Why do you support the party of slavery?
My ancestors were enslaved by Democrats and I just want to know how you supporters of the Democratic party morally justify that sort of violation of human rights.
Without attesting to be a Democratic voter, I will say that although the party name is the same the game has changed. Political parties are not monoliths.
Just as the Democratic party has changed materially, so too has the GOP. Neither of them is the same thing they were during the 19th and most of the 20th century.
The nature and extent of the transformation of the core values espoused by the two major parties has been well documented. I've referenced it and those documents on multiple occasions here on USMB.
From what I can tell, the Democratic party is moving closer to what the 20th century Pre-Nixon-Southern-Strategy [1] GOP was and the GOP is moving closer to what the Democratic party was in the 1960s. Right now, the only things I see that're blurring the "flip" are (1) the extent to which the GOP will retain whatever share of the professional class it has and (2) the extent to which it can hold corporate class, professional class and working class voters.
Note:
- -- Why did the Democrats Lose the South?
-- The Southern Strategy
-- Construction of the Racist Republican