My description was of ideology. Not surprisingly, the ideology matches with the party. Ideological characteristics from the civil War and beyond included, Constitution; rule of law; right to defend oneself; defense of our constitution and by extension defend the states; property rights; e******y for ALL with no special treatment or rules for some groups over others. These are some of the ideology characteristics of those who fought to end s***ery in the Civil War! These are some of the characteristics of those who worked against Jim Crow laws! These are some of the characteristics of those who promoted, risked their lives for, and v**ed for the Civil Rights Bill. These are some of the characteristics of those who ended segregation. It just so happens that all the above were done almost exclusively by Republicans!!!! The ideology and party match!
This farce that one day all the r****t Democrats woke up and decided to switch to the Republican party, and the Republicans switched to the Democrat party is a myth. There have been a grand total of ONE Democrat Senator who switched from Democrat to Republican during the time from the Civil War to the signing of the Civil Rights Bill. Strom Thurmond! There have been two in the late 80s and 90s, but far too late to have had any part in the civil rights movement. Richard Shelby and Ben Campbell. And there was a grand total of ONE who switched from Silver Republican to Democrat. Fred Dubois in 1901.
Here are the Republican Party platforms of 1860 and 2016. They are substantially the same. Our ideology has not changed!
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/republican-party-platform-1860/https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2016-republican-party-platformThe Democratic Party platform has changed considerably. The platform of 1856 included:
1. That Congress has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts of the abolitionists, or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of s***ery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.
2. That the foregoing proposition covers, and was intended to embrace the whole subject of s***ery agitation in Congress; and therefore, the Democratic party of the Union, standing on this national platform, will abide by and adhere to a faithful execution of the acts known as the compromise measures, settled by the Congress of 1850; "the act for reclaiming fugitives from service or labor," included; which act being designed to carry out an express provision of the Constitution, cannot, with fidelity thereto, be repealed, or so changed as to destroy or impair its efficiency.
3. That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the s***ery question under wh**ever shape or color the attempt may be made.
4. That the Democratic party will faithfully abide by and uphold, the principles laid down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798, and in the report of Mr. Madison to the Virginia Legislature in 1799; that it adopts those principles as constituting one of the main foundations of its political creed, and is resolved to carry them out in their obvious meaning and import.
And that we may more distinctly meet the issue on which a sectional party, subsisting exclusively on s***ery agitation, now relies to test the fidelity of the people, North and South, to the Constitution and the Union—
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/1856-democratic-party-platformhttps://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016_DNC_Platform.pdfNote in the 2016 platform that all the the goals are to be done through taxpayers funding them and not through creating an environment which encourages Americans to choose and act for those goals of there own free will!
It is a characteristic of progressives to claim credit for what others have done and to cast blame on others for what they have done. Obama was good at doing so with a sincere sounding voice and expression.
My description was of ideology. Not surprisingly,... (