General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Is FDR Dead... In The Current Democratic Party... Because if It Is... [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)Security? Or having the government involved in every day life such as regulating big business or paving our highways, etc.? Obviously we do not need Glass-Stegall back. We just need to get government out of our lives. Oh, that sounds very much like the rethugs!
Back in the 60s-70s we still had all the laws to prevent another Great Depression in place. After Reagan we started dismantling these laws. Our economy has been unstable ever since and the 1% have been getting more and more of the wealth. But we do not want to be like FDR because we don't need him anymore.
Obviously there were mistakes made - the internment camps. I will not include either the nuclear bomb research or WWII in those mistakes because Nazism is not something that was safe to ignore then or now. As to the bomb - Germany was developing their own program and would have won the war if allowed to continue. I do think dropping the bomb was a mistake but the was Truman.
So yes, unfortunately the FDR Democratic Party has very little power today because we like trickle down better.
God help our kids.