Yes, the party switch, a favorite talking point among Democrats. The Democratic Party started in the 1820s, and right from the beginning, it showed its true colors by advocating for the removal and extermination of Native Americans. Their opposition, the Whig Party, was against the Indian Removal Act and promised to protect minorities from mob rule. Because the sides were "switched," the vast majority of the Whig Party was anti-slavery.

Eventually, a rift over slavery led anti-slavery members of the Whig Party, including Abraham Lincoln, to exit and form the Republican Party. Interestingly, the parties must have "switched again," because it's now common knowledge that Republicans are considered the racist ones.

Then, the parties "switched" when Democrats were primarily the ones who owned slaves. Not all Democrats owned slaves, but 100% of slave owners were Democrats. Not a single Republican in history ever owned a slave. And yet, the parties must have switched once more when Republicans repudiated slavery while Democrats defended it, leading to the Civil War.

The parties switched again when a Democrat assassinated the Republican President Lincoln. After the Civil War, during Reconstruction, Republicans attempted to pass several civil rights amendments granting citizenship to freedmen. In this case, Democrats opposed giving former slaves citizenship, though the amendments passed despite their resistance.

The parties switched once more when Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan as their militant arm. They then tried to pass the first gun control laws, intending to disarm black Americans and prevent retaliation against their former owners. A county even proposed a law making it illegal to possess firearms unless you were on horseback. (Wonder who was riding around terrorizing people on horses? 🤔) Gun control has always been a noble cause for Democrats, but the origins of it were rooted in racism.

Around this time, former slaves fought for gun rights, and the NRA was founded. Interestingly, the NRA "switched sides" too, when they defended the right for black Americans to arm themselves, and white NRA members protected black people from racist attackers.

The parties switched again when Republicans fought to desegregate schools and allow black children to attend school with white children, a battle fiercely opposed by Democrats. The nation saw a wave of black lynchings and bombings of black churches by Democrats in the KKK. The parties switched once more when Democrat Bull Connor attempted to avoid prosecuting the bombers, and when black Americans protested, he unleashed police dogs and fire hoses on them. He also gave stand-down orders to police when the KKK attacked the Freedom Riders.

The parties switched yet again when a Democratic president appointed a former KKK member to the Supreme Court. And the switch happened once more when FDR, another Democratic president, ordered the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Later, Democrats filibustered against the second set of civil rights laws that aimed to protect minorities. The parties switched again when a Democrat assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

And here we are in modern times, where the parties continue to "switch" all the time. For instance, the parties switched when Democrats proposed policies like affirmative action, which limits opportunities for some racial groups to grant privileges to others. The parties switched again when Islamic fundamentalists, like Omar Mateen, and other ISIS-aligned mass shooters threw their support behind Democratic candidates like Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

The parties are still in the process of switching, as evidenced by liberal student groups at universities like UCLA and Berkeley calling for segregated housing for black students. The latest switch happened when the Democratic presidential nominee told black Americans, "You're not black" if they didn't vote for him, revealing how the Democratic Party views its largest voter base as their property.

And let’s not forget, the current president once said he didn't want his kids growing up in a "racial jungle." He also referred to Senator Robert Byrd, a former KKK member, as "one of his mentors." After all, if you don’t vote for him, "you ain’t black!" Because, apparently, African Americans are expected to think and act as a collective. And due to party switching, it’s now perfectly acceptable for Democrats to call a black Republican candidate an “Uncle Tom” or the “black face of white supremacy.”

So, as you can see, because of the party switch, Democrats were always the ones who stood against racism and fought for peace and unity, while Republicans were always the racist and violent ones sowing division and discord.