'Wrong side of history': GOP's Tom Cotton destroyed after blaming modern Dems for slavery

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Cotton said that the Civil War began because Democrats supported slavery over the Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. Over and over fact-checkers have said that Republicans may have supported the union in the war, but the parties shifted over time as the Civil Rights and Equal Rights Movement spread across the South. People of color demanded the right to vote without intimidation, eat in the same restaurants, use the same water fountains, and attend the same schools as whites.

The comment earned some mockery, and several people were willing to school the senator on the history of his own state.

"You can’t believe history! It’s a woke liberal plot," exclaimed David Corn of "Mother Jones."...

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!

One would think that the uneducated thing wouldn't apply to members of Congress. But in this case one would be wrong!