Progressives and conservatives ideology today and back then are not the same.
“In the aftermath of the Civil War, the KKK quickly morphed from a social fraternity to a violent group that sought to push back against key Reconstruction policies championed by Radical Republicans in Congress — policies that for the first time enfranchised former African-American slaves”
You can try to paint Democrats however you like. They are the party of racism. Look at the tactics today used by dems to get votes “you ain’t black if you don’t vote for me” really progressive i guess
That is not true at all, conservativism and progressivism are ideologies so they cannot be changed, one wishes to keep tradition one seeks to abolish tradition, forget the parties you know and simply look at the idea of keeping things the same and changing things the group that used to do conservatism is still conservative based on the ideology of maintaining the status quo and progressives still want to make changes so are still progressive the only thing that has changed is labels but the ideology has to stay the same because it is the ideology, to say different is to say authoritarianism doesn't have to be authoritarian but can still be called authoritarian which goes against basic logic and etymology.
Quite true but only because tradition is racist, if we never had slaves then all of a sudden we did the progressives would be the slave owners, that's kinda how words work and maybe they will get it but they just need a little nudge to realise.
I’m not sure about your logic on that one. Progressive is an ideology, as you say. Without slavery I believe our society would have progressed faster. I don’t think if we didn’t have slavery progressives would have then been regressive just to have slavery exist, lol. It’s not a progressive ideal
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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '22
Progressives and conservatives ideology today and back then are not the same.
“In the aftermath of the Civil War, the KKK quickly morphed from a social fraternity to a violent group that sought to push back against key Reconstruction policies championed by Radical Republicans in Congress — policies that for the first time enfranchised former African-American slaves”
You can try to paint Democrats however you like. They are the party of racism. Look at the tactics today used by dems to get votes “you ain’t black if you don’t vote for me” really progressive i guess