Happy "Independents" Day July 4, 2013

[autorank]

The great thing about Independence is the emergence of true American Independents!!!

Link: http://agonist.org/happy-independents-day-july-4-2013/

[liberal_at_heart]

1. Happy "Independents" Day to you too. I no longer consider myself a democrat. I am kind of in between

party affiliations at the moment. Not sure what I am. I think Independent probably best describes what I am right now.

[autorank]

6. I've called myself a "Free Thinker" for a while

....although some people argue the point about thinking Nevertheless, I perservere!

[magellan]

2. I didn't know Henry Wallace left the Dems and turned independent (Progressive Party)

I agree with the comment left about him:

"Wallace is the symbolic t(ip)ping point from sanity to cold war delusional disaster, imho."

Sigh. So true.

This independent thanks you for sharing that site. Happy Independents Day to you too!

[autorank]

5. They buried him

He, of all people, could have said, "You can't stand the truth!"

[magellan]

7. I knew very little about him till I watched Oliver Stone's Untold History of the US

Needless to say, after seeing all he did during the Depression as Sec of Agriculture and FDR's VP, I was astonished by what they did to him at the '44 Democratic National Convention. The party loved Wallace, but the hawks in charge forced Truman in as VP. What a terrible moment. But in it I recognized the way things are done even today.

I just read this snippet about him on wiki:

As a further sign of the times, he was noted by Time as ostentatiously riding through various cities and towns in the South "with his Negro secretary beside him". A barrage of eggs and tomatoes were hurled at Wallace and struck him and his campaign members during the tour, while at the same time President Truman referred to such behavior towards Wallace as "highly un-American business which violated the American concept of fair play." Wallace commented that "there is a long chain that links unknown young hoodlums in North Carolina or Alabama with men in finely tailored business suits in the great financial centers of New York or Boston, men who make a dollars-&-cents profit by setting race against race in the far away South."

I think he'd be sick to see those links still unbroken today. Surely a remarkable man for his time.

[autorank]

9. That's about it

Great find. Truman got the nomination. That was it for us, as far as cold war/national security state goes.

[freedom fighter jh]

3. Great Collection of Greats

Thanks for putting this together.

Love hearing Bernie telling it like it is!

[autorank]

4. THANKS!

That's quite a group of freedom fighters!

[freedom fighter jh]

8. Yeah, we're just terrific.

A friend told me so.