[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from May 16 (reply #15).

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[BroJoeK]

It's a good time & place to ask, what does it mean to be a Republican?
A lot of people here, it seems, pretend to be Republicans, or conservatives, when what they actually are, are Southern Democrats.
Republicans come out of the Federalist-Whig tradition of George Washington, John Adams & Henry Clay.
They were formed from the collapse of the Whigs, over slavery (not tariffs or "money flows from Europe"), and in 1860 they laid out their first winning platform.

I have summarized it as follows:

1860 Republican Party Platform

Plank Nbr.	Summary
1	Republican Party is Necessary & Permanentt
2	Support for Founding Fathers' Principles
3	Anti-Secession
4	Anti-Violence (as from John Brown)
5	Anti-Slavery (opposed to Democrat abuses of their political powers)
6	Anti-Corruption ("Drain the D.C. Swamp")
7	Anti-Slavery (in US territories)
8	Anti-Slavery (in US territories)
9	Anti-Slavery (opposed to international importations of slaves)
10	Anti-Slavery (in US territories)
11	Anti-Slavery (admit Kansas as free state)
12	Support Protective Tariffs
13	Support Western Settlers
14	Support Legal Immigrants
15	Support Transportation Infrastructure Spending
16	Support Trans-Continental Railroad

Today we see Democrat-imposed quasi-slavery in many issues still opposed by Republicans, from long-term dependence on government "free money" to the ultimate denial of freedom, abortions.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from May 17 (reply #20).

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