GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said in a closed door briefing with lawmakers on Tuesday that the Ku Klux Klan is the “the military wing of the Democratic party” and that migrants coming to the US “have no interest in being Americans,” according to audio of Perry’s comments shared with CNN.
Equally true as the GOP being the stalwart supporters of a woman's right to choose, the champions of sensible gun control, and the sacred guardians of single payer universal healthcare.
The KKK did NOT endorse Hillary in 2016, nor Biden in 2020. Guess who they endorsed, Mr. Perry? Pro-Tip: He's running on your side this year and is currently grousing in a courtroom as they determine if he broke the law or not...
So standard projection from the GOP. Nice of them to confirm that they consider the KKK to be their military wing, not that that's a surprise to anyone.
Well, given that Republicans understand progressivism as fascism, fascism as anything Democrats do, anything that Democrats do as everything they (Republicans) don't like, then yes, that's exactly what they believe. As such, they can disavow explicit racists and continue to be implicitly racist.
Apart from the huge logical leaps, the KKK's agenda so closely aligns with the GOP's and Trump's, can you even imagine a single member of the KKK being a democrat? Being a democrat is like an excommunicable sin for these groups.
It's an incredibly common talking point fed to reactionaries by right-wing media.
Try telling a Republican that everyone in the KKK who votes does so for Republicans and watch the denials and accusations fly despite it being perfectly obvious.
can you even imagine a single member of the KKK being a democrat?
A lot of local politics takes place in these very well-financed and well-organized partisan units that operate independent of the national scene. A big part of the Democratic Party in West Virginia has always kinda sucked - putting up guys like Joe Manchin and Jim Justice (who won as a Democrat and immediately flipped to Republican) - without any real respect for popular sentiments in the state. Kentucky Party Democrats put up a "Pro-Trump" candidate Amy McGrath in 2020. Ohio Democrats (other than Sherrod Brown) are almost universally awful, in their habit of supporting climate denialism and copaganda. My own mayor, John Whitmire, has been friendly with Greg Abbott, Rick Perry, and the Bushs since he took office in the state senate in 1983.
So yes. I can very easily imagine a batch of die-hard Zell Miller democrats camped out in a backwater Florida county that think their party has been taken over by Woke Soy Antifa Communists like Joe Biden.
The military wing of the Democratic Party is the navy in my experience, but the military wing of the American left wants to fight the kkk everywhere they see them.
Trying to sort through the projection, is this why they're so afraid of Antifa? Because the GOP has a military wing with the KKK, they assume the Dems want to create a military group with Antifa or something? Certainly explains how they try to portray Antifa.
To be fair, Biden and Eric Adams can't quite seem to figure out where the fuck they stand on immigration either. Hell, The Obama Administration RAMPED UP deportation during it's era. Ignorance and irrationality are endemic among both parties
They've been doing it for years. Like the "National Socialists are leftists because socialist is in the name" thing. Ignoring that in Europe at the time, everybody was basically calling themselves socialist to chase the votes of the working population.
They aren't stupid, it's intentional, to muddy the waters for people that aren't very familiar with that history.
He talks about supporting legal migration like his ancestors but honestly it's way more American to just show up here and do what you want, how else would this country have gotten started if not for unsanctioned migration and crimes against humanity?
...Who does he think is joining the current incarnations of the KKK? Does he really think that the people in the current KKK are Democratic voters? Really?
The wack part of this is that he said it in a closed door meeting with a few of his peers or staff, not to a crowd of people. That shows he actually believes this bullshit.
Maybe the reason you don't hear so much about the KKK these days is that they decided to be the "military wing" of the anti-military, anti-gun anti-fascist anti-racist party.
What is happening now is we’re importing people into the country that want to be in America … but have no interest in being Americans, and that’s very different and to disparage the comments is to chill the conversation so that we can continue to bring in more people that we never met that are un-American,” Perry said, according to the recording.
TBH, a lot of migrants to the west do not share my progressive, secular values and that bothers me a bit. It's also forbidden to speak of on the left. To be intolerant of misogynist and homophobic religious nutters from elsewhere is racism of course. Obviously it's not a conspiracy, just economics driving people to where the money is, but can we not admit that it has an effect on the culture?
To be intolerant of misogynist and homophobic religious nutters from elsewhere is racism of course.
To write off the "other" as "misogynist and homophobic religious nutters" is about as white supremacist as it gets here in the dear ole' west - it doesn't surprise me that leftists aren't interested in what you have to say.
See what happens when we allow unrestricted freedom of speech?
Our "freedoms" aren't as freeing as people think they are. I realize how dangerous that sounds, but I mean, here we are on the cusp of fascism because we allowed these horrible people to say whatever they wanted to the point where people started believing them. There has to be a standard that we hold speech up to.