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I have mentioned time and again here that the Republican Party is liberal and only the take over of the Democratic Party by the Communists & Socialists in the 1950's and 1960's made the Republicans look like conservatives.
The Republican party has never been a conservative party and that began with the very first two Republicans, Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley who left the Whig Party because they weren't liberal enough and formed the "Red Republicans"

How Abraham Lincoln was a Socialist/Communist


1. Lincoln grew up in the area of the US where most of the radical socialists who had fled Germany settled in, notably, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois.

2. Lincoln’s long and well documented relationship with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels through written correspondence, his personal relationship with Horace Greeley, the founder and editor of the New York Tribune, a well known (at the time) and self-proclaimed advocate of Socialism, and Lincoln’s appointment of Charles Dana, the Tribune’s managing editor and personal friend of Karl Marx as Deputy Secretary of War. Note; Charles Dana was Marx and Engels’ editor for their works, primarily "The Communist Manifesto" before returning to the US and becoming part of the Lincoln Administration.

3. Lincoln’s stated goal was to free both the African slaves in the South and the common laborer in the North from their “masters”. Lincoln very much ascribed to the idea of the people being the determinant of their own wages. He was also a strong supporter of labor unions.

4. In 1837, in his very first speech as an Illinois State Legislator, he said “These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”

5. Lincoln left the Whig Party, along with Horace Greeley, to create the Republican Party. The political divide in the Whig Party was much like the current divide in the Republican Party. There were liberals and conservatives. Lincoln was a liberal. The early Republican Party faction that Lincoln was a co-founder of was so liberal they named themselves “Red Republicans”.

6. In 1861, Lincoln signed into law the very first personal income tax. This income tax was a “progressive tax”, in that, the more income you had, the more taxes you made.

7. Lincoln led the federal replacement of gold and silver as currency with paper money. He signed into law the 1863 and 1864 banking laws, contrary to the 10th Amendment, that created federal charted banks, undercutting the state chartered banks.

8. Lincoln instituted the first forced conscription, requiring men to leave their farms and follow the orders of the military commanders.

9. Lincoln befriended and appointed a number radical European Socialists to both government positions and military positions. These Socialists had fled Europe after the Socialist 1848 uprising that included raiding an armory to steal weapons in order to further their aims.

10. Lincoln declared war on the Southern states that seceded, having no Constitutional authority to do so and in defiance of the founding of the Republic which was completely voluntary.

11. Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus during the Civil War in order to take political prisoners in order to prevent further support for the Confederacy. The Constitution grants sole authority to suspend Habeas Corpus to Congress. Lincoln was sued in the Third District Federal Court by one of these political prisoners and the SCOTUS Chief Judge Roger Taney found in favor of the Plaintiff, writing that the right to suspend Habeas Corpus was reserved for Congress under Article 1, section 9 of the Constitution. Lincoln’s advisers told him to ignore the Federal Court and he did, continuing the arrests of political prisoners.

12. As President, Lincoln did nothing to alleviate the 40% tax on all goods produced by eight slavery supporting states Southern states in contravention to the “Equal Protection” section of the Constitution. (Ever wonder why Fort Sumter was the first place attacked in the Civil War? It was where all of those taxes were collected and stored before being transported to the North.)

13. Lincoln signed into effect laws and orders that allowed “Carpetbaggers” to go into the South and seize property for their own use as “punishment” for the South seceding. Even if the Southerners had nothing to do with fighting or supporting the war. Merely being a citizen of one of those states was enough to forfeit your property and rights.

14. Under Lincoln, the national debt grew over 4,000%.

It’s no wonder Obama idolized Lincoln.

Don't get me started on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's idol and inspiration for his own "progressive liberalism", his Uncle Teddy Roosevelt.

History ain't always what they teach you in school.

Ed