Would westward expansion have occurred if America's 13 original colonies had Republican fear peddlers?

Question

If Republicans had been there, would they have developed their usual propaganda of fear? ... to the extent that the brave pioneers may not have migrated their conestogas westward into dangerous uncharted territory?

Shame on those who blindly succumb to typical Republican fear mongering tactics. We've heard it before ... you are in grave danger and we, the Republican leadership are your sole protectors. ... vote for us ... In the meantime, pardon us while we strip you of your freedoms, dodge all accountibility, and create a culture that rewards the wealthy on the backs of the poor and middle classes.

America was founded on bravery and heroics ... not from cowering in fear at the thought of a big scary world out there.

Answer 1

The fear wouldn't have kept them from claiming the land as their own. It just would have sped up the idea that if ONE indian is against the white people, they must ALL be, and we need to kill them all off to make room for our manifest destiny.

Answer 2

i dont have to read your details past the first line to tell you to shut up

i hate the copnservitaves but the fact that the people who camehere were republicans (republicans are people trying to make a republic for themselves to live in) they succeded and that is why we live in the democratic republic of the united states of america. so the republicans did have their way adn look what it got you. so shut up if you would take a history class you would know that back then republicanism was radical and the current right was then the left. up untill the civil war things were backwords from what we know now. pay attention in school you might learn something

Answer 3

The Louisiana Purchase was one of America's biggest leaps to the West. It was done by Pres. Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican whose party was the forerunner of the modern Democratic party.

Answer 4

We didn't need fear peddlers... essentially, the fear peddlers our are current justification for killing innocents around the world and getting away with it. Back then we could kill who we wanted (i.e. Indigenous Americans) simply because they were "inferior" and we wanted their land, oh well.

Answer 5

Dem's Injuns out thar. They'll scalp ya and rape your women. Dem Injuns ain't like us'en dey is heathens and dey got red skin so dey is bad. Jes' look at 'em all painted up like a bunch o' savages. If we gotta fight dem injuns, though, I'd rather fight them there than here. We gotta teach dem savages our ways. No reason they can't be jus like us. Well, almost like us. Dey is a little bit of infirior race to our'n but we can use dem for manual labor or sumpin.

Please, Mr. Custer I don't wanna go. Please, Mr. Custer, please don't make me go. Thar's a redskin waitin' out their fixin' to take my hair. A coward I've been called, but I don't wanna wake up dead or bald.

Answer 6

Change is scary okay? Have some sympathy for those who still wish it was 1955, I think it's something they can't help.

Answer 7

bwaah haah fear peddlers??? i supose the best thing to do when your approached with conflict is to ignore it..aka clinton, uss cole and/or harry reid unilateral surrender? accountibility??? you couldnt be farther off base if you were in a different ball park..consider the pass clinton got

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
bottom line here, your question has no answer as your question has a false premise.

Answer 8

are you kidding?

if there had been neocons 200 years ago, the entire planet would have already been conquered by their imperial forces

Answer 9

YES, now if those Dem punks had been there, we would all still be whining about why the evil indinas won't let us spread out.