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thomhartmann

(3,979 posts) Fri Nov 4, 2016, 12:38 PM Nov 2016

Has the Party of Lincoln Turned Into the Party of Sedition?

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Has the Party of Lincoln Turned Into the Party of Sedition? (Original Post) thomhartmann Nov 2016 OP

yes niyad Nov 2016 #1

The party of Lincoln, has turned into the party of John Wilkes Booth. forest444 Nov 2016 #2

GOP was often the party of sedition bucolic_frolic Nov 2016 #3

K&R nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2016 #4

niyad

(113,232 posts)

1. yes

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Fri Nov 4, 2016, 12:41 PM

Nov 2016

forest444

(5,902 posts)

2. The party of Lincoln, has turned into the party of John Wilkes Booth.

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Fri Nov 4, 2016, 12:42 PM

Nov 2016

Probably the most memorable quote the 2016 election will leave us.

bucolic_frolic

(43,123 posts)

3. GOP was often the party of sedition

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Fri Nov 4, 2016, 01:20 PM

Nov 2016

Lincoln spoke in platitudes about freedom and opportunity. Common folk
thought that meant free land and westward expansion, and it did. But
Lincoln's railroad cronies (he was a railroad lawyer) and northern manufacturers
heard license to exploit labor without government interference and high
tariffs on foreign goods to protect domestic industries. That all sounds
patriotic an innocuous enough, but it's the same old GOP agenda: inside
deals hammered out privy from public view between wealthy business and
political leaders: cronyism.

ProudProgressiveNow

(6,129 posts)

4. K&R nt

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Fri Nov 4, 2016, 02:29 PM

Nov 2016

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