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Quote from: supsalemgr on July 17, 2018, 05:15:16 AMWe, today, cannot relate to how things were during the great depression. My Dad was a young man and fortunately got a job with Associated press he never left so he was better off than many. However, he was a dedicated democrat until the party abandoned him and he voted for Nixon. My impression listening to him that FDR got credit for helping because of the CCC and many other social programs. So many of this generation did not understand the Japanese got us out of the recession by bombing Pearl Harbor.

I may be resurrecting a pretty old thread, but....

My dad was born in 1926, one of eleven kids in a farming family in extreme southern Ohio. Desperate to get away from home, the kid who had never been outside of Scioto County enlisted in the Navy after his 17th birthday in 1943 and spent the second half of WWII on a Fletcher-class destroyer, cruising the South Pacific and dodging bullets and kamikaze planes launched by little yellow men who wanted to kill him and his shipmates.

FDR was the first president Dad could remember as a child. FDR was still president a week before Dad turned 19, a Seaman First Class sailing on the USS Trathen on the other side of the globe. FDR's selected successor, Harry Truman, kept the FDR flame alive for nearly eight more years, until Dad had re-entered civilian life and established a new home for himself and his family in his beloved Ohio.

My father was as conservative as Ronald Reagan eventually learned to be. While he and Mom weren't in a church, we were raised in what I'd consider to be a Christian home, with what anyone today would call Christian values and teachings. Morally, philosophically, financially, we were conservative.

And we were Democrats. All you had to do was ask Dad; he'd tell you.

I remember one evening during the 1964 election season. I was a nine-year-old kid, seated at our kitchen table at supper time with Mom and Dad and my three younger sisters. There had been a lot of talk at school in those days about the election, and even then it was no secret that the teachers and the administration favored LBJ over the "arch-conservative" Barry Goldwater. (Ever notice that there have never been any "arch-liberals?") Being a fourth-grader, I was anxious to get the lowdown from my life's source of unending wisdom, so I asked him a question...

"Dad, are we Democrats or Republicans?"

As the silence descended over the supper table, my father stared at me as if I had suddenly sprouted a third eye in my forehead.

"Son, we're Democrats," he answered, and from his deadpan face and his tone I knew not to ask that question ever again.

As I grew older, I came to understand that Dad and Mom weren't Democrats in practice or belief. They were Democrats of habit. They had learned early that to be anything else was anathema, even sinful. They were what I came to call "knee-jerk Democrats." They literally didn't know how to not identify as Democrats. They were trained to answer "Democrat" as thoroughly as Pavlov's dogs had been trained to salivate at the sound of a bell.

The Great Depression gave the political Left an opportunity they'd never had before, and even in those days of "primitive" media they made the most of it. The Left's dominance of the media began long before most of us today realize.

Mods, I know this is a fish out of water; feel free to relocate it as you like, as long as you include some context....

I hope I'm not the first to post this one....

Quote from: Solars Toy on December 08, 2021, 04:46:30 PMThis would be Solar....  Toy 

             
Yep, that's me.

I wonder if they laughed when we said we'll exercise our Second Amendment Rights?