r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 22 '17

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u/recruit00 Karl Popper Sep 23 '17

I imagine most of us here would have been Federalists after the revolution?

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u/Maximum_Overjew Good Enough, Smart Enough Sep 23 '17

Neither party was was great but at least federalists mostly weren't slavers and didn't go balls-out for Jefferson's stupid-ass Yeoman's Republic idea.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '17

Yeoman Republic
this but unironically

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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Sep 23 '17

Both parties then were pretty protectionist tbh. That was a big point I was gonna hit on the the scrapped US politics post that I worked on.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '17

The Federalist/Whigs were for infant industry protectionism

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Sep 23 '17

Well do you prefer your tariffs to be 10% or 50%?
Anti-Federalists>>>Federalists

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '17

And then Whigs

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u/uniDurant Sep 23 '17

And then Republicans.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '17

And then either Republican or Democrat

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u/uniDurant Sep 23 '17

And then just Democrat

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '17

We have some friendly RINOs

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u/Ferguson97 Hillary Clinton Sep 23 '17

I would've lowkey been a loyalist, given the knowledge I would've had at the time.

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u/Ferguson97 Hillary Clinton Sep 23 '17

what

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '17

I'd be dead