Politapocalypse (U.S. Politics Megathread)

ISIS" IS "contained" in Iraq, where he said it was contained
-Norton

Norton

Social climber

Dec 1, 2015 - 07:38am PT
is there a disconnect here?

"ISIS" IS "contained" in Iraq, where he said it was contained

stop lying, leave that to your Repub Presidential candidates


and read this

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/15/ben-rhodes/what-barack-obama-said-about-isis-being-contained/

Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.

Dec 1, 2015 - 07:51am PT
The Mainstream Media won't call it what is;

Christian Right Wing Extremist Terrorism
They are anti Government, anti progress, and consider abortion to murder, so it's Ok to murder the murderers

and they all have stock piles of Guns

They have killed ~7 times more Americans that Islamic Extremists

Another attempt at a US politics megathread. The goal is civil (if contentious) political discussion. Most of your political cartoons are bad. Use your words.

You Are More Than 7 Times As Likely To Be Killed By A Right-Wing Extremist Than By Muslim Terrorists
-Dr. F

The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six former members of the Confederate army.[17] The name is probably derived from the Greek word kuklos (κύκλος) which means circle.[18]

In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican party's infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.

Although there was little organizational structure above the local level, similar groups rose across the South and adopted the same name and methods.[19] Klan groups spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement during the Reconstruction era in the United States. As a secret vigilante group, the Klan targeted freedmen and their allies; it sought to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans. In 1870 and 1871, the federal government passed the Force Acts, which were used to prosecute Klan crimes.[20] Prosecution of Klan crimes and enforcement of the Force Acts suppressed Klan activity.

The first Klan had mixed results in terms of achieving its objectives. It seriously weakened the black political establishment through its use of assassinations and threats of violence; it drove some people out of politics. On the other hand, it caused a sharp backlash, with passage of federal laws that historian Eric Foner says were a success in terms of "restoring order, reinvigorating the morale of Southern Republicans, and enabling blacks to exercise their rights as citizens."[21] Historian George C. Rable argues that the Klan was a political failure and therefore was discarded by the Democratic leaders of the South. He says:

the Klan declined in strength in part because of internal weaknesses; its lack of central organization and the failure of its leaders to control criminal elements and sadists. More fundamentally, it declined because it failed to achieve its central objective – the overthrow of Republican state governments in the South.