‘Since Abraham Lincoln so successfully used this tactic, all the other liberals have been using it ever after.’
Abraham Lincoln went around called people ‘white supremacists...’? who knew...
‘They wanted those votes because they knew the existing population of citizens would never vote for them.’
I take it you’re referring to the freed slave vote; the 14th was ratified in 1868, and the presidential election that year saw an electoral landslide for U.S. Grant, a Republican...the freed slave vote was granted by the 15th, in 1870...so tell us again how it was necessary for the pubs in 1868 to have amendments save them when there were none of ‘those votes’, as you called them, cast in that election...
Am well familiar when the 14th and 15th amendments were passed. Do you think Modern Liberals were thinking that their efforts to let in 3rd worlders in 1964 would not bear eventual fruit? Do you think 1860 liberals were only thinking about the immediate future?
If you don't see the connection between expanding the voting franchise to poor ignorant people who love more government, and liberals gaining power, then you are a bit dense.
It's always about gaining power. It's never about morality or human kindness.