hilariously true -- ode to the lessons of history never learned.
Comrade,
I have to take issue with you on something:
It wasn't the GOP that stood in the way of those things.
It was conservatives. Good liberal Republicans, like Jacob Javits, or Nelson Rockefeller, were of great assistance in advancing progressive causes.
It annoys me when Republicans point out, for example, that the Democrats stood in the way of civil rights, when in point of fact it was conservative Democrats, who then abandoned the party for the GOP.
These same commentors on the sins of the Democrats then interchange the word "liberal" for Democrat to paint liberals as racists who wouldn't allow the black man his due.
BT, a point that was made quite clear to me last night watching "1776"...and you'll note who the loyalists were in that film...almost entirely Southerners! If not for the fact that they made the rest of the nation kowtow to their addiction to slavery, they would never have allowed the US to be free.
So true. There have been two major sides: the 1700's Tories and the Whigs are the same as today's Republicans and Democrats.
The Tories were stodgy old stick-in-the-muds that feared and hated any change, no matter how small.
The Whigs were intellectual forward-thinkers that embraced change and were key in bringing it about.
It was the Whigs that started the Revolution in the American Colonies, and the Tories wanted nothing to do with it.
But it was the French Monarchy that saved the revolution from being wiped out by the Brits. It was the blockading French Navy and their shipments of arms and uniforms that finally turned the tide and created the United States of America.
So what lessons do we learn from history when the GOP hates France and loves the Queen of England?
The GOP would never have revolted against the monarch.
Today's GOP would never have ended slavery. (Yes, I know that Lincoln was a Republican, but that party is now 100% opposite of what they were then. Is there a single Republican today that would vote to abolish slavery?)
The GOP would never have given women the right to vote.
The GOP still hates that women are allowed to have their own lives and are not the property of men.
REMEMBER: the right of women to vote in the USA is not even 100 years old!!!
We also know they would have avoided the fighting.
OK. That made me chuckle.
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