Democrats delay change to convention superdelegates

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26. Lol. Glad you think so: Lincoln was a sensible LIBERAL.

Conservatives of those days would no more be in the Republican Party that attracted Lincoln than they'd join us in today's Democratic Party. They loathed and despised it, and most southern states didn't even list Lincoln as the the Republican Party's candidate on their ballots.

The Republican party started out as a mostly liberal anti-slavery continuation of the original liberal Democratic-Republican party founded by Jefferson and Madison. That was because in the early 1800s a bunch of conservatives flooded into the D-R party and corrupted it, requiring people like us to either join other parties in our regions or, as with Lincoln, to join the new party labeled Republican (after our own original D-R party).

After the civil war, the business/conservative branch of the Republican Party increasingly took over, while the Democratic Party that had been taken over by mostly southern conservatives was powerless and irrelevant.

In Teddy Roosevelt's era, after the Republican Party was taken over by business, people like us took back the moribund Democratic Party label, and we've been proud Democratic continuation of the original party of Jefferson ever since.

All Democrats really need to know this and spread proudly that WE are the party of Jefferson, Madison AND Lincoln. Today's Republicans insult Lincoln every time they call him one of them.