CCT Dine & Discuss - So What Happened to the Parties of Lincoln and FDR?

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The Village Spot

3150 Village Walk Circle

Naples, FL 34109

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The event will start at 6:00 pm.

Speaker: Charles Kupchella

Topic: So What Happened to the Parties of Lincoln and FDR?

How did America’s system of political parties come about? Political parties aren’t mentioned at all in the Constitution – and were seen as threats by some of our country’s founders, so how and when did political parties acquire their standing – the right to shape government and define our choices – and do either of our principal political parties have a substantive core? The Republican Party has changed dramatically and would no doubt be unrecognizable to conservative stalwarts such as Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower. What happened? And what about the kaleidoscopic Democratic Party allowing itself to be identified with such extreme liberal nonsense as defunding the police and giving people free stuff. Are we stuck with a two-party system – and, if so, are we stuck with these two? Bring back the Whigs?

About the Speaker: Charles E. Kupchella, PhD served as President of the University of North Dakota from 1999 to 2008. He has held administrative positions and professorships of biology at five other universities and served as Associate Director of the University of Louisville’s School of Medicine Cancer Center. He is past-president of both the American Association for Cancer Education and the Kentucky Academy of Science. He holds a PhD in Biology from St. Bonaventure University and an undergraduate degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. K is the author more than fifty published articles in medical and other scientific periodicals – also the author of eight books on varied topics such as cancer, the special senses, the environment and other aspects of human biology. Among his most recent books: The Tree Shack: A Story about the Foundations of Morality and the Origins of Humankind, 2014, Morality: How it Evolved and how it was Hijacked and Confounded by Religion, 2019, and “Our First Civil War: A Novel,” 2022.

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