] sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most [[oppression|oppressive]]. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral [[busybody|busybodies]]. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own [[conscience]]. [http://www.tsowell.com/quotes.html]

* "The one aim of these [[banker|financiers]] is [[New World Order|world control]] by the creation of inextinguishable [[debt]]." - [[Henry Ford]]

* "Educate and inform the whole mass of [[citizen|the people]]... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our [[liberty]]." -- [[Thomas Jefferson]]

==See also==
* [[Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism]]
* [[Stalinism]]
* [[Darwin-Stalin connection]]
* [[List of dictators]]
* [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]]
* [[List of Communist States]]
* [[List of Socialist States]]
* [[Death toll of communism]]
* [[Liberal totalitarianism]]
*[[The Gulag Archipelago]]

==References==
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==Sources==

*Hosking, Geoffrey. ''The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

*Kotkin, Stephen. ''Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization.'' Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

*Scott, John. ''Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel''. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.

*Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]], 1918-1956''; an experiment in literary investigation'', Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney, Publisher New York, Harper & Row (1974–78), 1st Edition, pg. 67n.

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Talk:Joseph Stalin

2022-02-12T20:11:14Z

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