| You're making a very eggregious error in assuming that the Democratic party of the 1850s is the same Democratic party of the 1930s is the same Democratic party of the 1970s. The same goes for the Republicans. Teddy was a Republican, yet FDR was a Democrat (and had suspiciously leftist Republican Fiorello LaGuardia under him). Strom was a Democrat, then was a Republican (yet his views stayed oddly similar). If you think the politics haven't changed any in all these years, you're a very, very simple man.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |