Young Republicans salute labor -- On this Labor Day

[Douglas Carpenter]

57 years ago


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[Jefferson23]

1. This is what Dems should use to re-educate the Republicans who have not figured out

they are voting against their best interest.

Where did you ever find this? It's fantastic.



K&R

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. oh it went around the internet last year on a number of blogs - I'm sure someone posted it here

before..

this particular copy came from daily kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/06/1167701/-Once-upon-a-time-in-1956-there-were-Republicans-who-supported-unions-and-Social-Security

[Jefferson23]

6. I've never seen it before, thanks. n/t

[Royal777]

14. Growing Up

So that is way I was a republican growing up. I had forgotten.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Ike was President.

These days not even the Democrats would stand behind the sentiments in that poster.

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. imagine any President of either party making a speech like this:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

― President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"Everything faded into the mist. The past was erased. The erasure was forgotten. The lie became truth."

- George Orwell

[Boomerproud]

8. Imagine JFK making the same speech.

He would've been impeached for being a Commie/socialist.

BTW what did Eisenhower actually DO to stop the MIC? If he did do something, I need to be educated and I will not ask the question again.

[Jefferson23]

10. I don't know that he did anything to stop it other than the famous speech. His foreign policy

was scary imo..he utilized brinkmanship. He would intentionally push adversaries to the brink of
war in order to stop their aggression. With that said, he did negotiate a deal to form a cease
fire in Korea. He was also of the mindset that nukes were a bigger bang for your buck and would
cost must less and serve as a deterrent.

[Douglas Carpenter]

11. he kept the evil lunatics like LeMay under control. It is probably quite fortunate that he was there

at that particular time. The evil madmen who were dominating much of the military establishment at that time genuinely were committed to nuclear holocaust that would have wiped out much of the world. That was their agenda and they were very close to carrying it out. There has been much written about it - this 1995 article in the New Yorker - went into a fair degree of detail - Unfortunately the article is not available for free. But there is much more written about it. Anyone with less clout and gravitas than Eisenhower may have not been able to stand up to what can only be considered the most dangerous people in the history of the world to ever be in the position of power to possibly institute their sinister dream:

Annals of the Cold War

THE GENERAL AND WORLD WAR III

by Richard Rhodes June 19, 1995

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1995/06/19/1995_06_19_047_TNY_CARDS_000370012

[Jefferson23]

13. Insane, that is what they were.

LeMay gives the plan to the Air Force and they agreed! Who the fuck were these people, seriously,
were they so detached from their own humanity that they did not just say..hey, that is an insane
idea to this guy? The proposal to kill millions of people, just like that.

Truman also pushed back at LeMay, although he was allowed to bomb parts of Korea anyway..sickening.

This background does give an interesting contrast to Eisenhower, thank you very much for the link.
He clearly used brinkmanship as a tactic, but he also was never in the insane category.

Let's all be grateful Cheney was not there, at the time.

[lpbk2713]

5. "Lying our asses off for over fifty years!!11!"

Now there's a legacy any rethuglican can be proud of.

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. another kick for labor day

[truebluegreen]

9. I'm saving this, along with the Republican Party Platform from 1956

Kick!

[Curmudgeoness]

12. I am glad that they are not using that playbook anymore.

It would actually strengthen their position. And who wants that?

Today, they just keep punching holes in their sinking ship. Good for them.

A salute to unions and to all workers for Labor Day!!!

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. another Labor Day Kick

[IrishAyes]

16. Stunning.

Who'd have thunk?