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(67,032 posts)democrats to broker deals. My father was a strong democratic, they wanted him to run as a senator, did not, bad health. He had a lot of republican friends. What a difference between then and now. The new GOP is totally bizarre and out of control. The old GOP was perfectly OK by me.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Oh and Happy Brithday!
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)It's a mixed bag.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/politicians/1956.asp
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)One part I found interesting in the "Eisenhower White House" statement, though was that they would "Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex."
While recent GOP actions may not qualify as a "platform," they clearly have no interest in such assurances 60 years later.
-- Mal
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Removed in 1976 at the behest of Reagan and the RWNJs. Ford didn't have the guts to stand up to them. See "The Invisible Bridge" by Rick Perlstein - the last chapters are about the '76 Repub convention.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...the party of Ted Cruz & Rand Paul & Sarah Palin(comparison)...yuck and YIKES!!!
PEACE!
Avalux
(35,015 posts)It's a lot easier to get away with lies and manipulation now; those who vote for the GOP don't hold them accountable. The seven items on that list were DEMANDED by the American majority at the time.
SeattleVet
(5,468 posts)and only a fraction of them bother to actually get out and vote, so they have a much easier time of fooling *just enough* people (with their normal 'fear and scare' tactics) to get some of their candidates elected and some of their crap passed.
(See, for example, http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025720674 for further discussion on how this works, with 1/5 of the electorate 'as dumb as dirt'.)
Avalux
(35,015 posts)rurallib
(62,346 posts)and most people still read books.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Way to go, MrScorpio!
Hekate
(90,189 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Scott6113
(56 posts)Too easy to attack the straw man:
https://cdn.gop.com/docs/2012GOPPlatform.pdf
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)There's nothing in the current platform that remotely resembles the good stuff from 1956.
In fact, the platform pretty much blames everything on the Obama administration and/or Obamacare. It reads more like a Rush Limbaugh rant than a serious political document.
Scott6113
(56 posts)To let them speak for themselves. What I saw utterly lacking was any policies that support wages. There's this faith that if the private sector creates jobs, that's enough. That competition will drive wages up if unemployment is low. But, employers act as a cartel, fixing wages. The practice will end the middle class in job classifications it hasn't already, and nothing the Republicans propose will counter that. It isn't even addressed.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)They want to pander to corporate interests, who prefer to keep wages low at all costs.
That's also why the right pushes "right to work" union busting.
The usefulness of things like the graphic in the OP is that it cuts out all the BS language the GOP uses in their platform to justify harmful policies. For instance, all their proclamations that taxes need to be cut really means cutting the social safety net. They can't come right out and say that, so they have to dance around it in language that makes it sound acceptable.
humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)for a party that stands for everything that will hurt the middleclass and poor families in this country?
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)Is it ignorance, stupidity, or simple brainwashing?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)of the stump-stupid and the willfully ignorant. So all of the above.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)That's a long time to be at war with the Middle Class.
treestar
(82,383 posts)They really have gone nuts since then.
packman
(16,296 posts)Ronald Raygun, Rush Limpaws, and Faux News. But Democrats were for all those years, the frog in the boiling water- it just creeped up on them and bit them in the ass.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)and hates liberals.
Reagan's people buddied up with the SBC and started the real shitstorm.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)More then CNN and MSNBS but still I can't see how they are so powerful with those numbers. I know they are but how?
packman
(16,296 posts)Yes, 2 million viewers, but like Rush, Beck and others their affect is cancerous. How many of those viewers go on with their daily lives spreading that manure and hate to others?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Gothmog
(143,999 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,309 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)VA_Jill
(9,854 posts)This was why. And this is why they wouldn't be today!