The Republican Party is no longer what it was!
A sad commentary.
We've watched the decline, the takeover by extremists, divisiveness, oligarchy, religious zealotry, catering to ignorance, fomenting racism and hatred, promoting endless wars to build EMPIRE at the expense of ALL Americans.
Who would have thought that a Party of such great stature could sink so low?
In 1938, Vermont Gov. George Aiken spoke up on behalf of the farmers and working men who had formed the Republican Party in 1854. Had they known hardships? “Yes,” Aiken said, “misery, poverty, sickness, lack of education, beset by parasites and profiteers, yet they were the strength of America, and the greatness of the nation is ever dependent on such as they.”
But as of 1938, Aiken said, “the Republican Party attracts neither the farmer nor the industrial worker. Why not? To represent the people, one must follow them. Lincoln did. The Republican national leadership today does not. The greatest praise I can give to Lincoln on this, his anniversary, is to say that he would be ashamed of his party’s leadership today.”
It’s hard to imagine a Republican of national stature denouncing his party for being unfair to labor, for being too friendly with Wall Street, for failing to lead. But it happened in 1938.
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