That because what’s “proven” is a damned lie.
The KKK were 100% Democrats.
A2A. Because they were originally associated with the Democratic Party, specifically the southern branch thereof. Which was far right, mind you; but the people making the accusations in question aren’t known for troubling themselves with inconvenient facts (such as, for example, white supremacists being far more likely to vote Republican nowadays).
Because the KKK wrapped themselves in the American flag, but never represented true American ideals. The Constitution doesn't say we the white people of the United States. Slavery has never at any time in the country's history been the law of the entire country. There were free colonies and slave colonies. As a matter of fact, the first person to die in the American Revolution, Crispus Attucks, was working as a free merchant seaman in Boston, Massachusetts in 1770. Also, in case you didn't know, the leftist Nazi Party of Germany learned everything that they know about racism and segregation from the American Democratic Party.
Just like Jan 6th were all Trump supporters, right?
Because as a lifelong Southerner (AL-GA-TN), let me ASSURE you, EVERY Klansman I EVER met was a DEMOCRAT.
Fact: The KKK was STARTED by Southern DEMOCRATS, and for over 100 years, that has been their membership.
THE MEDIA LABELS ALL LEFT-WING VIOLENCE AS RIGHT-WING. Chairman Mao's Golden Rule.
The question is based on a false premise. People don’t call the KKK a leftist organization. Some modern conservatives say that the Nazi party was a left wing organization, so perhaps some people confuse the 2.
Probably because so many people aren't ignorant of History. The Democrats wanted to keep slavery and after the Civil War the Democrats formed the k k k. Even progressives like Margaret Sanger gave speeches at KKK rallies. Of course the words Progressive and liberal have you come to me and exactly the opposite of what they originally meant. That might be the confusion
In Sanger’s work An Autobiography: A Fight for Birth Control, she writes about her experience at the KKK rally:
Always to me any aroused group was a good group, and therefore I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan….My address that night had to be in the most elementary terms, as though I were trying to make children understand. In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.
Well, they do support democrats. And democrats founded it. Ask Hillary. She was close friends with that Byrd guy from the Klan. That should tell you all you need to know
The KKK was the terrorist arm of Southern Democrats. To be completely honest, the Republican Party has never changed its opinion on the relationship between race and government policy—there shouldn’t be one. The government should not govern based on race but should treat people as individuals. That’s how we felt when Lincoln formed the party, and that’s how we feel now.
True White Supremacy involves a belief that white people are inherently more capable than minorities (especially black people) and must therefore take responsibility for their outcomes. In the dark days of the Dixiecrat South, that involved owning black people because they saw them as savages who were not capable of managing their own affairs. Today, that same White Supremacy is expressed through Critical Race Theory, which has at its core the idea that black people cannot thrive without whites bending down or stepping aside somehow. If you cannot see the anti-black racism inherent in this view, you are willfully blind to it.
The KKK was formed as the enforcement arm of the Democrat party, and Democrats still practice racism every day.
...But in the 1960’s when the Civil Rights laws were passed and the ending of Jim Crow, they switched parties.
By calling white supremacy ‘far right’, you’re re-writing history. White supremacy was so pervasive in society prior to the Civil Rights Movement, in the heyday of the KKK, it was neither left nor right. It was both and it was neither. Most white people were on board and hardly aware there was a problem. The country was nearly 90% ‘white’ in the early to mid 20th century. White supremacy was the norm.
I know liberals like to think of their tribe as a sort of religion that has always been moral and good, a centuries old fight against mean angry conservative bullies like Hitler and slave owners in the Old Confederacy. They end up re-writing history in their image. Not unlike the methods of white supremacy, the way history used to be ‘whitewashed’ back in the 1950s and beyond.
Liberals ignore the many sins of the left, or simply associate all of the nation’s sins with ‘the right’, while creating false narratives associating themselves with all of the good.
The reason that Republicans like to make fun of Democrats by associating them with the KKK is because most voters in the south were Democrats back in the day. It’s simply true, most KKK members were Democrats because most southerners were Democrats. It was a politics largely defined by love of FDR and post-Depression Era economic policy. Pro-labor, etc. It’s not like the Republican Party was the anti-racist party, but neither were the Democrats, that’s for sure.
‘Progressives’ do have a history of engaging in mental gymnastics, defining it as scholarship. They came up with eugenics after-all, and they used eugenics ‘science’ to justify ‘whites only’ immigration and labor policies. Ironically, they’re using neoracist Woke ‘science’ in a similar way in 2022. Social science can be as far removed from actual science as religion imo. It’s a soft science that gets it wrong over and over again, like categorizing homosexuality as a mental illness until the 1970s:
“Less well known is that a crude eugenic sorting of groups into deserving and
undeserving classes crucially informed the labor and immigration reform that is the hallmark of the Progressive Era (Leonard, 2003). Reform-minded economists of the Progressive Era defended exclusionary labor and immigration legislation on grounds that the labor force should be rid of unfit workers, whom they labeled “parasites,” “the unemployable,” “low-wage races” and the “industrial residuum.” Removing the unfit, went the argument, would uplift superior, deserving workers.”
https://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf
only modern times has the idea of white supremacy been a “right wing” thing and it was dumped on them by the “evolved” Democratic Party to try to hide their racist pasts Hilary Clinton has pictures with well known klans members and they held positions in the dnc in 1990s
the Nazis where national socialists (not right wing)
history shows the ideology that makes up the modern left is highly suspect and mostly stained with blood and lies
I don’t think the KKK was a “leftist organization” but there is no doubt it was a Democrat organization. The KKK was the armed militant apparatus of the Democrat Party. Democrats used the Klan to do their dirty work to harass Republicans and black people. Since Democrats are on the left of the American political spectrum then by association people classify the Klan as a leftist organization. The problem with left and right classification in American politics is that until 2016 there has never really been a left or right political force in the United States. Neither Democrats or Republicans are traditionally leftist or conservative. They are traditionally liberal parties. America is a liberal state. In 2016 however the Democrat Party became a full on leftist organization that has fully embraced socialist values.
In this case, she was working on the Civil War era, and I have to confess, I read something in her book that I had never thought of before. The Northern Union wasn’t simply opposed to slavery on moral grounds, though it was a significant factor. One of the primary issues with slavery was that it was killing the economic opportunities for the working class.
Like illegal immigration today, the influx of slaves was taking away work opportunities from poor or lower middle class workers who needed jobs. After 35 years of studying politics, I was shocked this had not occurred to me before. In this sense, slaves were essentially the illegal immigrants of their day.
