r/stupidpeoplefacebook • u/Numerous-Ad-4033 • 13h ago

What About Jerry Ford?

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Perhaps because President Ford was never hit.

But he was a target on two separate occasions by two women in September 1975, in California. The first was a Manson cult member, the second an FBI informant turned left-wing activist.

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u/PretendingImNotAnApe 13h ago edited 12h ago

I can see 3 people in this picture shot by Republicans. Wait 4. Maybe all if them except Lincoln.

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u/According-Insect-992 12h ago

Lincoln was shot by a conservative.

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u/WintersDoomsday 12h ago

Big distinction to make IMO. Political parties changed ideology but liberal vs conservative is always the same ideals.

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u/PretendingImNotAnApe 12h ago

I never checked but I do know that old time democrats were the baddies before the parties flipped at some point.

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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 12h ago

Not all of them. In the past, political parties were more of a mixed bag than they are now. There were racists in all of them. During the civil rights era, the Republican party convinced the racist southern Democrats to switch sides.

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u/JuryOk2662 11h ago

Yeah real tired of the oversimplified"they switched on everything" narrative. Modern political dichotomies do not map cleanly onto the past. "The Rise and Fall of the White Republic" by Alexander Saxton is a great read on antebellum political dynamics in the US if anyone wants a better picture. The Democrats pre-civil war mostly pandered to a "white egalitarian" tendency that was proto-populist but still incredibly racist.

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u/PenguinStarfire 12h ago

The argument should really be about Liberals vs Conservatives, because both Democrats and Republicans swapped ideologies over time.

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u/Not_Allowed_to_Die 11h ago

Dixiecrats, not Democrats. Democrats back then are what the GOP are now. Dixiecrats are what MAGA are now.

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u/Not_Allowed_to_Die 11h ago

Exactly. A Dixiecrat, not a Democrat.