Dwain Northey (Gen X)

I am astounded that the Republican Party continues to call themselves the Party of  Lincoln. Yes, he was technically the first of the Republican Party but prior to Lincoln this was the Whig party more a federalist party the competing party was the Democratic Republican Party that had North and South contingents, both of which had their own ideas about slavery and its expansion. Lincoln’s VP in 1864 was Andrew Johnson who was a Tennessee Democratic Republican who had stayed silent during the being of the Civil War and in my opinion the current Republican party more represents.

There are many obvious contradictions in the current Republican and the man they espouse to be steadfastly following.

• Lincoln wanted to maintain the Union and went to war to do just that.
  • Current Republicans seem to want to dissolve the Union.
• Lincoln proclaimed in his Gettysburg Address that line from the Constitution “that All Men are Created Equal” and by all accounts he meant it.
  • Can’t say that for the current party membership.
    • Voting down equal voting rights
    • Gerrymandering districts so that people of color are underrepresented.
• Lincoln instituted the first Federal income tax and the original IRS to fund the Civil War with a progressive tax.
  • Current House of Representatives under slim Republican majority first bill to the floor was to abolish the IRS and institute a 30% federal sales tax.
    • Am I the only one that thinks that is regressive and would destroy our economy?

I am sure that very few republicans today knew that the income tax was “their guys” doing. Well, I have news for you it was. 

The current Republican Party still spouts the sentiments that Ronald Reagan stated while he was sitting in the White House, “ What is the biggest lie spoken (We am here from the government and here to help.)” Their new motto may as well be, “Government is broken, elect ME and I will prove it.”

I don’t know why some run for public office that have zero faith that the institution works and have no intention on fixing what they say is broken. The only rationale I can come up with is celebrity and power and that isn’t no reason to seek public office.

So I say lets stop calling this batch of Republicrats Lincolns Party and call them what they are the Destruction or Dismantlement Party. They are not America First as they proclaim they are in it for themselves and the moneyed interests that fill their coffers.