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Sorry but you've really jumped the shark now

Just because it has the word "socialist " in it doesn't make it left wing! You're the one being absurd here in claiming that regimes which persecuted leftists were left wing. It is an acknowledged fact that the Nazis and Fascists were far right, as is the EDL and your hero Tommy Robinson. All...

Remind me how that's working for you now with bankrupted Detroit and poisoned Flint?

No I hadn't heard that about Wesley but it doesn't surprise me. I do know that Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were not leftist though and in fact persecuted, imprisoned and killed the leftists in both countries eg: Thälmann in Germany, Matteoiti in Italy. And they didn't control their free...

Except that Mussolini and Hitler were far-right oppressors and FDR admired them so much he helped destroy them!

I didn't mention Trump. I mentioned our Conservative Party. But what you described - an owner reaping the rewards of the labour of others (whether plantation owner, factory owner or business owner) - is capitalism to a 'T'

Er...i think you'll find that's called right wing capitalism...as epitomized by our Conservative Party

I don't think you can say with a straight face that the Dems were always on the left: they were the racist conservative states'-righters prior to and after the Civil War

Nope.

The Klan wasn't party specific: Perspective | How social media spread a historical lie

Didn't Thurmond switch? And black voters switched over time to the Democrats, making it more progressive. Over the last 50 years, the Dems have moved gradually to the left and the Republicans more to the right in part in consequence of these changes.

Like I said, that's your spin. Nothing false, just nowhere near the whole picture.

That's your and CMG's spin. Here is ratger more accuracy: Southern strategy - Wikipedia

As y'all seem to like Breitbart so much, I'm breaking with tradition and showing you what they think of Champion and her claim: Rotherham's MP, Sarah Champion is a Desperate Chancer | Breitbart

It took about a generation or more for it to bear full fruit. Byrd was one of the last Dixiecrats who stayed in the Democrat Party all his life. The voters had bolted long before

That's not deflection, it's the legitimate answering of assertions made eg: the complaint that Muslims don't assimilate (well, neither do the Amish); the call for Christian stores not to serve 'married' gays because they contravene God's law.of marriage (well, so do remarried divorcees), and the...

It was the government who had put up the discriminatory barriers in the first place and - and this is not to diminish the role of the Civil Rights Movement - the government therefore had a role to play in removing those

Right, so here was a group of immigrants who refused to assimilate to the host culture

I'm sure you do but the plural of 'anecdote' isn't 'data'. Statistics/figures please

So, no Colonial governments, no Colonial culture?