Republican Party Platform of 1956 - What happened?

[rdean]

Republican Party Platforms Republican Party Platform of 1956

We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people.

To these beliefs we commit ourselves as we present this record and declare our goals for the future.

The individual is of supreme importance.

The spirit of our people is the strength of our nation.

America does not prosper unless all Americans prosper.

Government must have a heart as well as a head.

Courage in principle, cooperation in practice make freedom positive.

To stay free, we must stay strong.

Further reductions in taxes with particular consideration for low and middle income families.

Initiation of a sound policy of tax reductions which will encourage small independent businesses to modernize and progress.

Continual study of additional ways to correct inequities in the effect of various taxes.

"Labor is the United States. The men and women, who with their minds, their hearts and hands, create the wealth that is shared in this country—they are America."

The record of performance of the Republican Administration on behalf of our working men and women goes still further. The Federal minimum wage has been raised for more than 2 million workers. Social Security has been extended to an additional 10 million workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2 million. The protection of unemployment insurance has been brought to 4 million additional workers. There have been increased workmen's compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees.

In addition, the Eisenhower Administration has enforced more vigorously and effectively than ever before, the laws which protect the working standards of our people.

Workers have benefited by the progress which has been made in carrying out the programs and principles set forth in the 1952 Republican platform. All workers have gained and unions have grown in strength and responsibility, and have increased their membership by 2 millions.

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What happened to the Republican Party. How did we go for then to the mess of crazies that exist today?

 

[ScienceRocks]

The republican party paved the highways, started nasa, and the epa!

The idiots took over.

 

[1stRambo]

Republican Party Platforms Republican Party Platform of 1956

We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people.

To these beliefs we commit ourselves as we present this record and declare our goals for the future.

The individual is of supreme importance.

The spirit of our people is the strength of our nation.

America does not prosper unless all Americans prosper.

Government must have a heart as well as a head.

Courage in principle, cooperation in practice make freedom positive.

To stay free, we must stay strong.

Further reductions in taxes with particular consideration for low and middle income families.

Initiation of a sound policy of tax reductions which will encourage small independent businesses to modernize and progress.

Continual study of additional ways to correct inequities in the effect of various taxes.

"Labor is the United States. The men and women, who with their minds, their hearts and hands, create the wealth that is shared in this country—they are America."

The record of performance of the Republican Administration on behalf of our working men and women goes still further. The Federal minimum wage has been raised for more than 2 million workers. Social Security has been extended to an additional 10 million workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2 million. The protection of unemployment insurance has been brought to 4 million additional workers. There have been increased workmen's compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees.

In addition, the Eisenhower Administration has enforced more vigorously and effectively than ever before, the laws which protect the working standards of our people.

Workers have benefited by the progress which has been made in carrying out the programs and principles set forth in the 1952 Republican platform. All workers have gained and unions have grown in strength and responsibility, and have increased their membership by 2 millions.

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What happened to the Republican Party. How did we go for then to the mess of crazies that exist today?

Yo, think about all the lazy Democrats sitting out of work? If they would get a job, maybe we could stick to our Platform?

"GTP"

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Republican Party Platform of 1956 - What happened?"

The Faustian bargain the GOP struck with the social right, Christian fundamentalists, and reckless, irresponsible fiscal extremists is what happened – a party once interested in sound, responsible governance became instead a refuge for bigots, racists, religious zealots, libertarian crackpots, TPM loons, and conspiracy theory nitwits hostile to the Constitution, its case law, citizens’ civil rights, and the rule of law.

 

[Jroc]

Republican Party Platforms Republican Party Platform of 1956

We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people.

To these beliefs we commit ourselves as we present this record and declare our goals for the future.

The individual is of supreme importance.

The spirit of our people is the strength of our nation.

America does not prosper unless all Americans prosper.

Government must have a heart as well as a head.

Courage in principle, cooperation in practice make freedom positive.

To stay free, we must stay strong.

Further reductions in taxes with particular consideration for low and middle income families.

Initiation of a sound policy of tax reductions which will encourage small independent businesses to modernize and progress.

Continual study of additional ways to correct inequities in the effect of various taxes.

"Labor is the United States. The men and women, who with their minds, their hearts and hands, create the wealth that is shared in this country—they are America."

The record of performance of the Republican Administration on behalf of our working men and women goes still further. The Federal minimum wage has been raised for more than 2 million workers. Social Security has been extended to an additional 10 million workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2 million. The protection of unemployment insurance has been brought to 4 million additional workers. There have been increased workmen's compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees.

In addition, the Eisenhower Administration has enforced more vigorously and effectively than ever before, the laws which protect the working standards of our people.

Workers have benefited by the progress which has been made in carrying out the programs and principles set forth in the 1952 Republican platform. All workers have gained and unions have grown in strength and responsibility, and have increased their membership by 2 millions.

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What happened to the Republican Party. How did we go for then to the mess of crazies that exist today?

The other idiot Guno started a thread on this already you half wit

Operation Wetback 1954

 

[JoeB131]

I think what happened was the 1960's.

To recap- Eisenhower essentially determined that the pre-FDR GOP was unsustainable. Isolation wasn't an option and neither was removing the regulations that protected consumers and workers. The Country had weathered the storms of Depression and World War and had gotten to that promised land of prosperity.

So there was an odd moment were both parties were pretty much in agreement on how things should work, it just became an argument over whether the guy who won World War II could do a better job than the guy who couldn't fix a hole in his shoe.

Then we rolled into the 1960's, and a lot of things happened- Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, Feminism, Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll. Things that scared that otherwise reasonable Working Class White family that had rejected Nixon in 1960 were ready to embrace him in 1968.

The Democrats took the wrong message from it and totally embraced McGovern and the "Acid, Abortion and Amnesty" wing of its party in 1972. Nixon won 49 states. After Watergate, no one would admit to having voted for him.

The wealthy figured out, however, that it was easier to pander to the fears of white people than to appeal to their hopes. So for most of the 1980's and 1990's, they talked about abortion and gays and crime and "Welfare Queens" and "Willie Horton" and they did okay for a while, until all the people they were targeting realized they actually could put together a majority.

The thing is, if the GOP Stopped talking about the Abortion and the Illegals and the Guns and the Gays, the only thing they'd have to talk about is how you aren't working hard enough to buy Mitt Romney another Dressage Horse. You might start asking questions about why you are sending your kid off to die for the Zionists and the Oil Companies while your job gets outsourced to China.

Quick, let's find some Planned Parenthood Doctor describe how icky abortion is.

 

[Political Junky]

"Republican Party Platform of 1956 - What happened?"

The Faustian bargain the GOP struck with the social right, Christian fundamentalists, and reckless, irresponsible fiscal extremists is what happened – a party once interested in sound, responsible governance became instead a refuge for bigots, racists, religious zealots, libertarian crackpots, TPM loons, and conspiracy theory nitwits hostile to the Constitution, its case law, citizens’ civil rights, and the rule of law.

Goldwater put it this way:
"Goddamn it, John ... the Republicans are selling their soul to win elections ... Mark my word ... if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem." -- Barry Goldwater as told to John Dean

 

[whitehall]

Democrats couldn't sell their soul because they had no freaking soul and still have no soul. It's reasonable to assume that democrats had the same or similar party platform but Stevenson was an academic left wing idiot and nobody trusted him.

 

[whitehall]

America was pretty stable after the 1956 election. What happened to "Camelot" and the great democrat victory of 1960? The first thing JFK had to face was the construction of the Berlin Wall and true to form he went to Germany and gave a great stirring speech that the liberal media drooled over and then he left the new West Germans to fend for themselves with empty promises and went home. Never let a president appoint his own brother as A.G.. Bobby Kennedy's duty was to watch his brother's back and nothing more. Bobby couldn't go after organized crime because the Kennedy clan was knee deep in organized crime so he spent his lonely hours hatching plans to murder the leader of a sovereign country. Castro was no threat to the U.S. until the Kennedy brothers decided to kill him. JFK used the CIA illegally to raise an invasion army and the media knew about it but said nothing. When the invasion army was abandoned at the Bay of Pigs JFK should have been impeached but the media kept silent. The Russians were so amazed at the idiocy of the American president that they moved missiles to Cuba.

 

[Thunderbird]

"Republican Party Platform of 1956 - What happened?"

The Faustian bargain the GOP struck with the social right, Christian fundamentalists, and reckless, irresponsible fiscal extremists is what happened – a party once interested in sound, responsible governance became instead a refuge for bigots, racists, religious zealots, libertarian crackpots, TPM loons, and conspiracy theory nitwits hostile to the Constitution, its case law, citizens’ civil rights, and the rule of law.

So stupid! How many Republicans in 1956 embraced abortion and homosexual activists? How many of today's Republicans oppose the various Civil Rights Acts and the Voting Rights Act that became law in the 1960s?

The real problem is the pro-abortion zealots, the homosexual activist loons, and the Christian-hating nitwits who are desperate to impose their latest decadent fad on the country.

And check out this chart:

 

[whitehall]

It's kind of ironic that today's left wing bigots aren't even aware that they are the bigots. Only a bigot would characterize fundamentalist Christians as "zealots" and only a useful idiot would dream that republicans were racists whien FDR appointed a former KKK member to the supreme court and ample evidence exists that every KKK organization doubled as a democrat party headquarters during the 60's.

 

[Socialist]

Religious nutters, social conservatives..

 

[rdean]

It's kind of ironic that today's left wing bigots aren't even aware that they are the bigots. Only a bigot would characterize fundamentalist Christians as "zealots" and only a useful idiot would dream that republicans were racists whien FDR appointed a former KKK member to the supreme court and ample evidence exists that every KKK organization doubled as a democrat party headquarters during the 60's.

You said: Only a bigot would characterize fundamentalist Christians as "zealots"

noun
1.
an immoderate, fanatical, or extremely zealous adherent to a cause, esp a religious one

If the shoe fits..................

 

[regent]

Another perspective might be the Democratic party is elected to enact some progressive legislation, once passed, the Republican party is elected while the progress is digested. Then the cycle starts again.