the democratic party

As we all know in the United States there are two main political parties that dominate Presidential elections. The Republicans and the Democrats. Looking back at the founding of both parties we can see distinct differences between the groups immediately. the Democratic Party was founded first in the year 1828 with their main opposition being the whigs. the Republicans began their existence in the year 1854 (1) as a third party with the goal of stopping the spread of slavery into the western settlements with the end goal of eradicating it entirely (2) Thus I offer the following two contentions to prove that the Republican party is overall better than the Democratic party. Contention one. the Democratic party supported slavery, segregation, and opposed Civil Rights. As I stated previously, the Republican party was founded with the goal of abolishing slavery. Republicans made significant progress throughout their early existence but all the while faced stiff opposition from the Democrats. In particular, Republican anti-slavery efforts were dealt a major blow in the landmark supreme court case Dred Scott v. Sandford in which the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens but property and therefore had no rights. the seven justices that voted in favor of the decision were all Democrats. the two justices that dissented, were both Republicans. (3) They wouldn't win an election until the year 1860 when the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, took office and began working against slavery as is evidenced by the emancipation act in 1862. This anti-slavery act held little consequence however because a year before in 1861 the Confederacy had broken off from the Union spearheaded by the Democratic Party (4) fast forward to 1865 and the war is finally over. for a few years, Union forces garrisoned in the South overseeing Reconstruction had established far better living conditions for African Americans living in those regions and had overseen their emancipation. However, when reconstruction ended and Union forces withdrew from the south, the Democratic Party roared back into power, quickly reestablished white supremacy, began enforcing "black codes" which forced many African-Americans into indentured servitude due to low wages or debt. They also established the infamous Jim Crow Laws. (5) Fast forward again, and we arrive in the 1960's where the Civil Rights movement was in full force. There's not much to say here other than that the Democratic Party opposed these legislations as well and they only managed to pass due to near-universal Republican support (6) Contention two. The Democratic party survives off of the votes of people they had spent most of their existence attempting to oppress. When all of the Democrats attempts to enslave blacks, to keep them enslaved, and then to keep them oppressed has all failed, they realized it was time to try a different approach. As Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson is purported to have said "I'll keep those N*****s voting democrat for 200 years" after all, in African-Americans are going to be allowed to vote, they might as well vote Democrat. The Democrats began throwing up a smoke shield of false narratives, and misinformation telling the world that it was Republicans that wanted to keep them down while the Democratic Party gave them enticing offers of free stuff and seemingly beneficial programs. Meanwhile, it was, and is, failed democratic policies that have kept Africans down for all these years. Massive Welfare Programs have decimated the black family, incentivising broken homes and single motherhood. Over 70 percent of African American families have single mothers.(7) There is a known correlation between single motherhood and crime, substance abuse, and repeating the vicious cycle of single parenthood. Opposition to school choice leaves them trapped in failing schools, and Politically correct policing has left black communities defenseless from violent crime. (1) History.com (2)http://www.ushistory.org... (3)https://ballotpedia.org... (4) https://en.wikipedia.org... if you don't like this source you can look for one that refutes it. (5)http://www.crf-usa.org... (6)http://russp.us... (7)http://www.actrochester.org...