[quote=Dervish]
It honestly kind of surprised me to find out that a lot of the political stances that you seem to hear from the Democrats and Republicans now were pretty much the opposite back in the earliest years of the US.
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I'd have to disagree with that statement. I would say that the democratic party has changed, but I think the republicans have mostly stayed the same-such that old-school democrats would prefer to be considered republicans than modern democrats.

However, one way in which republicans and democrats HAVE changed sides in very recent years was in their libertarian/authoritarian complex.
When republicans were in power, the democrats were filled with hippies trying to 'fight the system' and smoke pot. Well, they fought the system-and won.
Now that the democrats are in power, the republicans are filled with 'libertarians' who want to 'fight the system' and smoke pot. Which is why I have to hang around Pro-Confederate Anarcho-Capitalists who will probably go back to being psuedo-hippies when the next Republican President enters office.