Following the Civil War, the country went through a period of Reconstruction. During this time blacks in the South gained new rights and political power. This period ended with the development of new very conservative political parties that opposed these freedoms, and sought to turn the tide back and to suppress the gains made in Reconstruction. The deal was sealed when the rights of Southern Blacks were traded away in a political deal so that Rutherford B Hayes could be elected president.
We are now in the post Obama world, and the Congressional republicans are treating this just like the white Southerners at the end of Reconstruction. The Republican party is trying as hard as they can to erase any remnants of civil right gains, health care gains, LGBTQ right gains, environmental gains, that they possibly can that were achieved by the first Black President. They don’t care what they are, they just can’t stand that we had a Black President. The parallels are to obvious to not draw those conclusions.
© words by Dan DeMarle 2017
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What Mr. DeMarle fails to acknowledge is that the outcome of elections depends on the voters. Many of those voters, who elected Obama twice, recognized their error in putting into office a President who was a globalist and who did not have the United States best interests at heart. Since 2008 the Democratic Party has lost control of the House, the Senate, a multitude of Governors and many state legislatures. An apologist for the many Democratic policies and tenets that American voters have rejected, Mr. DeMarle falls back to an old Democratic ploy, the “Race Card”. Yes Mr. DeMarle, some things are too obvious.
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Of course the American populace is often of two minds, which is why the overwhelming elected him for a second term, and by popular vote, but sadly not electoral vote, his successor
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