
The Republicans cry “Lincoln” and “let slip the dogs of war” when they are desperate for support. “We are the party of Lincoln“, they say. “We are the party of patriotism“, they say. But I think to call the modern Republican Party the party of Lincoln is like calling McDonald’s fast food authentic Scottish Cuisine.
A political party can be divided into the powerful people who run it and the voters who support it at the polls. When Lincoln was elected President, the Republican Party was considered progressive and the party of the urban elite. America was mostly an agricultural nation at the time, in the process of becoming a major industrial one. In contrast, the Democratic Party was the party of slavery and of the rural poor and the country elite. But political times change.
William Jennings Bryan, the lawyer who helped prosecute in the 1925 Scopes Trial, was a staunch Democrat. (He had served as Secretary of State under President Wilson, a major racist). Bryan supported the common man, prohibition, labor unions, and creationism. He spent the last years of his life fighting against Social-Darwinism and the teaching of evolution.
Modern Republicans pander to rural and suburban America. They court the “soccer moms“, “The Heart Of American“, and “The Bible Belt“. Modern Democrats court everyone else. A demographic map denoting the blue vs. the red states is simplistic, but it does demonstrate where a party is strongest. McCain isn’t in San Francisco, and Obama isn’t in Boise. The maps have shifted since 186o. The Democratic Party, once the party of slavery, racism, and creationism, is now supporting a black “evolutionist” for president.
The Republican Party is now the party of Chuck Norris, and the Democratic Party is the party of science. I don’t know about you, but I’m voting for science.
P.S. McCain is a computer illiterate.
Filed under Culture Warfare, Politics
Tagged as Abortion Rights, Alaska, Atheism, Atheist, Babies, Bible, Biology, Blue States, Carl Rove, Charles Darwin, Christian, Chuck Norris, Clinton, CNN, Creationism, Creator, Darwinists, Death Tax, Democrats, Designer, Diapers, Discovery Institute, DNC, Economy, Evolutionists, Fair Balanced, family values, Fiscal Responsibility, Fox News, Free Masons, Gay Marriage, God, GOP, Governor, Hawaii, Hitler, Intelligent Design, Iraq, Jesus, John McSame, Ken Ham, Kent Hovind, Lee Strobel, McCain, Mike Huckabee, Noah's Ark, November 2008, Obama, Old Testament, POW, pro-life, pro-rights, racism, Red States, Republicans, Ricard Dawkins, Roe vs. Wade, Sarah Palin, Science Ecaution, Sex Education, Social-Darwinism, Stalin, Stem Cell, Teen Pregnancy, Unfair Unbalanced, Vice-President, Vietnam, Vote, VP, Wall Street, YEC