Henry Ford, the automaker, a Democrat?

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Arbuckle Doc

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The other day, someone told me, that Henry Ford, the automaker, was a Democrat! ~ I find this SO hard to believe. ~ Everything I know of him seems to indicate, that he was a Republican. ~ Can anyone find out the TRUTH of the matter, and post it here?
 
It doesn't matter...the parties switched their positions and views over the years, going back and forth. At one point, Dems even called for segregation, but again, it was a different time for a party made up of different people.
 
President Woodrow Wilson asked Ford to run as a Democrat for the United States Senate from Michigan in 1918. Although the nation was at war, Ford ran as a peace candidate and a strong supporter of the proposed League of Nations.[14]
 
Henry Ford raised the wages he paid his workers so they could afford to buy his car.

That is democrat, not republican who would act like Scrooge instead.

here is a conservativesite to prove this:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Henry_Ford

Like a a lazy republican you could have used the "Do a little research:" on this site and found many links to prove this.
 
He was the first major businessman that insisted on paying his workers a good wage. Top dollar at the time. You might call this a "living wage."

He rightly figured that if American workers couldn't buy his cars, his sales could not grow beyond a certain level.
 
If the Democrats of 50 years ago were to see how they've become liberal progressives, they would roll over in their graves and want to haunt any Democrat's nightmares until the Democrats come back to their senses.

Henry Ford may have wanted a President like FDR....
President Franklin D. Roosevelt: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

President Barack H. Obama: 'Do what I want, or the economy will melt, and you'll all die poor and alone.'

Roosevelt knew panic would only make the problem worse, so while he was honest about the state of the economy, he deliberately tempered his rhetoric. The contrast couldn't be clearer. Roosevelt was deliberate in his attempts to calm. Obama is deliberate in his attempts to induce panic.

In many ways, Obama is like Syndrome from "The Incredibles." The villain deliberately creates a giant machine designed to attack a city and create panic so he can swoop in to play the part of the hero. He's designed the machine to respond to his commands, so he can 'destroy' it. Unfortunately for him (and the city) his plan goes awry and he can't control the destruction he unleashed.
 
Looking at party back then is not really constructive, because of the civil rights era realignment. It is better to look at ideology. He was an isolationist and hated Jews. Definitely a right-winger.
 
You are mistaking the two sides - they are not Republican and Democrat. The two sides have always been entrenched Conservatives and progressive Liberals. or, States Rights and Small Federal Govt vs. a Strong Federal Govt. During the Civil Rights movement the Republican Party was comprised of progressives. I remember growing up in the South when conventional wisdom was that a Republican vote was a wasted vote. After the civil rights movement, Southern Democrats abandoned their party, not because the Republican's were so great, but to vote for Conservative candidates.

A Republican in Henry Ford's time would have been anti-big-business, anti-trust, anti-monopoly, pro-regulation.
 
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