FDR 'Let Me Warn You' about Republicans, 1936.

[appalachiablue]

[WhoIsNumberNone]

1. Love that one

[appalachiablue]

5. FDR called them out and it's still the same bull. What an extraordinary leader he was.

~ If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ~ Thomas Paine.

[Human101948]

2. They haven't changed a bit in 80 years...

Still selling the same snake oil to the rubes.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

3. Yes they have

They started actively pandering to racists in 1972.

[Human101948]

4. Actually it was in 1968 with Nixon's Southern Strategy....

As LBJ predicted, the racists ran into the arms of the loving Republicans.

[appalachiablue]

6. Fools. Almost all my relatives are lifelong Dems. except a small offshoot of Repugs.

One of their daughters asked her mother why they were Republicans. The mother replied 'because we're rich'.
The daughter and her family have voted D before and since then.

~ If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ~ Thomas Paine.

[zentrum]

7. Plotting to break

……working people for a hundred years.

And boy, have they ever hated FDR and the New Deal.

But it seems to me they got a lot more clever during and since the Reagan era, taking over local school boards, demonizing unions, etc.

[appalachiablue]

8. Complete takeover of the media, hate radio and Fox noise propaganda to cultivate

workers to vote R, against their own interest. Very busy indeed building wealth and power for their own and dismantling every possible democratic institution that helps workers and serves the common good. Ike and many others would be stunned...Monstrous.

[zentrum]

9. Yup. Sociopaths.

They want it all.

[happyslug]

10. I remember reading about the 1936 election and the GOP attacks on FDR's 1932 Pittsburgh Speech

The GOP in 1936 made a huge fight over FDR's failure to keep the promises made in Pittsburgh in 1932. FDR told his speech writers to look over the speech and write a speech on how FDR had done what he said in that 1932 Speech. The Speech writer went to the records, read the speech and told FDR "Simply said you never made it".

FDR HAD failed to do anything he promised in the 1932 Pittsburgh Speech. On the other hand what he had promised, a balance budget etc was found to be detrimental to the country and thus dropped. The American People seeing what FDR had done ACCEPTED the fact times had changed and solution to problems had changed. Thus for breaking his promises of 1932, the American People gave him 46 out of the then 48 states (in 1932 FDR had won 46 of the 48 states).

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, appalachiablue.

[appalachiablue]

12. For sure Uncle Joe. How relevant and exceptional are FDR's words even today so many years later.