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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 10 months agobraindeads when a political figure doesn’t fill every box of their rainbow bingo card
Nixon:
Tried to implement UBI in 1968 (later evolved into the Family Assistance Plan, one of the most robust welfare programs in American history)
Prevented a second Cold War front with China
Signed one of the first major federal environmental protection policies (NEPA)
Also established the EPA
Established OSHA in 1970, the first federally enforced set of safety regulations to protect workers against exploitative employers.
As for your quote, here’s another:
No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together.
This means black and white together, as one nation, not two. The laws have caught up with our conscience. What remains is to give life to what is in the law: to ensure at last that as all are born equal in dignity before God, all are born equal in dignity before man.
As we learn to go forward together at home, let us also seek to go forward together with all mankind.
Nixon’s administration saw the largest percentage of black children enrolled in segregated schools in American history. In 1968, 68% of black children in the South were attending all-black schools. By 1974, that number had fallen to 8%.
Conveniently left out that “progressive” Controlled Substances Act that has been so helpful for all those pesky minorities that wouldn’t vote for him.
Compare Nixon to either Democrat that came before or after him.
He wasn’t progressive for his time. The Overton Window has shifted so far to the right, Nixon now appears less than conservative (to some).
Also, shiny prepared statements mean less to me than what someone says behind closed doors to their friends and allies.
“Noooo not my le heckin wholesome druggerinos”
More people were jailed for drug possession under Obama than Nixon. Also, see “rainbow bingo” from my first comment.
Compare Nixon…
Like the war hawk and sexual predator Johnson or Jimmy Carter, whose most notable contributions were installing solar panels on the white house?
Absolutely zero response to my points about lowering poverty, substantial welfare increases, starting the most robust environmental protection movement, or introducing the most radical worker’s rights bill in American history (at the time).
Sounds about right.
he wasn’t progressive for his time. Objectively false.
also shiny…
I don’t disagree but some crude backroom conversations don’t negate the fact that Nixon’s administration oversaw more social desegregation than any other administration at the time.
One of the most progressive presidents of all time.
Hyperbolic nazi.
Like Nixon wasn’t a sexual predator. Like you care about inmates or the wrongly incarcerated. As if you care about minorities.
You put words in my mouth like you breathe and lie.
Nixon was not progressive for anyone’s day. He was the Trump of his day. Why else would Paul Manafort work for both of them?
Did Carter have Henry fucking Kissinger as his advisor and confidant?
Wake up and smell what you shovel.
everyone I don’t like is a nazi
Because I like presidents who accomplish Nazi things like… checks notes… workers’ rights, desegregation, environmental protection, and welfare / poverty assistance, and avoiding a second Cold War front?
Nixon was a conservative man leading a progressive administration and the selected quotes you keep reiterating do not reflect the reality of his accomplishments.
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nixon also pushed the criminalization of weed and heroin so that he could imprison blacks and hippies because they were the largest demographics of the anti war movement and he didn’t want to make it obvious that he was taking political prisoners out of his own citizenry.
So no, he fucking was not progressive. For that and so many other reasons.