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@Fardonn1 The U.S. political parties have not "flipped." The Republican Party is still the party which speaks up for the weak and the voiceless, and the Democrat Party is still the party which represents their oppressors: the slavery industry, the abortion industry, communist tyrants, etc.

@Fardonn1 The Democratic party was created in the late 1820s from the dissolution of the earlier "Democratic-Republican" Party, by supporters of Andrew Jackson, on a platform supporting slavery and "Indian removal."

@Fardonn1 The “Jacksonians” founded the modern “Democratic” party on January 8, 1828, with the launch of Jackson’s successful 1828 Presidential campaign against the Democratic-Republican incumbent, John Quincy Adams. Jackson’s supporters called their new party the Democratic Party.

@Fardonn1 (Adams’ supporters mostly called themselves “National Republicans,” disdaining the word “Democratic,” during the election of 1828.)

@Fardonn1 For its first 20-25 years, the Democratic Party also included a significant anti-slavery faction, but by the mid-1800s, with the defection of abolitionist Democrats to the Free Soil and then Republican Parties, the Democratic Party had become the pro-slavery Party.

@Fardonn1 After the Civil War, and for the next eighty years or so, the Democrat Party was, especially in the South, the segregationist Party, and the home of Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan.

The Klan was founded as the terrorist offshoot of the Democrat Party (like Hamas to the PLO).

@Fardonn1 Since the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Democratic Party has finally abandoned its segregationist heritage. But it embraced Progressivism instead, and it still appeals heavily to the baser impulses of class jealousy and prejudice, to woo supporters.

@Fardonn1 For most of its ≈168 year existence, the Republican Party was the Northern Christian Abolitionist Party, at the same time that the Democrats were the Southern White Segregationist Party.
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@Fardonn1 The Parties have evolved, obviously, but there's still much of those original heritages evident in today's Parties.

@Fardonn1 The voiceless victims of today's Democrats are now unborn babies, instead of African-American slaves and Native Americans, but the message is the same: Democrats appeal to those with power, by defending oppression and murder of the powerless, and dehumanizing their victims.

@Fardonn1 The Republican party was founded Christian abolitionists, for the purpose of emancipating slaves. That cause is won, but the Party still shows signs of its Christian idealist roots, for example, by its “moralist” positions, such as opposition to the killing unborn babies.

@Fardonn1 The Republican Party stands to this day for individual liberty and responsibility, personal & public virtue, and equal justice, and it remains the Party favored by most Christians, especially Evangelical Christians (...despite Trump, who has obviously eroded those core values).

@Fardonn1 The Republican Party is the Party which doesn’t ignore America’s most important problems. Those problems are not financial, they are moral. To ignore that is to ignore what really matters.

@Fardonn1 BTW, I am Eliza's Emotional Support Animal:

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