These buttons are from my personal collection. Note the gear/cog theme -- no doubt an appeal to organized labor of the machinist sort. These buttons came from Wisconsin where there was a large contingency of unionized machinist labor at the time. The gear/cog seems so anachronistic these days. The sort of labor that the Democratic Party is appealing to nowadays is mostly non-union and mostly not even legal if recent statements by all of their candidates are to be believed. I can't think of any major partisan constituency that would connect with the cog-in-the-machine graphics. Can you? ;)
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They're not after the mechanically inclined. The 3 gear one can't turn.
As I saw '16 as a rerun of '68, so I've been thinking of '20 doing the same for '72.
Recently, though, I've been wondering if a rerun of '84 is possible. It's getting that silly.
rhhardin said...They're not after the mechanically inclined. The 3 gear one can't turn.
Good point! The McGovern candidacy was a missmesh of ideas.
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