Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Always on the Wrong Side of History: A Look at Many of the Constitutional Rights Conservatives Have Opposed

Always on the Wrong Side of History: A Look at Many of the Constitutional Rights Conservatives Have Opposed

"as we all know, conservatives love to point out that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was a Republican. That’s true, but he wasn’t a conservative. It’s as if conservatives willfully ignore the fact that the states which fought with the South during the Civil War are also the states that opposed integration, voting rights and the Civil Rights Act – and now almost every single one of them is strongly Republican."