If you sat down in 1922 and gazed across the US....asking people about the Democratic Party....they'd say it was mostly for the working man and union folks.
The 1920 Presidential platform? Pro-UN and League of Nations. Very much into selling peace.....to all the vets who returned from the war. They patted themselves on the bank for the banking system....which would halt all panics (nine years later, it proved worthless). They promised to revisit the tax system....promising to fix that equality/fairness problem in taxation.
Lot of talk over women's vote, and covering the welfare of women and children. Increase in national salary for teachers? Yeah, that's mentioned as well. Building a federal highway system (started in 1916).....that is a big mention.
Shifting around blame on the post office system? That gets brought up....apparently, folks thought the system was crapped out in 1920.
Suggestions in the press that they were being manipulated or controlled by the Democratic Party? Total denial.
Flood control? That gets hyped-up.
Three paragraphs of the platform for 1920....goes to Mexico.
Eight paragraphs of the platform chat over Alaska....particularly mentioning oil.
Two paragraphs toward the end of the platform go to blaming Republicans on corruption (especially those evil Senators).
In some ways, if you take out mention of years.....you could print the same platform in 2022, and most people would approve of the goals laid out.
So you start to think about 2020.
It's more of a victim list and trying to explain how the government has failed the general public.
The police are the enemy......there's just never enough 'rights' to resolve LGQTB folks.....Wall Street is corrupt and evil.....censorship is a necessity.....ethnic groups need a special platform to stand on....and there's a terrible mess for people who borrowed $100,000 from the government for a college degree, which will require 20 years to pay off.
For some reason.....pronouns get mentioned a lot.
Taxes? They actually get mentioned a good bit....but the fact that two out of three Americans now pay zero on federal taxes.....there's just not much to reform except making more of the rich pay 'more of their fair share'.
If you go beyond the urbanization areas.....those who do claim some past support of the Democratic Party....are now skeptical. They haven't converted over to the evil Republicans....but they are less likely now than at any point in the past.....to vote a straight Democratic ticket.
For Biden to have won in 2020....it required Covid and the general fear of people being in crowds at the polling stations.
Resolving the economy problems of 2022? Well....virtually every single 'trick' has been pulled out of the bag, and the spiral continues on.
In some ways, if you brought a hundred average Democrats into a square and allowed open discussions.....probably a third of them would suggest that the party can't survive as it is.....thus needing a third party to resolve differences. Republicans feeling the same way? Yeah, that's probably true as well.
Kinda funny....a hundred years pass, and we are more different today, than ever before.
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