A rant about an agenda driven by cruelty

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11. The republicans were, more than less, on the right side of slavery

I think that was one of their high-water marks; another was the anti-trust (anti-corporation) movement during TR's administration.

The geo/demo/graphic successes of mid-20th century democrats compared to limitations of the mid-20th century republican party have caused the GOP voters to increasingly represent an intersection with a particular and peculiar subset of limited Calvinistic' religious and archaic independent yeoman/self-reliant pioneer values more associated with 'temporal escapism' than the functional inter-dependence of individuals in contemporary first-world nations.