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Harhar people I dont like are gay harhar
fuck i am tired of this joke, anyway the Republican party was historicaly more accepting to gay men in the 1960s, you know the party who talk about keeping the govt out of your life? The dems were full tilt on the lavender scare
vote socialist, read marx
This meme is not about disliking gay people at all.
Just because they talk about keeping the government out of your life doesn't mean they actually care about doing that. In fact, quite the opposite as the current administration exemplifies on a daily basis. Stop taking known liars at their word and the world starts making more sense.
This is your brain on pure theory
Sauce?
They're not wrong, exactly, but they are also not right. The Dems used to be the racist conservatives and the Reps the pro-civil liberty, desegregation party. The confusion is that around the mid to late 1960s, the Democratic and Replican parties had an ideological flip, largely over the civil rights movement. So since the early 70s, Reps have been the right leaning party, while Dems have been more left leaning.
People making cynical arguments about the history of each party pre-1970 being the responsibility of the current party members, or coloring their current politics, ignores this fact of the shift in ideologies. It fails to put the responsibility on the ideology itself. It's the same shit when Republicans claim that they're the "Party of a Lincoln" and deserve credit for ending Slavery, even while trying to disenfranchise black voters, end racial protections, roll back the civil rights movement, and blame violent crime on the entire race. Conservativism is the problem, no matter what the party name is/was.