• Oderus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Republican in name only, or RINO. Republicans back then were the same as Democrats today in terms of policy which I find weird.

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        They probably do know that, if they know enough to argue that. But they’re also clearly racist for thinking that helping historically oppressed groups is bad and obviously means we want to hurt the advantaged groups (zero-sum at best, but mostly likely projection).

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      Republicans used to be the urban pro-industrial party, democrats were the party of rural farmers.

      Urban industrialists didn’t directly rely on slave labor so they were more open to abolitionists. Rural farmers were heavily dependent on slave labor so they were very pro slavery.

      It’s also why the democratic party has always tried to get universal health insurance passed. The party is made up of farmers with law degrees, so the local Doctor, the only other educated man who it was appropriate to socialize with would come around a lot— so they were constantly hearing stories about how their friend had to accept chickens or food as payment instead of money.

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      Republican in name only, or RINO. Republicans back then were the same as Democrats today in terms of policy which I find weird.

      why?

      popular consensus is that barry goldwater was a trump like populist presidential candidate that took advantage of american’s very strong disapproval of the civil rights & voting acts and dog-whistled the republican party into adopting its present day policy; do you not see it that way?