The Pukes in the House and the Senate are modern day carpetbaggers

[thegoose]

They don't give a fuck about the rule of law. They're just there to suck at the Russian teat and protect the Orange Menace. Don't you think?

[BlueTexasMan]

1. Amen

Instead of just screwing the southerners, this time they're screwing the whole country!

[former9thward]

2. Why are you using a term that the defeated Southern racists used against Northerners?

Carpetbaggers was a word the defeated Confederates used against people from the North who came to the South to support measures aimed at democratizing and modernizing the South – civil rights legislation, aid to economic development, the establishment of public school systems.[

[thegoose]

3. I'm just referring to the profiting aspect

[Wounded Bear]

4. Nice rewrite of history there...

Carpetbaggers did not go south to "democritize and modernize the Sout with civil rights, economic development, etc."

Carpetbaggers went south to profitize the chaos and disorder there. They were the original Disaster Capitalists. Well, probably not the original ones, they've been around for centuries, but you get the drift.

[former9thward]

5. I took that as a direct quote from Eric Foner, one of America's great historians.

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's unfinished Revolution 1863–1877 (1988) p 296.

The full quote: Most carpetbaggers probably combine the desire for personal gain with a commitment to taking part in an effort "to substitute the civilization of freedom for that of slavery". ... Carpetbaggers generally supported measures aimed at democratizing and modernizing the South – civil rights legislation, aid to economic development, the establishment of public school systems.

I will take his word for it