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shockey80

(4,379 posts) Sun Oct 21, 2018, 12:43 PM Oct 2018

I want the democrats to become the party of FDR once again.

I loved how FDR crushed everything Republican with wit and humor. He was a political genius. FDR gave America a heart for the first time in its history. We started to take care of each other. We used our tax money to take care of each other. Radical!

We stayed that way until Reagan. Since then we have been doing what we did before FDR. So sad, so dumb.

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I want the democrats to become the party of FDR once again. (Original Post) shockey80 Oct 2018 OP

Me too. shanny Oct 2018 #1

But that took a depression and then a World War. You want that? kennetha Oct 2018 #2

You do not need to repeat the depression and WWII to create a culture that has a heart. shockey80 Oct 2018 #3

The collective culture of America is not simply up to progressives. kennetha Oct 2018 #7

YES! whathehell Oct 2018 #4

K & R. FDR 'Fala Speech' :) appalachiablue Oct 2018 #5

Well, there was that internment thing. Mike Rows His Boat Oct 2018 #6

shanny

(6,709 posts)

1. Me too.

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Sun Oct 21, 2018, 12:44 PM

Oct 2018

kennetha

(3,666 posts)

2. But that took a depression and then a World War. You want that?

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Sun Oct 21, 2018, 12:51 PM

Oct 2018

No way you can wave your magic political wand and recreate the democratic coalition of the Roosevelt era in 21st century America. completely different constellation of competing political forces. Way too much water under the bridge.

shockey80

(4,379 posts)

3. You do not need to repeat the depression and WWII to create a culture that has a heart.

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Sun Oct 21, 2018, 12:59 PM

Oct 2018

Stop being so negative. We can have a culture of you are on you own or a culture where we take care of each other. It's our choice.

kennetha

(3,666 posts)

7. The collective culture of America is not simply up to progressives.

Reply to shockey80 (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 21, 2018, 01:42 PM

Oct 2018

The racists, xenophobes, climate change deniers, globalists, fundamentalists get a say too. And I'm afraid it would in fact take a great catastrophe, on a par with World War II and the great Depression to unite a nation as divided and angry and hateful as ours is today. We're actually already facing a crisis even more consequential ... Climate Change ... and we cannot seem to get together and do something about it.

Just being realistic. Politics is not about wish-fulfillment , unfortunately.

whathehell

(29,090 posts)

4. YES!

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Sun Oct 21, 2018, 01:29 PM

Oct 2018

I am totally behind that!

appalachiablue

(41,170 posts)

5. K & R. FDR 'Fala Speech' :)

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Sun Oct 21, 2018, 01:30 PM

Oct 2018

Mike Rows His Boat

(389 posts)

6. Well, there was that internment thing.

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Sun Oct 21, 2018, 01:30 PM

Oct 2018

Aside from that bigoted and fear mongering extremism, rounding up and forcing them into concentration camps and theft of possessions, properties, and businesses from Americans of Japanese descent and Japanese resident aliens - aside from that, FDR is credited for having “saved” capitalism, and for making America great.

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