So I've begun to realize that I produce so much writing online in comments sections, and it's completely wasted in there. It just gets lost in the void, and it really doesn't even make much impact. So I thought maybe I should, at least, log some of this stuff away on my blog! At least this way it doesn't get lost in the void and I could potentially copy and paste it for future reference.
So yeah. I'm going to try to make this a thing, and I'm calling it "The Comments Section".
I saw this image in the comments section on a Facebook post.
This is actually only half correct. The democratic party split into two pieces during the Civil War, Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats. The Southern Democrats were the ones advocating for slavery, and many of their ideals most closely resemble today's "Tea Party" Republicans. This is not an opinion based on bias, this is based on US history research. Northern Democratic ideals have somewhat merged with the Republican party ideals of that time, becoming what we know today as the Democratic party.
Yes, they swapped places, but it's also important to note that there were technically three parties at this time, and when running for re-election, Lincoln was not running as a member of the Republican party, but a member of the National Union party.
The temporary new party was created because people would choose not to vote Republican simply because of the name, rather than the actual policies being spoken by the candidate, and this choice made it more likely to get votes from both War Democrats and Peace Democrats on the northern side.
Ultimately, let us not forget that even before all of this, before we fell so deeply into a two party system, two of the big parties arguing the same stuff we currently are were the Federalist party and the Democratic-Republican party - Federalists typically leaning toward current-day Republican arguments, and Democratic-Republicans leaning toward more current day Democratic values.
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