Make America What…Again?
20% of Trump Supporters reject the Emancipation Proclamation. Another 17% “aren’t sure” if freeing the slaves was a good idea.
That is how big the stakes are in this election. If Democrats are unmoved by our eventual candidate, we will be empowering the worst Americans, and validating everything that is base and disgusting about this place.
America was great when women, the blacks and the browns knew their place and shut up. Seriously, that is the belief of the Republican Party. That is why Trump is winning Republican votes.
I can’t wait for the GOP to turn on the Irish and the Italians!
Frederick Douglass also rejected the Emancipation Proclamation.
“Frederick Douglass also rejected the Emancipation Proclamation.”
LOL. I’m sure these Trump voters are rejecting it because it only applied to states in open revolt. That’s probably it.
Good one, Dan… I suppose your next foray into the conversation would be something along the lines of “How can slavery have been that bad if black people even owned slaves?”
Don’s comment reminds me of how opponents of Obamacare cited its 50+% disapproval rate without noting that about a quarter of that opposition was from people who thought it didn’t go far enough.
Dan’s comment is actually much worse than that even I think. It’s indicative of not just a misunderstanding of statistics, but a terrible misunderstanding of historical context also. Dan may as well have written “Lincoln was a Republican.”
I do very much appreciate those comments though. It makes the process of filtering out stupidity quite simple.
Lincoln was a Republican.
Frederick Douglass also rejected the Emancipation Proclamation
He rejected the Enancipation Proclamation 25 years or so after his original endorsement to Lincoln. He changed his mind after traveling to the South and seeing how the lives of former slaves were still restricted by the bigotry of white people who worked very hard to make sure that African-Americans could never claim their consitutional rights. His rejection was of a claim by the government that they never delivered on. Which should sound very familiar, actually.