[enumerated]

“If you have access go ahead and post them as replies.”

I don’t really want to add to already excessive CW2 talk on FR.

The War Between the States gets brought up here all the time in the same cliche fashion - i.e we Republicans are the good guys because 165 years ago we made the Democrats give up their slaves.

That’s such a dumbed-down version of history and is completely irrelevant to what distinguishes the two parties today.

Besides, if we are to conflate 165-year-old party behaviors with behaviors of today, shouldn’t we also assume that 165-year-old reporting by the NYT was fake news lies, just as it is today?

[BroJoeK]

enumerated: "That’s such a dumbed-down version of history and is completely irrelevant to what distinguishes the two parties today."

And that is just your own dumbed-down version of history.
In fact, Democrats then were the same kinds of people they are today: radicals, violently at war against the United States and our Constitution, determined to preserve at all costs their own special privileges at the expense of non-Democrat Americans.
Democrats then as now were an alliance of big business (then it was mainly cotton) with Big City immigrant bosses.

Republicans then as now were ordinary, small-town, small-business conservative Americans devoted to our founding principles and documents.
In 1860 we were willing to live & let live with slavery in the South, but not at the expense of losing the Democrats' war against the United States.

Oh, dear... did I hurt your poor feelings?
Do you need a safe space... maybe a support animal?