You're probably not in the group I'm referring to, of people who truly seem to believe that the Democrats are more the cause of society's ills than the Republicans
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I mean up until the civil rights movement that was approximately literally true
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @BootlegGirl
Wait you don't think the Great Depression kind of evened that out
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I honestly have no idea, I'm just being pedantic for the fun of it
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @BootlegGirl
The reason everyone turned on the Republican Party is that, race issues aside, they spent a generation as the party of free-market economics and that was all well and good until everything went to shit and they insisted on staying the party of free-market economics
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(I mean it wasn't actually all well and good, but you know how that kind of thing goes It's like the GOP currently talking about how you can't cut people too many checks or they'll lose the taste for hard work, in the middle of a pandemic)
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"Hoovervilles", it wasn't an affectionate name It was a big big thing in the Black community in 1932 with Black people fighting bitterly over whether it was time to cross party lines and vote for FDR because the Republicans no longer deserved any good faith
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Remember me posting about this song ("You're the Top" from Anything Goes, 1934)https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1254937539502211072?s=20 …
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Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affectMy favorite thing in this song btw is explaining the line "I'm the nominee, of the G-O-P/Or 'gop'!/But baby, I'm the bottom, you're the top!" "You see, in the 1930s, it was popularly believed the Republican Party was only for out-of-touch bigots who hated the poor"Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Anyway it feels like a lot of people have a serious 1930s fetish
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Like they really really want FDR to happen again so they think they can reinvent the modern Democrats as the 1930s GOP (plutocrats with the Black vote on lock) and today's GOP as the Democrats (an alliance of segregationists in the South with progressives like FDR in the North)
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The problem is this is total bullshit I mean like you can say what you like about the modern Democratic Party and call Barack Obama the 21st-century Calvin Coolidge all you want, whatever, but you are UTTERLY OUT OF YOUR MIND if you think today's GOP is producing an FDR
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The history of the american democracy is fascinating! I think its fair to say, that they way the parties change their policies is equally important to the way voting demographics change.
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Replying to @DerSchwede_nrm @arthur_affect and
The emergence of new parties on the other hand seem to have no real effect on the nationwide policies. Thus vothing for a third party has no real effect while changing one of the 2 dominant partys can have a larger effect than a landslide win in an election.
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