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This is not opinion or leftist. It’s news about fighting in the party, which is factual, recent, and on-topic.

Removal of this post is admitting that this sub is only about being a safe space for conservatives to circle-jerk while ignoring reality.

I encourage a discussion about the recent conflicts inside the party, how that might impact the party moving forward, and what can be done to prevent this divide.

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This article seems to draw the wrong point from the interview. The historian being interviewed says the quickness to resort to violence by Republican politicians is nearly identical to that of Southern politicians right before the US Civil War. She notes that these Southern politicians were emboldened by the fact that they could do anything and not be politically reprimanded for it. Their constituents actually liked how violent they were, so it just kept getting worse. She notes that modern day Republicans enjoy the same luxury. The historian stops short of saying America is headed towards another civil war because their politicians would rather use threat and violence over debate and compromise, and the American voters like it.

      • tsonfeir@lemm.eeOP
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        1 year ago

        I mean this with no insult. You’re in the wrong party if you want any of those things. And I’m curious, what DO you like about the Republican Party today, and don’t say taxes.

          • tsonfeir@lemm.eeOP
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            1 year ago

            You must be really old if you can recall a time when democrats discriminated against people based on race. ;-) Parties change. The modern GOP is all about big government, control of people, censorship, and racism.

            But, your answer said all I need to know about your actual position.

            Thanks

          • CaptFeather@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            You know that slavery, kkk we’re all democrat things and still are

            According to whom? Both of these things have always been far right ideologies. Are you forgetting the two main parties switched in name a century ago?

                  • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
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                    1 year ago

                    Why were many of the democrats that voted against the civil rights acts still representing the house and Senate in the 80’s and 90’s?

                    Why did renouned member of the KKK Robert Byrd serve until his death in 2010?

                    Why was segregationist Joe Biden chosen as as a democrat nominee for the presidential election?

                    Because the switch wasn’t instantaneous, nor affiliation/group based. Individuals themselves changed their thoughts and party affiliation, not just party affiliation.

                    When ever you claim the parties switched you’ll find racists democrats still representing the party.

                    The KKK literally, currently supports GOP candidates. Trump was caught doing housing segregation. The GOP regularly gerrymanders to reduce the power of black voters. The GOP regularly shuts down voting places in black neighborhoods to keep voting lines long. White nationalists are waving the flag of Trump.

                    The democratic party is a shit show. But the GOP is a god damn dumpster fire. Our political system regularly elects racist old men, on both sides. What did you expect?

                    At least on my side of the line there ain’t white nationalists. That’s plenty for me.

                    PRRI also asked respondents whether they believed that, “It always makes the country better when all Americans speak up and protest unfair treatment by government.” Then, it asked the same question, but substituted “Black Americans” for “all Americans.” Democrats made no distinction between the two questions: 71 percent answered Yes to both. Among Republicans, however, 49 percent believed it made the country better when all Americans spoke up and protested unfair governmental treatment, but just 24 percent believed it when Black Americans spoke up and protested. Among Republicans whose most trusted news source is Fox News, the gap was 47 percent Yes for all Americans, and a bare 10 percent for Blacks.

                    https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/how-racist-are-republicans-very/

                    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-american-prospect/

                    But somehow democrats are the ones that are racist.