• grue@lemmy.world
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      Sure they have, but not since the shift to the 5th party system.

      Conservatives have certainly never made life better for the working class, but Republicans haven’t always been conservative.

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        A couple weeks ago I had a back-and-forth with a conservative poster who staunchly believed that the GOP is still the “Party of Lincoln.” I was telling them how that wasn’t the case anymore, described the fifth party system, explained that the two parties switched views in the mid-20th century. They responded by saying I had been brain-washed by the MSM and calling me a sheep. I hadn’t seen so many emojis in a reply since ~2009, so I shrugged them off as a bot.

        Maybe I gave them the benefit of the doubt a bit too freely.

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      3 days ago

      Lincoln

      But that’s why I prefer to call people “conservative” or “liberal” (or “progressive” or “communist” or “libertarian”) instead of by party