The post modern liberal progressive revisionists do not actually alter the truth, they only misrepresent it. Obviously, you've never been exposed to anything else, or more likely chosen not to retain it, but that's not an intellectual deficiency I share as I've read the classic historical treatise and modern conservative historical texts that revised nothing whatsoever.
As even non-scholarly liberal leaning broadcasters like PBS
state:
"The Democratic Party identified itself as the 'white man's party' and demonized the Republican Party as being 'Negro dominated,' even though whites were in control. Determined to re-capture the South, Southern Democrats 'redeemed' state after state -- sometimes peacefully, other times by fraud and violence. By 1877, when Reconstruction was officially over, the Democratic Party controlled every Southern state.
The South remained a one-party region until the Civil Rights movement began in the 1960s. Northern Democrats, most of whom had prejudicial attitudes towards blacks, offered no challenge to the discriminatory policies of the Southern Democrats.
One of the consequences of the Democratic victories in the South was that many Southern Congressmen and Senators were almost automatically re-elected every election. Due to the importance of seniority in the U.S. Congress, Southerners were able to control most of the committees in both houses of Congress and kill any civil rights legislation. Even though Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a Democrat, and a relatively liberal president during the 1930s and '40s, he rarely challenged the powerfully entrenched Southern bloc. When the House passed a federal anti-lynching bill several times in the 1930s, Southern senators filibustered it to death."
African Americans, who traditionally supported the Republican Party, didn't even begin supporting Democrats in any number until the administration of President Harry Truman in 1947–48 proposed civil rights legislation after which the Democratic Party's main base of support shifted marking a dramatic reversal of history.
But tell me some more fairytales about the Democrat party in 1860 Nautilus as I do enjoy fiction from time to time.
As for non-fiction, if you want to dissect the GOP and examine it's rotten innards and their colossal guilt with respect to the our ailing domestic labor market, implementation of trade policies decidedly UNfavorable to U.S. workers, rise of the super debt, abandonment of national innovation/invention/idea creation to foreign powers, etc... etc... etc... I'll be happy to help you do it as I'm not a member of that corrupt political party either.
We have two corrupt bad political parties presently nautilus. I'm not in love with either one of them even though you are.
To answer your questions, because the people on welfare would be unable to find work in this depressed economy that the present liberal government and liberal media live in denial of as they seek to dump every poor immigrant in the world into the worst domestic U.S. labor market since the Great Depression: social upheaval would occur.
The Census Bureau's 2013 figure for the number of Americans receiving benefits from means-tested federal programs (not including those state and local welfare programs nor private charities that are unfunded by the federal government) was over 109 million while the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ figure for full-time workers was about 105 million. When you have more people taking from the federal government than pay into it and it's all being funded by massive government borrowing, then you're building a debt bomb which eventually explodes.
And destroying productivity by taking most or all of the profits of production and redistributing it never worked in all of human history with the 20th century being a case study in it not working when a totalitarian government attempted to force people to increase productivity in exactly the paradigm through the use of raw severe force undergirded by a vicious gulag system.
Setting the reasons for the dismal U.S. labor market aside for a moment; the dismal U.S. labor market (aggravated by an endless flood of labor supply through present immigration, visa, and trade policies) is the number one driver for U.S. poverty, U.S. income disparity, U.S. citizen debt, the U.S. national debt and rising interest expenses, etc...
Watch:
https://youtu.be/7J_2Hh453-o
Tick tock goes the clock. Nation in decline headed for upheaval. Western Civilization in decline headed for upheaval and replacement.
Can the U.S. and, in fact all Western Civilization, be reformed to spectacular success again? Yes. But, only the wrong reforms are on the table now. Both the present progressive liberal model of pure socialization and the neo-conservative model only hasten our end which is actually slowed by these two political parties gridlocking each other from escalating the decline... lol. Sad but true.
Well if AoK's point is that democrats keep them in life with welfare, then what happens if Republicans take over and like they have said remove said welfare? You now have a population that has been conditioned there whole lives to live off of handouts. What happens when those handouts go away? You think the people are just suddenly going to become productive members of society? I mean seriously, the ones who did nothing but lounge around on welfare are going to end up homeless or getting what they need illegally. Black or white, but he specifically brought up the black portion.
