I agree with Brian's assessment of the democratic party. It's become very difficult to even discuss these issues with lots of people, that I also call the deniers or the brainwashed. I like to consider opposing opinions to see if my opinion might be wrong. Most of the people with opposing opinions refuse to be open minded and even consider that they might be wrong. Sad. I encourage everyone to be open minded and as Brian says, do your homework.
Excellent factual article! But remember what Mark Twain said, "It is easier to fool someone, than to convince someone that they have been fooled". So very True.
excellent short history of the open racism pushed by the D Party…makes it more revolting that they push their agendas using taxpayer money…these people are con artists…
[D] Party Con:
When you can't raise money 'organically' through party (individual) donations (voter base) YOU STEAL IT from the American taxpayer and give it back to yourself in the form of campaign contributions.
Thank you for this short history of The Democratic Party. I am an immigrant. I was generally aware of most of the history, but I had not seen it written so concisely before. I have always compared the Democratic Party with the British Labour Party which destroyed the British economy, until Margaret Thatcher actually introduced the supposed mission of the Tory Party, which, when in power, they failed to pursue. Maggie, apart from Winston Churchill, was the only effective, Tory Prime minister after the second world war.
Google “the Southern strategy” if you want to understand why the Republican party is now largely viewed as the party suppressing African American rights. You’ve laid out a very good factual basis from slavery to the Civil Rights movement, but then leaving out the last 50 years of politics conveniently leaves out all the recent voting restrictions that Republican governments have put in place since Shelby Co. vs. Holder to suppress Black voters.
What’s the other option? A party run by the likes of Santos, Greene, Boebert, Cawthorn, and, yes, trump? I turned in my fifty year old Republican card once this nonsense began. Now an Independent. Review Project 2025 and tell me that’s how we want things.
Well, career politicians can be a bit “exagerative” when running for office. It doesn’t stop them from taking up residency in the White House.
Biden says he was never accused of sexual assault. The why did Nancy Pelosi dismissed Tara Reade’s accusations of sexual assault against Joe Biden. By saying “I I know him,”
Biden also maintained that he “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school” and was the “outstanding student in the political science department.”
In fact, Biden graduated 76th of 85 students in his law school class, had only a partial scholarship and did not win top honors in his undergraduate discipline.
Biden claimed: “My ancestors…worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours,’’ even though no one in Biden’s family tree ever worked underground.
Biden told audiences that after his stint in the White House, “I became a teacher. I became a professor.” While it is true that he took a lofty salary to make a handful of speeches for the University of Pennsylvania, Biden has never taught students.
Biden’s claims of having been arrested in the 1970s because he tried to visit Nelson Mandela in prison. Nope, didn’t happen.
He has also cast himself as a civil rights activist and co-sponsor of the Endangered Species Act; those things aren’t true either.
Biden’s 1987 campaign he was caught plagiarizing passages of a speech given by Neil Kinnock. Biden falsely repeated the British Labor leader’s history that he was the first “in a thousand generations” to graduate from college
Biden proclaimed the Obama administration “didn’t lock people up in cages.” The “cages” were installed under Obama.
The list goes on. The point is Dems love bashing Santos for following in Biden’s footsteps. Ah, jealousy?
You laid the facts out very well. I remember when we did learn these things in school. My parents helped me understand all of this at a young age and pointed out the many instances of liberal bias while I was growing up in the 60s. I will forward this to my children so they can see, the facts about what I have been telling them their whole lives because I’m sure none of this came up during their schooling. Thank you for your article.
"Today most teachers purposely ignore or teach the opposite of what is truly occurring." The irony of this pot shot taken at 'teachers' is pretty rich coming from the author who plays teacher by giving a history lesson that ignores and teaches the opposite of what has happened in the last fifty years! Not addressing the Republican Southern Strategy and political realignment that has happened after Goldwater and Nixon played on white, mostly southern, grievances over Civil Rights legislation makes this author's points irrelevant and infantile--basically making the argument - "Democrats supported slavery in the 1800s more than Republicans so, see... they are the racists." Instead, how about a more nuanced and relevant discussion? Tell us dear author, why you see confederate flags flying proudly at Trump rallies? Which party supports a candidate who believes there are 'good people on both sides" when speaking of racist marching through Virginia? Tell us why you feel comfortable supporting a candidate who, and this is just a short list off the top of my head, refused to apologize for calling for the death penalty on the Central Park Five, who questioned without evidence Obama's citizenship, who mocks the disabled, women, and people of color at any turn, and whose actions by the way, led to January 6th? And the author has the gall to call out teachers, without any evidence mind you, for 'preaching their personal opinion' to their students. The author doth protest too much, methinks.
Debunked? We all heard what he said, how he tried to explain it away in the days after without really doing so, more dog whistles for those who wanted to hear what they heard (e.g. stand back and stand by vs. definitively denouncing the Proud Boys....hmmm who showed up on Jan 6?) The point being, rather than taking the moment to unite the country against bigotry and racism, he chose to equivocate, emboldening those who heard his words as validation of their hateful views. It's an example that illustrates how silly the author's argument is about the history of Democratic racism which ignores the current reality and the shameful history of Trump's own racial behaviors that are so conveniently ignored -- when you have a history that includes the Central Park 5, discriminating against blacks in renting apartments, questioning our nation's first black president's citizenship--I can go on...you don't get the benefit of the doubt on what you really mean. Ethical high ground is tricky territory with Trump that requires a lot of moral gymnastics. And don't get me started on the author's attacks on teachers. Without merit, completely baseless, not factual and more red meat for those that think learning both the good and bad elements of our shared history means you are 'indoctrinating.'
Common tactic - attempt to distract by not addressing arguments and offering a counter argument, instead use an hominem to make a baseless claim about sources without doing so yourself. I understand it's hard to hold water for Trump's views and actions when they are so vile, but I am genuinely curious how you would attempt to do so.
I totally agree with Brian’s comments and rather than spending time on how we got here righting a wrong seems to be what our focus should be. Our children have been slowly brain washed, our schools and the media have happily complied and our churches are threatened.
What can we do?
Speak the truth while we can, friendly conversations with young adults, show the history before it’s erased by AI and pray for our Beautiful America.
Be prepared for the battle that’s ahead and never waver, stand tall with Lady Liberty🗽God Bless America🇺🇸
“ I realized most career politicians – and particularly Democrat politicians – had no moral compass.”
I’m a bit slow, can you explain me how DJT has a moral compass? He cheats on his wives, pays off porn stars he’s had sex with, lies constantly, sells bibles for profit, Truth Social gets financing via a shell company directly linked Russian nationals, he’s trying to stiff his business partners, fails to pay contractors, did I mention constant lying, and maybe worst of all, he cheats at golf unashamedly. This is the guy you think should be president?
Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault by Tara Reade.
The Biden diary is real, they are going to prosecute the person who found it. Which means Biden did shower with his daughter.
But did you notice how “they” covered up Hunters Laptop?
Did notice that a Senator who “willfully” kept classified documents and then told said secrets to a ghost writer because he got paid $8,000,000 for the book rights is not in jail?
Do you recall the classified documents found in a garage, the Penn Center, etc that were kept by a Senator and a Vice President and the government decided to not say anything until after an election?
Or how about the President who kept documents that are permitted under the PRA and has every right to keep those documents. And they were in a locked room with security guards behind a gated property with limited access. Not a garage floor at a beach house that a drug addict had access to.
Here’s a good one, in 1973 Biden called Gays a threat to National Security.
In 1973 gays were probably a security risk to our National Security. Almost everyone was in the closet because society was so out right evil and mean to them. So if you were a closeted gay you'd be perfect target for outside leverage.
It's interesting that the only person Mr. Campbell doesn't dump on in this miss mash is his father - the vet and award winning school teacher - who was a democrat.
Many of us were Republicans - then MAGA took over and the party left us as well. I miss many of the folks discarded and branded RINO while the new party had fun chumming around with George Santos.
Excellent recap of true American History. I wonder if any democrat reading your op Ed, would think you are lying and not representing the Democrats fairly? Sad, if that is true because you were right on Brian. Thanks for taking the time to explain why you left the Democratic Party forever. I did too!
After all Biden is admirable graduating top of his class on a full academic scholarship with three degrees from undergraduate school” and was the “outstanding student in the political science department.”
In fact, Biden graduated 76th of 85 students in his law school class, had only a partial scholarship and did not win top honors in his undergraduate discipline.
Democrats were formed from racist who wanted slavery and no civil rights.
Republicans fought for civil rights, anti racism and women’s rights.
The RINOs forgot what the Republican Party is about. They sold their souls for payouts or got caught with their pants down and became a double agent.
The Patriots are wanting to restore Republicans back to the civil rights loving anti government party there originated from.
Even conservative democrats understand this and do not want to be a part of the Democratic Party. But they hold on to the lies they’ve been fed. Like an abusive relationship, hoping the Dem leaders will actually live up to their false promises.
Most people when you. Discuss the issues and ask questions of each other you find that it doesn’t matter if you’re a D or an R. You realize you’re Americans. Common people won this country and founded this country.
Mr. Campbell paints a pretty colorful history of the Democratic Party, which can’t be denied, and most people know the history already. Saying Democrats are liars is pushing it. All politicians lie, I’m willing to bet that even “Honest Abe” told a fib or two.
He infers that the Democratic Party have been in control for decades and created the mess we’re in. So I did a quick search because I know that’s not a fact. I only went back as far as Truman since 1945. There’s been seven Democratic administrations and seven Republican administrations in control. So it looks like they can both share the blame. Remember, though, when Republicans are in power, tax cuts, go to the corporations, and the very wealthy, they pay a little or no tax every year. The Republicans think it will have a trickle down effect because these people will hire more people to work. It hasn’t worked yet.
Mr. Campbell says the “Party of the People” have been lying , all I can say, is the “Grand Ole Party” is not so grand anymore. He mentions the election deniers, and where some elections may have been questioned or challenged, the capital was never attacked by insurrectionist, given encouragement from the commander-in-chief calling them hostages instead of criminals that they are.
As for immigration that’s been a problem since the 1950s and neither side was in a hurry to fix it. The only time it becomes a major issue is in an election yea.r Congress came up with a bipartisan plan to start to fix it. Everyone agreed, and then trump told the Republican party to stop it from going through. He didn’t want Biden to claim a win. trump wanted to run on that platform himself.
Why is trump still running the Republicans, why are the real Republicans afraid to stand up against him? Oh, that’s right, career politicians. They are letting the clowns run the party, like gate, greene, cawthorn, cruz, etc..
As for the moral compass that was thrown out completely in 2017, when trump took office and opened Pandora’s box, and gave the deplorable’s, that Hillary had mentioned, permission to act as he does.
I don’t care what party you are, but when you vote, vote your conscience not your prejudices.
The reason you might find it repetitive is because everybody sees it now.
I might’ve misspoke, saying the republican party was being run by these clowns. When I should have said, was they are the face of the republican party at the moment. The person running the Republican party is trump, who holds no office, in fact, he is starting to become quite pathetic, he can’t even put two sentences together that makes sense.
At first, when Trump threw his hat into the ring I found him to be egotistical, narcissistic, disgusting, repulsive, racist, with no moral compass, or humanity. Now I just find him just plain pitiful. The truth hurts.
I agree with Brian's assessment of the democratic party. It's become very difficult to even discuss these issues with lots of people, that I also call the deniers or the brainwashed. I like to consider opposing opinions to see if my opinion might be wrong. Most of the people with opposing opinions refuse to be open minded and even consider that they might be wrong. Sad. I encourage everyone to be open minded and as Brian says, do your homework.
Excellent factual article! But remember what Mark Twain said, "It is easier to fool someone, than to convince someone that they have been fooled". So very True.
Fabulous history lesson Brian! Thank you.
excellent short history of the open racism pushed by the D Party…makes it more revolting that they push their agendas using taxpayer money…these people are con artists…
[D] Party Con:
When you can't raise money 'organically' through party (individual) donations (voter base) YOU STEAL IT from the American taxpayer and give it back to yourself in the form of campaign contributions.
[Example 1]
Planned Parenthood
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-204r
$1.5 billion provided in taxpayer funding over 3-year period.
[Case 1]
PP spent $30 million [disclosed - real estimates close to $65 million] in taxpayer subsidies to influence the outcome of the 2018 midterm elections.
[Conclusion]
Should it be legal for a taxpayer funded organization to donate massive amounts of money to the D PARTY in an effort to sway an election?
by the way, the D Party insider term for such actions is taxpayer wash…time to stop the madness!
Thank you for this short history of The Democratic Party. I am an immigrant. I was generally aware of most of the history, but I had not seen it written so concisely before. I have always compared the Democratic Party with the British Labour Party which destroyed the British economy, until Margaret Thatcher actually introduced the supposed mission of the Tory Party, which, when in power, they failed to pursue. Maggie, apart from Winston Churchill, was the only effective, Tory Prime minister after the second world war.
Google “the Southern strategy” if you want to understand why the Republican party is now largely viewed as the party suppressing African American rights. You’ve laid out a very good factual basis from slavery to the Civil Rights movement, but then leaving out the last 50 years of politics conveniently leaves out all the recent voting restrictions that Republican governments have put in place since Shelby Co. vs. Holder to suppress Black voters.
What’s the other option? A party run by the likes of Santos, Greene, Boebert, Cawthorn, and, yes, trump? I turned in my fifty year old Republican card once this nonsense began. Now an Independent. Review Project 2025 and tell me that’s how we want things.
Yes…Trump! Thank you!
Well, career politicians can be a bit “exagerative” when running for office. It doesn’t stop them from taking up residency in the White House.
Biden says he was never accused of sexual assault. The why did Nancy Pelosi dismissed Tara Reade’s accusations of sexual assault against Joe Biden. By saying “I I know him,”
Biden also maintained that he “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school” and was the “outstanding student in the political science department.”
In fact, Biden graduated 76th of 85 students in his law school class, had only a partial scholarship and did not win top honors in his undergraduate discipline.
Biden claimed: “My ancestors…worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours,’’ even though no one in Biden’s family tree ever worked underground.
Biden told audiences that after his stint in the White House, “I became a teacher. I became a professor.” While it is true that he took a lofty salary to make a handful of speeches for the University of Pennsylvania, Biden has never taught students.
Biden’s claims of having been arrested in the 1970s because he tried to visit Nelson Mandela in prison. Nope, didn’t happen.
He has also cast himself as a civil rights activist and co-sponsor of the Endangered Species Act; those things aren’t true either.
Biden’s 1987 campaign he was caught plagiarizing passages of a speech given by Neil Kinnock. Biden falsely repeated the British Labor leader’s history that he was the first “in a thousand generations” to graduate from college
Biden proclaimed the Obama administration “didn’t lock people up in cages.” The “cages” were installed under Obama.
The list goes on. The point is Dems love bashing Santos for following in Biden’s footsteps. Ah, jealousy?
Well written, and laid out brilliantly. Thank you, I am sharing this far and wide. The deniers will keep denying.
You laid the facts out very well. I remember when we did learn these things in school. My parents helped me understand all of this at a young age and pointed out the many instances of liberal bias while I was growing up in the 60s. I will forward this to my children so they can see, the facts about what I have been telling them their whole lives because I’m sure none of this came up during their schooling. Thank you for your article.
"Today most teachers purposely ignore or teach the opposite of what is truly occurring." The irony of this pot shot taken at 'teachers' is pretty rich coming from the author who plays teacher by giving a history lesson that ignores and teaches the opposite of what has happened in the last fifty years! Not addressing the Republican Southern Strategy and political realignment that has happened after Goldwater and Nixon played on white, mostly southern, grievances over Civil Rights legislation makes this author's points irrelevant and infantile--basically making the argument - "Democrats supported slavery in the 1800s more than Republicans so, see... they are the racists." Instead, how about a more nuanced and relevant discussion? Tell us dear author, why you see confederate flags flying proudly at Trump rallies? Which party supports a candidate who believes there are 'good people on both sides" when speaking of racist marching through Virginia? Tell us why you feel comfortable supporting a candidate who, and this is just a short list off the top of my head, refused to apologize for calling for the death penalty on the Central Park Five, who questioned without evidence Obama's citizenship, who mocks the disabled, women, and people of color at any turn, and whose actions by the way, led to January 6th? And the author has the gall to call out teachers, without any evidence mind you, for 'preaching their personal opinion' to their students. The author doth protest too much, methinks.
Yeah, Will. 100% on this one. The author's claims/points/implications are ridiculous.
Debunked? We all heard what he said, how he tried to explain it away in the days after without really doing so, more dog whistles for those who wanted to hear what they heard (e.g. stand back and stand by vs. definitively denouncing the Proud Boys....hmmm who showed up on Jan 6?) The point being, rather than taking the moment to unite the country against bigotry and racism, he chose to equivocate, emboldening those who heard his words as validation of their hateful views. It's an example that illustrates how silly the author's argument is about the history of Democratic racism which ignores the current reality and the shameful history of Trump's own racial behaviors that are so conveniently ignored -- when you have a history that includes the Central Park 5, discriminating against blacks in renting apartments, questioning our nation's first black president's citizenship--I can go on...you don't get the benefit of the doubt on what you really mean. Ethical high ground is tricky territory with Trump that requires a lot of moral gymnastics. And don't get me started on the author's attacks on teachers. Without merit, completely baseless, not factual and more red meat for those that think learning both the good and bad elements of our shared history means you are 'indoctrinating.'
Common tactic - attempt to distract by not addressing arguments and offering a counter argument, instead use an hominem to make a baseless claim about sources without doing so yourself. I understand it's hard to hold water for Trump's views and actions when they are so vile, but I am genuinely curious how you would attempt to do so.
I totally agree with Brian’s comments and rather than spending time on how we got here righting a wrong seems to be what our focus should be. Our children have been slowly brain washed, our schools and the media have happily complied and our churches are threatened.
What can we do?
Speak the truth while we can, friendly conversations with young adults, show the history before it’s erased by AI and pray for our Beautiful America.
Be prepared for the battle that’s ahead and never waver, stand tall with Lady Liberty🗽God Bless America🇺🇸
Jill can you tell us how our churches are threatened?
I read a LOT of history, and this is all fact based truth.
“ I realized most career politicians – and particularly Democrat politicians – had no moral compass.”
I’m a bit slow, can you explain me how DJT has a moral compass? He cheats on his wives, pays off porn stars he’s had sex with, lies constantly, sells bibles for profit, Truth Social gets financing via a shell company directly linked Russian nationals, he’s trying to stiff his business partners, fails to pay contractors, did I mention constant lying, and maybe worst of all, he cheats at golf unashamedly. This is the guy you think should be president?
Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault by Tara Reade.
The Biden diary is real, they are going to prosecute the person who found it. Which means Biden did shower with his daughter.
But did you notice how “they” covered up Hunters Laptop?
Did notice that a Senator who “willfully” kept classified documents and then told said secrets to a ghost writer because he got paid $8,000,000 for the book rights is not in jail?
Do you recall the classified documents found in a garage, the Penn Center, etc that were kept by a Senator and a Vice President and the government decided to not say anything until after an election?
Or how about the President who kept documents that are permitted under the PRA and has every right to keep those documents. And they were in a locked room with security guards behind a gated property with limited access. Not a garage floor at a beach house that a drug addict had access to.
Here’s a good one, in 1973 Biden called Gays a threat to National Security.
Should we keep going?
In 1973 gays were probably a security risk to our National Security. Almost everyone was in the closet because society was so out right evil and mean to them. So if you were a closeted gay you'd be perfect target for outside leverage.
I would think you'd alien with Mike Pence - he's a man of faith that all sides respect. He won't endorse much less support Trump.
It's interesting that the only person Mr. Campbell doesn't dump on in this miss mash is his father - the vet and award winning school teacher - who was a democrat.
Many of us were Republicans - then MAGA took over and the party left us as well. I miss many of the folks discarded and branded RINO while the new party had fun chumming around with George Santos.
Excellent recap of true American History. I wonder if any democrat reading your op Ed, would think you are lying and not representing the Democrats fairly? Sad, if that is true because you were right on Brian. Thanks for taking the time to explain why you left the Democratic Party forever. I did too!
Truth must be restored to America
Santos was following in Biden's footsteps.
After all Biden is admirable graduating top of his class on a full academic scholarship with three degrees from undergraduate school” and was the “outstanding student in the political science department.”
In fact, Biden graduated 76th of 85 students in his law school class, had only a partial scholarship and did not win top honors in his undergraduate discipline.
Biden graduated 76th out of 85 from Syracuse University. Currently rated #1 Best Public Affairs school. https://www.syracuse.edu/about/facts-figures/
Santos?? That’s all you got?
Democrats were formed from racist who wanted slavery and no civil rights.
Republicans fought for civil rights, anti racism and women’s rights.
The RINOs forgot what the Republican Party is about. They sold their souls for payouts or got caught with their pants down and became a double agent.
The Patriots are wanting to restore Republicans back to the civil rights loving anti government party there originated from.
Even conservative democrats understand this and do not want to be a part of the Democratic Party. But they hold on to the lies they’ve been fed. Like an abusive relationship, hoping the Dem leaders will actually live up to their false promises.
Most people when you. Discuss the issues and ask questions of each other you find that it doesn’t matter if you’re a D or an R. You realize you’re Americans. Common people won this country and founded this country.
The elites have their banker wars.
Mr. Campbell paints a pretty colorful history of the Democratic Party, which can’t be denied, and most people know the history already. Saying Democrats are liars is pushing it. All politicians lie, I’m willing to bet that even “Honest Abe” told a fib or two.
He infers that the Democratic Party have been in control for decades and created the mess we’re in. So I did a quick search because I know that’s not a fact. I only went back as far as Truman since 1945. There’s been seven Democratic administrations and seven Republican administrations in control. So it looks like they can both share the blame. Remember, though, when Republicans are in power, tax cuts, go to the corporations, and the very wealthy, they pay a little or no tax every year. The Republicans think it will have a trickle down effect because these people will hire more people to work. It hasn’t worked yet.
Mr. Campbell says the “Party of the People” have been lying , all I can say, is the “Grand Ole Party” is not so grand anymore. He mentions the election deniers, and where some elections may have been questioned or challenged, the capital was never attacked by insurrectionist, given encouragement from the commander-in-chief calling them hostages instead of criminals that they are.
As for immigration that’s been a problem since the 1950s and neither side was in a hurry to fix it. The only time it becomes a major issue is in an election yea.r Congress came up with a bipartisan plan to start to fix it. Everyone agreed, and then trump told the Republican party to stop it from going through. He didn’t want Biden to claim a win. trump wanted to run on that platform himself.
Why is trump still running the Republicans, why are the real Republicans afraid to stand up against him? Oh, that’s right, career politicians. They are letting the clowns run the party, like gate, greene, cawthorn, cruz, etc..
As for the moral compass that was thrown out completely in 2017, when trump took office and opened Pandora’s box, and gave the deplorable’s, that Hillary had mentioned, permission to act as he does.
I don’t care what party you are, but when you vote, vote your conscience not your prejudices.
The reason you might find it repetitive is because everybody sees it now.
I might’ve misspoke, saying the republican party was being run by these clowns. When I should have said, was they are the face of the republican party at the moment. The person running the Republican party is trump, who holds no office, in fact, he is starting to become quite pathetic, he can’t even put two sentences together that makes sense.
At first, when Trump threw his hat into the ring I found him to be egotistical, narcissistic, disgusting, repulsive, racist, with no moral compass, or humanity. Now I just find him just plain pitiful. The truth hurts.
Thank you for your candid and through history lesson. We never knew this or taught it and especially that the KKK was backed by the Democrats.
I pray we wake up and be accountable for our vote this November. Our county, our state, our nation, our FREEDOM are on the line.
Write an article on how to get accurate facts would be helpful for us.
We are and have been very conservative Republicans voting for moral and family 👪 laws.
Many are concerned is it worth voting. Does it really count or is it sabotaging system in dominion instead of WE THE PEOPLE!!
Joel and Lynda