For all of those conservative businessmen sitting out there with the confused democrats that just can’t seem to put a finger on why the Republican party has wandered away from its roots and taken up evenings and Sundays with radical preachers and visionaries intent on conquering the world all they need to do is take a look at history.
The Republican Part is merely returning to its roots. It was originally founded by socialists who mooned over Karl Marx.
In 1854 Alvan Bovay formed a new party. They called themselves Republicans as Bovay believed it suggested equality.
The party platform pledged equality for all workers.
The slogan ``Free soil, free speech, free men.'' came from them. They actually tried to force big banks to stop foreclosure actions against small farmers. The Republicans are trying that today and you can participate by going to Farm-Aid.
We can see the perversion of the ‘modern’ Republican party in their insistence on putting up stone idols engraved with the 10 commandments in every state capitol in the nation as well as in their insistence on amendments that praise the family and invite ever more control over the family by invasive government forces.
The ‘modern’ Republican party has been taken over by a euphoric band of do-gooders intent on spreading their brand of enthusiastic religion and government into every aspect of our lives. Their utopian ideals span control of the financial markets to control of reproduction and tax reform that amounts to socialism.
Why continue?

I'm not too sure I believe in the idea of modern republicans going socialist on us. I'll agree with the idea that Republicans do use the federal treasury a bit too much coming up with pork projects for their home state to get themselves re elected again.

Republicans need to remember, and embrace the ideals of Ronald Reagan. That man was an unabashed conservative and look what happened to him. Two landslide elections and untouchable by the worst scorn the media and the democrats could toss at him.

It seems to me that republicans (right leaning people) of the mid 1800's were too romantically idealistic to ever embrace Marxism (in any form).

More than likely they found it cold and mechanical and the very thought of Marx's (Engle's) deeper philosophies would be entirely over their heads.

It would be essential to have, as a minimum, a grasp of the meanings of dialectical materialism and the trilogy of thesis, antithesis and synthesis to even begin to make a decision on embracing Marxism.

I find that even today, republicans just do not have the curiosity that would drive them to delve into that kind of knowledge base. Our president doesn't even read the newspaper - so he claims and he's proud to let us know that -- as an example.

There surely were issues of interest back then that parallel today's conservative thought adventures, hence providing a disconnect and detour from researching one's own ideology.

Anyway, if you have a link in refernce to your post -- I would enjoy reading the material that prompted you to post.

Originally posted by cranston36

The Republican Part is merely returning to its roots. It was originally founded by socialists who mooned over Karl Marx.
In 1854 Alvan Bovay formed a new party. They called themselves Republicans as Bovay believed it suggested equality.
The party platform pledged equality for all workers.

And now, in the present day, we find that the Republicans have come to be the exact opposite of what Alvan Bovay believed in and envisioned them as being.

They are now on the extreme OTHER end of the political spectrum; fascists.

Why continue?

You just can't beat having the veep shoot someone in the face! I want many many more of these news stories!

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

- Charles Mackay

vote Bull Moose!

Originally posted by cranston36
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

- Charles Mackay Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is available online at: http://robotics.caltech.edu/~mason/Delusions/epdatmoc.html

Originally posted by Travh20
vote Bull Moose!

If only Bullwinkle were running, with Rocky as his VP, they just might win.