What is the “Dem association with labor”? Does anyone really think people believe the Dems are pro-union instead of corporate?
nobody here believes that, but the dems have been running on the legacy of the New Deal, and the Great Society even if they don't do anything like that anymore. Basically these moves were dem attempts to prevent communist revolution by offering a semblance of social democracy. Those semblances of social democracy have been chipped away by neoliberalism and decline.
The Republicans similarly run on the fact that they were the good guys during the civil war era. "Party of Lincoln" bullshit obviously doesn't apply to them anymore but it doesn't mean they're above using that idea for propaganda. Also, just like New Deal was to prevent communist revolution, Emancipation was to prevent secession. Both were quasi-progressive moves that were done cynically for reactionary reasons. Lincoln wasn't abolitionist, and even when he became in favor of emancipation, he wanted it to be limited only to states that had rebelled. That's why loyal slave states got to keep their slaves until after the 13th amendment.
nobody here believes that, but the dems have been running on the legacy of the New Deal, and the Great Society even if they don't do anything like that anymore. Basically these moves were dem attempts to prevent communist revolution by offering a semblance of social democracy. Those semblances of social democracy have been chipped away by neoliberalism and decline.
The Republicans similarly run on the fact that they were the good guys during the civil war era. "Party of Lincoln" bullshit obviously doesn't apply to them anymore but it doesn't mean they're above using that idea for propaganda. Also, just like New Deal was to prevent communist revolution, Emancipation was to prevent secession. Both were quasi-progressive moves that were done cynically for reactionary reasons. Lincoln wasn't abolitionist, and even when he became in favor of emancipation, he wanted it to be limited only to states that had rebelled. That's why loyal slave states got to keep their slaves until after the 13th amendment.