The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(02-05-2020, 03:23 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: No, we had legal segregation and women largely reserved to the sole role of bearing and raising children and an economic system largely controlled by a group of American industrialists, Democratic politicians and labor unions.

You have it mostly backwards.  The Republicans have always been the party of the elite, of the robber barons.  Back in the progressive era, the unions were at their peak, and there was enough lack of labor that the corporations had to offer significant benefits.  In the conservative era, jobs were sent abroad, automation cut jobs, union laws were weakened, and benefits were eliminated by a lot of jobs being made part time.  All this was done mostly by conservatives working through the Republican Party for the advantage of the elites and corporations.  This resulted among other things in the tremendous division of wealth.