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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rethug sky is falling...
..in fact, it's been falling for 100 years, starting with FDR. Rethugs keep telling us Democrats will take us to Socialism. Democrats have held the White House about half the time and the same Constitutional Republic remains.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/31/even-after-their-fear-mongering-proves-wrong-republicans-keep-it-heres-why/
Truman speech (audio @ 6 minutes): https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/soundrecording-records/sr59-160-president-truman-rear-platform-remarks-syracuse-new-york
Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called farm price supports.
Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan "Down With Socialism" on the banner of his "great crusade," that is really not what he means at all.
What he really means is "Down with Progress--down with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal," and "down with Harry Truman's fair Deal." That's all he means.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
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calimary
(81,440 posts)Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)calimary
(81,440 posts)Added to my collection.
bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)when early rumblings of socialism and communism began to take hold in immigrant populations in New York City and other major cities. Corporations were fighting labor struggles, Republican civic organizations were organized, and by 1920 the country was in the original Red Scare in the aftermath of WWI and the Russian Revolution. By 1930 even some corporations had anti-socialism programs that supported labor - a nurse on duty, health care information for workers. Yes, to Rethugs, FDR was a new Red Scare. They never stop getting all whipped up to a lather when someone wants them to share anything like power or money.
jaxexpat
(6,844 posts)As I scan the "excusiverse", I can only see one marginal use conservatives may have ever had. To curb the potential for overreach in progressive socioeconomic innovation............Nah, that's bogus too. Off with their heads.
CrispyQ
(36,502 posts)That was an exchange I had with a right wing cousin. So I said, "Why isn't it good business to spend taxes helping Americans? What good is a national defense budget if we don't take care of our people?" To which he replied "We have to take care of ourselves." To which I replied, "But the banks don't?" To which there were crickets.
dchill
(38,520 posts)Please! When, actually? Can we get right on that?
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)Im betting a considerable number have black relatives they dont know or refuse to recognize.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)1st cousins.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)But the right loves it.
Americans hate all the socialism those other Americans get!
FakeNoose
(32,725 posts)It's taking from the "have-nothing" and the "don't-have-much" Americans, and giving it to the "I-want-it-all" group.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Was hated by Conservatives. He said he relished their hate. They are greedy and selfish.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)ificandream
(9,385 posts)I wish every Democratic candidate would pound that message to voters on both sides. Overall, Democrats will make you happier than Repughs. No question about it.
thenelm1
(854 posts)The hero who busted up an earlier attempt at a rightwing coup in the 1930s.
soldierant
(6,914 posts)thenelm1
(854 posts)soldierant
(6,914 posts)I served for a coule of years at the base in Okinawa which was named for him.
calimary
(81,440 posts)Good talking points!
DBoon
(22,395 posts)... if Roosevelt's New Deal carried out socialist goals.
Norman Thomas said, "yes, in a coffin"
OLDMDDEM
(1,577 posts)The repugs have nothing else to say they have done over the orange magat's reign.
liberalla
(9,257 posts)I really liked this post.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
Becuz, becuz socialism!