(January 25, 2021 at 6:50 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(January 25, 2021 at 6:45 pm)Aegon Wrote: Yep. Democrats were the proponents of slavery as well, with the vast majority voting against the 13th amendment and some even supportive of the Confederacy's cause.Almost... You're sooo close....
Republicans during that time was also opposed to the new industrial capitalist model of labor that was emerging across the country in light of the Industrial Revolution. They called it "wage slavery." That's how they got the farmer vote in the emerging midwest - because farmers were anti-capitalists unilaterally opposed to the model of labor we consider to be normal today.
Moral of the story: Party labels don't really mean anything that far back.
Try -
Party labels mean dick.
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As soon as the party leaders (the ones who are the most entrenched and corrupt) decide they will get more votes by changing policy - they will.
You are a schmuck if you think otherwise.
So why did you bring it up?
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