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.
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!
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)!
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
A real ‘disease vector’…patient zero for the dissolution of the wonky barely held together society we had til then,
And a direct line to modern christofacism.
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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.
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.
And a direct line to modern christofacism.