last time I checked they had quite a bit of blood on their hands when it comes to slavery and segregation

You're a moron pick up a history book, the confederate democrats were christian conservatives defeated by Lincoln's progressives and when LBJ and the establishment democrats signed civil rights the conservative christian democrats moved to what is today's republican confederate and nazi flag flying racist, bigoted, misogynistic, wall st worshiping, anti-worker fascist party. Well known racist Strom Thurmond symbolically crossed the isle from the democrats to the republican party as LBJ had predicted that the democrats would lose the racist south over civil rights. If you think you're the progressive party of Lincoln while you're a confederate flag flying modern-day conservative you are a real moron.

History taught me that the Democrats were the party of secession, segregation, the KKK Jim Crow and more. They may have been southern conservitive Democrats but they were still Democrats in good standing with their own party. They called themselves Democrats, they voted Democrat and they hated Lincoln and the Republican reconstructionionists, so tell me again how that changes the point of the meme. If you were to seriously try to erase everything that stood for the above mentioned wrongs, the very word Democrat would be a more legitimate target than some monument on a battlefield. You Sir or Madam are a classic example of someone who assumes moral or intellectual superiority just become you disagree with an opinion.

The current republican conservatives are carrying confederate and nazi flags and what they called themselves 100+ years ago has no relevance today. You're just a lying confederate nazi denying it like nazi cowards always have when confronted. I am a 47 year old lifelong rural Texan and I've listened to you racist conservatives all my life bragging about your racism until they get confronted then they turn into the lying and denying coward that you are today. I confront racism in public all the time and shut people like you up and the military leaders have already denounced conservative racists publicly so you're about to get tore off the bone again and way past time fascist.

You know nothing about me, I however am pretty sure you are a self righteous person who as I said previously automatically assumes moral or intellectual superiority over every person that has a point of view you do not agree with. I by no means assume your stupid, despite you vocabulary of choice, so I assume you fit into the partisan category. PS My inter-racial married family members, my half Algerian Niece and the many, many African Americans and Hispanics I have personally promoted during my working life, many time being first ones to break the minority barrier would be more than glad to dispute your -ahem- profiling and stereotyping conclusion you have drawn of me from a current events meme.imgflip.com/i/1uqpy1 If you are not familiar with Mr. Carlin then I would suggest you, as you say, educate yourself on his political leanings but he also was not afraid to say what he really believed.

P.S. The meme says "All REMINDERS" of our slavery days and as much as you want to crow and insult the word Democrat is synonymous with the things I have mentioned, sorry if you don't get that.

Take a history or American political science class --- there was a party shift that started taking place in the late 1800's until the Vietnam war era. Geography is the key - not what name you give your party. The same people who were on the wrong side of history in 1860 are on the wrong side again. IDEOLOGY, and its behaviors and mindset is what matters. Like George Carlin said, “people think that if you change the name of the condition, then you change the condition.” Calling a progressive person a Republican or Democrat at a certain point in history is irrelevant. Consistency of behavior is paramount. Conservative (in the current definition of the ideology) people today are against the progressive principles that grant equal rights to the disenfranchised.

Ask a racist, white supremacist, Neo-Nazi, or KKK member who they voted for, then come back and try to make the case that Republicans are currently on the right side of history.

I don't need to I know that, the reason Nixon was elected is because of the flip you two are talking about but the fact remains when the above mentioned atrocities took place the Democratic Party was the party they supported and or created such things. History shows George Wallace came to regret his racism but is that what is thought, no, only the images of him standing on the steps of the University of Alabama blatantly defying federal law (same as the Mayors and Governors of sanctuary cities or States). In my opinion your arguments examples of the point of the meme, it's not about who went where, it's about how far does this ridiculousness go, and WHO gets to decide, and what are their standards. And just for the record I was born and raised in New York and joined the Democratic Party when I turned 18 but had to leave and become an independent when they morphed from the party of ideas, free speech and inclusion for all to the party of shouting down all ideologies they disagree with and using fascist tactics to deny certain people or groups the very right to be proud of their religious or ethnic heritage. They have become a cliche, a living example of a group that stood for free speech and tolerance and now has zero tolerance for opposing speech or lifestyles they disagree with.