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Bernie Sanders

liberalnarb

(4,532 posts) Sat Dec 26, 2015, 01:54 AM Dec 2015

FDR- The Test Of Our Progress.

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FDR- The Test Of Our Progress. (Original Post) liberalnarb Dec 2015 OP

This FDR guy... He sounds like a saltpoint Dec 2015 #1

Major Bingo Populist_Prole Dec 2015 #2

Apparently the sentiments of FDR are no longer applicable today. Enthusiast Dec 2015 #3

Remember when Democratic Leadership talked like that? Now they claim that the guy who ... Scuba Dec 2015 #4

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)

1. This FDR guy... He sounds like a

Reply to liberalnarb (Original post)

Sat Dec 26, 2015, 02:32 AM

Dec 2015

dangerous socialist to me.

There is an interesting piece on the Salon page:

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/25/no_depression_in_heaven_the_south_race_religion_and_fdr/

--discussing the New Deal understood in part as a power struggle between the Southern churches (to whom people might be expected to turn in times of crisis, such as The Depression) and FDR, whose New Deal suggested that government ("of, by, and for the people&quot be the source of support.

It's instructive against the contemporary GOP refrain about shrinking government, gutting of social support systems, etc.