Yup. It’s incredibly stupid how many people argue about people who give absolutely no s... about them. It’s absolutely incredible to me. 🐑

tomgoodman was the only dude who would close threads and be all over it. Sucks he’s MIA now. Please come back!

Only if there is a bunch of 150y/o people around that actually know the difference. I would say slavery and civil rights have improved a lot more than pilot careers have.

You need your safe space CareBear??

Lmao! Keep on keepin on. You are the people politicians love. You believe and regurgitate all of their stupid BS. I’m not going to argue with you though.

Lets hope we all get approved for some grant money and get out of this mess in the fall. Time will tell.

You're hardly worth arguing with, but do you realize the parties switched political views- Republicans used to call themselves Democrats and Democrats called themselves Republicans. Lincoln was a modern day, Democrat.

Sounds like you could use at least some public school indoctrination yourself.

Dude what? That is some mental gymnastics to summarize it that way.

Yeah, good luck with that. See ya in a few months.

I don’t expect you to be enlightened, there needs to be both a lamp and power for light. You seem to have shut down both.

Reason and science will prevail, panic and emotion knee-jerking will not. Like the Salem witch-trial prosecutors and Inquisition fans, your brand of stupid eventually loses. ALWAYS.

It's really not that difficult, and was explained pretty well. Republicans used to be liberal, progressive, and the party of a large government. Nothing that they support now. So when somebody says "Lincoln was a Republican," he almost certainly would not identify with today's Republican Party, because they embody absolutely zero ideals that he stood for.

Take a look at Lincoln and the current GOP platforms.

Lincoln was for a strong union--not division between the north and the south. He wanted a strong US military--he knew he'd need it to keep the country together. Lincoln was against the expansion of slavery--and latter against all slavery. He was for the development of the west--and used the Homestead Act for citizens to accomplish that--without government support except title to the land. Lincoln was also for tariffs to protect domestic production.

Seems like the Republican party has returned to Lincoln's policies rather than abandoning them. I would counter that the Democrat party's economic platform is much closer to Karl Marx than JFK (who enacted tax cuts to stimulate the economy and worried about budget deficits).

Opinions, politics, and *******s--everybody has at least one. Some are full of $#!^