[Philip Benjamin] Perhaps in "Everything List "Hardball Tactics of Republicans to promote Civil Liberties after 1861" is also relevant. Then check the following link. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-democrats-can-learn-hardball-from-the-republicans-of-1861/ In antebellum America the Democrats were the pro-slavery, pro-segregation, pro-discrimination, pro-KKK Party. Have they really changed? If so good for them. If not, who is now the pro-human-trafficking, pro-sanctuary-city, pro-illegal-immigration, pro-pornography, pro-baby-dismembering, pro-baby-part-selling, anti-family, anti-traditional-marriage, pro-pedophilia, pro- beastiality, pro-anarchy, pro-Epstein-isalnd-morality, pro-pagan, pro-progressism etc., etc.? Having laws by free citizens in a free society in congruence with Natural Laws or Common Sense is not dictatorship. It is civility, law & order. There are basic rule-of-law considerations from both a theoretical and historical perspective. Fourth Century Augustine (once a profligate pagan, https://www.midwestaugustinians.org/conversion-of-st-augustine) is the chief architect of Western Civilization in general. The "Two great Awakenings" (led by the intellectual giant Jonathan Edwards, the founder of Princeton University) of Puritan America in particular are both historical and historic facts. Science & technology are the products of a civilization where an awakened Augustinian consciousness (not reptilian, unregenerated consciousness) prevails. Best regards Philip Benjamin
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lawrence Crowell Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 7:18 AM To: Everything List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Trump's massive corruption is now the new normal The socio-economic role of the Republicans and Democrats is changing. The Republicans started in the late 1850s as a progressive party and abolitionist. Lincoln in fighting the Civil War though enlisted industry to produce munitions, and this coupled the Republicans with the industrialists and bankers. The Democrats were conservatives and Confederates, but after the war they split into the segregationist, or Dixiecrats, in the south, but coupled with the labor movement that sought economic rights in the north. This split collapsed eventually as the Republican domination from 1860 to 1930 ended, the progressive Democrats won with FDR and the New Deal. Eventually the split was put to an end with the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights. Then Nixon in his "southern strategy" moved the GOP into the south. The Democrats transitions from being the party of the landed gentry of the south into the champion of the working man. The Republicans went from being a progressive party into the party for the millionaire class. However, this is changing. If Donald Trump wins I suspect the future of the US is a neo-fascistic authoritarianism. The Republican Party will become the sole ruling party and the Democrats reduced to a token opposition that is eventually phase out of existence. It is also possible that even if Biden wins that the GOP will come back with an even more of a madman, maybe Cotton of Arkansas. That man is insane. However, if I assume that does not happen the signs are evident that the Democratic Party is emerging as the party of the neo-elites. The advanced economic sectors, computers, AI, biotech and so forth are largely in favor of the Democrats. The older industries, think of coal and oil, are behind the GOP. The financial sector is more Democratic than it ever has been, though its old GOP habits are still here. The Republican Party is becoming a sort of economic progressive party, or populist party, that attracts the economically disenfranchised. Though this is largely with white people. As white people are about 2/3rds the US population they have about half in their favor, and this corresponds roughly with Trump's base. This means the GOP will become in time a hopeless minority party unless their populist message is extended to non-white people. They could start with Latinos and by ending this ridiculous wall building. I will also say while the Democrats are becoming the party of those better educated or more inclined to an intellectual perspective, the Republicans are becoming the party of the uneducated and in some cases just downright dumb. Trump has facilitated this enormously. Take a look at this statement by Trump. Anyone at a rally enthusiastically supporting this and hundreds of other non-sequitur statements are either not really thinking, they think they are thinking, or they are simply too dumb to ever think at all. The GOP also faces a big shift because of their victory with the Barrett confirmation. I suspect it is now a matter of time before Roe v Wade is history. Abortion will become highly illegal, and I would not be surprised to see draconian punishments such as death penalty for abortions, even against women who self-abort. The GOP will have used up that trump-card. That is a big problem, for that creates a huge political message vacuum for the GOP. Also. as dead women start piling up and the flip side of this problem rears its head the conservatives will be on the defensive on this. The GOP will have to come up with some new thing or amplify the pro-gun message to the point private ownership of nuclear bombs is legal. Well, sort of kidding on the nukes, but we may see all sorts of gun craziness. They might also work on a new message against LBTQ or other groups. The GOP is quite often in favor of punitive or authoritarian actions. Be prepared, that could be worrisome. I foresee though a shift where the Democratic Party is the party of new wealth, and the Republicans are a sort of progressive or populist party supporting the economically depressed and the least educated. The GOP may in time lose its connection to the financial elites. This could be the next flip around. This all has a weak connection to Democracy. This country has always had a rather plutocratic system. Attempts to make the American Republic more democratic have been rather fleeting and halting. James Madison lamented as president how the banks, plantation owners and shipping companies had such influence. Lincoln made similar statements. It has always been this way. The biggest difference between Republicans and Democrats is the velocity with which their knees hit the floor when confronted by their campaign donors. LC On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 6:10:29 AM UTC-5 PGC wrote: On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 2:31:16 AM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: I hit back. Hey, maybe that is paranoid! Golly! It's also, among quite a list of other things, delusional as your posts frame yourself as some hero on a revenge trip, necessitating "hitting back". You type on a keyboard thinking you're in some UFC boxing ring reposting links nobody cares about and nobody asked for. Somebody posts about a black hole and you see Obama and black panthers and post like a zealot who has to rid the list from satan. That, and you're working for Xi by being a racist, supporting those responsible for killing US citizens via inaction and downplaying the pandemic, thereby weakening USA. 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