what socialist wrote this?

[Hannah Bell]

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. Government must have a heart as well as a head.

A foreign policy based on international cooperation:

We shall continue vigorously to support the United Nations.


A call to civil service:

We will vigorously promote, as we have in the past, a non-political career service under the merit system which will attract and retain able servants of the people.


Progressive taxation:

Further reductions in taxes with particular consideration for low and middle income families.


Infrastructure:

To meet the immense demands of our expanding economy, we the largest highway, air and maritime programs in history, each soundly financed.


Statehood for D.C.:

We favor self-government, national suffrage and representation in the Congress of the United States for residents of the District of Columbia.


Environmentalism:

We favor a comprehensive study of the effect upon wildlife of the drainage of our wetlands.
We recognize the need for maintaining isolated wilderness areas


Taking on big business:

- A continuously vigorous enforcement of anti-trust laws
- Legislation to enable closer Federal scrutiny of mergers which have a significant or potential monopolistic connotations;
- Procedural changes in the antitrust laws to facilitate their enforcement.


LABOR

-Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable.
-Stimulate improved job safety of our workers, through assistance to the States, employees and employers.
-Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex.
- Clarify and strengthen the eight-hour laws for the benefit of workers who are subject to federal wage standards...
- Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public.


bringing back the Equal Rights Amendment!

-We recommend to Congress the submission of a constitutional amendment providing equal rights for men and women.

Answer: 1956 Republican Party Platform



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[Mimosa]

1. Wow. And Twue!

I hope everybody realises it's true when a few of us post that today's conservadems are well to the right of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. *McCarthy* would be a socialist by today's standards.

I think, historically and politically , we're in the 1870s. We were in the 1890's under Reagan... but successive presidencies ( including , alas, the current one) have moved us back another 20 or so years.

[jpgray]

3. Don't post Nixon's health care plan.

:hide:

[NuclearDem]

9. And especially don't mention his environmental protection agenda

Or his trip to open up to them ebul chi-comms.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Since we are now bankrupt for ideas, it's time for a new strategery." - Republicons

[xchrom]

5. recommend

[SidDithers]

6. Unrec...nt

Sid

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[Mimosa]

12. Why?

Sid, what IS your objective? This unreccing has become absurdly funny!

[SidDithers]

14. No objective...

I K&R the posts I like, and Unrec the ones I don't.

FWIW, here are my last 20 posts:


That list might be a bit exaggerated, but I'm still reccing about twice as often as I unrec. Funny, tho, how posters only notice the Unrecs. :shrug:

Sid

[Flubadubya]

15. I'm sure there are others who "rec" and "unrec" as often as you do...

They just don't feel the need to announce it in the thread every time.

It smacks a bit of spamming. :thumbsdown:

But, if that's how you get your kicks... :shrug: :P

[Mimosa]

16. OK, I get it.

It's your thing. Have fun.;)

How can I look at my own rec and unrecs, Sid.

[Flubadubya]

17. What you're looking at there is the sum of his last 20 posts...

which are compromised of nothing BUT K&Rs and Unrecs. If all you did was rec and unrec, looking at your most recent postings would look just like that. :silly:

[Radical Activist]

23. The funny part

is that there are two deleted replies to a comment that said nothing. :rofl:

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[47of74]

7. The teabaggers would call the people who came up with this socalist facists

[leftstreet]

10. K&R

[Selatius]

11. This is the product of FDR. He literally dragged the whole spectrum leftward.

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

--President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952

The Republican Party of today would not have survived so close to the FDR-era because the memory of FDR was still so fresh.

[dreamnightwind]

22. Exactly

Which is one of the things that breaks my heart about Obama. He could be moving the spectrum left, it was a perfect storm for this to happen. Instead quite the opposite.

[laughingliberal]

18. Thanks, Hannah. It really highlights the march to the right we've been on & how far it's gone.

Rec

[texastoast]

19. Hey, trolls, like the nutjobs your party has become?

Gosh, I thought 1956 was part of "the good old days." I doubt many of today's Republicans want much of what was on this list.

Thanks for the excellent post.

K&R

[jotsy]

20. Interesting layer to add to the other side of the debate about left shifting right!

Nice move.

Recommended.

[gmoney]

21. but remember, this is Republicans, so they're all LIES

Somehow, I think this is all window dressing, rather than actual positions held by actual Republicans at any point in history.

This was back in the day when VOTES mattered, not so much corporate contributions.

[Radical Activist]

24. It was for those who prefer dramatic gestures

to action.

[Poboy]

25. .