Why don't today's Conservatives know Abraham Lincoln was Liberal?

[gosam777]

That was a different era. JFK would be a fiscal hawk, social moderate, and war monger, by today's standards.

[It Boy. Rag Doll]

The same reason they ignore the fact that the founding fathers were Liberals
It's humiliating to them

@Rockit: How dumb are you to speculate what a dead man would say?
Nobody in their right mind could attempt to guess what Lincoln, Jefferson or whoever would say if they saw the country today

[bmovies60]

Classical liberal writes: "Democrats switched to the Republican Party after Johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964."

False. Most Democrats stayed within the Democrat fold. The Republican party was mostly in favor of Johnsons civil rights act and helped him to get it passed. The Democrats didnt lose the south until 30 years later which wasnt because of race or the civil rights act.

[Joe in texas]

I do not know the exact use of the term "liberal" in lincolns day but it certainly did not mean socialists, dependent on government handouts.

[Mr Wolf (I block no one)]

We blacks put Lincoln on too high of a pedestal. He also supported legislation to send all black people back to Africa because he did not think we could assimilate into this country. The civil war was not fought to end slavery.

[David_the_Great]

An old fashion liberal is a conservative today.

DTG

[LordGodGoose]

Today's conservative see it almost as a "Badge of Pride" to not know things and to be oblivious to 'little details' like the one you so eloquently point out!

Their personal pride and confidence that "we're right, you're wrong!" makes them very much a modern version of the brief-lived 'Know-Nothing Party' of the 1850s;

http://law.jrank.org/pages/8005/Know-Nothing-Party.html

They will eventually suffer a similar fate...