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Is this real? (Original Post)
tecelote
Nov 2013
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gopiscrap
(23,736 posts)1. republicans were very different back then
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)2. Yes it is...
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)3. and the top Tax Rate then was 91%!
Believe it or not!
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)4. Not you modern republicans
The party is so far off track, those republicans wouldn't recognize their own party.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)5. all those things happened, AND...
...a republican was president (Eisenhower). In many ways, Eisenhower was more liberal than today's mainstream dems.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)6. on the other hand, I keep on my desk a raffle ticket from 1958...
...that says:
"50 cents donation to Campaign Fund Against Anti-Labor "Right to Work" Proposition No. 18. All net proceeds from this donation to revert to Campaign Fund against Prop. No. 18.
Sequoia Park, Labor Day, September 1, 1958. 12 NOON.
Labor Day Celebration Committee Central Labor Council of Humboldt & Del Norte Counties, AFL-CIO."
Sequoia Park, Labor Day, September 1, 1958. 12 NOON.
Labor Day Celebration Committee Central Labor Council of Humboldt & Del Norte Counties, AFL-CIO."
So the rat bastards were active against labor. Maybe they were different republicans than the ones who wanted to GOTV among union members in the OP.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)7. They were more moderate, on the whole, back then. Today's R's are NUTS.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)8. My Grandad Was A Labor Organizer
He was a republican.
My mom said he used to go to the south all the time to organize and a couple times he was attacked. Once his car got run off the road.
Once 2 guys tried to drown him.
He died in the late 60's and I think he would have felt bad when Reagan broke the air traffic controllers, but he also objected to a lot of the wildcat strikes of the late 70's in our area.
He was one of the old time republicans that believed in workers rights and stuff but not a lot of welfare or anything. Also he was an agnostic, not particularly religious so he probably would not have liked the whole evangelical movement joining the party.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)9. Quite. nt
question everything
(47,465 posts)10. Henry Ford, who was not known as bastion of liberalism
declared that he wanted to pay his workers a wage that would enable them to purchase what they were producing.
I doubt that today's Walmart workers can purchase at the store without a discount, on occasions.