It was much much after the civil war. Teddy Roosevelt was not a business friendly Republican. God he would be fun to have around today.

Interestingly Wilson also claimed to be a progressive like Teddy(and had some actual social justice initiatives to show for it despite being an awful white supremacist) and that three way election between Him, Taft, and Teddy was a big part of the switch. Harding to Hoover is what really cemented the switch to capital and conservatisim in the Republican party.

That election really was one where America still had some ideas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_United_States_presidential_election

The Romans had the better idea with succession by adoption being pretty common.

Ah the old Lemmy SHHwitcharoo.

Ostrogoth

It's not that outlandish if a bit hyperbolic.

https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/hconres331.pdf

Satansmaggotycumfart actually tracks with me for being the type of person who takes a job up in some place like Inuvik Canada. Everyone I've ever known who's done that has been fucking crazy.

I don't. The closer this place gets to FYAD idiot kings and people migrating to new communities if they don't like a particular idiot king mod, the better. Modlogs should be funny.

Keep it up idiot king @[email protected]

Ben's more of a foot man than a pee man.

Heroin should fix anxiety and stress. Depression, I doubt. A lot like booze that way really. Unfortunately heroin will also make you constipated.

You'll find it gets even more confusing. Our primary process differs from state to state. In some states you need to be a member of a party to vote on who gets to run for that party. Since many states are essentially one party, that process is where real democracy happens. In other states you can choose the day of to vote in one primary or another. In a general sense, the party itself has no say in who runs. They are able to play with funding and the conventions can have weird rules for things like presidents.

On election day, you of course vote for whoever you want.

Compared to the UK, our party leadership is very weak and driven by candidates and donors. Where you elect party leaders that then direct who gets to run, whoever we elect to run start to dictate how the party works. For the most part, short of directly volunteering, the vast majority don't interact with the party itself at all.

I don't really mind loyalists. There's not some great moral difference between them and the revolutionaries like there was between unionists and confederates. Both were, deep down, fighting for their own best interests. It's not like the property and slave owning founders were particularly concerned about anybody's oppression but their own.

Fuck, you lost your mind