Mark:
>The only "revolutionaries" to vote consistently Democratic over much >of this stretch wore hoods and sheets and voted early and often.
Louis Proyect wrote:
This is absolutely true. Before the New Deal, there was little to distinguish Democrat from Republican. We seem to have returned to the status quo ante.
If I remember correctly, before the New Deal, the DP was in favor of free trade, while the GOP was not. Nowadays, those roles have been partially reversed. There may have been some other differences between the parties, but of course their attitude toward capitalism was the same. -- Jim Devine / "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
