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> Well, what I meant was back in those days, Democrats were the party for protecting state rights while Republicans were the party that epitomized national power--thanks to Abe Lincoln. Nowadays, Republicans are more likely to champion state rights while Democrats focus more on the national.
> ^^ That's because back then Republicans were the Democrats and the Democrats were the Republicans. Then it flip flopped sometime in the early 20th century.
Yeah, something like that.
Republicans were first pro-industry back in th 1800s, while the Democrats were pro-South and pro-agriculture. At the time of the Civil War and for several decades following that, Republicans were the liberal and progressive party while Democrats were the socially conservative party, though on the economics front Dems did have more populist candidates.
Then progressivism was born in the early 1900s, and progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt became the coolest thing ever. However, big-business Republicans and progressive Republicans began to split apart, causing Teddy to run as a Bull Moose candidate in 1912 and giving Dems the presidency with Woodrow Wilson.
With that split, progressives gradually and slowly drifted from the Republicans to the Democrats, while Republicans became the big-business-and-prosperity party of the Roaring Twenties--which came back to bite them in the ass badly when the Great Depression happened. That ushered in a period of Democratic dominance that lasted pretty much until the Truman administration after World War II ended.
So, basically, the Republicans gradually became more economically conservative, but ALL DURING THIS TIME the Democrats actually somehow kept social conservatives, social liberals, and economic liberals (populists) together in a coalition. Ever heard of the term "Solid South"? Well, it used to refer to how the South voted overwhelmingly Democratic. This started before the Civil War and kept on going until the 1960s, in part because tradition dictated that they ought to be still pissed at Lincoln and his "Radical Republicans" for defeating the Confederacy. They've been socially conservative for a long time, and they still are.
But what happened to turn the Solid Democratic South into the Solid Republican South? Well, the Democratic Party became increasingly socially progressive, and the coalition finally shattered when Lyndon Johnson got the Civil Rights Act passed. Republicans seized the opportunity to pick up the social conservatives into their coalition, and with the number of racists in the South at the time (y halo thar George Wallace), the southern states all flipped Republican almost overnight. In Johnson's words, "I think we just delivered the South to the Republicans for a long time to come."
And that's why the Democrats are the progressives/liberals/populists and the Republicans are the conservatives/reactionaries.
In other news, I've got something I'm cooking up for this thread. But for this purpose, I need Central Avenue's and Anonymous User's help: What's the font used on Realtor.com on listing search results where it says "Brokered by [name]"?
Is probably my new favorite quote on politics.
It's assumed because of the two-party political system. :-)
EDIT: I think most of us voters pick the issue(s) we care most about, vote for the party that agrees with us in that area, and just grit our teeth in frustration through all the rest.
>What's the font used on Realtor.com on listing search results where it says "Brokered by [name]"?
Is it not just Arial?
Central Avenue source-dived and found that they just smash Arial (or Helvetica if you have it), so it's not exact.
^ What do you mean by Statist?
Or worms, for that matter?
And neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are going to turn everything into an Orwellian future. I don't believe either of them intends to at present, anyway, nor do they have the means.
^^^^ I'll point out again that the American Civil War ended in a victory for the statist, bigger-government-supporting Union. And it didn't exactly end in an Orwellian dystopia. At least not for the former slaves, compared to what they would've experienced otherwise. :-D
Marxism has more to do with Socialism than Fascism has to do with Conservatism.Wait, misread, you said liberal, not socialist. OK, that makes sense.