Republican Ideology through History

[Texanmike]

Mid-, you better include Lincoln, TR, Eisenhower if you are going to be fair, but you are not, huh?

Lincoln (Teddy too) came before my history, Teddy was a republican in name only, he didn't even consider himself republican. Eisenhower, I noted. 'I like Ike' as the button said. What I found most interesting about Eisenhower is he served the nation in war and because of that he took the armchair warriors less seriously than they would have liked. One has to view his administration from the America he was given by Roosevelt and Truman. Just like we need to view the great mess Obama was given from Bush Jr.

Edits:

I will clarify the twenties comment, while WWI ending in America's favor may have changed the mood of the country, its economic effect was less important. While there was a push to develop military technology, the major concern at the time was America itself and an isolationist mood took hold. I should have checked that part more carefully, it was a late add.

FDR also started minimum wage at 25 cents, confirming my point, the republicans are still fighting our greatest modern president. I also want to extend my point on Watergate and add Enron, both affected election politics after republican screw ups.

You present this as facts.

Mike

 

[JakeStarkey]

TR considered himself Republican. You better check his behavior as Police Commissioner for NYC and as an Assistant Secretary of State. Lincoln was Republican, supported Big Government actions such as the Homestead Act and the railroad acts, and he was certainly in favor of labor over capital when push came to shove. Eisenhower helped to craft the ingenuous Interstate Highway system, an internal improvement funded with a unique blend of use taxation.

Mid-, back up on this, hmmm?

 

[Oddball]

Chimpola considered himself a republican too, even though his policies -both foreign and domestic- were virtually indistinguishable from those of LBJ.

TR was basically the prototype neocon....It's a mystery to me why the left is so enamored with him.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Chimpola considered himself a republican too, even though his policies -both foreign and domestic- were virtually indistinguishable from those of LBJ.

TR was basically the prototype neocon....It's a mystery to me why the left is so enamored with him.

TR, McKinley, Hay, Root, and the leading Rs of the day were early neo-cons for sure. William Jennings Bryan (d), three-times Dem presidential candidate and Wilson's first Secretary of State, was almost a pacifist, served as a chaplain in WWI, would generally be considered much more conservative today.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

States right = tribalism?

I laughed so hard I got all wee-weed up!

 

[JakeStarkey]

No less silly than saying all left wing progressive reform is "globalism."

Words have meanings, Frank, and no one gets to change them for political advantage if the change obfuscates the truth of the meaning.

 

[midcan5]

TR considered himself Republican. You better check his behavior as Police Commissioner for NYC and as an Assistant Secretary of State. Lincoln was Republican, supported Big Government actions such as the Homestead Act and the railroad acts, and he was certainly in favor of labor over capital when push came to shove. Eisenhower helped to craft the ingenuous Interstate Highway system, an internal improvement funded with a unique blend of use taxation.

Mid-, back up on this, hmmm?

Jake, it's tough to find all the sources of information that impressed me enough that I recall it. TR is considered a republican good guy so when I read his political philosophy and his departure from the party it surprised me. I answered why I started at the time I did below, see link.

'Lonestar_logic, I started in the time period I would consider the beginning of modern America. Industry grew and changed the political and cultural landscape at the end of the 19Th century, but modern politics was born when corporate power grew and corporate propaganda developed and had a means of distribution. Ideas have power - I will continue to explore this aspect.' http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/186726-republican-ideology-through-history-4.html#post4193496

If we go back too far in history the times are so different we'd need a book and not a brief outline. Even the modern period is too complex for easy classification, but there are certain elements which have remained consistent from the early 20Th century. Thus my outline. Wash anyway minor quibbles and then tell me the history is not factual. I lived through lots of it as did my parents. Statistics today prove where republican policies are moving us.

I remember the start of the Interstate system, I once blew a big block Chevy V8, speedometer pegged, on the highway as it was being built. My next 283 V8 raced till the military called me. The interstate was a great job creator but a not so good for trains, public trans, urban/suburban sprawl and energy usage. But the times were different and Eisenhower could not have seen the consequences. We still don't, but cars are often our first love. PS I love our roads. LOL

 

[JakeStarkey]

Midcan, I think for many on this board that they have trouble understanding that progressivism historically is a reform process far more than a political ideology. Progressivism has liberal and conservative impulses: Mann Act (Conservative), Prohibition (Conservative), Meat Inspection Act (liberal), FRB act (liberal), and so forth.

Compare TR to WW, and TR comes off far more conserative. Compare TR to Taft, and TR comes off more liberal. But both Taft and Roosevelt considered themselves conservatives and certainly did not like WW's style of progressivism and disliked him personally, probably because he was a southerner. Nothing worse in the world than a liberal progressive democratic southerner to conservatives, particularly those in the South.

 

[Oddball]

Why don't you two get a room?

"Progressive" is just another cheap semantic contrivance to lend a flimsy disguise to socialism.

If anyone is the enabler of Wall Street banksters and Robber Barons, it's the "progressives".

 

[JakeStarkey]

Oddball is well named for he wishes to redefine political and historical terms and mischaracterize historical events and personalities.

The far libertarian hard right is delusional, period, and Oddball is its court joker.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Midcan, I think for many on this board that they have trouble understanding that progressivism historically is a reform process far more than a political ideology. Progressivism has liberal and conservative impulses: Mann Act (Conservative), Prohibition (Conservative), Meat Inspection Act (liberal), FRB act (liberal), and so forth.

Compare TR to WW, and TR comes off far more conserative. Compare TR to Taft, and TR comes off more liberal. But both Taft and Roosevelt considered themselves conservatives and certainly did not like WW's style of progressivism and disliked him personally, probably because he was a southerner. Nothing worse in the world than a liberal progressive democratic southerner to conservatives, particularly those in the South.

Progressivism is all about state power trumping individual rights, which explains why you supprt it 9 times out of 10.

 

[Charles_Main]

[Please check later posts for any updates]

Roaring Twenties, growth of the automobile and a war economy
Harding reduces taxes on the wealthy to spur growth
Three consecutive republican administrations, supply side economics prevail
Republicans align themselves with big business
Coolidge/Hoover presidencies a bubble mentality ensues as wall street speculation grows
Bubble bursts, banks collapse, economy collapses
Rigid republican policy prevents creative workable solutions
Great Depression begins - Hoover ineffective
Hoover a businessman gets advice from the wealthy and National Association of Manufacturers
Hoover does little substantive eventually fails completely
FDR rescues the nation from Great Depression, creates job programs
FDR creates strong regulatory structure
These are the times of radio and newspapers
FDR creates the greatest single asset for all Americans: Social Security
FDR masterfully fought WWII along with Churchill and help from Stalin
FDR wins three terms and is ranked by most as the greatest modern period American president
Sixty years of American exceptionalism follow FDR's presidency
Truman ends the savagery of World War II with Japan with the ultimate savagery
Truman uses UN in Korean war effort over fear of communism's spread
Truman extends New Deal and Civil rights
WWII end brings prosperity to America due to GI Bill, home growth, and durable goods growth
High tax rates continue until seventies and eighties
American corporations support the American worker with pensions and healthcare
Eisenhower ignores right wing war mongering republicans, extends civil rights
Warren court hands down ruling on public school segregation
Eisenhower continues progressivism, Vietnam involvement continues from Truman
Eisenhower's grand idea and job's program, the Interstate highway begins
Eisenhower commits to helping South Vietnam
The 'Cold War' clouds the mind of America creating an atmosphere of fear and distrust
Nixon loses to Kennedy in first TV election
Kennedy buys into ridiculous Bay of Pigs plan from Eisenhower administration
America's youth gain power prestige and purchasing power
Advertising, aka propaganda, grows as TV replaces radio
Kennedy reduces taxes for wealthy
Battle for space with Russia consumes America's resources
Blacks decide waiting any longer for equality is too long
Rosa Parks, among others, and Martin Luther King motivate a freedom movement long pass due
Camelot ends in Dallas
LBJ foolishly listens to war cries concerning domino effect and tragically involves America in Nam
LBJ advances civil rights and extended welfare so all Americans can have a little of the pie
Voter rights extended to all under Johnson Administration
Like FDR, Lyndon Baines Johnson moves America a bit closer to fairness and equality
LBJ creates the second great American accomplishment for seniors Medicare
Anti-war demonstrations change attitudes and diminish LBJ social achievements
Nixon has secret plan for ending Vietnam but paranoid personality ruins administration
Nixon opens up trade to China and negotiates with Mother Russia
Internet begins with DOD project to protect communications against Armageddon
Nixon's fear of loss and his administration misfits create Watergate
Fearing impeachment Nixon resigns, Ford takes helm
Carter elected, religion enters politics
Carter inherits stagflation economy from Nixon / Ford
Carter supports Afghanistan against Russian occupation, seeds are set for growth of insurgency terrorism
CNN and the start of 24 by 7 news begins
Carter reduces taxes for wealthy and increases military spending
Iranian militants take Americans captive
Oil embargo hurts Carter but efforts at energy policy are forgotten as Reagan wins
Reagan starts the destruction of the middle class in part by making government the problem
Reagan starts destruction of regulatory agencies that eventually lead to the Great Recession of today
Reagan reduces taxes for wealthy - corporations and think tanks gain persuasive powers
Reagan or his administration realize their errors and raise taxes several times, including largest peace time tax
America becomes a debtor nation under Reagan, invades Grenada
Reagan escapes impeachment over Iran Contra
Bush Sr experiences effect of Reagan economic policies, economy collapses, real estate boom crash, S&L scandal, bailouts to rescue nation again after republican policies
G.H.W. Bush loses to William Jefferson Clinton as Republican policies once more fail the nation
Internet commercialization grows as browsers develop and business goes online
Clinton raises taxes, economy recovers aided by millennium and Internet bubble
Clinton buys into financial nonsense, supporting NAFTA, regulatory and welfare reform
Clinton raises minimum wage and job growth continues
Armies of money and power go after Clinton on healthcare proposal, spending publicly and privately millions
Silly DADT policy implemented after republican opposition to more open policy
Clinton moves right and sells out progressive values
Monica and the meaning of 'is' fill the news and blanket real issues
Republicans with nothing else on their agenda investigate and try to impeach Clinton
Millions are spent to remove a democratically elected president
Gore wins popular vote, republicans fight Florida recount
Bush-Gore election goes to Bush as SCOTUS has moved from interpreters of law to corporate ideologues
Bush proves himself inept in all ways, but 911 attack creates fear and more war cries
Bush proves himself an incompetent leader who creates massive debt and war deaths
Clinton surplus is squandered on tax relief primarily for the wealthy
'War on Terror' clouds the mind of America creating an atmosphere of fear
Bush, as Reagan did, grows government and creates massive federal debt
Katrina incompetence represents firsthand the failure of republican governance
Loss of regulatory structure starting with Reagan and continuing with Clinton and Bush helps creates housing bubble
Bush invades Iraq based on trumped up propaganda about WMDs and scare tactics
Real estate bubble bursts over poor investments and just plain greed and stupidity on wall street and investment firms
Loss of regulatory structures again leads to economic collapse in America and the world
Great depression fears grow again after eight years of republican governance
National Association of Manufacturers and other corporations today own congress due to need for election monies
Economy collapses under Bush and bailouts are once again required during a republican administration
One in four children in America suffers hunger. Job loss and poverty increase again under republican business governance
Obama wins election for 'change' due to the total failure of Bush and the republicans
Armies of money and power again mount offensive attacking the American values of justice and fairness represented by Obama
Election loss creates powerful forces against change of status quo
Outsourcing automation and downsizing negatively affect job growth in America
Big money conservatives again fight against the workings of democracy
Republican judicial appointees mount war against voter rights and democratic government
Obama's help of GM is a financial and job saving success
Republican presidents have worst job record with the Bushs as the worst of the lot
Tea party forms supported by big money and rigid ideology
The corporatist SCOTUS decides corporations are really people
Obama attempts at bipartisanship and compromise prove impossible
Market up under Obama (30% at time of writing)
Stimulus for America helps but republicans fight against American values of sharing the pie
Obama passes Healthcare policy, keeps campaign promises on wars
America is too scared to live up to its principles of a fair trial and creates military tribunals
DADT is finally removed but Obama shows no guts as billions are squandered on Bush's tax policy that failed completely
Job numbers improve greatly from Bush but European fears and globalism affect markets
Big money fights healthcare and think tank rhetoric distorts potential cost savings
Wall street fights hard to maintain its wild west greed mentality
Mid term elections prove once again America's workers and working class don't vote in sufficient numbers
Republicans block all job bills and block Obama's nominations for public office
Obama's Libyan policy is successful with minor expenditure
Tea party ideologues try to sabotage government on dept ceiling to bring down America's elected president
Bush Jr tax policies still govern America as republicans fight for big oil and big money
Poverty in America increases as republicans fight for the wealthy and the corporations
America's credit rating is downgraded due to intransigence of republicans in congress
Republican presidential candidates kowtow to tea party and Norquist tax pledge
Wages for working Americans have been flat since Reagan with minor jump during Clinton
Election cycle begins again as focus moves back to power rather than governance
Republican governed state houses work to bring back Jim Crow and voter suppression
Republicans cheer loudly for death penalty numbers
Republican election audience demonstrate 'compassionate conservative' was always an oxymoron
Republicans with nothing productive to do try to capsize Obama administration as they did Clinton
Only 12% of Americans think Congress is doing a good job and a majority want their own representatives removed from office
Romney moves into Flip-Flopville and Perry gains strength due to his extreme views and cowboy image
Republicans still mention taxes and regulation as economic panaceas after their proven failure for nearly a hundred years
While republicans often mention freedom they are the least free politicians, ideology prevents working towards solutions
The rigid republican ideology explains their failures when given the reigns of governance
Republicans today only want power back and stand in the way of jobs and rebuilding America
America's political system, and even our court system, has moved away from practical politics that works for the people to a system that works only the politician, big money and corporations
And so it goes....

Recent: Obama's job plan will help unemployment and American states and cities rebuild, just as Roosevelt's did, but republicans again sidetrack real issues with malarkey about spending, taxes, and regulation, proving once again that the love of money is the greatest evil and the average voter has a short memory and pays little attention to results. It would seem that republicans with corporate support are still fighting Franklin Roosevelt's accomplishments and the freedoms given all by Lyndon Baines Johnson? President Obama is finally on the attack, recognizing when politics is only about power and money, and not about America, compromise is impossible.


[If anyone decides to counter this factual history please provide substantive information. Blanket statements will be considered irrelevant. Ad hominem statements are not counterpoints.]

Like anyone with a Brain would even read the History of Republicans, as told by a Raging Liberal and Democrat partisan.

 

[midcan5]

Midcan, I think for many on this board that they have trouble understanding that progressivism historically is a reform process far more than a political ideology. Progressivism has liberal and conservative impulses: Mann Act (Conservative), Prohibition (Conservative), Meat Inspection Act (liberal), FRB act (liberal), and so forth.

Compare TR to WW, and TR comes off far more conserative. Compare TR to Taft, and TR comes off more liberal. But both Taft and Roosevelt considered themselves conservatives and certainly did not like WW's style of progressivism and disliked him personally, probably because he was a southerner. Nothing worse in the world than a liberal progressive democratic southerner to conservatives, particularly those in the South.

While I agree I was going to comment on how words change, how common phrases come and go, how values in America - only place I know well enough to comment - modify and take on new clothing and then I read this on a blog I view regularly. Says it all even though it is education focused.

"British [and American] society has been subject to a deliberate campaign, initiated in free-market think tanks in the 1960s and 1970s and pushed strongly by business leaders and right-wing commentators ever since, to elevate the status of business and commerce and to make ‘contributing to economic growth’ the overriding goal of a whole swathe of social, cultural and intellectual activities which had previously been understood and valued in other terms.
[..]
"The claim that one activity is inherently of greater value or importance than another comes to be pilloried as ‘elitism’. Arguments are downgraded to ‘opinions’: all opinions are equally valuable (or valueless), so the only agreed criterion is what people say they think they want, and the only value with any indefeasible standing is ‘value for money’. Government documents issued in the last 20 years or so are immediately identifiable by the presence of such buzz phrases as ‘it is essential to sustain economic growth and maintain Britain’s global competitiveness,’ ‘consumers must have a choice of services,’ ‘competition will drive up quality’ and so on." Stefan Collini Stefan Collini · From Robbins to McKinsey: The Dismantling of the Universities · LRB 25 August 2011

Like anyone with a Brain would even read the History of Republicans, as told by a Raging Liberal and Democrat partisan.

So why tell us? Everyone has brain, some use it. Take a peek though, you may just short circuit a wingnut neural pathway in your corporate managed mind. Tell us if it goes snap crackle pop.

 

[midcan5]

Republican Ideology the Past One Hundred Years rev 1.01

Republican Ideology through History

[Please check later posts for any updates]

Roaring Twenties, America turned inward after WWI, laissez faire economics prevail
Harding reduces taxes on the wealthy to spur growth
Three consecutive republican administrations, supply side economy, little regulation
Republicans align themselves with big business
Coolidge/Hoover presidencies, a bubble mentality ensues as wall street speculation grows
Bubble bursts, banks collapse, economy collapses
Rigid republican policy prevents creative, workable solutions
Great Depression begins - Hoover ineffective
Hoover a businessman gets advice from the wealthy and National Association of Manufacturers
Hoover does little substantive, eventually fails completely
FDR elected, first 100 days creates job programs
FDR creates strong regulatory structure, starts minimum wage at 25 cents
These are the times of radio and newspapers
FDR creates the greatest single asset for all Americans: Social Security
FDR masterfully fought WWII along with Churchill and Stalin
FDR wins three terms and is ranked by most as the greatest modern period American president
Sixty years of American exceptionalism follow FDR's presidency
Truman ends the savagery of World War II with Japan with the ultimate savagery
Truman uses UN in Korean war effort over fear of communism's spread
Truman extends New Deal and Civil rights
WWII end brings prosperity to America due to GI Bill, home growth, and durable goods growth
High tax rates continue until seventies and eighties
American corporations support the American worker with pensions and healthcare
Eisenhower ignores right wing war mongering republicans, extends civil rights
Warren court hands down ruling on public school segregation
Eisenhower continues progressivism, Vietnam involvement continues from Truman
Eisenhower's grand idea and job's program, the Interstate highway begins
Eisenhower commits to helping South Vietnam
The 'Cold War' clouds the mind of America creating an atmosphere of fear and distrust
Nixon loses to Kennedy in first TV election
Kennedy buys into ridiculous Bay of Pigs plan from Eisenhower administration
America's youth gain power prestige and purchasing power
Advertising, aka propaganda, grows as TV replaces radio
Kennedy reduces taxes for wealthy
Battle for space with Russia consumes America's resources
Blacks decide waiting any longer for equality is too long
Rosa Parks, among others, and Martin Luther King motivate a freedom movement long pass due
Camelot ends in Dallas
LBJ foolishly listens to war cries concerning domino effect and tragically involves America in Nam
LBJ advances civil rights and extended welfare so all Americans can have a little of the pie
Voter rights extended to all under Johnson Administration
Like FDR, Lyndon Baines Johnson moves America a bit closer to fairness and equality
LBJ creates the second great American accomplishment for seniors Medicare
Anti-war demonstrations change attitudes and diminish LBJ social achievements
Nixon has secret plan for ending Vietnam but paranoid personality ruins administration
Nixon opens up trade to China and negotiates with Mother Russia
Internet begins with DOD project to protect communications against Armageddon
Nixon's fear of loss and his administration misfits create Watergate
Fearing impeachment Nixon resigns, Ford takes helm
Watergate changes campaign financing regulations
Carter elected, religion enters politics
Carter inherits stagflation economy from Nixon / Ford
Carter supports Afghanistan against Russian occupation, seeds are set for growth of insurgency terrorism
CNN and the start of 24 by 7 news begins
Carter reduces taxes for wealthy and increases military spending
Iranian militants take Americans captive
Oil embargo hurts Carter but efforts at energy policy are forgotten as Reagan wins
Reagan starts the destruction of the middle class in part by making government the problem
Reagan starts destruction of regulatory agencies that eventually lead to the Great Recession of today
Reagan reduces taxes for wealthy - corporations and think tanks gain persuasive powers
Reagan or his administration realize their errors and raise taxes several times, including largest peace time tax
America becomes a debtor nation under Reagan, invades Grenada
Reagan escapes impeachment over Iran Contra
Bush Sr experiences effect of Reagan economic policies, economy collapses, real estate boom crash, S&L scandal, bailouts to rescue nation again after republican policies
Enron scandal exemplifies corporate fraud and the need for better regulatory structure
Russian communism collapses from age and the disease all oligarchies face
G.H.W. Bush loses to William Jefferson Clinton as Republican policies once more fail the nation
Internet commercialization grows as browsers develop and business goes online
Clinton raises taxes, economy recovers aided by millennium and Internet bubble
Clinton buys into financial nonsense, supporting NAFTA, regulatory and welfare reform
Clinton raises minimum wage and job growth continues
Armies of money and power go after Clinton on healthcare proposal, spending publicly and privately millions
Silly DADT policy implemented after republican opposition to more open policy
Clinton moves right and sells out progressive values
Monica and the meaning of 'is' fill the news and blanket real issues
Republicans with nothing else on their agenda investigate and try to impeach Clinton
Millions are spent to remove a democratically elected president
Gore wins popular vote, republicans fight Florida recount
Bush-Gore election goes to Bush as SCOTUS has moved from interpreters of law to corporate ideologues
Bush proves himself inept in all ways, but 911 attack creates fear and more war cries
Bush proves himself an incompetent leader who creates massive debt and war deaths
Clinton surplus is squandered on tax relief primarily for the wealthy
'War on Terror' clouds the mind of America creating an atmosphere of fear
Bush, as Reagan did, grows government and creates massive federal debt
Katrina incompetence represents firsthand the failure of republican governance
Loss of regulatory structure starting with Reagan and continuing with Clinton and Bush helps creates housing bubble
Bush invades Iraq based on trumped up propaganda about WMDs and scare tactics
Real estate bubble bursts over poor investments and just plain greed and stupidity on wall street and investment firms
Loss of regulatory structures again leads to economic collapse in America and the world
Great depression fears grow again after eight years of republican governance
National Association of Manufacturers and other corporations today own congress due to need for election monies
Economy collapses under Bush and bailouts are once again required during a republican administration
One in four children in America suffers hunger. Job loss and poverty increase again under republican business governance
Obama wins election for 'change' due to the total failure of Bush and the republicans
Armies of money and power again mount offensive attacking the American values of justice and fairness represented by Obama
Election loss creates powerful forces against change of status quo
Outsourcing automation and downsizing negatively affect job growth in America
Big money conservatives again fight against the workings of democracy
Republican judicial appointees mount war against voter rights and democratic government
Obama's help of GM is a financial and job saving success
Republican presidents have worst job record with the Bushs as the worst of the lot
Tea party forms supported by big money and rigid ideology
The corporatist SCOTUS decides corporations are really people
A grassroots movement in Egypt removes a corrupt administration from power
Obama attempts at bipartisanship and compromise prove impossible
Market up under Obama (30% at time of writing)
Stimulus for America helps but republicans fight against American values of sharing the pie
Obama passes Healthcare policy, keeps campaign promises on wars
America is too scared to live up to its principles of a fair trial and creates military tribunals
DADT is finally removed but Obama shows no guts as billions are squandered on Bush's tax policy that failed completely
Job numbers improve greatly from Bush but European fears and globalism affect markets
Big money fights healthcare and think tank rhetoric distorts potential cost savings
Wall street fights hard to maintain its wild west greed mentality
Mid term elections prove once again America's workers and working class don't vote in sufficient numbers
Republicans block all job bills and block Obama's nominations for public office
Obama's Libyan policy is successful with minor expenditure
Tea party ideologues try to sabotage government on debt ceiling to bring down America's elected president
Bush Jr tax policies still govern America as republicans fight for big oil and big money
Poverty in America increases as republicans fight for the wealthy and the corporations
America's credit rating is downgraded due to intransigence of republicans in congress
Republican presidential candidates kowtow to tea party and Norquist tax pledge
Wages for working Americans have been flat since Reagan with minor jump during Clinton
Election cycle begins again as focus moves back to power rather than governance
Republican governed state houses work to bring back Jim Crow and voter suppression
Republicans cheer loudly for death penalty numbers
Republican debate audience demonstrate 'compassionate conservative' was always an oxymoron
Republicans with nothing productive to do try to capsize Obama administration as they did Clinton
Only 12% of Americans think Congress is doing a good job and a majority want their own representatives removed from office
Romney moves into Flip-Flopville and Perry gains strength due to his extreme views and cowboy image
Republicans still mention taxes and regulation as economic panaceas after their proven failure
Wall Street occupation begins, outcome unknown
While republicans often mention freedom they are the least free politicians, ideology prevents working towards solutions
The rigid republican ideology explains their failures when given the reigns of governance
Republicans today only want power back and stand in the way of jobs and rebuilding America
America's political system, and even our court system, has moved away from practical politics that works for the people to a system that works only the politician, big money and corporations
And so it goes....

Recent: Obama's job plan will help unemployment and American states and cities rebuild, just as Roosevelt's did, but republicans again sidetrack real issues with malarkey about spending, taxes, and regulation, proving once again that the love of money is the greatest evil and the average voter has a short memory and pays little attention to results. It would seem that republicans with corporate support are still fighting Franklin Roosevelt's accomplishments and the freedoms given all by Lyndon Baines Johnson? President Obama is finally on the attack, recognizing when politics is only about power and money, and not about America, compromise is impossible.


[If anyone decides to counter this factual history please provide substantive information as evidence. Blanket statements will be considered irrelevant. Ad hominem statements are not counterpoints.]

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Republican Ideology the Past One Hundred Years rev 1.01

Republican Ideology through History

[Please check later posts for any updates]

Roaring Twenties, America turned inward after WWI, laissez faire economics prevail
Harding reduces taxes on the wealthy to spur growth
Three consecutive republican administrations, supply side economy, little regulation
Republicans align themselves with big business
Coolidge/Hoover presidencies, a bubble mentality ensues as wall street speculation grows
Bubble bursts, banks collapse, economy collapses
Rigid republican policy prevents creative, workable solutions
Great Depression begins - Hoover ineffective
Hoover a businessman gets advice from the wealthy and National Association of Manufacturers
Hoover does little substantive, eventually fails completely
FDR elected, first 100 days creates job programs
FDR creates strong regulatory structure, starts minimum wage at 25 cents
These are the times of radio and newspapers
FDR creates the greatest single asset for all Americans: Social Security
FDR masterfully fought WWII along with Churchill and Stalin
FDR wins three terms and is ranked by most as the greatest modern period American president
Sixty years of American exceptionalism follow FDR's presidency
Truman ends the savagery of World War II with Japan with the ultimate savagery
Truman uses UN in Korean war effort over fear of communism's spread
Truman extends New Deal and Civil rights
WWII end brings prosperity to America due to GI Bill, home growth, and durable goods growth
High tax rates continue until seventies and eighties
American corporations support the American worker with pensions and healthcare
Eisenhower ignores right wing war mongering republicans, extends civil rights
Warren court hands down ruling on public school segregation
Eisenhower continues progressivism, Vietnam involvement continues from Truman
Eisenhower's grand idea and job's program, the Interstate highway begins
Eisenhower commits to helping South Vietnam
The 'Cold War' clouds the mind of America creating an atmosphere of fear and distrust
Nixon loses to Kennedy in first TV election
Kennedy buys into ridiculous Bay of Pigs plan from Eisenhower administration
America's youth gain power prestige and purchasing power
Advertising, aka propaganda, grows as TV replaces radio
Kennedy reduces taxes for wealthy
Battle for space with Russia consumes America's resources
Blacks decide waiting any longer for equality is too long
Rosa Parks, among others, and Martin Luther King motivate a freedom movement long pass due
Camelot ends in Dallas
LBJ foolishly listens to war cries concerning domino effect and tragically involves America in Nam
LBJ advances civil rights and extended welfare so all Americans can have a little of the pie
Voter rights extended to all under Johnson Administration
Like FDR, Lyndon Baines Johnson moves America a bit closer to fairness and equality
LBJ creates the second great American accomplishment for seniors Medicare
Anti-war demonstrations change attitudes and diminish LBJ social achievements
Nixon has secret plan for ending Vietnam but paranoid personality ruins administration
Nixon opens up trade to China and negotiates with Mother Russia
Internet begins with DOD project to protect communications against Armageddon
Nixon's fear of loss and his administration misfits create Watergate
Fearing impeachment Nixon resigns, Ford takes helm
Watergate changes campaign financing regulations
Carter elected, religion enters politics
Carter inherits stagflation economy from Nixon / Ford
Carter supports Afghanistan against Russian occupation, seeds are set for growth of insurgency terrorism
CNN and the start of 24 by 7 news begins
Carter reduces taxes for wealthy and increases military spending
Iranian militants take Americans captive
Oil embargo hurts Carter but efforts at energy policy are forgotten as Reagan wins
Reagan starts the destruction of the middle class in part by making government the problem
Reagan starts destruction of regulatory agencies that eventually lead to the Great Recession of today
Reagan reduces taxes for wealthy - corporations and think tanks gain persuasive powers
Reagan or his administration realize their errors and raise taxes several times, including largest peace time tax
America becomes a debtor nation under Reagan, invades Grenada
Reagan escapes impeachment over Iran Contra
Bush Sr experiences effect of Reagan economic policies, economy collapses, real estate boom crash, S&L scandal, bailouts to rescue nation again after republican policies
Enron scandal exemplifies corporate fraud and the need for better regulatory structure
Russian communism collapses from age and the disease all oligarchies face
G.H.W. Bush loses to William Jefferson Clinton as Republican policies once more fail the nation
Internet commercialization grows as browsers develop and business goes online
Clinton raises taxes, economy recovers aided by millennium and Internet bubble
Clinton buys into financial nonsense, supporting NAFTA, regulatory and welfare reform
Clinton raises minimum wage and job growth continues
Armies of money and power go after Clinton on healthcare proposal, spending publicly and privately millions
Silly DADT policy implemented after republican opposition to more open policy
Clinton moves right and sells out progressive values
Monica and the meaning of 'is' fill the news and blanket real issues
Republicans with nothing else on their agenda investigate and try to impeach Clinton
Millions are spent to remove a democratically elected president
Gore wins popular vote, republicans fight Florida recount
Bush-Gore election goes to Bush as SCOTUS has moved from interpreters of law to corporate ideologues
Bush proves himself inept in all ways, but 911 attack creates fear and more war cries
Bush proves himself an incompetent leader who creates massive debt and war deaths
Clinton surplus is squandered on tax relief primarily for the wealthy
'War on Terror' clouds the mind of America creating an atmosphere of fear
Bush, as Reagan did, grows government and creates massive federal debt
Katrina incompetence represents firsthand the failure of republican governance
Loss of regulatory structure starting with Reagan and continuing with Clinton and Bush helps creates housing bubble
Bush invades Iraq based on trumped up propaganda about WMDs and scare tactics
Real estate bubble bursts over poor investments and just plain greed and stupidity on wall street and investment firms
Loss of regulatory structures again leads to economic collapse in America and the world
Great depression fears grow again after eight years of republican governance
National Association of Manufacturers and other corporations today own congress due to need for election monies
Economy collapses under Bush and bailouts are once again required during a republican administration
One in four children in America suffers hunger. Job loss and poverty increase again under republican business governance
Obama wins election for 'change' due to the total failure of Bush and the republicans
Armies of money and power again mount offensive attacking the American values of justice and fairness represented by Obama
Election loss creates powerful forces against change of status quo
Outsourcing automation and downsizing negatively affect job growth in America
Big money conservatives again fight against the workings of democracy
Republican judicial appointees mount war against voter rights and democratic government
Obama's help of GM is a financial and job saving success
Republican presidents have worst job record with the Bushs as the worst of the lot
Tea party forms supported by big money and rigid ideology
The corporatist SCOTUS decides corporations are really people
A grassroots movement in Egypt removes a corrupt administration from power
Obama attempts at bipartisanship and compromise prove impossible
Market up under Obama (30% at time of writing)
Stimulus for America helps but republicans fight against American values of sharing the pie
Obama passes Healthcare policy, keeps campaign promises on wars
America is too scared to live up to its principles of a fair trial and creates military tribunals
DADT is finally removed but Obama shows no guts as billions are squandered on Bush's tax policy that failed completely
Job numbers improve greatly from Bush but European fears and globalism affect markets
Big money fights healthcare and think tank rhetoric distorts potential cost savings
Wall street fights hard to maintain its wild west greed mentality
Mid term elections prove once again America's workers and working class don't vote in sufficient numbers
Republicans block all job bills and block Obama's nominations for public office
Obama's Libyan policy is successful with minor expenditure
Tea party ideologues try to sabotage government on debt ceiling to bring down America's elected president
Bush Jr tax policies still govern America as republicans fight for big oil and big money
Poverty in America increases as republicans fight for the wealthy and the corporations
America's credit rating is downgraded due to intransigence of republicans in congress
Republican presidential candidates kowtow to tea party and Norquist tax pledge
Wages for working Americans have been flat since Reagan with minor jump during Clinton
Election cycle begins again as focus moves back to power rather than governance
Republican governed state houses work to bring back Jim Crow and voter suppression
Republicans cheer loudly for death penalty numbers
Republican debate audience demonstrate 'compassionate conservative' was always an oxymoron
Republicans with nothing productive to do try to capsize Obama administration as they did Clinton
Only 12% of Americans think Congress is doing a good job and a majority want their own representatives removed from office
Romney moves into Flip-Flopville and Perry gains strength due to his extreme views and cowboy image
Republicans still mention taxes and regulation as economic panaceas after their proven failure
Wall Street occupation begins, outcome unknown
While republicans often mention freedom they are the least free politicians, ideology prevents working towards solutions
The rigid republican ideology explains their failures when given the reigns of governance
Republicans today only want power back and stand in the way of jobs and rebuilding America
America's political system, and even our court system, has moved away from practical politics that works for the people to a system that works only the politician, big money and corporations
And so it goes....

Recent: Obama's job plan will help unemployment and American states and cities rebuild, just as Roosevelt's did, but republicans again sidetrack real issues with malarkey about spending, taxes, and regulation, proving once again that the love of money is the greatest evil and the average voter has a short memory and pays little attention to results. It would seem that republicans with corporate support are still fighting Franklin Roosevelt's accomplishments and the freedoms given all by Lyndon Baines Johnson? President Obama is finally on the attack, recognizing when politics is only about power and money, and not about America, compromise is impossible.


[If anyone decides to counter this factual history please provide substantive information as evidence. Blanket statements will be considered irrelevant. Ad hominem statements are not counterpoints.]

Still trying to dictate how people respond to your idiocy? I see you improved the first thing on your list after I proved it was completely idiotic, Interesting how you still blame Republicans even though the policies actually did what they claimed they would. Perhaps if Roosevelt had actually followed the sensible advice he got instead of trying to regulate and tax us back into prosperity we would not be in the mess we are now. Don't worry, I know Roosevelt's decisions were actually the result of a vast Republican controlled conspiracy, so I will play along with you.

We will skip to the next absurdity on your list. Please explain how Carter's election caused religion to enter politics. Did you sleep through 5th grade history again when they talked about Kennedy being Catholic and how the debate centered around his religious beliefs? I can easily site other examples of religion in politics dating all the way back to Washington if you want.

 

[midcan5]

...We will skip to the next absurdity on your list. Please explain how Carter's election caused religion to enter politics. Did you sleep through 5th grade history again when they talked about Kennedy being Catholic and how the debate centered around his religious beliefs? I can easily site other examples of religion in politics dating all the way back to Washington if you want.

Carter was an evangelical and won much of the normally conservative vote, this was noticed by Rove who realized its potential going forward. Coincidentally the minister in the 'cult' controversy mentioned Carter just this evening on Hardball and how they made a mistake voting for an evangelical. This is history and Rove has written about it. While you can quibble over aspects of my brief outline, the overall history is accurate. I erred in noting one historian's take on the twenties although I still feel he had a point. Next?

PS Hardball is repeated at 7PM, so you can learn then a bit of history.

 

[midcan5]

Si modo, this is my second name calling rep in two days, the least you could do is counter my position, calling me a moron makes you kinda childish and stupid, don't you think? Prove me wrong. You can't, so you name call like a five year old.

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Si modo, this is my second name calling rep in two days, the least you could do is counter my position, calling me a moron makes you kinda childish and stupid, don't you think? Prove me wrong. You can't, so you name call like a five year old.

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Damn, you deliver!

 

[Quantum Windbag]

...We will skip to the next absurdity on your list. Please explain how Carter's election caused religion to enter politics. Did you sleep through 5th grade history again when they talked about Kennedy being Catholic and how the debate centered around his religious beliefs? I can easily site other examples of religion in politics dating all the way back to Washington if you want.

Carter was an evangelical and won much of the normally conservative vote, this was noticed by Rove who realized its potential going forward. Coincidentally the minister in the 'cult' controversy mentioned Carter just this evening on Hardball and how they made a mistake voting for an evangelical. This is history and Rove has written about it. While you can quibble over aspects of my brief outline, the overall history is accurate. I erred in noting one historian's take on the twenties although I still feel he had a point. Next?

PS Hardball is repeated at 7PM, so you can learn then a bit of history.

Unlike you, I get my history from books, not political pundits. Your claim was that religion entered politics with Carter's election. It didn't.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The growing power of the Religious Right entered the first Reagan race noticeably as he beat Carter.

QWB, don't talk about what you don't know. You sound as stupid as simodo.