Where did the Republican Party Go?
The 1956 Republican platform, adopted during Dwight D. Eisenhower's re-election campaign, embraced 'Modern Republicanism,' featuring strong support for New Deal social welfare programs, labor rights, and federal infrastructure. You can read the complete text at the Republican Party Platform of 1956 hosted by The American Presidency Project The following are exact quotes from that document: 'Our Government was created by the people for all the people, and it must serve no less a purpose. The purpose of the Republican Party is to establish and maintain a peaceful world and build at home a dynamic prosperity in which every citizen fairly shares.
We believe that basic to governmental integrity are unimpeachable ethical standards and irreproachable personal conduct by all people in government. We shall continue our insistence on honesty as an indispensable requirement of public service. We shall continue to root out corruption whenever and wherever it appears. We shall ever build anew, that our children and their children, without distinction because of race, creed or color, may know the blessings of our free land.
The farmers of America are at last able to look to the future with a confidence based on expanding peacetime markets instead of on politically contrived formulas foredoomed to fail except in a wartime economy. The objective is to insure that agriculture shares fairly and fully in our record prosperity without needless Federal meddlings and domination.
We have balanced the budget. We believe and will continue to prove that thrift, prudence and a sensible respect for living within income applies as surely to the management of our Government's budget as it does to the family budget.
We hold that the Bill of Rights is the sacred foundation of personal liberty. That men are created equal needs no affirmation, but they must have equality of opportunity and protection of their civil rights under the law.
In the last four years, under direction from President Eisenhower to improve the postal service and reduce costs, we have modernized and revitalized the postal establishment from top to bottom, inside and out. We have undertaken and substantially completed the largest reorganization ever to take place in any unit of business or government: The Republican Party points to an impressive record of accomplishment in the field of civil rights and commits itself anew to advancing the rights of all our people regardless of race, creed, color or national origin.'
Where did THAT Republican party go ?
These are exactly the principles that the Democratic Socialists are putting forward. The Corporate Bosses and Billionaires have used the word “SOCIALIST’’ as a boogie man to scare people ever since FDR used socialist principles to get us out of the Great Depression that the corporate GREED put us in. Now, like then, the Billionaire Class is trying to destroy the middle class which FDR built with Socialist ideas of Government actually using TAX DOLLARS to actually take care of ALL THE PEOPLE. Please people, see beyond the propaganda and vote for your best interest.
Michael Thompson Plymouth
