Reply #: Actually the Dem party was the party of slavery [View All]

Q writes:
"NeoDems and others need to come to grips with the fact that the Democratic party was FOUNDED by 'liberals' and that the very existance of the party has always revolved around representing the PEOPLE over the monied and special interests. "

The Dems were not always seen as the party of the "people" especially if the "people" did not have white skin and were poor. Until FDR blacks voted REPUBLICAN because they were voting for the party of Lincoln who was seen as the great emancipator. Particularly in the south the Dems were the party of the Klan and the white ruling class.

It was FDR who, by coopting much of the socialist agenda in the 1930s, moved the Dem party to being one of the "people." In the 1920s and '30s there was a huge socialist movement in this country and the establishment feared that it could grow and possibly win a presidential election (there had been socialists elected as mayors in some of the larger cities, Milwaukee, WI comes to mind).