After reading the latest from Caitlin Johnstone, the unassailable "The Democratic Party Exists To Co-Opt And Kill Authentic Change Movements," I am introducing the first of what I hope to be a series of posts arguing that the Democratic Party ought to be destroyed posthaste.
Soon after Super Tuesday and in the run-up to the nationwide pandemic lockdowns I devoured a copy that I had lying around the apartment of Robert Remini's first book, Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party (1959).
Soon after Super Tuesday and in the run-up to the nationwide pandemic lockdowns I devoured a copy that I had lying around the apartment of Robert Remini's first book, Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party (1959).
What was a revelation to me was that the Democratic Party, the supposedly transformative, egalitarian "Party of Jackson," was actually a salvage operation for the listing "Era of Good Feelings" Republican Party of Jefferson, the primary political vehicle of Southern slavocracy.
The Democratic Party was a creation of Martin Van Buren, Bucktails party boss of New York. He used the Tariff of Abominations and Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign to rejuvenate the old planter Republican Party coalition.
In other words, the origin of the Democratic Party is synonymous with the rejuvenation of the political power of slavocracy, not to mention the genocide of indigenous peoples.
Bear that in mind when you consider legislation proposed by congressional Democrats to address the policing crisis in the United States. If we can create a new federal department post-9/11, why can't we re-imagine how we police ourselves? Let's defund and abolish police departments as presently constituted.
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