1956... the golden years

[gonzoliberal]

Once upon a time in 1956, there were Republicans who supported unions and Social Security


Is this the golden time to which modern Republicans yearn to return?

History is interesting....

[sushilover]

...History is interesting....

BOL @ the Daily Kosbot Kooks that are still living in the 1960s ... stoned and unable to complete a coherent sentence, they end up scraping boat hulls for menial wages and wishing that they, too, could have been one of the Jello Boys ...

[zenwalk]

Once upon a time in 1956, there were Republicans who supported unions and Social Security


Is this the golden time to which modern Republicans yearn to return?

History is interesting....

The secret to our strength was a strong Middle Class. Both parties understood this because it was obvious. The biggest difference between now and then is that all the jerks lived in Texas, whereas now they live in all sorts of places. Right slushy?

[zenwalk]

BOL @ the Daily Kosbot Kooks that are still living in the 1960s ... stoned and unable to complete a coherent sentence, they end up scraping boat hulls for menial wages and wishing that they, too, could have been one of the Jello Boys ...

Do learn to read. This thread is about the 50's.

[sushilover]

Do learn to read. This thread is about the 50's.

... The biggest difference between now and then is that all the jerks lived in Texas, whereas now they live in all sorts of places. ...

~giggles~

[TheResearcher]

Once upon a time in 1956, there were Republicans who supported unions and Social Security


Is this the golden time to which modern Republicans yearn to return?

History is interesting....

History is, indeed, interesting.

http://www.nationalblackrepublicans....eDemocratParty

"History shows that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. This ugly fact about the Democrat Party is detailed in the book, A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner, the renown liberal historian who is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. As a further testament to his impeccable credentials, Professor Foner is only the second person to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians.
Democrats in the last century did not hide their connections to the Ku Klux Klan. Georgia-born Democrat Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wrote on page 21 of the September 1928 edition of the Klan’s “The Kourier Magazine”: “I have never voted for any man who was not a regular Democrat. My father … never voted for any man who was not a Democrat. My grandfather was …the head of the Ku Klux Klan in reconstruction days…. My great-grandfather was a life-long Democrat…. My great-great-grandfather was…one of the founders of the Democratic party.”

And the DemocRats keep their connection to slavery alive through social programs aimed at running people's lives from cradle to grave.

[gonzoliberal]

I'm not sure why I bother sometimes....

...and I"M supposed to be the "crazy" one...

[zenwalk]

History is, indeed, interesting.

http://www.nationalblackrepublicans....eDemocratParty

"History shows that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party.

You neglect to mention after the Civil Rights Act they became Republicans. giggles.

[Joy in Mudville]

You neglect to mention after the Civil Rights Act they became Republicans. giggles.

Actually, the migration started in the late 1940s when Strom Thurmond staged a rebellion over the decision to desegregate the armed forces. Thurmond was, at the time, a democrat and ran against Truman as a Dixiecrat to preserve segregation in the military. LBJ famously remarked, upon signing the Civil Rights Act, that "we just lost the south for a generation."

[kandace]

One of the fundamental flaws in conservatism is a refusal to take into account the importance of structure. The haylon days of the 1950s that conservatives pine for were made possible by strong unions, high wages for the working class, and high taxes on the wealthy and corporations. American conservatives are like the Roman conservatives of the imperial ages who pined for the values of the early Republic while ignoring the changed socio-economic conditions that were radically different from the early Republic.

[dsummoner]

Meh. The Libbies continue to look to the socialism of the past (it is quite rygryssyve and not very prygryssyve). The days of 'merica as the sole industrial power (and the sole basis for the 'good times' of the old days) are long gone. The socialism that seemed oh so affordable then (and the lead up to then) has now become a metastatic cancer that is killing the country. Thankfully, at least part of the Cloward-Piven strategy will work... more socialism will bankrupt the system faster. There will not, however, be a better socialism arising from the ashes.