The Cafe' [Think Tank]

The Democratic Party was formed in 1792, when supporters of Thomas Jefferson began using the name Republicans, or Jeffersonian Republicans, to emphasize its anti-aristocratic policies. It adopted its present name during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson in the 1830s. In the 1840s and '50s, the party was in conflict over extending slavery to the Western territories. Southern Democrats insisted on protecting slavery in all the territories while many Northern Democrats resisted. The party split over the slavery issue in 1860 at its Presidential convention in Charleston, South Carolina. Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas as their candidate, and Southern Democrats adopted a pro-slavery platform and nominated John C. Breckinridge in an election campaign that would be won by Abraham Lincoln and the newly formed Republican Party. After the Civil War, most white Southerners opposed Radical Reconstruction and the Republican Party's support of black civil and political rights. Th...

Baltimore: Property taxes goes for education Proceeds from the Maryland State lottery is supposed to be for education Proceeds from the casinos are supposed to be for education Federal government give Maryland funds for; you guested it, Education 2020 election would like you to think that if you voted for sports betting in Maryland they have promised that proceeds would go to what? Education. You passed that initiative on the ballot  #dumbass Baltimore has got to be the most well funded school system in all the country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yet they have you convinced that you need to defund the police when the majority of murders in Maryland of black people are at the hands of black people!!!! Somebodies in Maryland School system is very rich! We still don't know were the billions given to Elijah Cummings for Baltimore's infrastructure and "education" went that secret died with him! Meanwhile Elijah is dead and this is what is going on with the infrastructure:  ...