Reply #5: President Wilson was quite anti-labor and was also a budding fascist [View All]

[IndianaGreen]

Wilson also had an Attorney General (Palmer) that would give Ashcroft a run for his money when it came to violation of civil liberties.

All of the following that you mentioned were Socialist ideas (remember where May Day comes from? It was about the 8-hour workday!):

40-hour Work Week(1938) - Roosevelt(D)
Minimum Wage Law(1938) - Roosevelt(D)
Overtime(1938)- Roosevelt(D)
Social Security Act(1935) - Roosevelt(D)
Unemployment Compensation(1935) - Roosevelt(D)

FDR watered them down quite a bit. For example, the Socialist national pension plan became the more modest Social Security.

The minimum wage is a watered down version of the Socialist version which is closer to the current Living Wage (which the Democratic Party has failed to endorse).

The leaders of women's rights were not Democrats, but socialists, anarchists, and communists. Many of them were lesbians.

We have yet to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment:

EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

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Section 1. Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.

Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.

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The Equal Rights Amendment was written in 1921 by suffragist Alice Paul. It has been introduced in Congress every session since 1923. It passed Congress in the above form in 1972, but was not ratified by the necessary thirty-eight states by the July 1982 deadline. It was ratified by thirty-five states.

http://www.now.org/issues/economic/eratext.html