She responded it was about “basically how the government was going to run."

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    The original post did not mention parties in any way shape or form. Republicans may have made themselves the modern party of conservatism. But the Dixiecrats were conservative as well. All conservatives all in the wrong side. It’s fairly simple.

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        Progress is a moving target. There are many views held by those that were progressive back then. That would be anathema to modern progressives. But their progressive view points tend to transcend the time they were born.

        Modern conservative bigots, aren’t really all that different from their counterparts from the past however. Party history doesn’t necessarily need to enter into it at all. Conservatives seek to conserve power for themselves. No more, no less. Exactly what that means to them may change superficially. But the core remains. Throughout all positive change in human history. Conservatives have been solidly against it. Conservative in America, conservatives in England, conservatives in Afghanistan, conservatives in just about anywhere else. Potato potato. The superficial trappings around it may differ slightly. But the core is always power for themselves and oppression of others to get it.

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              Honestly they’ve been a solidly right wing economic party since FDR. He was the last time since Biden oddly enough. That we invested heavily in domestic public infrastructure. And saying Biden even really approached FDR is a stretch. But it’s the closest we’ve come.

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        Ummm… literally fucking definitions, bro. Conservatives by definition want things to go back to ‘the good old days’ full of racism and white America. Progressives want… progress.

        Progressives are good. Conservatives are bad. It is black and white.

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          So Conservative Colin Powell was wrong advocating for affirmative action and other programs to help create a more equitable society?

          Or David Frum writing for the Atlantic as a conservative… I guess that magazine is secretly GOP shill.