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>...no one would ever label Republicans "anti-authoritarian"... A strange charge of the "limited-government" party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_po

>...no one would ever label Republicans "anti-authoritarian"... A strange charge of the "limited-government" party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_the_Republican_Party#Separation_of_powers_and_balance_of_powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_the_Rep... >...your ideology extends from rules concerning which water fountain you can drink from... The ex-Confederate, Democrat, southern states had segregated water fountains. On the other hand, here's Wikipedia's explanation of where Republican ideology originated: >The GOP was founded in 1854 by opponents of the Kansas–Nebraska Act,[11] which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. The party supported economic reform and classical liberalism while opposing the expansion of slavery.[12][13] Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president. Under the leadership of Lincoln and a Republican Congress, slavery was banned in the United States in 1865. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_State...

x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
The origins of the GOP as an entity have nothing to do with the ideology they espouse today. It was in the wake of the Civil Rights Act that the GOP decided to appeal to white Americans disaffected by the act and make them the centerpiece of their party.
dragonwriter 6y ago
> The ex-Confederate, Democrat, southern states had segregated water fountains Yup, they did. Which is why they, in large part, bolted from the Democrats twice over the Democrats supporting progress on civil rights, once temporarily (as the Dixiecrats) because of the nature of US electoral politics converging on a two-party system and them not being strong enough alone to displace a major party, and then permanently when the GOP decided to leverage their post-1968 disillusionment and appeal directly to their racist urges, resulting in a partisan realignment over the subsequent several decades. There's a reason symbols of the Confederacy are seen at Republican rallies these days and not generally Democratic ones.

x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago

The origins of the GOP as an entity have nothing to do with the ideology they espouse today. It was in the wake of the Civil Rights Act that the GOP decided to appeal to white Americans disaffected by the act and make them the centerpiece of their party.

dragonwriter 6y ago

> The ex-Confederate, Democrat, southern states had segregated water fountains Yup, they did. Which is why they, in large part, bolted from the Democrats twice over the Democrats supporting progress on civil rights, once temporarily (as the Dixiecrats) because of the nature of US electoral politics converging on a two-party system and them not being strong enough alone to displace a major party, and then permanently when the GOP decided to leverage their post-1968 disillusionment and appeal directly to their racist urges, resulting in a partisan realignment over the subsequent several decades. There's a reason symbols of the Confederacy are seen at Republican rallies these days and not generally Democratic ones.