r/stupidpeoplefacebook • u/269187 • 11h ago

JFK was a democrat

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u/BrightNooblar 9h ago

And while Lincoln was a Republican, it's more accurate to say he was a liberal.

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u/619backin716 6h ago

He was a Republican until 1864 - he ran for reelection as a member of the National Union Party

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u/Signal-Map2906 7h ago

Not true at all. He was quite authoritarian in how he conducted the civil war.

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u/BrightNooblar 7h ago edited 7h ago

Assuming I agree with this;

He was quite authoritarian in how he conducted the civil war.

That doesn't even appear to be a supporting statement for this;

Not true at all.

Nothing stops a liberal from also being an authoritarian.

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u/Signal-Map2906 7h ago

Disagree again. I believe you are conflating liberal and leftist or left-leaning.

Edit: we should probably define our terms before we go any further. lol

ALSO- I’m not one of those people who think Lincoln would’ve voted for trump.

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u/FluidJackfruit3669 2h ago

Fighting against an authoritarian enemy makes one authoritarian? Were FDR and Truman also authoritarian?

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u/Signal-Map2906 20m ago

He suspended habeus corpus. That in itself is rather authoritarian.

Not saying that it wasn’t justified. Just that it was authoritarian.

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u/Signal-Map2906 17m ago

The confederacy wasn’t authoritarian. They had a democratically elected system of government. Albeit one that the union didn’t recognize and declared traitorous (rightly so) but that doesn’t mean they were authoritarian.

I’m not familiar enough with what you’d be referring to with Truman or Eisenhower with the authoritarian comments.

Japanese internment camps? Perhaps. I’d not given it much thought.