{"id":34386,"date":"2023-11-19T06:07:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T11:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34386"},"modified":"2023-11-19T06:27:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T11:27:52","slug":"books-besides-krakeurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34386","title":{"rendered":"Books besides Krakeur&#8217;s &#8211; liberal republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53341771488_7e38fb2a0e_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve called myself more than a &#8220;bad republican&#8221; as reported <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2023\/11\/16\/126511-not-a-goldwater-republican\">in my last Reader Article<\/a> I&#8217;ve also called myself a liberal republican or a Socially liberal republican a Jesse Jackson Republican a gypsy moth Republican and even a RINO using all together different words for the acconym.<\/p>\n<p>What these all mean takes some time that readers don&#8217;t want to give up. Yet another thing I jotted down to write about yesterday was the long list of political descriptors that vast swaths of America only understand vaguely such as:<\/p>\n<p>conservative<br \/>\nliberal<br \/>\nprogressive<br \/>\nsocialist<br \/>\ncommunist<br \/>\nnationalist<br \/>\nfascist<br \/>\nauthoritarian<br \/>\ntotalitarian<br \/>\ndictator<br \/>\nrepublican<br \/>\ndemocrat<\/p>\n<p>Then I jotted down a similar list of theocratic words people are clueless about and since God has stuck his big nose under the Republican tent they are worth explaining tooooooooo<\/p>\n<p>The books above are about the liberal republican label. Republican is first associated with the over throw by populists in Caesar&#8217;s Rome of the Republican non king government of the rich aristocracies to be given yet another king or line of kings who got in the habit of calling themselves God&#8217;s much to the Jewish world&#8217;s irritation. Purists didn&#8217;t want to spend Roman money with some so called damned God\/Caesar on it.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson coopted it for his Democratic or Democratic Republican Party. It became just the Democratic Party and reemerged as a familiar name in 1856 as one of a couple new parties which were making room for themselves with Lincoln&#8217;s beloved Whig Party of internal improvements fell apart leading to a near one party state.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent my adult life reading up on Republicans but have always associated Liberal Republicans with my youth and John D. Rockefeller (Rockefeller Republicans which I used to call myself until the veil of time made him forgotten) and Teddy Roosevelt. I&#8217;ve always been a little stuck on the first use of the term liberal republicans because it is post Civil War. The books above contain two new books I just ordered on the Era of the 1872 election when a group calling themselves liberals began fighting President Grant and his policies to keep federal troops in the South to protect the freed peoples. That just seemed contradictory to me&#8230;..but then again the Congressmen like Thaddeus Stevens who were driven to protect black Americans were called the Radicals. How different from today&#8217;s Republican Party that obsesses over nit picky ways to make it hard for black voters to cast ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Nuff said. Obviously like the post before my head is swimming with sharks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve called myself more than a &#8220;bad republican&#8221; as reported in my last Reader Article I&#8217;ve also called myself a liberal republican or a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34389,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386\/revisions\/34389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}