- Banned
- #1
“The Republican Party was always, from its inception, the party of big government in America,” Thomas DiLorenzo observed in his book Lincoln Unmasked. As the successor to the Whig Party, the GOP was in many ways the antithesis of the Democratic Party, which in the mid-1800s still clung to its Jeffersonian roots. Democrats favored small, decentralized, constitutional government. Republicans stumped for high protective tariffs, “internal improvements” (that invariably benefited their cronies), and central banking, as the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, described his own platform in 1832, when he made his initial foray into politics as a Whig. Even the GOP’s supposed opposition to slavery — the party actually sought to protect the “peculiar institution” via constitutional amendment — “was motivated much more by politics and economics than by humanitarianism,” noted DiLorenzo.
How to Tell RINOs From Elephants
The GOP remained the big-government party into the 20th century, with presidents such as William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt increasing its size and scope by, among other things, “trust busting,” creating new regulatory agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, and starting the United States down the road to empire in the Spanish-American War.
Since BOTH sides subscribe to the Neocon global hegemony financed by borrowing to spend and subscribe to Public Education I'm not sure there is a difference between anyone who is a part of the Duopoly, no matte how he/she/it is categorized.
How to Tell RINOs From Elephants
The GOP remained the big-government party into the 20th century, with presidents such as William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt increasing its size and scope by, among other things, “trust busting,” creating new regulatory agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, and starting the United States down the road to empire in the Spanish-American War.
Since BOTH sides subscribe to the Neocon global hegemony financed by borrowing to spend and subscribe to Public Education I'm not sure there is a difference between anyone who is a part of the Duopoly, no matte how he/she/it is categorized.