The Rethug sky is falling...

[Septua]

..in fact, it's been falling for 100 years, starting with FDR. Rethugs keep telling us Democrats will take us to Socialism. Democrats have held the White House about half the time and the same Constitutional Republic remains.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/31/even-after-their-fear-mongering-proves-wrong-republicans-keep-it-heres-why/

The continued use of an embarrassingly misguided warning shows how conservatives have gravitated toward recycled apocalyptic rhetoric, notwithstanding the fact that their dire predictions have never come to pass. Crying wolf like this long predates Reagan’s 1961 comment. It dates to the early days of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, when Roosevelt’s opponents framed their criticisms not as a dispute about policy, but as an existential fight to preserve liberty.

Truman speech (audio @ 6 minutes): https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/soundrecording-records/sr59-160-president-truman-rear-platform-remarks-syracuse-new-york

In President Harry's Truman's remarks in Syracuse, New York on October 10, 1952, he said this:
 
Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
 
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.
 
Socialism is what they called farm price supports.
 
Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
 
When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan "Down With Socialism" on the banner of his "great crusade," that is really not what he means at all.
 
What he really means is "Down with Progress--down with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal," and "down with Harry Truman's fair Deal." That's all he means.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Republicans sure like to socialize the costs of their oligarchs getting richer.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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[calimary]

14. I sure do like that little rhyme!

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. t.y. If it can become an earworm for every eligible voter, we win!

[calimary]

24. Another good quote!

Added to my collection.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. It stems to 1900-1910

when early rumblings of socialism and communism began to take hold in immigrant populations in New York City and other major cities. Corporations were fighting labor struggles, Republican civic organizations were organized, and by 1920 the country was in the original Red Scare in the aftermath of WWI and the Russian Revolution. By 1930 even some corporations had anti-socialism programs that supported labor - a nurse on duty, health care information for workers. Yes, to Rethugs, FDR was a new Red Scare. They never stop getting all whipped up to a lather when someone wants them to share anything like power or money.

[jaxexpat]

6. And they've yet to come up with a single legitimate justification for their point of view.

As I scan the "excusiverse", I can only see one marginal use conservatives may have ever had. To curb the potential for overreach in progressive socioeconomic innovation............Nah, that's bogus too. Off with their heads.

[CrispyQ]

3. "Bank bailouts are socialism." "Oh, no. That's just good business."

That was an exchange I had with a right wing cousin. So I said, "Why isn't it good business to spend taxes helping Americans? What good is a national defense budget if we don't take care of our people?" To which he replied "We have to take care of ourselves." To which I replied, "But the banks don't?" To which there were crickets.

[dchill]

4. "Democrats will take us to Socialism..."

Please! When, actually? Can we get right on that?

[Tommymac]

5. Good OP. Thanks!

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Same song as always

[ToxMarz]

12. I wonder how many people in that picture DON'T have any mixed blood

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. I wonder how many of their ancestors fathered mixed race children

I’m betting a considerable number have black relatives they don’t know or refuse to recognize.

[ThoughtCriminal]

16. I wonder how many are married to

1st cousins.

[The Jungle 1]

8. Corporate welfare is socialism!

But the right loves it.

Americans hate all the socialism those other Americans get!

[FakeNoose]

10. Yes it's socialism of the worst kind

It's taking from the "have-nothing" and the "don't-have-much" Americans, and giving it to the "I-want-it-all" group.

[True Blue American]

9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Was hated by Conservatives. He said he relished their hate. They are greedy and selfish.

[asiliveandbreathe]

11. Thank you for posting..historical points of reference..important..n/t

[ificandream]

13. Democrats' positive messages have always been why we're so much better than Repughs.

I wish every Democratic candidate would pound that message to voters on both sides. Overall, Democrats will make you happier than Repughs. No question about it.

[thenelm1]

18. Remember General Smedley Butler!!

The hero who busted up an earlier attempt at a rightwing coup in the 1930s.

[soldierant]

19. As a former Marine, I am not likely ever to forget him.

[thenelm1]

22. I apologize for being remiss in leaving out the fact that he was Marine General Smedley Butler. n/t

[soldierant]

25. And Commandant.

I served for a coule of years at the base in Okinawa which was named for him.

[calimary]

20. Good stuff.

Good talking points!

[DBoon]

21. someone asked Norman Thomas, head of the US Socialist Party in the 1930s ...

... if Roosevelt's New Deal carried out socialist goals.

Norman Thomas said, "yes, in a coffin"

[OLDMDDEM]

23. Socialism is tax cuts for the rich.

The repugs have nothing else to say they have done over the orange magat's reign.

[liberalla]

26. Bookmarking

I really liked this post.

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
Becuz, becuz socialism!