I'd put it to Eisenhower. He could have run in either party or as an independent, and he would have been elected. The GOP was dying due to their awful response to the Depression. He saw one-party states in Europe and felt that would be bad here. In the USA, when a party dies, a new one arises. - ThreadSky

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anymouse.bsky.social • 520 days ago

I'd put it to Eisenhower.

He could have run in either party or as an independent, and he would have been elected. The GOP was dying due to their awful response to the Depression. He saw one-party states in Europe and felt that would be bad here. In the USA, when a party dies, a new one arises.

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basilkaras.bsky.social•520 days ago

Another good point Anymouse. I was raised by pro-union FDR liberals and that shaped me…my mom & dad donated cash to McGovern in ‘72 when I was like 9…though the party is largely toothless and ineffective, I still have the dream of a ‘great society’ that I was peddled in my youth, despite all!

basilkaras.bsky.social•520 days ago

I forgot to add - parents donated to DNC in MY NAME…I was the only 3rd grader in Pittsburgh waving around his DNC membership card (why yes, I was an odd child, why do you ask? Heh)!

anymouse.bsky.social•520 days ago

My mother as a Navy veteran was of the opinion that military members nor veterans should ever involve themselves in politics (thus the only political information I got was from reading the newspaper as a paperboy). She was really pissed at me when I ran for my village board. /1

anymouse.bsky.social•520 days ago

She came round when then-Illinois US Senator Mark Kirk (R) was outed as stolen valour when running against Tammy Duckworth.

After that, she's all in on voting now. It took her eighty years give-or-take but she figured out standing aside only gets you crap.

basilkaras.bsky.social•520 days ago

Good for her! Better late than never…as the former ‘paper of record’ used to say back when news was news. ‘Democracy dies in the darkness’.

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