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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHonestly if freepers and Teabaggers were around before the Revolutionary War....
they'd be demanding we'd stay with old King George.
These people don't want a president that is one of us they feel that only the super wealthy elite should be ruling them.
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Honestly if freepers and Teabaggers were around before the Revolutionary War.... (Original Post)
LynneSin
Sep 2012
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krispos42
(49,445 posts)1. Conservatives in 1776 wore red coats. n/t
marybourg
(12,637 posts)2. They were and they did. Most of them fled to Canada.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)7. Too bad we can't get them to Canada anymore.
I don't think the Canadians would want them. There is Alaska. Many of those freeper types talk about going to Alaska.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)3. Exactly.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)4. They were…
We called them "Tories".
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)5. One of the many things I find so disingenuous about them ...
is how they like to invoke the "founding fathers" so often.
These assholes couldn't be any further apart.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)6. They were around, but they were called Loyalists
The progressives were known as Patriots.