hey Sup Forums, explain to me what really happened with the "political party switch." I never bought that just, one day, the two parties became the exact opposite of what they were. I know Republicans fought for the abolishment of slavery, but people say those were really Democrats. What actually happened?
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democrats were the only ones who switched
"vote for us, goy!"
It's a dodge. Confront them with the fact that FDR was President before the "big switch" happened and see where that goes.
The Republican party is the same as it ever was. You're just subject to more brainwashing now.
There wasn't one, it's a confusing concept because it's nonsensical.
Liberals love Lincoln. lol
so I just got jewed?
Republicans have always believed in freedom and equal treatment between blacks and whites.
When democrats lost the war they had to find a new way to control blacks and other minorities. And boy did they ever.
All things considered, Dems strategy to subvert minorities was pretty good. Republicans just let minorities subvert themselves or thrive, but dems actively keep them down.
It wasn't that the parties switched sides per se, it's that the South switched from Democrat to Republicans. Look at historical presidential maps, the South was solid blue before Reagan or so (maybe a couple of elections earlier). The Congressional elections tell a similar story.
What staggers me more is that fox news looks like a bastion of rationality thanks to the other networks going apeshit retarded. Now that is fucked.
So the Democrats just went from "Hold Blacks Down" to "Lift Them Up," just so they could keep power?
2016 has been an entertaining year
Not quite. The new way of keeping them down is by constantly telling them they are being kept down by the republicans or by the white man, and that only they can offer salvation. Offer them some free money to spend on a shitty house and a bottle of booze and destroy their culture until it's nothing but thuggery and whoring, and if they ask how it got to be this way, blame the republicans some more.
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"In fact, the British were in the process of heavy recruitment in North Carolina when this battle put an end to their recruiting drive."
The northerners have always been idealistic utopians (Puritans...). The southerners have always been "conservative".
The party switching is some kind of magic related to Duverger's Law where entryists take over the enemy party.
Holy shit, it all makes sense now.
The republicans are now the party of the union workers apparently. While the dems are literally the party of non whites.
It somehow took trump for the political class to realize this
The dems are now the brown/black people's republic.
The Democrats are in 100% panderance mode
PROOF that Republicans are the real racists! Alt-right Drumpkeks BTFO!
The right shits up everything for trojan israeli blowjobs
Parties change position quite frequently. The important thing to remember in politics is that it's basically a bunch of morons trying to convince each other that their way of stealing from the public is better than theirs. So as financial positions change, their political positions change.
JFK realized he could get more votes by offering gibs to niggers and based his campaign on that, and the parties have been switched ever since.
Trump's gonna need a successor to carry the torch and he will need to be fresh blood in the Republican Party.
Or else Dems and the media will just chalk him off and rewrite his impact and the narrative. And we'll be back to where we were pre-current year.
parties and ideologies get co-opted by others all the time.
in the 1950s, libertarianism was a hardcore conserverative stance but it was co-opted by the left in the past 20 years, which is why they seem like such degenerate cucks now
There were several realignments that happened, but it is true that the Democrats were originally the party of limited government and states' rights (and the party of the South from the Civil War up until the 60s, the Dixiecrats), while the Republicans originally favored more federal control and opposed states' rights.
Lincoln (Republican) introduced the first federal income tax, and set the precedent for a larger federal government to override states' rights.
Teddy Roosevelt was perhaps the last progressive Republican and he left the party in 1912 to form the Progressive Party.
Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Party platform included:
>National Health Service
>Social insurance, to provide for the elderly, the unemployed, and the disabled
>A minimum wage law for women
>An inheritance tax
Of course, these things didn't get passed at the time, but his relative FDR brought much of the platform over to the Democratic Party in the form of the New Deal during the Great Depression. This was created a major party realignment. The New Deal coalition was popular and bipartisan at the time, but it left little room for limited government conservatives in federal government.
Conservatives more or less floated around in both parties as progressives dominated politics during the New Deal era.
It wasn't until Barry Goldwater (Republican) ran for president in 1964 that a new conservative movement took place in the Republican Party. At that time, there was also a split occurring with conservatives (and the Dixiecrats) leaving the Democratic Party when LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act. There were several Democratic congressmen who defected to the Republican Party. The GOP also implemented the Southern Strategy to take the Southern voting bloc away from the Dems. This is the second major realignment that solidified the Democrats as the liberal party and Republicans as the conservative party.
Anyway, the parties are very dynamic and constantly changing.