… The platform also asked Congress to submit a constitutional amendment establishing “equal rights for men and women.”
The platform boasted proudly of the African-Americans who had been appointed to positions in Eisenhower’s administration, and of ending racial discrimination in federal employment. At no point did the document call for any restrictions on immigration; rather, by contrast, it asked Congress to consider an extension of the 1953 Refugee Act, which brought tens of thousands of war-weary European refugees to American shores. …
In his farewell address on January 17, 1961, he highlighted the rise of what he called a “military-industrial complex” — a war industry that he cautioned could exert “undue influence” on the government.
Richard Nixon is hardly remembered as a progressive, but he was much more aggressive in tackling issues like hunger and environmental protection than the Republicans in power today. …
But the Republican Party of the past at least showed itself capable of responding to domestic and global issues, offering and implementing successful policies to deal with pressing problems like poverty, environmental degradation, and a refugee crisis.
Decades later, Eisenhower’s “negligible” oligarchs emerged in the visage of David and Charles Koch, right-wing oil and gas billionaires. The former actually ran for the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential ticket in 1980 on a platform of completely eliminating the Social Security and Medicare programs.
Against President Biden, equating him to President Carter
Riding trumps coat-tails. Kissing the ring, … or something else.
And I’ve seen commercials for primaries stating in a negative way that “So and so is a Never Trumper” - by a PAC or something, not by a specific candidate.
Heck, I almost want to change to GOP just to vote for that guy!
I’m not a Boomer. I missed by a year or two depending on what chart you look at, but there probably are some on the forum. BTW, Kamala isn’t much older than I am. She is about two years old, is a young boomer, but she didn’t have anything to do with what happened 60 years ago nor did she destroy anything.
What do you mean by “Better”?
Segregation
Discrimination
Hidden and silenced abuse
Poisonous waterways and burning rivers
A façade of peace and harmony and success for all?
Americans’ unbridled greed and blind self-centeredness and laziness, and the growing disregard for facts and reality, is what’s bringing down America - along with fact free youngsters and lazy whipper snappers who are every bit as guilty as the old dinosaurs who at least used to participate in their government.
Sad part is, it’s today’s crop of kids that are the one’s who are really going to pay the price of our insane disconnect from, and disregard for, our Earth’s biosphere, other creatures, and climate engine.
Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future, …
