MaxSt wrote:шпиён wrote:obturator wrote:шпиён wrote:obturator wrote:Демократическая партия традиционно стояла на прогрессивных позициях.
Угадайте, какая именно партия представляла плантаторов-рабовладельцев Юга.
Вы еще древний Рим вспомните.
А в Друвнем Риме разве ЭТА САМАЯ Демократическая Партия была?
Не было. И двести лет назад в Америке - тоже не было. It's all water under the bridge.
MaxSt.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic Party in 1792
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Там дальше всякие пертурбации... Anyway, 150 лет назад, когда жестко стоял вопрос о рабстве в США - уже была. Под предводительством нынешнего же "Democratic National Committee, now the longest running political organization in the world" (с)
http://www.democrats.org/about/history.htmlИ стояла на стороне рабовладельцев.
Сравните с:
The Republican Party - GOP History
The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge. The first informal meeting of the party took place in Ripon, Wisconsin, a small town northwest of Milwaukee. The first official Republican meeting took place on July 6th, 1854 in Jackson, Michigan. The name "Republican" was chosen because it alluded to equality and reminded individuals of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party. At the Jackson convention, the new party adopted a platform and nominated candidates for office in Michigan.
In 1856, the Republicans became a national party when John C. Fremont was nominated for President under the slogan: "Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Fremont." Even though they were considered a "third party" because the Democrats and Whigs represented the two-party system at the time, Fremont received 33% of the vote. Four years later, Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican to win the White House.
The Civil War erupted in 1861 and lasted four grueling years. During the war, against the advice of his cabinet, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves. The Republicans of their day worked to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlawed slavery, the Fourteenth, which guaranteed equal protection under the laws, and the Fifteenth, which helped secure voting rights for African-Americans.
The Republican Party also played a leading role in securing women the right to vote. In 1896, Republicans were the first major party to favor women's suffrage. When the 19th Amendment finally was added to the Constitution, 26 of 36 state legislatures that had voted to ratify it were under Republican control. The first woman elected to Congress was a Republican, Jeanette Rankin from Montana in 1917.
Ну и кто тут прогрессивный?
Другое дело, что оставшись без базы в лице рабовладельцев и их потомков, демократы быстро "просекли фишку" и переключились на раздачу подачек разнообразным меньшинствам. Только это уже не "прогрессивность", это - просто популизм.
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