cross-posted from: https://lemmy.librarysocialism.social/post/61306
The US Senate on Monday voted in bipartisan fashion to advance a fossil fuel industry-backed permitting reform bill that would weaken the Clean Water Act and other key environmental protections to make it easier for the federal government to streamline energy projects—including climate-wrecking gas pipelines.
The Democratic party and GOP should both go the way of the Whigs. Neither are working for the American people. Or humanity.
The Whigs simply reconstituted as the Republicans. They never really went away
There was a progressive/conservative switcheroo back in the 1920’s.
Republicans used to be the progressive ones. The Whigs predated that. The other stuff is correct though. The Whigs were where corporate Democrats are today. Infact some of the more “bought” examples spun off and formed what became known as the “Do Nothing” party because they were so waffly on the issues and fond of status quo milquetoast non-positioning that their actual name is lost to history. They only lasted a few years before dying out and getting reabsorbed into one of the existing parties, or leaving politics entirely.
Eh. There was a rapid decay of progressivism in the Whig-turned-Republican Party in the 1880s, culminating in several decades of fascism, oligarchy, and outright White Supremacy as the prevailing order of the federal and state governments. This peaked with Coolidge in the 1920s and have birth to a brief US flirtation with Communism as an active movement.
Plenty of Whigs were progressive. Conscience Whigs were a political force across New England long before Republicans existed as a party. And they were the first to defect en mass to the Republicans when they did manifest.
Do you mean the “Know Nothing” Party? Because that was a secret society which operated in direct conflict with Conscience Whigs, effectively splitting the organization in 1854 and giving Republicans an opportunity to emerge onto the national scene.
I thought they were the “Know Nothing” party
Do Nothing, Know Nothing, Speak of Nothing. It is the natural home of the world’s Mike Johnsons, and other assorted chimps.