re: #371 Anymouse 🌹

I would change that from GOP to conservative. While the GOP hasn’t always been this way (thanks, Goldwater), conservatism has always been anti-democracy in our country.

Fighting for the Crown in the Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, Manifest Destiny, Trail of Tears, Civil War, Business Plot, Jim Crow, Watergate, Iran-Contra, &c.

There is no generation in the USA where conservatives have not tried to overthrow the will of the people as expressed through the vote or Congress.

There is “opposed to change” conservatism and there is the sort of conservatism that stresses the importance of individual initiative and personal freedoms.
And then there are Religious Fundamentalists, who come out in favor of “family values” but have a rather narrow view of what those values are.
And there is the conservatism of the 1% who own 90% of everything and see no reason for that trend to change…