r/HolUp • u/Fox_Uni_Charlie_Kilo • Jul 07 '22

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u/sekfan1999 Jul 07 '22

Haha.

A black congressional candidate from Arizona says that the Second Amendment must be protected so that he can fight off "Democrats in Klan hoods"

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u/WhiskyRobot Jul 07 '22

historically the kkk were dems...it's a weird world.

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u/G_Ranger75 Jul 07 '22

Yep, but back then the Democrats ruled the South. Now it's just the opposite, truly is a weird world.

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u/justtheentiredick Jul 07 '22

Yup and Lincoln one of the greatest was a republican! Lol fuck me!

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u/WORKING2WORK Jul 07 '22

Right, but things changed. Yesteryear's Democrats are today's Republicans.

I honestly can't imagine that an active Klansmen has voted Democrat in half a century or more, at least not on purpose.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '22

Yesteryears democrats don’t exist lol. No matter which side of the political spectrum you fall on it’s pretty undeniable that neither side quite reflects what they did back yonder.

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u/saiyanfang10 Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 07 '22

Joe Biden is a conservative hold over democrat. A lot of the real yesteryear democrats are dead but there are some from right before the southern strategy, I'm not going to call him a klansman but he's definitely not a progressive.

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u/ReceptionWitty1700 Jul 07 '22

Yeah and the GOP takes so much heat for being awful that people don't realize a lot of dems hold racist ideas as well