neyapuckachinha wrote...
animefreak_usa wrote...
The south was democratic until Kennedy became president. He endorsed the civil right movement and that what turned the southern states more republican. Basically it came down to two sects in the democratic party. Northern and dixiecrats. Northerns didn't care and dixiecrats wanted that old jim crow law america. It wasn't until the devil.. i mean Reagan did the republicans become more right wing and so out of touch with the core party ideals of Lincoln, Goldwater, Eisenhower and started penis rubbing the Conservative base and jesus freaks.
Not all Republican are part of the weird party.. there some who still believe in that the party stood for, but their bastardize for being moderates and liberal for not codding the crazy army now controlling the party.. the teabaggers... It's soooo bad when the speaker of the house has to ask the mental patient who dress like George Washington for permission to do his job. Shit was better in the old wig days and Nixon for all his faults.. was a very sane liberal prez.
I am not a specialist at US politics, since I'm french and all, but aren't you saying that they all started leftist and ended on the right of the right? Also, penis rubbing the conservatives made me laugh.
And in general, to Americans, isn't Obama popular? Have he fallen out of grace?
The Republican Party was formed to defend individual rights and liberties. They oversaw the abolition of slavery and women's suffrage; the first woman voted into Congress was a Republican. They were internationally isolationist, and generally opposed to foreign intervention or significant military spending. Like Freak says, the stances of both parties changed with the shifting demographics: first with the economic depression, then the war, and finally the 1968 riot at the Democratic Party Convention, which cemented the split in the Democratic Party and increased the rift between them and the Republicans.
No, Obama isn't ever so well liked right now. The Democrats are annoyed (to say the least) over his incredibly invasive policies regarding internal security, where he's been more hardline than even Bush, and his inability to pass major bills (stimulus, healthcare etc.) in their entirety. The Republicans hate him because they think he's a left wing radical who spends too much and wants to subjugate individuals and states rights. Partisanship has destroyed him like no-one else.