I wish to use REPUBLICAN in this article, but during the 1960s, after LBJ signed both the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, the political paradigm changed. As LBJ said so well after signing them, "I have lost the Democratic to the Republicans." Republicans still use that change to confuse and deny what and who they are. So in this piece I am forced to use "conservative" rather than "Republican" though they are now one in the same.
A journey through History asks the questions:
Who nailed whom to a cross?
Who were the Loyalists to the totalitarian monarchy of “Mad” King George?
Who started the Civil War to defend and extend slavery?
Who fought to keep women as property?
Who battled against child labor statutes?
Who argued against the concept of free public education?
Who campaigned against the right of women to vote?
Who opposed anti-trust and monopoly legislation?
Who fought against workers organizing into Unions?
Who defended Jim Crow laws for a hundred years?
Who voted against civil rights legislation?
Who has fought against every environmental statute?
Who fought against Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Minimum Wage?
Who passes legislation to discriminate against Gay men and women?
Who is at the forefront of eliminating affirmative action for women and Blacks?
Who fights for 20 round clips for handguns?
Who have always put their wallets above the common good?
Who started World War II for Christ sake!
Conservatives or Liberals?
It’s the historic undeniable truth of the matter.
It’s the nature of the Beast.