I love that Republicans claim they’re the “party of Lincoln,” forgetting that the political ideals of Republicans and Democrats were opposite back in Lincoln’s day. They switched sometime in the 1950s, long after Lincoln’s time. So modern Democrats were Republicans in Lincoln’s day.
“I know one thing—there is a strike! And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.” - some filthy commie or something, no one the GOP would ever support
… there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them and drive them to it without their consent. Having proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for life.
Now there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless.
Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
That certainly does not sound like someone fit for public office. Hell, we have been deporting students for saying less controversial things.
Heck even some republican politicians right into the 90’s could run as democrats but would not make it as republicans now. They left any sense of sanity when the millenium turned.
I love that Republicans claim they’re the “party of Lincoln,” forgetting that the political ideals of Republicans and Democrats were opposite back in Lincoln’s day. They switched sometime in the 1950s, long after Lincoln’s time. So modern Democrats were Republicans in Lincoln’s day.
“I know one thing—there is a strike! And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.” - some filthy commie or something, no one the GOP would ever support
That certainly does not sound like someone fit for public office. Hell, we have been deporting students for saying less controversial things.
Heck even some republican politicians right into the 90’s could run as democrats but would not make it as republicans now. They left any sense of sanity when the millenium turned.