Would Today's Republican Party Oppose Slavery?

[chequita guevara]

Or would would they say it's a state's rights issue?

Would today's Republican Party start the Civil War to keep the Union together?

The oroginal GOP was a party that argued for more power to the Federal government and less power to the states. The Democrats and Republicans switched positions somewhere along the way. What happened?

[Kidlicious]

The switch occured with Wilson I believe. Even though he still tried to carry the Southern Democrats. He made it easy for the weakened Republicans to pick them up.

[Ming]

Would Today's Republican Party Oppose Slavery?

Would today's Democratic Party Oppose Slavery?

[Shi Huangdi]

I should think so. Today they oppose Abortion, so the Republican Party today opposes the country's greatest moral evil, just as it did it in it's beginning.

[Kidlicious]

They oppose abortion. So they oppose freedom. How does that equation to opposing slavery?

[DinoDoc]

I dunno. Have today's democrats been making a lot of noise over slavery in Sudan?

[chequita guevara]

Their moral opposition to abortion is one of their few connections to the original GOP, as both then and now, the party was deeply religious.

The point, however, is on almost every other issue, the Republicans have become the Democrats, and vice versa.

[:) Smiley]

What happened so I've heard was that the Democrats decided to support civil rights during the 1960s, and this caused the South to jump ship.

[chequita guevara]

That's only part of it though. By the time of FDR, the Dem's were already becoming their opposite and the Republicans were opposing them on the grounds that he was trying to create big government. The Republicans began their transformation between the two Roosevelts and have only just completed it.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Kidicious
They oppose abortion. So they oppose freedom.

Nonsense.

[Shi Huangdi]

Originally posted by Kidicious
They oppose abortion. So they oppose freedom. How does that equation to opposing slavery?

We oppose the freedom to murder your baby, just as we opposed the freedom to own a black person.


The Republican Party is generally ok with states rights, but on issues of great moral depravity, the GOP will support the Feds jumping in. And so today, our platform calls for a Constitutional Amendment banning abortion.

[Shi Huangdi]

Not that you believe in any sort of objective or universal morality, of course.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Kidicious
They oppose abortion. So they oppose freedom. How does that equation to opposing slavery?

[Whaleboy]

In every age there seems to be a question of liberal vs. conservative. A conservative, typically will be more devicive, nationalistic and less inclined to civil liberties. How we view the slavery issue today is how people in the future will view, say, gay marriage, which won't be pushed under the rug. Like they say, todays liberal is tomorrows conservative... todays liberal concerns, when they are accepted into law and culture, become a matter of historical pride (the conservatives who opposed them are judged harshly by history).

Different issues however, same thought processes. Todays conservatives, if taken back in time with no memory of today to the 1850's/1860's, would in all likelihood support slavery.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi


We oppose the freedom to murder your baby, just as we opposed the freedom to own a black person.

Yes, you care more about an unthinking, non-sentient mass of undeveloped cells than you do people who are born. I think we need a pregnancy police. Seriously!