@divegeester
You mean the decade where stuff like the murder of Emmmett Till happened because he whistled at a white girl? That kind of culture?
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Sorry, forgot it was a US murder and unlikely to have hit the news shows anywhere else. The gist was a black teenager whistled at a white girl, a crime so egregious it deserved a lynching.
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@spruce112358 saidIn the 1920s, conservatives were in favor of environmental protections and conservation of natural resources.
Liberals lost this battle, but they have won everything else for the last 100 years.
Voting Rights
Minimum Wage
Minority Rights
Organized Labor
Paid Vacations
Child Labor Laws
Social Security
Medicaid/Medicare
5-day Work Week
Anti-Trust Actions
Clean Air
Clean Water
Gay Rights
Gay Marriage
Women Serving in the Military
Abortion Rights
F ...[text shortened]... s are trying in vain to bring back the 1920's, but ... it's not gonna go. People don't want that. 😆
From the Republican party platform, circa 1920... Roosevelt would be laughed out the room by most modern conservatives.
Conservation is a Republican policy. It began with the passage of the Reclamation Act signed by President Roosevelt. The recent passage of the coal, oil and phosphate leasing act by a Republican Congress and the enactment of the waterpower bill fashioned in accordance with the same principle, are consistent landmarks in the development of the conservation of our national resources. We denounce the refusal of the President to sign the waterpower bill, passed after ten years of controversy. The Republican party has taken an especially honorable part in saving our national forests and in the effort to establish a national forest policy. Our most pressing conservation question relates to our forests. We are using our forest resources faster than they are being renewed. The result is to raise unduly the cost of forest products to consumers and especially farmers, who use more than half the lumber produced in America, and in the end to create a timber famine. The Federal Government, the States and private interests must unite in devising means to meet the menace.
@wildgrass saidRoosevelt would be laughed out the room by most modern conservatives.
In the 1920s, conservatives were in favor of environmental protections and conservation of natural resources.
From the Republican party platform, circa 1920... Roosevelt would be laughed out the room by most modern conservatives.Conservation is a Republican policy. It began with the passage of the Reclamation Act signed by President Roosevelt. The recent passage ...[text shortened]... overnment, the States and private interests must unite in devising means to meet the menace.
Yep. Eisenhower would be condemned as 'liberal' by the party today. 😆
HCR says the GOP is actually no longer conservative. They are not 'conserving' anything.
Today's GOP are radicals. They are extremists trying to remake and remodel society into a nostalgic fairy tale that they think existed in the past.
@spruce112358 saidAbout conservatives not liking any change or anything new.
To be 'conservative' means to be opposed to anything new,
@spruce112358 saidThey're actually 'reactionaries'.
Roosevelt would be laughed out the room by most modern conservatives.
Yep. Eisenhower would be condemned as 'liberal' by the party today. 😆
HCR says the GOP is actually no longer conservative. They are not 'conserving' anything.
Today's GOP are radicals. They are extremists trying to remake and remodel society into a nostalgic fairy tale that they think existed in the past.
Extremist reactionaries.
They never have their own ideas. All their ideas are a reaction to good ideas from the left, to 'cancel' them and squash them.
Maybe more on the left should be proud of the 'radical' label. It is what is needed today, obviously.