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Why aren't today's Conservative Republicans bragging about Pres. Eisenhower's Administration instead of Reagan's? They even balanced the budget for a while. Could it be because "Ike" was a liberal like Obama. They seem to have the same philosophy of helping all of the people, rich and poor and spending government tax money to put people to work improving America's infrastructure. Eisenhower's Interstate Highway program brought the most prosperous decade in the 20th Century.
If both parties will cooperate and get behind Obama's ideas for developing alternative energy right away the U.S. might be able to give China a run for leadership in the 21st Century. New industry might replace the ones Wall Street wheeler-dealers have moved to foreign countries to yield more profit from slave labor.
In any population you have a percentage that oppose change, that are fearful of change. It is a psychological condition.
All the good stuff that has happened in this country from the founding to the present has come from liberals.
Conservatives have almost always been on the wrong side of history, but because of the hierarchical way they see the world they look for leaders, and follow those leaders, whether they are Bush, or Limbaugh, or Palin, they need and follow and do what the leaders say.
They do not understand that liberals, simply do not see the world that way, that liberals have a globalistic rather than hierarchical view allows them to see possibilities, but also makes it much harder to unify for a goal.
Here are a couple things Conservatives got wrong
They were on the side of the Monarch in 1776
Opposed the Louisiana Purchase
Favored the invasion and dismemberment of Mexico in 1846
Supported slavery
Opposed the entry of the US into WW2
Here are a couple things Conservatives got wrong
They were on the side of the Monarch in 1776
Opposed the Louisiana Purchase
Favored the invasion and dismemberment of Mexico in 1846
Supported slavery
Opposed the entry of the US into WW2
Well, there were no Republicans before 1860 so they weren't involved in the Rev War, the Louisiana Purchase, etc. Lincoln was the first Republican president and he ended slavery.
As for entry into WW2, everybody in Congress except one person voted for it. The only person who didn't vote for it was a pacifist congresswoman from Montana, Jeanette Rankin.
Originally posted by Clark
Here are a couple things Conservatives got wrong
They were on the side of the Monarch in 1776
Opposed the Louisiana Purchase
Favored the invasion and dismemberment of Mexico in 1846
Supported slavery
Opposed the entry of the US into WW2
You forgot some things:
Opposed many of the progressive era reforms
Opposed the New Deal and Social Security
Opposed Medicare and Medicaid
Opposed Civil Rights for Blacks and other minorities
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Originally posted by humboldtrat
Well, there were no Republicans before 1860 so they weren't involved in the Rev War, the Louisiana Purchase, etc. Lincoln was the first Republican president and he ended slavery.
This thread isn't about Republicans per se. It's about conservatives. Conservatism, as a philosophy, is always wary of change or reform. It stands to reason then that today's conservatives--if they lived in a different time--likely would have opposed all of the things that Clark and I listed.
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