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Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts) Wed Jul 31, 2019, 01:19 AM Jul 2019

Were FDR's economic policies "too socialist" for anyone here? [View all]

If so, then what motivates you to be a Democrat?

I'm not trying to attack anyone. The more Democrats, the better. However, I think that way because I've long believed that MOST Democrats would like a return to more FDR-type socialist policies and reforms -- for the benefit of every race, gender, etc.

Am I wrong?

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Were FDR's economic policies "too socialist" for anyone here? [View all] Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2019 OP

Yes. Social Security/Medicare makes old people lazy! leftstreet Jul 2019 #1

find a job you like and you can do it forever! rampartc Jul 2019 #2

I like all his programs and also those signed in by LBJ like Medicare. GulfCoast66 Jul 2019 #3

What does socialism mean to you? Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2019 #4

That is not what socialism means. GulfCoast66 Jul 2019 #6

Exactly right +++ comradebillyboy Jul 2019 #7

Great post, Gulf Coast Poiuyt Jul 2019 #11

Sorry I trust Chomsky more than you ChubbyStar Jul 2019 #16

I never asked you to trust me. Hell, you don't even know me! GulfCoast66 Jul 2019 #17

I disagree. Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2019 #23

Precisely JHB Aug 2019 #25

Socialism is not government control of production. flaval Aug 2019 #26

That's a difference with no distinction... GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #27

The National Recovery Administration was terribly anti-competitive Jose Garcia Jul 2019 #5

Some would say that FDR Trumpocalypse Jul 2019 #8

Agree with your first 2 criticism. But not the third. GulfCoast66 Jul 2019 #12

FDR built the military industrial complex Trumpocalypse Aug 2019 #18

Well, he had a global war against Nazis and imperial Japan to win... GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #19

Not saying that Trumpocalypse Aug 2019 #20

And the alternative? Losing the war. GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #21

Not the point Trumpocalypse Aug 2019 #22

FDR's economic policies were probably too racist for most people here Spider Jerusalem Jul 2019 #9

Yeah. True. But he had to have the southern democrats. GulfCoast66 Jul 2019 #13

not for this guy and onethatcares Jul 2019 #10

Without Social Security Retirement we would be in serious financial trouble. trof Jul 2019 #14

FDR saved capitalism Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2019 #15

Ironically, he was excoriated as a corporatist and sell-out by the socialists and populists Recursion Aug 2019 #24

Right. It astounds me that so many on the left push this idea. GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #28

FDR left large swaths of the country's population out of his policies. Blue_true Aug 2019 #29