Republicans: Are you uncomfortable with your party's early history?

[IrezumiKiss]

That chick, second from the left, has the weirdest outfit. What the fuck is that?

She's wearing pants and shoes along with her skirt to signify her equal footing with menfolk.

 

[Learnsmith]

I'm not conservative, and I almost never vote Republican (there have been some rare instances, but they've been invariably at the municipal level). But I will say this: I vote Democratic generally because, at this time, theirs is the platform most closely aligned with the issues I care about. It is they at present, and not Republicans, who care about issues of equal rights. It is they at present, and not Republicans, who care about the environment, about improving education, about deescalating our very militarized foreign-policy positions. Now, a hundred years ago? I might have voted very different. The polar shift between the parties doesn't really bother me - I understand the contexts which led to said shift, and like it or not we operate in a very different society now.

I know it's very fashionable to say "I don't vote for a party, I vote for issues." (incidentally, I'll call bullshit on that statement almost every single time). I won't go that far, because I think such an assertion is frankly disingenuous. But I will say that I'm less loyal to a party or a policy stance than I am to a specific set of philosophies: about the role of government, about the obligations we have to each other as a society, about the obligations we have to our world, and to our species. On this one, I will say that historical context does matter.

 

[CandiCame]

She's wearing pants and shoes along with her skirt to signify her equal footing with menfolk.

I think that was an actual outfit, if it were trousers it would be women's bicycling trousers, as was the style at the time. That outfit is just ridiculous. It's not symbolic, it's just ugly. They were an actual outfit that nobles wore at the time, not politically, unless you count "rich" as a political party, and it's ugly.

Eeeeew they're trying to bring those Victorian bike trousers back. Why!? LET IT DIE!!

https://lovethatsari.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/jodhpur-pants-for-women.jpg

 

[doctor_insanus]

let's start with the first one. all republocans talk about is pulling states out of the union?
who's calling for that, exactly?

last time i heard secessionist talk like that, it was by butthurt democrats after bush's win over kerry.

Ignoring recent history, I take it?

Whatever secessionist rumblings occurred in the Democratic Party, they were miniscule compared to the "butthurt" conservatives who can't stand having a black man as President.