When the American VP was progressive

[HarveyDarkey]

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. Henry got robbed by the Dem party dixiecrats and centrists...

...IF that didn't happen in '44, he would've been President Henry Wallace on April 12, 1945...x(

[Althaia]

2. extraordinary. so much of what he said was so prescient..

...like pointing out that American foreign policy is not driven by compassion and social justice (feeding the hungry in Greece), but by the American military's (Navy) need for oil.

[izquierdista]

3. What could have been

Truman and Brezhnev were two examples of the Peter Principle at work: two party bosses who worked themselves up to a level where they got approval from their respective Politburos, while forgetting the common man. Brezhnev set the Soviet Union on a trajectory to tank 25 years after he got in, but capitalism has proven more resilient. It won't tank because central planners forgot who to plan for. The US will die the death of a thousand cuts, each one made by a CEO who gets a bigger salary for outsourcing jobs and cutting expenses on health and safety.

[Enthusiast]

4. We all now know

how this worked out. It was not for the better.