I am really dumbfounded as to what happened the the grand old party. The party of civil rights. The party which was fiscally conservative. I am not judging, I am just curious.
The GOP was the party of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was actually the first Republican candidate. The republicans were also historically in favor of a central bank and a central currency. They were also pro-federal government as opposed to the democrats, who were pro-state, anti central everything (including bank) and pro exterminate or dislocate the native Americans (Andrew Jackson). More recently, well still back a while, the republican party was the party of the north. The republican party was a fiscally conservative party, the party of the Rockefellers and the likes. They practiced fiscal responsibility and the likes. The tides changed (or so it seemed), when the civil rights movement flourished under a Democrat president, who actually for the first time embodied the ideals. Loosing the southern vote, the republicans invariably took the place as the party of the southerner. Now, the democrats were the party of the African American, not of the "guy with the confederate flag in the back of his pick up". What happened? What happened to the party of Lincoln that made it do this. And why has it gone to such extremes as now implementing anti-civil liberty legislation such as the patriot act, the patriot act II, attorney generals Ashcroft and Gonzales, and now Judge Michael Chertoff as head of Homeland security. These people are opposing our civil liberties. And what happened to fiscal responsibility. The GOP now has a president (and has had a president since Reagan) running up deficits and debt like there is no tomorrow. The answer lies in Reagan economics, also known as Voodoo economics. So the question I have, is how did the GOP let this happen? Isn't a party supposed to enforce its platform?
