You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury
I am a native eastern Oregonian, and have lived here 50 of my 62 years. I left at 20, but was back by age 32 to be near my parents to help them in times of need. I don't fit in politically here because I view things from a decidedly left wing perspective... but that's o.k. because I love the people, I love the area and for the most part I like living here. I enjoy family time, listening to music, reading books, traveling, bird watching, hiking, backpacking, watching movies, keeping up on politics, watching sports, sitting at the computer so much I get sores on my ass, and playing music... if you need a band for your party or celebration, let me know; I play keyboards and sing for a rock and roll band, and we do mostly "classic rock". (I also like to play guitar and bass and other instruments, but those are for my private enjoyment only!) I am mainly an agnostic/skeptic, but would consider myself spiritual. I work in schools and in clinical settings as a speech/language therapist. It is enjoyable work and it pays some of the bills. I have a rather unpredictable sense of humor, which can get me in trouble at times, but hey, is life worth living without laughter? I think not!
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Yes, it's real. The GOP was in a very different mode in those days. From 1932-1952, they couldn't get a president elected. Coolidge, Harding and Hoover followed by the Great Depression left a bad taste in millions of mouths. The probably wouldn't have gotten any other Republican in the White House in '52 either, if anyone besides Dwight Eisenhower had run on their ticket. He was a war hero, exceptionally well qualified and virtually everyone liked him. Democrats tried like hell to get him to run on their ticket, but for some reason he wouldn't.
Republicans thought for sure they could get Tom Dewey into the White House in 1948, with beloved FDR out of the way, but Harry Truman proved to be an exceptional campaigner, and much better qualified and more likable than Dewey.
So, Republicans were very mindful of the need to play nice and not push agendas such as destroying New Deal programs and policies people had come to depend on.
BTW, on his radio show, Tom Hartmann has played radio blurbs from that era by none other than Ronald Reagan. Reagan was a New Deal Democrat then, and in the promos he waxed enthusiastic about Truman, about protecting New Deal programs and reforms, and about organized labor.
You could say Reagan was for being progressive before he was against it. :)
(BTW, I'm on my seventh try at getting the Captcha puzzle right. It's getting to the point of not being worth it on Blogger because I almost always have to do the Caoptcha multiple times.)
The Republican Party platform from 1956 was very similar to the sentiments in that poster. It was much more progressive than today's Democratic platform, let alone the Far Right platform of today's GOP.
As far as that spam gizmo is concerned, I got rid of mine a few months ago and I hardly get any spam comments. My e-mail shows that I've gotten jillions of them, but Blogger seems to be automatically deleting about 99% of them.
Funny how Eric Cantor couldn't even give workers Labor Day. Instead he dedicated it to business owners.
jim marquis, FWIW, I don't credit Cantor with the smarts to keep straight which end of him gets the toothpaste and which end gets the Preparation H.
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