"Democrat slaveowners in the 1800s maintained control by breaking up families at auctions, suppressing religion, and outlawing literacy, making slaves more docile and dependent on their masters. It can be argued that contemporary left leaning policies to promote abortion, Medicaid, welfare, illiteracy, and atheism and providing substantial pressure for African Americans to not think and vote on their own but instead to vote en masse for Democrats each cycle achieves nearly the identical aim. Slavery is gone but social servitude is alive and well"