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(7,875 posts)appalachiablue
(41,261 posts)~ If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ~ Thomas Paine.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Still selling the same snake oil to the rubes.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)They started actively pandering to racists in 1972.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)As LBJ predicted, the racists ran into the arms of the loving Republicans.
appalachiablue
(41,261 posts)One of their daughters asked her mother why they were Republicans. The mother replied 'because we're rich'.
The daughter and her family have voted D before and since then.
~ If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ~ Thomas Paine.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)
working people for a hundred years.
And boy, have they ever hated FDR and the New Deal.
But it seems to me they got a lot more clever during and since the Reagan era, taking over local school boards, demonizing unions, etc.
appalachiablue
(41,261 posts)workers to vote R, against their own interest. Very busy indeed building wealth and power for their own and dismantling every possible democratic institution that helps workers and serves the common good. Ike and many others would be stunned...Monstrous.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)They want it all.
happyslug
(14,779 posts)The GOP in 1936 made a huge fight over FDR's failure to keep the promises made in Pittsburgh in 1932. FDR told his speech writers to look over the speech and write a speech on how FDR had done what he said in that 1932 Speech. The Speech writer went to the records, read the speech and told FDR "Simply said you never made it".
FDR HAD failed to do anything he promised in the 1932 Pittsburgh Speech. On the other hand what he had promised, a balance budget etc was found to be detrimental to the country and thus dropped. The American People seeing what FDR had done ACCEPTED the fact times had changed and solution to problems had changed. Thus for breaking his promises of 1932, the American People gave him 46 out of the then 48 states (in 1932 FDR had won 46 of the 48 states).
Uncle Joe
(58,650 posts)Thanks for the thread, appalachiablue.
appalachiablue
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