(January 12, 2022 at 2:42 am)Nomad Wrote:(January 11, 2022 at 2:23 pm)Spongebob Wrote: This is true. The GOP has cleansed the party of any hint of moderation. It was once a fairly wide tent but that's no more. Locally I suppose there could be more diversity. You can only know that by examining each local district.
Astonishing to think that just over 100 years ago, the Republican Party was the more progressive party.
Once was nearly sixty years ago now. The Goldwater campaign created the modern far right republican party.
I don't agree with that. Goldwater was not interested in mixing religion and politics; he made that clear. Its more complicated than that. There have been noticeable changes in most of the administrations in the last 50 years or so. Certainly this all started after the Eisenhower era. The incorporation of Christians into the party as a large voting block; the mishaps of the Carter era. Looking back, you can both see it coming and also envision a future where this didn't happen. With the exception of just a couple of administrations, all of them have lied to us on an epic scale.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller
