A 2020 Joe Biden campaign ad described the pending election as an “opportunity to leave the dark, angry politics of the past behind us.” After Biden’s election, he, Democrats and media urge a “return to civility.” But when did the Democrats practice the very civility to which they seek to return?
When Barry Goldwater accepted the 1964 Republican nomination, California’s Democratic Gov. Pat Brown said, “The stench of fascism is in the air.”
Former Rep. William Clay Sr., D-Mo., said President Ronald Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from ‘Mein Kampf.'”
Coretta Scott King, in 1980, said, “I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party.”
After Republicans took control of the House in the mid-’90s, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., compared the newly conservative-majority House to “the Duma and the Reichstag,” referring to the legislature set up by Czar Nicholas II of Russia and the parliament of the German Weimar Republic that brought Hitler to power.
About President George Herbert Walker Bush, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said: “I believe (Bush) is a racist for many, many reasons. … (He’s) a mean-spirited man who has no care or concern about what happens to the African American community. … I truly believe that.”
About the Republican-controlled House, longtime Harlem Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel, in 1994, said: “It’s not ‘s—-‘ or ‘n——-‘ anymore. (Republicans) say, ‘Let’s cut taxes.'” A decade later, Rangel said, “George (W.) Bush is our Bull Connor,” referring to the Birmingham, Alabama, Democrat segregationist superintendent of public safety who sicced dogs and turned fire hoses on civil rights workers.
Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s presidential campaign manager, in 1999, said: Republicans have a “white boy attitude, (which means) ‘I must exclude, denigrate and leave behind.’ They don’t see it or think about it. It’s a culture.” The following year, Brazile said: “The Republicans bring out Colin Powell and (Rep.) J.C. Watts, (R-Okla.), because they have no program, no policy. … They’d rather take pictures with Black children than feed them.”
About President George W. Bush, former Vice President Al Gore said: “(Bush’s) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. … And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the President.” Digital “brownshirts”?
About George W. Bush, George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor, said: “The Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. … Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and communist propaganda machines.”
Former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, in a 2006 speech at historically Black Fayetteville State University said, “The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.”
Former Gov. Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 2005, described the contest between Democrats and Republicans as “a struggle between good and evil. And we’re the good.” Three years later, Dean referred to the GOP as “the white party.”
After Hurricane Katrina, Democratic Missouri Senate candidate Claire McCaskill said George W. Bush “let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were Black.”
Feminist superlawyer Gloria Allred, in 2001, referred to Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as “Uncle Tom types.”
Then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, in 2006, said, “The (Republican-controlled) House of Representatives … has been run like a plantation. And you know what I’m talking about.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee chairwoman in 2011, said “Republicans … want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.”
Again, exactly when did Democrats practice the “civility” to which they wish to return?
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24 Aug. 2020 – Monday on MSNBC’s “Live,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
referred to President Donald Trump and his Republican allies as “enemies of the state.”
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, labeled US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party “domestic enemies” and “enemies of the state.”
The 80 million (and likely more) Americans who voted for President Trump in November, only to see the election stolen from them, know what happened despite incessant Democrat, Fake News, and “social media” efforts to supplant reality with the lie that the Biden cabal actually won. The ruse isn’t working. And opponents of this shaky facade of “legitimacy” pose a grave threat to it. Consequently, all who dare deny the Biden “victory” quickly graduate into being “enemies of the state.”
The “State” that Pelosi is referring to is the
“Socialist Democrat Party State”.
They must be looking in the mirror. Because we know who the real enemies of the people are and it isn’t us or Trump. Guess who is left?
Practically EVERYONE in big tec, big media and big govt.
just remember all of us “white people” are evil and should be destroyed. Also, remember, that if we want America First, that is “nativism” to the Democrat communists and the Republicans In Name Only.
Circumstances have forced us all to actually use our brains to weigh every single issue and it’s exhausting. But gone are the days when you could simply choose a party and vote a straight ticket. There’s just too much variation and too much at stake. That’s why I’m independent; unfortunately you have to pick a side to vote in primaries here, something that really needs to be fixed. No one person or party is always right. I do agree about deterioration of civility among some in the Democratic party, but the very same is true on the other side as well. The whole thing gives me a headache. When preparing to vote resembles the piles of research materials I had to lay out and analyze for a PhD dissertation the process can seem dauting. But it’s necessary. No one party or candidate is 100% correct about every issue. It’s up to us as voters to weigh how much of candidates’ agendas we agree with, then research how much of it’s influenced by campaign financing or other political and religious factors then make a choice, often between the best of two poor choices. Voting along party lines these days is foolhardy, in my opinion. We end up with folks on the radical fringe like Maxine Waters/AOC and Ms. Greene on the other side making legislative decisions that affect us all- unacceptable in my opinion. It’s time for legislators from both sides to grow up and behave like mature, polite, intelligent adults, not petulant high schools brawling in the parking lot. Sheesh.
they aren’t on the radical fringe. They are the main stream face and hateful voice of the racist Democrap party. You can almost always assume whatever they say, the opposite is true. They lie so much they don’t even know what the truth is and neither do they care.
True there are those in the gop, who are as uncivil, and unworthy of our votes, as EVERY DEMOCRAT is…
“When did they practice civility”.
Here’s a hint.
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The LAST time that the Democrats practiced anything even resembling “Civility” was when John F, Kennedy was in office, and we all know how long ago THAT was !
AND we also know what the left, the cia etc, all DID to him!
Well, they weren’t too civil about Nixon during that time. Easy to be “civil” about their own. It’s the other side that they try to destroy.
The problem of not just this country, it is the common problem – the decent people stopped going into politics, nobody wants to go through the stuff Trump was subjected by degenerates from the opposing party and the MSM, which shamelessly prostituting the profession of journalism for too long.
Did you ever see the Eddie Murphy film, The Distinguished Gentleman?? IM Though a comedy, IT WAS ONE OF THE best looks into how congress really works.
Is this the same as…. moron intelligence. Shinning the bright light of darkness. It was so memorable I forgot. Or maybe stupid is as stupid does.
Joe Biden: “They want to put y’all back in chains”.
There is no depth to which democrats will not sink.
Democrat discourse, behavior, and coherence significantly corroded under George W. Bush. It prompted David Limbaugh to write a book about it in deep detail, and the dangers that this posed to the country in his book “Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today’s Democratic Party”. In the Obama years, there was a cosmetic appearance that the Democrats were not as corrosive as they were under the Bush years, but that was a front. Under the Trump years, the Dems descended to a level where they not only advocated violence (protecting, defending, and speaking on behalf of militant rioters) and violent behavior (harassing Trump Supporters where they are), but they weaponized the federal government and legal system every chance they could get to carry out their partisan attacks, leaving all of the power of the rule of law to question and doubt. Their abuse of these institutions have also raised serious and grave concerns as to the degree of corruption that the FBI, CIA, State Dept. etc. are entrenched in. On top of that, they have proven to be iron fisted and out for “blood” when they accuse people of doing something insidious, but are lawless, casual, and non interested when their own actually engage in such behavior (or worse). This, I believe, is the most dangerous time for a patriot when you have partisan party supremacists of this nature trying to gain absolute power and totalitarian control over everything in this country, while persecuting every person who supports America, President Trump, the rule of law, election integrity & moral values.
TO me, the level of ROT, in every damn one of those govt departments, is SO FULL, there’s no way to ‘try and save’ the org.. JUST SCORCH THEM all to the ground, and try to restart anew.
At this point in time, this moment in history, civility is the last thing we want or need from our elected officials!
Our nation is under attack, as the result of a soft coup a dictator has been installed, who is now ruling by edict, with every stroke of the pen our nation is brought closer to destruction, as is the intent!
For decades the Left has demonized conservatives, relentlessly attacked, accused and plotted to gain absolute power, control over what they viewed as the unwashed masses, the credible boomer rubes, deplorables, the peasants, none whom were fit to rule themselves, worthy only to be fodder, to be used and discarded.
The Constitution has always served as a speed bump to the Left, an obstacle to be maneuvered around, now, however, they feel no need, they intend to run over the Constitution full speed ahead. We The People a consideration only to the extent that we are able to serve their needs, otherwise, the people be damned!
Civility is hardly what we need, there is no place for civility in war and make no mistake about it, the Left has declared war!
Unfortunately i see NO ONE In govt, period, who’s willing to ANSWER that declaration of war… THEY ARE ALL TOO cowardly to do so.
So sad the dems created, supported and believe in slavery and still some will not see slavery is not just body control but mind control also.
Democrats trot out the racist card for every Republican who won’t bend to their will yet they govern the cities with the black majorities with the hungriest black children and the highest black crime rates. If they are so concerned with their black communities, they need to stop talking and start working in their own backyards. George W. must’ve been a much more powerful president than I realized to be able to command a hurricane to kill poor black people. Those killed who were neither poor nor black just got in the way? Yet these are the people that Bush has thrown his hat in with.
TILL THE Black voters, WAKE the hell up and REALIZE THAT simple fact, nothing will ever change… unfortunately!
The social new media needed to get rid of Trump and that’s exactly what they did…
Just like they have been doing to other people they don’t like…
We’ve seen the attack on men for several yrs and no one has said any regarding these attacks.
My biggest issue is the men that have gone along with this on national wide television, no other country do the women act in such a manner, tattoos all over their bodies, and so on…
To the honest professional women that show integrity in public, you deserve your hire and neither one of us deserves to be graded.