Reading The Wall Street Journal this morning during a visit to an American friend, I came across an article by Valerie Bauerlein with the headline “North Carolina Atones For Its Sterilizations” (behind the paywall, so you likely won’t be able to read it unless you are a subscriber). The upshot of it is, while most states suspended their eugenics programs in the 1940s after the Nazis discredited the eugenics movement, North Carolina actually ramped up its forced sterilization program after WWII, and continued sterilizing citizens through the 1960s before finally ending the program in 1974. While blacks made up 25% of North Carolina’s population, over 60% of those sterilized were blacks.
So me being me, I announced to my wife and friend, “I’ll bet you North Carolina was run by Democrats”. Immediately, the friend, a political “moderate”, said “you don’t know that, I’ll bet you are wrong”, the pop culture propaganda pinning racist rule on Republicans being that strong. So, I headed to Google. And lo and behold, what did I find: North Carolina was run by Democrat governors from 1901 until 1973. Yes, in the first year of a Republican governor after 73 years of Democrat rule, the forced sterilization program of largely black citizens was ended.
“OK, that’s the governors. But the legislature really runs the state. Which party was in charge of the legislature?”
Google once again: the North Carolina legislature switched from Democrat to Republican control in 2011, after more than 100 years of Democrat rule.
Further proof that pop culture propaganda usually trumps truth, that monstrous anti-human policies almost always come from the left, and that the left has always found a welcome home in the Democratic party.
UPDATE: I have been informed by the husband of the friend, a Democrat, of the following: the Democrats used to be racists, but they switched to being the not-racists when the racist Republicans took over as the racist party. Oh, the tortured logic you’re forced to believe on the left!
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You are mistaken. The Democrats and the Republicans have always been “big tents”. In recent years, there hardly any liberals left in the Republican Party, but in the time of Abraham Lincoln, this was completely different! Abraham Lincoln was praised by Karl Marx himself as a left-wing politician and a son of the working class! In those days, the Democrats were Conservative and the Republicans Liberal…
You are talking about liberalism per se, which has a few strands, social , Political and economic being a few. Communism and Democracy, and Socialism comes from the Political and has historic root to Ancient Greece and Rome, and even the days of Hammurabi. Soci
al has to do with Morals, and the Church and the State, and Economic has to do with economy ideologic policy, such as centralized or decentralize regulation of the market.
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