saw the civil rights bill passed. Why do democrats now try to say that that was them and all those people against it are now republicans? The proof of it not being so is still in office Sheets Byrd a Democrat.
2007-03-25 08:14:53 · 14 answers · asked by ? 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
man everyone got us involved in a middle-eastern clusterfuck. Are you tellin me that when the twin towers fell you said
"let those damn terrorist go"
hell no...everyone was like
"kill the bastards"
2007-03-25 08:19:37 · answer #1 · answered by Advidoct 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That's because when the Republican party was founded it was targeted at the classic liberalism movement. It wasn't until after the Great Depression and the intellectual liberals realized that that socialism was necessary to assist in the social progress of America.
He only a couple years ago and the retarded conscum so easily forget about Strom Thurmond. The KKK member who switched the to the Republican party after the civil liberties bill passed. The one he stood up and protested for 24 hours straight.
And right now the Republicans are the ones who are trying to pass laws prohibiting same-sex marriages and trying to keep Christianity as a dominant mythology in congress, and putting creationism in science classes.
Yeah, you are just soooo progressive.
2007-03-25 15:37:21 · answer #2 · answered by Zenrage 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please site references that it was all the Republicans that did these "wonderful" things. Robert Byrd is not the representative of the entire Democratic party. He has changed his opinion and beliefs. Of course Republicans seem to think once a __________whatever always a whatever. Peope can change. But in the world of conservatives the world is black and white, right or wrong and never changes. That is why we make more progress when we have Democrats in both the Congress and the White House.
2007-03-25 15:22:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
- take two -
The Republican party under Lincoln preserved the Union and abolished slavery.
A well known southern Democrat stated "Segregation now and segregation forever" (G. Wallace). He was the governor of Alabama.
In the 70's, the racist Dems who were upset at the Civil rights movement and women's rights crossed over into the southern, republican party. Thus the birth of the neo-conservative movement. Reagan was their first champion.
His legacy of big government, huge deficit, high inflation and open borders negatively affect us till this very day.
This further illustrates how far off the beaten path the neo-cons have taken the Republican party.
2007-03-25 15:29:17 · answer #4 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. The Republican Party has certainly a dramatic turn for the worse after the Civil Rights era. It is to be hoped that someday it can return to the noble thinking that characterized its liberal, even radical, beginnings.
2007-03-25 15:26:08 · answer #5 · answered by tribeca_belle 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It was liberal Republicans who did all that. In the 1800s and early 1900s, the Republicans were mostly liberal and the Democrats were mostly hard-liners.
That's become reversed over the last century, with most liberals now supporting the Democratic party and most conservatives and hard-liners now supporting the Republicans.
Liberal and conservative are political philosophies, not political parties (in the US -- they are in England). Stop confusing political parties with their shifting membership.
2007-03-25 15:26:51 · answer #6 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Lincoln was no conservative.
Johnson signed the civil rights act.
The southern dixiecrats migrated to the GOP directly after the signing and are still there today.
Women were given the right to vote under Woodrow Wilson.
Glad I could educate you. Any other misconceptions I can clear up for you?
2007-03-25 15:19:06 · answer #7 · answered by you_cant_handle_the_truth 1 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Easy. We're not saying it was Democrats (It was a Democrat who passed the women suffrage amendment by the way). We're saying it was left-wing Republicans and Democrats who did it, not right-wing conservatives.
It was RADICAL Republicans from the northeast, PROGRESSIVE Republican from the northeast, and LIBERAL Republicans from the northeast who joined forces with their fellow left-wingers across the aisle who supported those things.
Today's southern conservative Republicans had nothing to do with it.
2007-03-25 15:18:21 · answer #8 · answered by trovalta_stinks_2 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Don't confuse those Republicans, with the them, today. Not even those Democrats with them.
2007-03-25 15:27:47 · answer #9 · answered by tes 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your thinking is too simpleminded.
Slavery? What year was that?
Were these Repubs the same as karl von rove?
2007-03-25 15:23:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋