Reply #97: If you'd go back the Abe Lincoln's time, yes, the Republicans were

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more liberal than the Democrats. But that was 150 years ago. During that century
and a half, a lot of change had taken place -- in fact, a change of 180 degrees. The
Repubs. became conservative and the Dems. liberal.

So, when LBJ signed the civil rights bill, most of the conservative Dems. left the
Dem. Party and joined the Repubs, because the Repubs. were already the conservative
party and more segregationist than the Dems. Since then, the conservatives and
segregationists have been and are concentrated in the Repub. Party (now taken
over by the Neoconservatives. The latest group -- if it could be called such --
the Tea Partyers, belong there also, I presume).

"The Dems were segregationists." Yes, but that was way before Franklin Roosevelt's
time. Even Ted Roosevelt quit the Repub. Party -- and that was more than 100 years
ago.

I am intrigued by the idea someone recently wrote about: Today it's no longer
Dem/Pub, Liberal/Conservative, it's corporations vs. you and me. I think this
"you and me" applies also to the small fry who are working for the Corporatists.
These small fry don't yet know that they, also, will be skinned alive. They, too
will only be the servants of the corporatists, should these latter ever really
take over the country completely.