Dwight D. Eisenhower - hardly a socialist

[TBF]

but his quotes are better than most of what I read in the news today:

[MannyGoldstein]

1. A flaming Liberal compared to today's elected Democrats

Except for Elizabeth, Bernie, and a a handful of others.

[TBF]

3. Like Bernie he was a mensch in many ways -

and you're right that it does illustrate how this country has shifted in 100 years. The strong socialists and communists of the early 1900s weren't just shut down - they were deported.

It was during that time, the 1950s, that they first started adding "in god we trust" to money (1957), it was actually adopted as the official "motto" of this country in 1956. The boy scouts added "to do my duty to God and my country" to their promise in 1950. Finally, on Flag Day 1954 the words "under God" were added to the pledge of allegiance. This was all happening as WWII faded out and the US started building it's military industrial complex in a serious way. They used capital to build it, and they use religion to keep folks compliant.

I don't think any of this was accidental and to his credit Eisenhower and a few others tried to fight it. Heck, Sinclair Lewis saw it coming in the 1930s (http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3659/it-can-t-happen-here). And yet here we are.

[ellenrr]

2. it's true. Who woulda thunk it? when he was president

I was too young to know what was up, but I remember my parents - true blood Democrats - did not like Eisenhower.
they were Adlai stevenson fans (probably did not know that he was for the war).

but shows how far the center has moved in political discourse, that Eisenhower looks like a liberal now!

hell...even Nixon looks good compared to today's loony RW repubs.

[daleanime]

4. +1

Not by accident.