Ben Engle

[Ben Engle @msibengle]

@JohnnyReb3760 @UnathiAfrika @PeteHegseth @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei @POTUS Apparently, calling Trump Nazi is so last year. Now he's the father of communism

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@JimmyMa38489653 @JamieBonkiewicz That's right! It goes in the square hole!

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@Auriandra @RepJeffries Women have been getting married for thousands of years and you don't think we know how to account for their name change clerically?

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@WalshFreedom How are you so unintelligent? The right people means people who aren't eligible (non-citizens) have been filtered out.

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@Heccles94 What are you doing for any of these issues?

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@LisaPlaywright @jainphilosopher @pepel_klaasa The fact that in America, we can take folks from many avenues to drive towards a focused purpose has always been our strength.

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@AOC Here we see AOC displaying she doesn't know the different between a government program and a charitable foundation

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@NaCl_Magus @PatriotAdjacent We pay federal. We don't pay state income taxes. The thing OG gets wrong is paying taxes isn't the qualifier to be an American

[Ben Engle @msibengle]

At 18, I registered to vote as an independent. My thinking was I'd vote for the issues. In my adult life, I've only ever seen the Democrats encourage death and poverty, so they've never deserved A vote, let alone mine.

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The Great Party Switch Myth Post

I keep hearing this fairy tale about how the parties "switched" sometime in the 1960s. You know, the story where racist Democrats magically transformed into civil rights champions and Republicans secretly absorbed all that Jim Crow enthusiasm overnight like some political body swap horror movie.

Fascinating theory. Absolutely captivating. Just one small problem: NONE OF IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

Let me walk you through this, because clearly someone skipped their history homework.

The Republican Party was founded on March 20, 1854, in Ripon, Wisconsin, specifically to OPPOSE the expansion of slavery. Not "evolve toward" opposing it decades later. FOUNDED on it. Day one. That was the whole point.

Meanwhile, Democrats spent the next century building quite the résumé:

Created and enforced Jim Crow laws for nearly 100 years
Founded the Ku Klux Klan as their unofficial enforcement wing
Filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 75 CALENDAR DAYS
Democratic Senator Robert Byrd (former KKK recruiter, by the way) led a 14-hour filibuster against the Civil Rights Act
But sure, tell me more about how Republicans are the "real racists."

From 1870 to 1901, SIXTEEN Black Republicans served in Congress. Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American in the U.S. Senate in 1870. Joseph Rainey became the first Black Representative. Approximately 2,000 Black men served in elective offices during Reconstruction. ALL OF THEM REPUBLICANS.

You know what Democrats were doing during that same period? Running paramilitary groups like the KKK, White League, and Red Shirts to terrorize Black voters and murder Republican officeholders. Real "party of civil rights" behavior there.

Now here is where the switch myth gets particularly entertaining. The left claims Southern Democrats became Republicans because of racism. Except the voting records tell a different story. A higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Same with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The numbers do not lie even when politicians do.

What ACTUALLY changed was the debate over government size and federal power, not the fundamental approach to political control. Republicans went from using federal power to protect civil rights to advocating limited government after those protections were established. Democrats went from defending states' rights (to enforce segregation) to embracing federal power (to create dependency programs).

The mechanisms changed. The underlying pattern did not.

Quinn's Law Number 2 states: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing." They shriek about Republican racism while their party's entire history is a monument to racial oppression. Classic projection.

Interestingly, this historical revisionism aligns perfectly with Communist Goal Number 30 from the 1963 Congressional Record: "Discredit the American Founding Fathers." And Goal Number 31: "Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history."

Cannot have people learning the ACTUAL history when the actual history makes your party look like exactly what it was.

The party that defended slavery, created Jim Crow, founded Planned Parenthood (look up Margaret Sanger's actual stated goals sometime), and now works to keep minority communities dependent on government handouts wants me to believe THEY are the champions of equality.

Please. I was not born yesterday. I was not even born this century, and I still know propaganda when I see it.

The "switch" narrative is not history. It is a Get Out of Jail Free card for a party with a century of racism they desperately want you to forget.

But what do I know? I am only a high school teacher who actually assigns primary sources instead of letting TikTok teach civics.

[Ben Engle @msibengle]

@bestplayeratlas You have some really weird bill distributions.

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@theUMreal @grok @NoLimitGains Done

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@PaulFisch1 @DarrellPrichard @BriannaWu I haven't been on Twitter in years

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@Jaxweah @grok I'm wondering how that's proof you'll live up to the promise.

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@RiseOfAlberta I'm rooting for Alberta 51, but Independence is also ideal IMO. You'll find an ally in the US

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@BoscoTheCat999 @garyblack00 My talking to women is causing you problems? I'm so sorry, man.

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@vinicios_betiol @elonmusk @grok Do you think you made a point? You're acting like you just made a game-winning slam dunk.

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@jared_shult False, Republicans often censure their cohorts when unethical behavior is discovered. I've actually never seen that from the Democrats

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@theliamnissan Show proof

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@lucy_persona @wildmetalman @greendragonhq Why do you think attributing a Trump quote to Newsom makes him look good?

[Ben Engle @msibengle]

@greendragonhq Newsom would be extremely lucky to even win the nomination.