When the Republican Party Stopped Being the Party of Lincoln

 

You hear many claim the Republican party as the Party of Lincoln when they make attempts to reform the current Republican Party into a party of human rights, decency, and a true governing body but these attempts soon fall face first at the feet of those who prefer to bully people instead of listening to them. 

Those using this method often gets extremely frustrated because they thought this fact would snap them out of this MAGA funk and back to a party one could be truly proud of again. The frustration mounts because perhaps they said it to the wrong wayward Republicans or in the wrong group of the GOP because they truly believe that if anyone looked at the stance that Lincoln took, they would change directions and honor his name and memory. 

The truth is, the Republican Party stopped being the party of Lincoln when those of political strength and influence created a plan to install their own guy into the seat of the presidency during Lincoln’s second term.  History tells us that the Republican party carried the same ideas that the current Democratic Party claim to care about but that was when the Republican party was born from the Whig Party filled with abolitionist and others who saw all men and women as created evil and indentured servitude was nothing more than another name for slavery. 

History is absent of the facts that before Lincoln took on his second term, he wanted to bring the country together, so he enlisted the aid and suggestions of those called Dixiecrats.  Dixiecrats were slave owners who loved their way of life and had refused to surrender it, choosing to succeed, and fighting a civil war to save it.  After losing that war, they began to search for another way to restore their southern way of life.  Lincoln asked them to help him reunited the country and they agreed upon on condition.  Lincoln had to choose a guy of their choosing to be his vice-president.  And now the die was cast.

Those little people operating behind the curtain, out of sight of the public became instrumental in convincing some dope of killing the President of the United States and bribing those around that President to be absent on that day and at that time.  History blamed John Wilkes Booth and those in power played their roles by hanging those that they said were aligned with Booth, perhaps silencing those who actually knew more about the truth than those behind the curtain wanted them to know.

The Republican Party stopped being the party of Lincoln on the date of his death because the Dixiecrats had infiltrated the older Republican party, knowing that the recently freed slaves would be so grateful to the Republican Party that they would vote overwhelming and those still claiming the title of Dixiecrat or singing that same old refrain of Dixieland would never see the inside of a capitol building again.  The remaining ex-Whig party, older Republican party members, migrated over to the newer Democratic party, therefore clearing the way for the bullies once Dixiecrats, to feel even more embolden and ABOVE THE LAW.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: The less resistance a bully feels toward achieving their goals, the more powerful they believe that they are and this perception becomes the norm for all those quietly sitting on the sidelines but if resistance is strong and consistent, bullies tend to give up because they do not possess the heart, spine, backbone, or balls to take the hardest road to a goal, they prefer the easiest way and the easiest way the public gives them is when they cower in the corners, hid under the tables, and under their mothers skirts because they are too afraid to stand eye to eye with a bully.