What do Democrats Stand For? They stood to filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Democrat Party, Senator Robert Byrd (KKK Exalted Cyclops) et. al. receive another dose of image-laundering, re: 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Valid arguments are fact-based, but you would lose the emotional punch you seek if you honored that basic premise. You lost me at the point where legend was presented as fact. Once more we are offered the Cafeteria of Fallacy in a discussion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Excerpt from Politifact follows:
Steele says GOP fought hard for civil rights bills in 1960s | PolitiFact
The Civil Rights Act — which is best known for barring discrimination in public accommodations — passed the House on Feb. 10, 1964 by a margin of 290–130. When broken down by party, 61 percent of Democratic lawmakers voted for the bill (152 yeas and 96 nays), and a full 80 percent of the Republican caucus supported it (138 yeas and 34 nays).
When the Senate passed the measure on June 19, 1964, — nine days after supporters mustered enough votes to end the longest filibuster in Senate history — the margin was 73–27. Better than two-thirds of Senate Democrats supported the measure on final passage (46 yeas, 21 nays), but an even stronger 82 percent of Republicans supported it (27 yeas, 6 nays).
Two additional facts conveniently omitted from many discussions on this issue: Democrat Senators Al Gore Sr. and Robert Byrd (KKK Exalted Cyclops ) joined the group of Democrats who staged a filibuster AGAINST the 1964 Civil Rights Act:
Civil Rights Filibuster Ended. At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for 60 working days, including seven Saturdays.
U.S. Senate: Civil Rights Filibuster Ended
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd (Again: KKK Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd), the longest-serving Senator in the history of US Senate, opposed and and voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act as well.
Brevity demands we discuss only these examples, but there are so many others. I would love to tear apart more of your thesis, but I sincerely doubt you would care, and I don’t have the time to waste on it; I stopped reading at the point where lies were trotted out in the Halloween costumes of empirical fact.
This (using legend/lies as fact) is a strong point in the “What Democrats Stand For” playbook. I’ll admit they don’t have an exclusive on this move (what a shock! transparency!), but they play this game much better than others. Feel free to try again, but when lies are spread thick as foundation for debate, there is no debate.
I’m not sure how old you are; I lived through these times and remember them well. Nonetheless, there is no excuse for ignorance or dishonesty in debate. Are you content to plow ahead in deception? Are you willing to respond? If so, please bring your sharpest pen- and do your homework.
Original article:
https://medium.com/@lamargoing/democrat-party-senator-robert-byrd-kkk-exalted-cyclops-et-a759ecc855b4
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