It's not though. Labels matter, definitions matter, words matter. What we have done in this country is blown out the definition of so many words, that many of them are literally meaningless now because they encompass so many ideas, some of them even competing ideas. Any group that embraces liberal ideas of any sort will eventually become socialist and communist in nature, it is inevitable. Socialists never stop. They don't say, hmmm, I got most of what I want, I think I'm good here. They continue to agitate and work towards the exact opposite of the system that they find themselves in.
America was started as a conservative principled place. The values were conservative. The ideas on social constructs, economies, government size, the role of banks, they were all conservative in nature. It was only after decades and centuries that the socialists, the liberals, the "progressives" have winded and worked their way into government, media, education and pop culture that we now find our society on the precipice of ruin due to their warped sensibilities on equality, social norms and other cultural bedrocks of American principles. Have there been any changes that were good? Sure there were, some things have needed to be updated to something more agreeable to everyone. But what we are currently witnessing is the going over the cliff moment that liberals, socialists and communists always agitate towards. The goal of these groups is never a more equitable society but one that is truly horrific in nature.
Socialism and communism always fails, period because it always progresses towards fascism eventually. The Nazis, The Bolsheviks, Pol Pot, The Maoists in China, they always want to enforce their will and domination over the people in their country. Even in this country, originally, we tried socialism and it failed. Check out the diaries of the Mayflower governor Bradford. They tried collectivism and it failed. That's why that initial period was so tough, because they tried socialism and it failed miserably. It was only when they went to capitalism that the colony flourished.
Republicans are what they are, conservative in nature. If the blacks want to come along, come along. Why change the group, because once you've perverted your principles, who cares what the label is anymore? Conservatives want small government, low taxes and control in the hands of the people, which is where it was originally and should be. Those other groups, they want collectivism and that is why it is so tough for republicans to court the vote of those groups, because those other groups want collectivism. To really court the vote of those other groups, they'd have to abandon their base and screw those people over, essentially becoming democrats in the process.
Americans making themselves a minority in their own country was a truly foolish move, one that everyone in this country will regret. Of course if I'm a non-conservative, no skin in the game, I'm happy to vote for free stuff for everyone because I'm not paying for it. When there are no more tax paying horses or not enough of them anymore to pull the wagon for the rest of the people freeloading in the US, that's when it's really going to hit the fan but it's almost too late to change at this point anyway. Might was well enjoy Rome burning as Nero would say.