• Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    i always find it amusing how the party is called "labour" and seems to be very much against the thing they are named for. "democrat" and "republican" are vague enough to mean whatever but i'm surprised they haven't just changed their name by now because there has got to be some dissonance everytime it's said out loud.

    like when they went all anti-union recently. it's like you fuckers have a party literally named for the working class.

    • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      'Republican' did have a very brief period of meaning something back before and during the civil war. There was a push for the federal government to be a grand republic or whatever.

      At the risk of doing great man history, that all died with Thaddeus :chaddeus: Stevens and the failure to commit to reconstruction, like everything else good about the party.