Eisenhower Republicans & Hippies have become the same

[jodymarie aimee]

Higher taxes on wealth, infrastructure spending, labor, safety net, raise min wage. Eisenhower Republicans & Hippies have become the same. FUGELSANG.

[FDRsGhost]

1. They have

and I follow quite a few Ike Republican's on twitter who were big Bernie supporters. They are very big on social programs and Government programs which benefit the people & are disgusted at how their party has been taken over since Reagan.

Check this out;

[RKP5637]

2. Times have really changed. My father was an FDR type dem politician. Many of his friends

were moderate republicans. They had different ideas on some things, but rolled up their selves and worked together for the good of the country. The GOP of today is disgraceful.

[JTFrog]

5. The same Young Republicans some bashed Hillary for being a part of in high school.

Then she became a life long Democrat working to improve the lives of women and children around the world and won the 2016 Presidential election.

[bekkilyn]

10. I'd vote for an Eisenhower republican in a heartbeat

compared to the typical choices we have nowadays in any of the political parties. Problem is they're considered far left radicals nowadays and probably have to settle for being Independents.

[ghostsinthemachine]

12. Hell, I'd like to vote for an Eisenhower Democrat!

For President!

[WinkyDink]

3. I don't think the Party of Adlai Stevenson would agree with you. AND as an Old Hippie,

aka Baby Boomer, I have always been a Democrat, even when some Republicans might have spouted Democratic ideas.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. Same here.

In 1956, at age 7, I supported Stevenson after watching both conventions. Their message made more sense.

[Greybnk48]

4. He's absolutely right. But Eisenhower wasn't really a Republican.

Not in the way the word functions today. Not even close.

[sharedvalues]

6. America has a party of reality and a party of destroying govt for tax cuts for the rich

Anyone who's not in the pocket of GOP donors (and a lot of GOP politicians are), and thus cares about Americans, tends to agree on some major issues.

[duncang]

7. A long time back

I used to vote a split ticket. I would go over all the candidates and try to figure out who would be the best fit. I was always left leaning. As the years passed the repub's became the party of the right nut cases. Trying to show up how stupid and crazy they could be. The purity tests put out by the right convinced the repub's they had to go right more and more. They became the party of "do you think that is batshit crazy. Well I'll show you batshit crazy".

They preach they are the party of middle America, but they are the party of billionaires, intolerance and those who can watch a single ad with out thinking and vote for them.

[bekkilyn]

9. I still try to do a split ticket, but

there are just no Republicans to vote for anymore. Practically all of them are far-right extremists or claim to be moderates but never speak out against the extremists and are thus extremist by association. They are all usually also anti-choice and I won't vote for an anti-choice candidate no matter the letter next to the name. It's a deal-breaker.

So it turns out I end up voting primarily Democratic with a few Independents despite my efforts.

Now it's usually only in the primaries where I have to do more careful consideration of each candidate and how (or if) they plan to serve constituents rather than in the general elections where Republicans are more often than not terrible by default.

[underpants]

8. I work with an Eisenhower/Rockefeller Republican and we agree on a lot

This gentleman has basically been my mentor at my current job. I never thought I'd want a mentor but he has helped me immensely and could be my ticket to the rest of my career. Dropping his name anywhere in the Commonwealth is like a silver dollar.

He HATES Trump. We have incredibl lunch conversations (a real round table of characters) usually avoiding religion or politics but he's made a point of distancing himself from Trump. He agrees that the current state of the GOP is simply theater and it has been for 10+ years.

[FiveGoodMen]

11. Become?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. I knew an older guy who nicknamed Obama "Black Eisenhower" because...

... he considered them very similar.

I think he was also emphasizing how much this country has moved to the right.

Side note: Higher taxes on the rich didn't hurt, but I suspect that much of the economic boom in the 50's was the result of other industrialized countries needing to deal with far more infrastructure repair compared to the USA.