AZ GOP candidate: More guns to defend against "a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods."

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8. This is a lie that has some historical truth. That is the problem.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Democratic Party DID align itself with the Ku Klux Klan in the South. The thing is, that those affiliations changed. The Democratic Party was the Conservative party in US Government and at least some factions of the Republican Party were progressive. Anyone with half a brain, understands that the modern Republicans (1960's) folded the Dixiecrats (Southern Segregationist Democrats) into the Republican party after LBJ signed the Civil Rights Acts into law. Problem is that right wingers do not utilize their brain. They are purely emotional creatures so they believe the right wing propaganda that the switch never happened.


When you have an unpopular idea of how society should be run. One that does not meet any needs for the vast majority of people, you have to learn to lie really well. It doesn't hurt to have very rich donors who can fund more and more propaganda.