Civic Nationalist don't sound bad

aslong as it isn't Democrat lol

Civic nationalism really takes shape during and immediately after the French Revolution and plays a large part in the French understanding of nationalism still to this day. Ethno-nationalism really starts to come into its own during the unification efforts of Germany and Italy throughout the 19th century (it's not strictly a National Socialist/Fascist concept, though these two ideologies were heavily influenced by their past). If you were curious and wanted to read about those periods of history to get a better understanding

Civic Nationalism, I'm assuming that believes in heavy federal laws

where the federal government gets an ass ton of power

but maybe I'm wrong, my memory is a little hazy

Not necessarily

It could involve that but a strong central authority isn't inherent to civic nationalist thought

It says civic nationalism is based off liberalism

shit I'm a Democrat lol

although I guess Democrat and liberal aren't the same thing

I think the Republicans were once liberal

Hey didn't the Democrats originally believe in slavery

back then, every black guy was Republican. The Republicans were against slavery

@Ben Garrison I think I'm an old-fashion liberal, kind of like Alex Jones

Don't really know at this point lol

The American idea of liberal is skewed. When the word liberal is used in a historical or European context it means classical liberalism, which is what we might associate with conservatism in America

ah makes more sense

In that sense the Republican Party has always been and still is a liberal party

Well, for the most part. There's a lot of neo-conservative elements in the Party now

so the Democrats are conservative

The Democrats were conservative at one point, and in the old school sense of the word too. Now they're better described as "progressive" even though that word has been transformed from its original context too

that's a long paragraph to say "yes"

progressive

so the Republicans were the union

and the Democrats were the confederacy

or no

Yes

***shit remove the rank***

wow it just got complicated af, its like I want to be conservative Republican, but its democrat

That was back when Democrats were undeniably the conservative party that represented agrarian interests and the Republicans represented more urban interests

It's just names really. There was a massive shift in the mid 20th century with all the Civil Rights stuff where the parties turned upside down on a lot of issues

well now I don't know rather to be conservative or liberal

Rofl, back at square 1

Got our asses backwards here

you know I don't really know what to say

guess I'm an old fashion Republican?

Or I could just call myself a Republican Libertarian

@Ben Garrison That fit?

Yeah, a lot of Republicans lean pretty heavily libertarian

still mean I could be a Civic Nationalist right