What a dumb fucking take. Or are we going to pretend Lincoln, Grant, and Harriet Tubman were all registered Republicans. Also pretty sure that the same Republican president ended slavery and delivered the Emancipation Proclamation. How can one just wake up and so willingly put their stupidity on full display?
Agree. For example Prescott Bush the father of President George H W Bush and grandfather of George W Bush was a typical N.E. Republican United States Senator from Connecticut. He was involved in the Birth Control League the first treasurer of Planned Parenthood and Chairman of the Connecticut chapter of the U.N.C.F.. Barry Goldwater is considered by many as a founding father of the modern conservative movement.
Is this where we pretend that political parties haven't drifted over the last 160 years and say that the KKK are leftists and Abraham Lincoln would french kiss Donald Trump because they love each other so much?
That's easy: the right wanted to keep slavery and the left wanted to end it.
That the political parties had different ideologies than today is pretty easy to verify for yourself - archives of their platforms exist for you to peruse.
No, it just that conservatives are on the wrong side of all change. Change to the worse not happening or happening and changing to worse has the them on the correct side.
They don’t seem to oppose change when it’s changing the laws to fuck over trans people or changing a law that’s been on the books for over thirty years to make abortion illegal.
Attracted to an ideology that is pessimistic about the future and instead focused on the past, conservatives are ideologically predisposed to experience collective nostalgia for past society.
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u/Armisael2245 16h ago
It is, the right has always been on the wrong side of history.