alt.education

On Mar 5, 1:23 am, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> Wide Eyed in Wonder wrote:
>
> >I'd say Lincoln was a social conservative,
>
> Lincoln was a flaming liberal. The only thing he was conservative
> about was preserving the Union.
>
> In 1860 the Democrats were the extreme conservative party, and the
> Republicans were the liberals. This situation continued until the
> early years of the 20th century, when the Republicans splintered, and
> later rebuilt itself as a pro-business party. As late as the 1960s,
> the South, the bastion of social conservativism, was solidly
> Democratic.
>
> You do realize that "conservative" means "opposed to change", don't
> you? Eliminating slavery was not "conservative"; it was forcing
> change on a South that did not want that change.
>
> That being said, Lincoln was opposed to slavery, but he was not so
> extreme as to desire to eliminate slavery by national policy. The
> Emancipation Proclamation was a limited military measure, and it did
> not in fact eliminate slavery in those areas then under Union control.
> The party that he led however was dominated by people who were radical
> liberals.
>
> lojbab

The only thing that needs be mentioned, here, is this fact that
liberal educators like to hide. The DEMOCRAT Vice President from the
term directly before Lincoln (who was, also, the Democrat to run
AGAINST Lincoln in the election) joined the confederacy and was one of
their main leaders.

Kenneth Clifton
christiansuperhero.com