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> Saying you shouldn't educate the lower classes or not educate girls would be met with huge resistance from most Republicans, It would not outrage evangelical
by watwut 2y ago
> Saying you shouldn't educate the lower classes or not educate girls would be met with huge resistance from most Republicans,
It would not outrage evangelical conservatives at all. It is what they believe in, except they put it into nicer words. Women should be helpmeet for their husbands. They should homeschool and focus on family, need education only to the level necessary for that.
As for Republicans, they consistently vote for policies to achieve the above.
> America is a fundamentally leftist nation
If you define the left in some completely novel way, maybe.
> America never had to deal with land redistribution because America never had a feudal system that required it.
You might want to read more about how America came to be. The land distribution was rather large issue there.
- jowea 2y ago> If you define the left in some completely novel way, maybe. I don't think it is an absurd notion. The founding fathers maybe wouldn't be outright Montagnards by the original standards of left-right division in the French Revolution that would start soon after, but they would definitively be on the left. The US liberal democratic republic with no official class system and at least a theoretical commitment to individual freedom would be to the left of almost all European governments until the 20th century, if you don't discount too many points for slavery and its aftermath. My opinion, is that the fundamentally leftist ideology of liberal democracy has been so ideologically victorious it is now the centre, so people now talk anything but socialism is right-wing.