Two Republican propaganda cartoons from 1952 . . . . . . (images fixed)

from Vulgar Army, a blog dedicated to analyzing the use of octopuses in political cartoons

Republicans, out of the White House for 20 years and running against the party that had beaten the Depression and the Nazis and contained Communism, ran on an anti-government agenda in 1952. The crises that the Truman administration confronted were cooked up according to this argument. You know, the make-believe threats like the Korean War, the Communist take over of China and Eastern Europe, and a breakdown of the steel industry.



Interestingly, while some Republicans accused Truman of ginning up crises to threaten civil liberties, others like Joe McCarthy & Richard Nixon were gaining popularity by screeching that the administration was ignoring massive Communist penetration of the US government. Intellectual consistency was not then a hallmark of Republican fear-mongering.



I leave it to you to draw any parallels with current Republican scare tactics.

weird, it being a republican propaganda piece.

Today, of course, the sunbelt-bound Republican party likes to demonize unions as anti-American. But back when one fourth of all households were union households and the country wasn't regressing into a second Gilded Age and middle class homes were affordable, Republicans openly sought union votes--or at least tried to avoid openly pissing off union voters.

I imagine in the north and northwest there are still plenty of Republican candidates who insist on having their printed materials carry the union bug, even if they're from the older half of the local parties.

and the Philly area that were exclusively for "Union members and their families." Guy in a hard hat was the presenter of the commercials on TV, can't remember the name of the stores. Philly was a solid union city, had thousands of manufacturing jobe - machinists, millwrights, etc, making a great living. Non Union construction sites needed armed guards to prevent their stuff being destroyed.
Things have really changed - the largest unions in PA now are civil service and government employees, anf healthcare workers.
Back in the '50's we actually used to make stuff here.


mark

The store was JGE appliances ... tag line ... "What's the story Jerry ?" The owner did the ads wearing a hardhat and it gave deals to union members and their families. I do this kind of research on my job so it its second nature.

to union members today, you'd starve.

mark
ADDED: I think JGE was Jerry Greenblatt Enterprises.

Since the drop off of union strength, we've also seen the drop off of civic mindedness and middle class accessibility for the working class. We're drifting back to a Gilded Age today. It's ridiculously short sighted. If you want a strong tax base, so you can reduce taxes, you have to build up the middle class. Republicans just don't get that.

no intention of letting that happen - they think it's socialism.
Actually, a secure working class/middle class has disposable income, can save, invest and/or buy stuff, creating jobs and extending the prosperity.
For some reason the rich hate this idea, even though it would ultimately benefit them, too.

Many GOPers publicly deny the US even has classes.

mark

That's our job.

Signed,
The Republican Party