Lemmylibs: “We can fix him! I don’t know how, but you all must vote for him!”
Him: “How can I better appeal to the block that swore never to vote for me?”

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Correction: It hasn’t had a real left wing since Truman. The Taft-Hartley act effectively excised the trade unions from having anything to do with the Democratic party. Half the Democratic party voted in favour of it, which allowed them to override Truman’s veto.

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      1 day ago

      You’re kinda proving their point lol. If you consider the US during that era to even slightly lean left then you have no familiarity with left wing policy and ideology…plus there was the whole, “oh shit, Communism is growing in popularity, quick give them the most bare bones social safety net so they don’t get angry enough to demand actual socialism” thing before they could get the cold war facade up.