Silent Cal was a mixed bag in the "roaring twenties" indeed. But, it is
unquestionable that his and other Republicans and for that matter most
Democrats llaizzez faire and un-regulated fiscal policies led to the Crash
of 19289.
Coolidge was just a "placeholder" between the corrupt Harding and the Hoover
Administration with some wierd shit in between including prohibition which
happened with mostly self-rightious Democrats btw and Republicans of WASP
derivations, and with urban (now called "blue State" types of mostly
Catholic ancestry, like Irish, German and Italians being in the drinking
camp.
Meanwhile and back at the ranch Woodrow Wilson (before Coolidge by some
years was for foreign intervention and in fact was also a not so coleseted
racist and was one who loved to death for example D.W. Griffith's "Birth of
America".
Thus during this time of the twenties the Republicans were still the party
of Lincoln and rightfully so as they stood against the KKK and generally for
civil rights even in the "Jim Crow" era of that day.
Oh, but Silent Cal was a sort of wooden man, again often paridied for this.
He stood for rocked ribbed middle american values of the day as expressed in
newsreals of the time. Very chomical too. I've literally seen them and even
in my youth while wathching "Lil' Rascal " syndications on TV.
The switch for most African-Americans from Republican to Democrat started to
occer for various reasons in those days in spite of the fact that most of
the Democratic Party was then and for decades with "dixie-crats" "Jim Crow.
For one reason was the model of Cooolidge who sought the black vote and who
indeed wasn't racist for his day at least. And for another the Dixi-cratic
south was at its heyday.
The fly in theointment was the Republican Party/KKK alliance in the Midwest
and especially so in Indiana where sex and abuse scandels raged for the
entire decade.
Things were weird then and they are weird now. Things were proto-facists
then, and are now too.
We should learn from history and from nuances.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Jarvis" <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "blind-democracy" <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 1:15 PM
Subject: [blind-democracy] a second look at "silent Cal"
After blowing off old Calvin Coolidge, I took a quick look at his bio,
and found the following mixed policies:
During Coolidge's presidency, the United States experienced the period
of rapid economic growth that characterized the "Roaring Twenties."
With the exception
of favoring tariffs, Coolidge disdained regulation. Some
contemporaries and historians have blamed his laissez-faire ideology
for the Great Depression.
Coolidge was also suspicious of foreign alliances, discouraging
American membership in the League of Nations. Like Harding, Coolidge
refused to recognize
the Soviet Union.
Coolidge spoke out in favor of civil rights. He refused to appoint any
known members of the Ku Klux Klan to office, appointed African
Americans to government
positions and advocated for anti-lynching laws. In 1924, Coolidge
signed the Indian Citizenship Act, granting full citizenship to all
Native Americans
while permitting them to retain tribal land rights.
In the summer of 1927, Coolidge traveled to the Black Hills of South
Dakota. During his vacation, Coolidge issued a short statement
indicating that he
would not seek a second full term as president. The statement read: "I
do not choose to run for President in 1928.”
