• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    If they are still Republican, it’s the same shit. Sure, maybe the shine is off of Taco, personally, but if they are still Republicans, it’s the same shitty anti-American values at their core.

    Always has been.

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      They’ll probably end up even worse. Current young conservatives are awful awful people who want horrifying things

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        Yep. Even in the face of some of the younger conservatives openly and brazenly seemingly embracing even worse shit, I keep seeing this stupid intragenerational bullshit narrative.

        The narrative is that somehow if we only had only younger politicians, and certainly no boomers, everything would be magical, because it’s somehow impossible that anyone boomer age could possibly understand anything that younger generations are dealing with. 🙄

        It’s weird that both of these phenomenon seem to have risen around the same time. The real credible threat of fascism on the rise - along with TrumpYouth - comes at the same time that there is this constant drumbeat against older politicians and older people in general?

        Hmmmm…

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      Believe it or not, the Republican Party began its journey to where it is today as a progressive party.

      In 1854, the Republican Party emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into western territories after the passing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. The early Republican Party consisted of northern Protestants, factory workers, professionals, businessmen, prosperous farmers, and after the Civil War also of black former slaves.

      It has changed a lot over the years, tiny steps, usually occuring after passage of various civil rights acts. If you want to know more I suggest you read about Senator Strom Thurmond, The Dixiecrat Revolt, and Reconstruction

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Republican_Party_(United_States)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era

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        Too bad the creation of the GOP manifested George Washington’s greatest fear for America… that it would devolve into a 2 party state.

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          Washington was totally still alive for the creation of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties.

          Historian Richard Hofstadter wrote that the Founders “did not believe in parties as such, scorned those that they were conscious of as historical models, had a keen terror of party spirit and its evil consequences”, but “almost as soon as their national government was in operation, [they] found it necessary to establish parties.”

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States