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Mr. Luddite

On 5/4/2017 12:46 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 4 May 2017 05:11:25 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
wrote:

"The last time the court rejected the “private party rights” argument was in 1944 when, despite the Democratic Party’s objections, the court held that the party had to let African-Americans participate in “their” primary. "

Dirty scoundrels back then, and nothing has changed.

1944 was a low point for "democracy" in the democrat party. The
apparatchiks in the party rammed Truman through in spite of the fact
that Wallace (the incumbent) was the popular choice for VP and
ultimately the president. There will always be speculation that if we
had simply presented the terms the Japanese signed in Tokyo Bay in the
spring of 45 they would have signed then. We were still insisting on
them losing the emperor before the bomb.

The reason FDR dumped Wallace for Truman for his forth term was because
Wallace was a known Communist sympathizer, dating back to pre-war years.
The new reputation that communism took on during WWII (because of
Stalin) made Wallace a potential liability.