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Catherina

(35,568 posts)
Fri Jul 19, 2013, 01:27 PM Jul 2013

Know Dem Party history! "There are those who think in terms of dollars instead of human values" FDR

This is the 1940's version of the "Dean Scream" when candidates with populist support were forced out for corporate trash.


Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of the "Untold History of the United States", discusses the '44 Democratic Convention coup that dumped VP Henry A. Wallace, the man who as President would have opposed the cold war


Untold History: The Coup Against Wallace and What Might Have Been



- The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
Henry A. Wallace

- The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace

- It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Henry A. Wallace

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
Henry A. Wallace

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