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Scrivener7

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1. I know that Lincoln was a Republican, but we all know who the true ideological inheritors

Reply to Montauk6 (Original post)

Tue Apr 20, 2021, 08:16 AM

Apr 2021

of Lincoln's party are - it's the Democrats. And we all know that the slaveholders are the ideological parents of today's republiQans.

And it is clear that even then, they did nothing but project.

Stating that inequality and degradation was the result of an abolition government could have been a brainchild of Luntz or Roger Stone or Lee Atwater. There is simply no Democratic equivalent to that kind of Goebbels-like twisting of the truth, and apparently it is as old as the political need to protect the right to stand on the necks of one's fellow human beings.

Your post is fascinating.

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SPEAKING OF newspapers.com... [View all] Montauk6 Apr 2021 OP

I know that Lincoln was a Republican, but we all know who the true ideological inheritors Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #1

The "equality and independence, under a Southern Confederacy" LastDemocratInSC Apr 2021 #2

"Destroying the institute of slavery" was tantamount no_hypocrisy Apr 2021 #3