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In reply to the discussion: FDR Democrats, check in here! [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)...and not many hard facts.
We will never know what would have happened IF FDR hadn't created the NLRB.
Did you know that IF Hitler had waited 2 years before starting WW2,
he would have developed the Me262 jet in quantities great enough to stop the 8th Air Force bombing campaign of Germany,
and IF that had happened, he would have won the war?
Fanciful speculation is fun and entertaining, but not really a valid or useful tool in Politics.
However, I am glad you brought up that bastard from Louisiana, Huey Long.
I frequently use him as an example to refute the common myth perpetrated by Conservative Democrats that we MUST run Conservatives in Red States,
to which I respond, "BULLSHIT".
A Charismatic Populist Democrat like Huey Long,
running on a platform of "Economic Justice for Every American",
and "You've been getting SCREWED by the RICH for 30 years, I'll STOP that"
can WIN in ANY state.
[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center]
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Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]