re: #8 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

There is the theory I’ve seen on some parts of the nut-o-sphere that Puritans are the intellectual ancestors of modern liberals and progressives. Which _might_ be true at some level (ideologies can change unrecognizeably in a few hundred years), but not much more than “Democrats love Slavery” that you also see spouted by the nut-rights.