Quote Originally Posted by Zoe Girl View Post
I was reading the 1956 platform for the Republican party, it is available here http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25838 It talks about unions and living wages and keeping a strong social security. It also talks about balanced budgets and supporting workers such as immigrants, elderly etc. to assure everyone of their fair rights of employment. I don;t hear that now, Yeah it has been a few years but maybe we need to look at this.
This meme was launched by Occupy Democrats a while ago, and has been making the rounds of the usual suspects. I don't suppose we should be surprised that the political rhetoric of the time was a bit more collectivist, coming as it did in the wake of depression and war. The Democrats' platform at the time was remarkably similar, although they add some soft-on-communism accusations and make no mention of some of the less savory activities of southern Democrats of that era beyond saying the government should reject "the use of force" to implement recent court decisions and legislation related to civil rights.