Republican Party Platform of 1956

[graywarrior]

This is a fascinating read.


http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25838

{Snips}

Our Government was created by the people for all the people, and it must serve no less a purpose.


We shall continue to seek extension and perfection of a sound social security system.


While jealously guarding the free institutions and preserving the principles upon which our Republic was founded and has flourished, the purpose of the Republican Party is to establish and maintain a peaceful world and build at home a dynamic prosperity in which every citizen fairly shares.


America does not prosper unless all Americans prosper.


Government must have a heart as well as a head.


Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex


The record of performance of the Republican Administration on behalf of our working men and women goes still further. The Federal minimum wage has been raised for more than 2 million workers. Social Security has been extended to an additional 10 million workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2 million. The protection of unemployment insurance has been brought to 4 million additional workers. There have been increased workmen's compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees.

[Warpy]

1. Yeah, back when Republicans had been chastized

by being out of power for 20 years and realized they had to be human to get elected at all.

Then the John Birchers started to take over. They loved Nixon because he'd been one of McCarthy's goons. They loved the holy roller types, because they'd believe anything.

The GOP is not Eisenhower's party, not now. They're the John Birch Party, they just haven't gotten around to repainting the sign.

ETA: and you've given us a Pallas's kitten as well as a Pallas's cat! Those things are born hissing, gotta love them.

[90-percent]

14. Speaking of John Birchers

I used to read about them in late 50's and 60's Mad magazines. I also learned of Ayn Rand from Mad in this era.

Anyway, what I find both remarkable and apparently little known is that one of the founders of the John Birch Society is none other than the Koch Brothers daddy!

This Koch family values are utterly vile.

However, it's a damn shame Mitt didn't follow in his daddy's foot steps. George Romney seems to have been an honorable and principled man. His entitled smarmy bullying son has lived his life repudiating everything honorable about his dad. Sadly, it appears George raised a greedy sociopath.

America electing Rmoney is nothing more than a national suicide. I am really praying my fellow countrymen are not that stupid or as self destructive as mainlining heroin on dirty needles!

-90% jimmy

[DonRedwood]

2. someone needs to do a meme comparing 56 to 12.... it would be a sad comparison

sad sad sad

[barbtries]

3. unrecognizable.

these must be the final throes of what is no longer a viable party.

[graywarrior]

4. They've gone against everything they believed back then

[barbtries]

9. yep.

every single thing.

[Brewinblue]

11. Actually 56 looks just like 12.

The Democratic 12 that is.

The Republican 12, on the other hand, looks just like the German National Socialist Party platform of 32.

[zbdent]

17. With today's "liberally-biased media"?

I'd be surprised if Dems/Libs held any ground ... Obama may win, but we'll get an even more energized Repug group pledging to never even allow Obama to say what day it is ...

[spanone]

5. they are warp speed and light years from any sense of their old selves

they have become the party of the mean

fuck the poor

fuck the unemployed

fuck the sick

fuck the people....

[graywarrior]

6. That's what corporate influence does

They don't even realize they hate this country by their very actions.

[nc4bo]

7. They've fallen right off the cliff and into the abyss..

My goodness!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. "Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex" 1956! Republican! Wow.

[TeamPooka]

10. remember when Repulicans were into governance and not instituting a religious agenda?

[IrishEyes]

12. No, I don't think I was alive back then.

[oldsarge54]

26. Yes, I remember

The last time I voted Republican was before the Moral Majority forced the Republicans to change from a gay Congressman from Speaking at their Convention. Haven't since. I won't vote Republican until they get a divorce from the descendants of the moral majority.

[Aerobracero]

13. In 1956 the Federal Top Income Tax Rage was 91% on incomes above $200K

Capital Gains 25%. $200K is equivalent to about to around $2 Million today. It got us out of the WWII debt.

People forget that the US basically used to believe in basically a top salary. Unfortunately, not raising the upper salary target as fast as inflation led to the federal gov having too much money to spend and high rate taxes effecting more just the rich which caused the Reagan Revolution which led us to the problems we have now. T

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Very interesting.

[malaise]

16. No one can recognize that ReTHUG party

[get the red out]

18. That would give Limbaugh Dysentery!

That's considered "socialism" by the right in our era.

[Raine]

19. CSpan was showing some of the repug convention speechs from former conventions yesterday.

I saw Eisenhower (56), Goldwater (64) Nixon (68), Raygun (80), Bush (2000). The most angry and crazy were Goldwater and Bush. The others had a more civil tone to them.

[stupidicus]

20. amazing

I've been posting it for 4-5 years now as an example of the migration towards madness the rightwingnuts have made.

they were aocialists then, no?.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Devolution of the Republican Party (cartoons)

I've been looking for a cartoon by Wuerker that I remember, but can't find. It showed the evolution or devolution of the Republican party, starting with Abraham Lincoln, going through Nixon, GWH Bush, and Dan Quayle. Can't find it on my disk, or online. Might have been in "Standing Tall in Deep Doo-Doo" by Wuerker, a book I once had.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. "We shall continue vigorously to support the United Nations." Also was there but now the opposite!

[nineteen50]

23. What was considered middle of the road then

is now pinko commie thats how far right greed has brought us.

[graywarrior]

24. I wonder if the present crop has even read this document.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

25. Democratic Party Platform of 1956

Here is a section from the Democrats:

"The Republican Brand of Prosperity.

Substituting deceptive slogans and dismal deeds for the Democratic program, the Republicans have been telling the American people that "we are now more prosperous than ever before in peacetime." For the American farmer, the small businessman and the low-income worker, the old people living on a pittance, the young people seeking an American standard of education, and the minority groups seeking full employment opportunity at adequate wages, this tall tale of Republican prosperity has been an illusion.

The evil is slowly but surely infiltrating the entire economic system. Its fever signs are evidenced by soaring monopoly profits, while wages lag, farm income collapses, and small-business failures multiply at an alarming rate.

The first time-bomb of the Republican crusade against full prosperity for all was the hard-money policy. This has increased the debt burden on depressed farms, saddled heavier costs on small business, foisted higher interest charges on millions of homeowners (including veterans), pushed up unnecessarily the cost of consumer credit, and swelled the inordinate profits of a few lenders of money. It has wrought havoc with the bond market, with resulting financial loss to the ordinary owners of Government bonds.

The Republican tax policy has joined hands in an unholy alliance with the hard-money policy. Fantastic misrepresentation of the Government's budgetary position has been used to deny tax relief to low- and middle-income families, while tax concessions and handouts have been generously sprinkled among potential campaign contributors to Republican coffers. The disastrously reactionary farm program, the hardhearted resistance to adequate expansion of Social Security and other programs for human well-being, and favoritism in the award of Government contracts, all have watered the economic tree at the top and neglected its roots."


http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29601

[graywarrior]

27. Wow!! ! ! !

That could have been written now!

[nvme]

28. jOE MC CARTHY WAS A REPUKE

Many wolves travel in sheeps clothing this is during that era

[graywarrior]

29. He's come back from the dead

[jillan]

30. As VP Biden keeps saying on the stump "this ain't your father's Republican party, folks" .