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(33,434 posts) Sat Dec 1, 2012, 07:18 PM Dec 2012

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Drive your right wing friends crazy with THIS actual Republican poster! [View all]

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(ETA: This has been cross-posted to current.com!)

Found this via WCPT's Facebook page. Also available via the University of Cincinnati Library (http://digproj.libraries.uc.edu:8180/luna/servlet/detail/CORNELL~9~1~78217~3265:Labor-Day-1956--Young-Republicans-S).

And back then the GOP platform that successfully re-elected Dwight Eisenhower also included such SOCIALIST! STATIST! BIG GOVERNMENT! language such as:

"A continuously vigorous enforcement of anti-trust laws"

"Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex"

"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"

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Drive your right wing friends crazy with THIS actual Republican poster! [View all] alp227 Dec 2012 OP

Sweet Irony DJ13 Dec 2012 #1

awesome poster Liberal_in_LA Dec 2012 #2

How times have changed. cspanlovr Dec 2012 #3

Amen to that ladym55 Dec 2012 #17

The RepubliWankers & RepubliProles of today are not your father's wing nuts Berlum Dec 2012 #57

I think you will find a huge part of the Republican Party of the fifties to be Cleita Dec 2012 #4

Democrats walked fine line because the southern states have always been anti-labor... WCGreen Dec 2012 #14

if I remember correctly Iwillnevergiveup Dec 2012 #5

One of the best years ever for white middle class protestant American males! TygrBright Dec 2012 #8

LOL...my birth year SHRED Dec 2012 #6

Mine too N/T Speed8098 Dec 2012 #59

Damn kids. Ikonoklast Dec 2012 #68

1954 was a coming out for me! AAO Dec 2012 #73

Top federal income tax rate in 1956... OneGrassRoot Dec 2012 #7

Funny how RWers always leave that little fact out Mariana Dec 2012 #39

I think I'll post it on Facebook nt gejohnston Dec 2012 #9

Maybe that's why they're all dying to go back to the good old days japple Dec 2012 #10

The good ol' days they want only existed on the back lots of Hollywood ladym55 Dec 2012 #18

And Blacks weren't allowed to join the Union, Jim Crow Laws, and blacks had to ride on the back Heather MC Dec 2012 #34

Yes. klook Dec 2012 #49

alp227 - platforms then and now pipewrench Dec 2012 #11

John Birch Society accused Eisenhower of being a Communist Enrique Dec 2012 #12

Well, that explains where the Koch brothers' crazy came from. nt SunSeeker Dec 2012 #33

Oh kickety kick kick!!!.. . . . .n/t annabanana Dec 2012 #13

There you go... that's some serious history... ReRe Dec 2012 #15

I like this part jtuck004 Dec 2012 #40

WOW! Opposite of today. oldbanjo Dec 2012 #16

The republican party was taken over by the religious right. madaboutharry Dec 2012 #19

My father had told me about the time Curmudgeoness Dec 2012 #20

It's a beauty. bluerum Dec 2012 #21

I'm curious rainin Dec 2012 #22

!956 jamtoday Dec 2012 #31

This message was self-deleted by its author Petrushka Dec 2012 #62

I think Republicans would LOVE to own Labor & that's why they also hate them. patrice Dec 2012 #23

Since today's GOP resemble the Birch Society of my formative years Jack Rabbit Dec 2012 #24

Excellent SayitAintSo Dec 2012 #25

Isn't this the "traditional America" that O'Reilly wants to go back to? jmondine Dec 2012 #26

Nah, he wants the other 1956 America where large swathes of the country had no rights. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2012 #47

My Republican grandfather named the first woman and black ADAs... jumptheshadow Dec 2012 #27

So they were FOR labor before they were AGAINST it?? n/t Beartracks Dec 2012 #28

Now THATS the America I want back. bvar22 Dec 2012 #29

My husband is in a union and he works with a lot of union right wingers kimbutgar Dec 2012 #30

Here's a quote from the Republican Party Platform of 1956: Faryn Balyncd Dec 2012 #32

kick SmileyRose Dec 2012 #35

what happened? maindawg Dec 2012 #36

You nailed it Berlum Dec 2012 #58

Project For The New American Century: icnorth Dec 2012 #60

+1. The whole JFK story foced on the wrong question BlueStreak Dec 2012 #65

Kick, just to make sure the trolls see it. rurallib Dec 2012 #37

Kick for Labor. nt NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #38

K&R! n/t beac Dec 2012 #41

Sadly, there are some leading Democrats that need to be reminded of this. progressoid Dec 2012 #42

How on earth ... mrsadm Dec 2012 #43

K&R!!!!! burrowowl Dec 2012 #44

What happened to the GOP between then and 1980? Initech Dec 2012 #45

All of the above nxylas Dec 2012 #55

1956 was an alternate reality. Oh how greedy and hateful they've become. gtar100 Dec 2012 #46

Super kick SoapBox Dec 2012 #48

Posted to my facebook page! blackspade Dec 2012 #50

Ahh the good old days of politics RyanThomas Dec 2012 #51

Welcome to DU! hrmjustin Dec 2012 #75

Never too late to K&R a good one. Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2012 #52

Someone needs to post this in Free Republic or whatever that dirtbag... er, uhm. teabag site is. world wide wally Dec 2012 #53

Oh My. How the Grand Old Party has changed! think Dec 2012 #54

needs to go viral Berlum Dec 2012 #56

Okay, I admit it. I'm actually a Republican. Patiod Dec 2012 #61

How low the republicans have sunk since then.......... nt Joey Liberal Dec 2012 #63

That was also before the GOP went after the Dixiecrat racist vote William Seger Dec 2012 #64

George Orwell was the greatest prophet of the 20th Century slackmaster Dec 2012 #66

1956! The year of my birth! AlbertCat Dec 2012 #67

I think it's important to remember that Republicans were once SANE. k&r n/t Laelth Dec 2012 #69

I like(d) Ike - style Repubs.......unrecognizable from today's GOP Dog Gone at Penigma Dec 2012 #70

OMG, the truth is often so .... hilarious! MADem Dec 2012 #71

yeah, that was a different world Douglas Carpenter Dec 2012 #72

Republicans have always been about the head-fake. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2012 #74

Excellent post. Eleanors38 Dec 2012 #76

I lost the meme I had with a quote from the '56 platform and a pic of Obama. brewens Dec 2012 #77

We were isolationist bastards back then as well BanTheGOP Dec 2012 #78

wow nt limpyhobbler Dec 2012 #79

Holy mother of Providence what a find! K&R!!!!! stevenleser Dec 2012 #80