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Republicans are the ones still using the Confederate flag.
The confederate flag have different meanings to people in the South.
I didn't know the confederate flag was in the GOP platform......funny, for a party that champions Lincoln as the GODFATHER of the party you would say that.
Confederate flag is a state/local issue not a federal one.
Many Democrat governors have used the confederate flag in their state or some symbol of it...Bill Clinton kept confederate star on Arkansas Flag.....nobody gave him shiat then, or when he ran for President or while he was President or his wife who supported her husband.
why now? let the locals decide this, is not a federal or national issue.
Change "Republican" to "Conservatives" and you will be absolutely correct
I find no reason to further read this thread due to your correct response. It is only the political neophytes that believe that "Republican" and "Democrat" platforms have remained unchanged for 150 years, amen. They ignore the underlying beliefs.
Oddly, just on the first 'page', I find a poster or two whom, in another thread, argued that "Democrats" are a part of racism, citing the example of Southern Democrats and such from the 'old days'. Strange.
Whether it was slavery, civil rights, voting rights, same-sex marriage, healthcare, or immigration, Republicans have always been on the wrong side of history. Sometimes I wonder why the Republican Party even exists.
LOL. President Lincoln, you know, the one who freed the slaves, was a Republican.
Please try again.
Better yet, stop fighting the false war of GOP vs Democrats. Beyond a few minor differences there is essentially no real difference between them these days.
Whether it was slavery, civil rights, voting rights, same-sex marriage, healthcare, or immigration, Republicans have always been on the wrong side of history. Sometimes I wonder why the Republican Party even exists.
It would be more accurate to say that CONSERVATIVES are always on the wrong side of history. Republicans were by and large NOT conservatives until the post Civil Rights Era when the DixieCrats abandoned the Democratic Party.
In the Revolutionary War, for instance, CONSERVATIVES were royalists. The Founding Fathers were VERY liberal for their time.
Whether it was slavery, civil rights, voting rights, same-sex marriage, healthcare, or immigration, Republicans have always been on the wrong side of history. Sometimes I wonder why the Republican Party even exists.
You just need to change "Republicans" to "social conservatives"... then you'd have it. Don't forget, Republicans were the party that actually drove slavery to an end; it's just that Republicans back then were the party of those relatively more liberal socially, and the Democrats in the South were the party of the die-hard social conservatives.
But yes, it's true... social conservatives everywhere, pretty much in every society on earth, have always been on the wrong side of history.
Whether it was slavery, civil rights, voting rights, same-sex marriage, healthcare, or immigration, Republicans have always been on the wrong side of history. Sometimes I wonder why the Republican Party even exists.
Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner for the most ignorant post ever.
The Republicans had to fight the democratic party tooth and nail, even beening forced to create amendments to the US Constitution, to force the Democrats to give up on
Slavery
lynching
KKK
segregation
civil rights
Jim Crow laws
Black codes
I didn't realize there are two sides to history and that one can be on the wrong side of it. WTH does that mean? Oh what a revelation!
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Don't forget, Republicans were the party that actually drove slavery to an end; it's just that Republicans back then were the party of those relatively more liberal socially, and the Democrats in the South were the party of the die-hard social conservatives.
