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In reply to the discussion: I love the new meme: FDR Democrats are hurting the 99% by focusing on Snowden [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)We'd simply like to see our government put enormous primary effort into actually helping people, like FDR did with the New Deal, instead of our government primarily functioning to serve wealthy private interests, like what is happening now with the Raw Deal.
As for FDR's wiretapping, he had Hitler and the Nazis, and a whole lot of other nasty fascists to contend with. Genocidal fascists who were invading other countries and who were intent on establishing a RW authoritarian world.
That's a bit different than the NSA wiretapping Occupy Wall St and everyone else in the world in order to protect the 1% from democracy.
"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. "
-Franklin D. Roosevelt