Paul H. Douglas Quotes
You do not have to be a wastrel to be a liberal.
Paul H. Douglas, 1892-1976, U. S. Senator (Democrat, IL), Motto
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This is an excellent example of the political dirty trick of demonizing the opposition. There are Americans of different political persuasion all over the country. However, Limbaugh takes his opponents and describes them in terms that would be used for sexual predators or would be rapists or robbers. “Hiding in the shadows” and “lurking” are not contexts that we would normally use to describe political activists—especially those as numerous as liberals. Pejorative language can do the demonizing especially if it is repeated over and over again. This was illustrated by Joseph Geobbels the Nazi German propaganda minister who turned the technique into an art form. Ironically, he too in 1933 used the same technique to demonize liberals as well. See {601659}.
Sullivan was the first political ward boss in America. His ward was the Bowery and Lower East Side of New York City. He served on term in Congress and although he could have served as long as he wished, he found it very distasteful and went back to being a New York State Senator and running his ward where he controlled everything that had to do with politics, government services and even crime. His ward consisted of Irish, Italians, Jews and Chinese whose commonality is that there were all poor immigrants of first generation Americans.
Bruce is one of the few American Comedians to so offend the political establishment that he was constantly legally harassed throughout his career. He was actually criminally convicted in New York for obscenity. In 2003 he was posthumously pardoned by the New York Governor, the first posthumous pardon in state history.
Paul Howard Douglas was an American politician and Georgist economist. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois for eighteen years, from 1949 to 1967. During his Senate career, he was a prominent member of the liberal coalition.
