foundational figure in modern liberalism, worked to build the Peace Corps and Medicare etc

A sign featuring a wooden pig was hung over the drugstore to tell the public about this unusual service. Farmers got the message, and it was Humphrey’s that became known as the farmer’s drugstore." One biographer noted, “while Hubert Jr. minded the store and stirred the concoctions in the basement, Hubert Sr. went on the road selling ‘Humphrey’s BTV’ (Body Tone Veterinary), a mineral supplement and dewormer for hogs, and ‘Humphrey’s Chest Oil’ and ‘Humphrey’s Sniffles’ for two-legged sufferers.” Humphrey later wrote, “we made ‘Humphrey’s Sniffles’, a substitute for Vick’s Nose Drops. I felt ours were better. Vick’s used mineral oil, which is not absorbent, and we used a vegetable-oil base, which was. I added benzocaine, a local anesthetic, so that even if the sniffles didn’t get better, you felt it less.”

“you felt it less” the original hArM rEdUcTiOnIsT Bidenist radlib

The various “Humphrey cures … worked well enough and constituted an important part of the family income … the farmers that bought the medicines were good customers.” Over time Humphrey’s Drug Store became a profitable enterprise and the family again prospered. While living in Huron, Humphrey regularly attended Huron’s largest Methodist church and became scoutmaster of the church’s Boy Scout Troop 6. He “started basketball games in the church basement … although his scouts had no money for camp in 1931, Hubert found a way in the worst of that summer’s dust-storm grit, grasshoppers, and depression to lead an overnight [outing].”

we totally aren’t building a nightmarish hellzone haha, actually communists are the REAL atheists, not satanic Christoids like us!

Humphrey did not enjoy working as a pharmacist, and his dream remained to earn a doctorate in political science and become a college professor. His unhappiness was manifested in “stomach pains and fainting spells”, though doctors could find nothing wrong with him

“weak PMC constitution”

Humphrey was a liberal leader who fought to uphold Truman’s veto of the McCarran Act of 1950. The bill was designed to suppress the American Communist Party. With a small group of liberals he supported the Kilgore substitute that would allow the president to lock up subversives, without trial, in a time of national emergency. The model was the internment of West Coast Japanese in 1942. The goal was to split the McCarren coalition. For years critics charged that Humphrey supported concentration camps. The ploy failed to stop the new law; the Senate voted 57 to 10 to overturn Truman’s veto. In 1954 he proposed to make membership in the Communist Party a felony. It was another ploy to derail a bill that would hurt labor unions. Humphrey’s proposal did not pass.

“I will always fight Stalinist totalitarianism who are worse than bourgeois dictatorship” woke Liz Warren voting DSA neoliberals continuing his soy legacy, by the way how’s Ukraine’s “liberated free market” doing after anarchists worked with nazis to SMASH THE STATE as they heroically cry?