Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1912
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Me too, but I think that it will happen because American historians and the US government have only made an effort to revise and retell the story of Debs which makes him out to be some bleeding-heart progressive when he was actually a revolutionary socialist. No other socialist leaders have that kind of revisionist history to give them a boost.
What would be their motivation to make Debs look better (if indeed he was that radical)?
This, plus, you can't very well have the first third-party candidate to get a million votes be an evil socialist, let alone if he did it from jail because he was arrested for giving anti-war speeches.
It's not like he has an unprecedented fandom or anything.
You'd think the man conquered Cuba all by himself a-top a unicorn, dressed in nothing but woad and animals he killed and skinned himself.
HeavyWeaponsGuy
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That's not racist at all.
It was meant to be a parody of the way people think about Teddy actually.
People seem to have some sort of funny impression that Teddy was somehow free of horrific atrocities against various peoples, the Moro people of the Philippines being the most prominent example in my mind.
That's...shockingly clear-minded. Sorry, you just did the impression so well I mistook it as real.
One Vote for Democrat Woodrow Wilson! I like his Bourbon Democrat leanings, though he has learned to compromise with the Progressive wing of his party. Fortunately, unlike Bryan, he is not in favor of Prohibition.
Taft is too protectionist, Roosevelt too imperialist, Debs... too socialist. Again, I'm no fan of nationalization at all.
Taft is too protectionist, Roosevelt too imperialist, Debs... too socialist. Again, I'm no fan of nationalization at all.
Good thing that Debs isn't either than.
We want a Workers' Commonwealth, where the workingmen direct their own affairs, not yellow socialism like the Gomperites in the American Separation of Labor.
