What is your partisan affiliation?
Vosem:
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Republican; I think there are significant parallelisms in the struggles against slavery and socialism (I know this opinion is unpopular here), so I've come to identify with the party and its history pretty strongly, and vote in its primaries quite reliably. This is true even though I'm not actually the safest voter for them in general elections (and I voted for the last two Libertarian presidential nominees).
What about during the 1880s/70s, when Republicans supported tariffs and railroad subsidies and Democrats opposed them?
What about it? Seems unrelated to the points I was making. Free trade/protectionism is an axis along which pretty much everyone in every country has supported their narrow sectional interest, and both views seem perfectly compatible with abolitionism and anti-socialism. Not having any taxes of any kind seems like a far-future pipe dream, and tariffs are hardly the worst kind of tax.
I was wondering whether you'd support Democrats in that context. I agree that a tariff is not the worst form of tax, but the Republican Party's stated support in the 1870s/80s for a protective tariff would seem to exceed taxation for governmental function alone. How would you vote, for instance, in the elections of 1888 or 1892?
It's really hard to say; my own political opinions are substantially the product of ideas that were developed in the 1920s and popularized in the 1940s, and since I have a pretty strong personality preference in favor of coherent narratives that can explain history I've often wondered if I wouldn't have been a communist before the obviousness of its failure. (Prior to the 1990s, none of my ancestors are recorded as being members of any non-Communist party, and I tend to think that personality is pretty strongly heritable, so square that circle).
My guess as a religious minority is that I would've been almost always Democratic prior the Bryan elections if I were somehow around, with no foresight. If I were somehow transported back in time with my present opinions and foresight it gets harder to say -- I would certainly have supported the Republicans in the 1860s but I legitimately don't know about 1888/1892. Prohibition, free silver, and Jim Crow were all disastrous ideas, and I don't know how one might have gone about opposing all three; maybe certain flavors of urban Democrat did.
Ferguson97:
Democrat (sane, moral)
satsuma:
I registered D in 2012. Registered as a voter in my current state in 2017 but it's one of 19 states that do not register by party (a majority of the Midwest and South population-wise!). I consider myself R-leaning as of late.
Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers:
Secular pragmatic, I am no Biden fan, I am a Tim Ryan fan, some think just like under Bill Clinton that if you think they are corrupted then you are an R, only Obama in recent times has been the uncorrupted Democrat, the reason why Dukakis and Mondale lost they didn't play the game like Clinton and Biden and Bill Clinton and Biden were best buds they both had sexual Harassment lawsuits against, both supported the Filibuster and Biden pushed the Clarence Thomas nomination
Rat:
Independent, formerly a moderate Republican with some libertarian leanings, but with the rise of the Tea Party and especially with the conversion of that into the MAGA movement, I found myself no longer aligned with the direction of the party. There are still Republicans I do like/support, but it feels like less and less every year, and I've certainly split my ticket more than once over the last few years.
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