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32. I think Reagan was trying to buy votes on the racism that already existed.

Sun Feb 20, 2022, 01:28 PM

Feb 2022

Teddy Roosevelt was one of the last liberal Republicans while Hoover was an early conservative Republican.

FDR was one of the first liberal Dems.

Dems were previously the conservative "states' rights" party being pro-slavery.

The long Whig Party post above is accurate but leaves out identifying Dems as the conservative party at that time.

Whigs were split on slavery expansion into the new western territories as told.

Republicans were the anti-slavery, big gov't, pro-federal railroad party until the early 20th century.

Some conservative Dixie-Crats still rep'ed the south into the 1960's though.. weird, huh?

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When people ask why Russians don't protest--- [View all] kpete Feb 2022 OP

Remember Alexei Anatolievich Navalny JohnSJ Feb 2022 #1

... secondwind Feb 2022 #2

Exactly the kind of society traitorous republicans want to create in the USA Mysterian Feb 2022 #3

Exactly kpete Feb 2022 #6

Only because Trump IS God. world wide wally Feb 2022 #29

Get off your ass, Merrick Garland Mr. Ected Feb 2022 #4

I have an online acquaintance in Russia Tetrachloride Feb 2022 #5

I wouldn't expect anything approaching candor from online communication originating in Russia EYESORE 9001 Feb 2022 #10

Russian dissidents pay a price. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2022 #7

And yet arresting truckers to free up a blockaded city after THREE WEEKS Grokenstein Feb 2022 #8

How on earth Busterscruggs Feb 2022 #11

Unless I am mistaken the republican party was founded to fight AGAINST slavery. HUAJIAO Feb 2022 #18

Yeah, but they have since been bought up Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #20

it became the party of limbaugh and now it rots with him. they're all ditto heads certainot Feb 2022 #22

Yes.... look back to Ronnie Raygun and his "states rights" speech in MS groundloop Feb 2022 #23

I think Reagan was trying to buy votes on the racism that already existed. TeamProg Feb 2022 #32

Yes, very true, but-- HUAJIAO Feb 2022 #26

I get it. It brought us Abraham Lincoln Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #27

+100 nt reACTIONary Feb 2022 #24

Republicans believe being asked to follow the law is proof we are victims of a tyrannical regime. sop Feb 2022 #12

They have no concept of what living under a tyrannical regime is like. Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #13

Candace Owens "thinks she is Rosa Parks when the right sees her more in the role of Sally Hemmings" Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #14

... ShazzieB Feb 2022 #17

I don't get this metaphor. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2022 #30

Sally Hemmings was a favoured slave of Jefferson who he 'impregnated'. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #35

Candace Owens chooses her associations. Hemings could not. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2022 #38

That makes Owens a dimwitted sucker, by her own choice. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #39

That's fine. No need to bring a victim of trafficking into it. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2022 #40

Another difference is that I expect Hemings to have had a much more realistic assessment Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #45

You asked me to explain it. It was not my coinage, but I did the best I could Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #46

No, I know. Any contempt in my tone is not directed at you. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2022 #47

Yep. Same as it ever was.... paleotn Feb 2022 #9

Surprised Russian Police aren't wearing Brown-Shirts. KS Toronado Feb 2022 #15

In the spirit of the Olympics, reposting a classic Grokenstein Feb 2022 #16

Who knows what news Russians are fed. Jetheels Feb 2022 #19

+1 uponit7771 Feb 2022 #43

You would think that the populous would refuse to participate Buckeyeblue Feb 2022 #21

Excellent perspective, Bb....... DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #33

Russia populous is propagandized twice as bad as we were here before Iraq, no doubt. uponit7771 Feb 2022 #42

Also Tucker Carlson Fox News videos probably dismay freedom loving Russians gulliver Feb 2022 #25

I think it's part of the Russian psyche too jgmiller Feb 2022 #28

Yeah, you're way off base. Russian resistance and protest looks different there than it does here, WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2022 #31

Russians do protest Celerity Feb 2022 #34

Aren't those pictures 8 or 9 years old? Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #36

many are from the last several years nt Celerity Feb 2022 #37

A lot of protest has been clamped down upon, but still many came out fairly recently... Silent3 Feb 2022 #44

Putin's opposition ends up dead a lot, that is enough to uponit7771 Feb 2022 #41

Polonium adds a nice flavor to the tea. A 15 year sentence to the Gulag builds muscles. And... Hekate Feb 2022 #48