• MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Ya know, if post Civil War reconstruction had actually happened and we’d de-confederated the South like we de-nazi’d Germany and Japan the GOP wouldnt exist today.

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      7 months ago

      Well, kinda, since the parties swapped roles in the Southern Strategy as a response to the civil rights movements, back then the democrats were the overtly racist ones. So we could assume the GOP would still exist but it would look nothing like the “modern” (hah) version.

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        7 months ago

        Yes, the nuance of the party swap in the 60s is lost on most people.

        Thats how my ultra-maga relatives get to prpudly post on FB how theyre the party of Lincoln and in the very next post proclaim their hatred anything farther left than the taliban.

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          “We’re the party of Lincoln, that’s why everything needs to be named after a Confederate general. State’s rights.”

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      And we’d probably have actual human rights laws in America, instead of means-tested, drug-tested government aid.