“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower 1945

The image is a black and white photo of a large pile of human skulls and bones in front of a barbed-wire fence.

  • protist
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    19 days ago

    After the Civil Rights Act was signed by LBJ, there was a massive party realignment, and the Republican Party of Eisenhower’s time died

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      19 days ago

      That period was called the liberal consensus, where everyone on both sides was pro new-deal.

      Generally considered America’s golden age, birth of the American dream, all that. That time also had 90% tax rates on the 1% and corporations. You don’t get the golden age without the tax rate, shit has to be paid for somehow.