I'm curious. The party previous to Republicans was destroyed too. As a Canadian I don't even

[applegrove]

know what it was called. Did it break apart because the 1% was agitating for more power all the time and left out anything for the base too? If so it may be cyclical.

[Cleita]

1. Whig Party I think. I don't remember if they were conservative, but I think they were. eom

[LiberalArkie]

2. Results from Wiki

The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

Founded by anti-slavery activists, modernists, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers in 1854, the Republicans dominated politics nationally and in the majority of northern States for most of the period between 1860 and 1932.

[47of74]

5. And at the time the Republicans were the liberal party.

[liberal N proud]

3. Conservativism fails, fascism fails

Trickle down government fails.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

4. The Know Nothing party has re-emerged as the Tea Party

No longer necessarily anti-catholic, they're now... Well, anti-everyone not white and protestant. Because FREEDOM!!

[braddy]

6. The Whig party only lasted about 21 years or so,

and it was in the early days of America, partly against Jackson's treatment of the Indians and the Trail of Tears, it was anti slavery, pro public education, etc.

[applegrove]

7. Okay.

[LostOne4Ever]

8. I seem to remember this being what happened

[font face=Georgia size=4 color=#009999]If I remember correctly, The federalists was the original oppsition party to the dems and they were sort of the Conservative party of that time (though I think they were actually anti-slavery), and their British elitism just did not appeal to the masses. They gave us Washington and Addams 1.

But they were pretty much destroyed by the more classical liberalism of Jefferson and Madison. Then for a while there was just the democrats until the election of Andrew Jackson. Then the part broke up into the Democratic Party, the Whig party, the free soil party, and a few others.

The Democratic Party turned conservative and dominated till the election of Lincoln. At that point the Whigs convinced the other parties to join together and formed the Republican Party. It was the liberal party at the time and led the union to victory and became the dominant political party till the Great Depression. However, over the years it becamingly corporate and conservative and advocated more and more for the 1% causing the Great Depression.

This is when FDR came in and lend the dems to the left. The dems dominated for decadeds after that. Eventually this led to JFK and Johnson and the passing of civil rights laws that caused social conservatives aka "Dixiecrats" to leave the party. After that Nixon won the presidency w/ his southern strategy leading to Reagan and the formation of the Modern GOP as a Conservative party.

I could be wrong but that is my understanding of it.[/font]

[applegrove]

9. Thank you. That is exactly what I wanted. Thank you.