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In reply to the discussion: Is FDR Dead... In The Current Democratic Party... Because if It Is... [View all]RiverLover
(7,830 posts)51. Here's a short snip from a great article that explains why we want FDR progressivism to LIVE
in the Democratic party~
...Undeniably, the Age of Roosevelt and the progressive pursuit of the Four Freedoms can seem a very long time ago. But even now, after so many years of conservative political ascendancy and concerted class war from above more than 30 years of deregulating corporate activity, reducing the taxes of the rich, assailing labor unions, shuttering industries and neglecting the public infrastructure the democratic legacy of that generation continues to nourish us. We all live in the long, long shadow of those men and women, of what they did and what they afforded us. And in the intervening decades, the Four Freedoms and what they encompass have actually broadened. Pick any area of American life. The consequences of that generations commitment to the promise of those freedoms are evident. Moreover, our most volatile political and cultural contests often fall precisely along the fault lines of those freedoms.
All of which renders it all the more remarkable that we do not honor those men and women for their progressive struggles and achievements. That the right and conservative rich continue, as they always have, to work at delaying, containing and rolling back that generations greatest democratic accomplishments is not remarkable. But that liberals and leftists have lost their association with that generation is. How is it that the most celebrated generation in American history is not remembered for its most enduring accomplishment and greatest gift to the nation, the embedding of FDRs Four Freedoms in the very bedrock of American life?...
http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/10/we-need-to-remember-the-fight-for-the-four-freedoms/
All of which renders it all the more remarkable that we do not honor those men and women for their progressive struggles and achievements. That the right and conservative rich continue, as they always have, to work at delaying, containing and rolling back that generations greatest democratic accomplishments is not remarkable. But that liberals and leftists have lost their association with that generation is. How is it that the most celebrated generation in American history is not remembered for its most enduring accomplishment and greatest gift to the nation, the embedding of FDRs Four Freedoms in the very bedrock of American life?...
http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/10/we-need-to-remember-the-fight-for-the-four-freedoms/
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I would love to say no, but the oligarchs have steamrolled over FDR several trillion times.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2014
#1
Reagan trickle down has failed miserably and much of what FDR did is still working. But
jwirr
Nov 2014
#35
they got us by the short and curlies. Too bad they've forgotten what they're supposed to do now
librechik
Nov 2014
#25
Strange, I heard "FDR Democrats" separated from "liberal, socialist Democrats"...
moriah
Nov 2014
#70
James Buchanan is too "extreme" for the Dems--because he took positions, and that rankles the
MisterP
Nov 2014
#9
If the FDR coalition is dead, it's because the "progressive" purists killed it.
baldguy
Nov 2014
#11
Really ??? - We Lost The Congress After We Passed The Voting Rights Act ??? - I Don't Think So...
WillyT
Nov 2014
#37
What do you think LBJ meant when he said, "We have lost the South for a generation?"
wyldwolf
Nov 2014
#64
And We Democrats Started Moving Away From FDR Priciples That Served Us Well, And Are Now...
WillyT
Nov 2014
#75
"Racist southern whites were a key part of the FDR coalition." Erm, not quite.
AverageJoe90
Nov 2014
#58
"FDR let the Dixiecrats 'in to an extent.'" No, they played a major role in the New Deal's passage
wyldwolf
Nov 2014
#74
"No, they played a major role in the New Deal's passage", I'm sorry, but that's a myth......
AverageJoe90
Nov 2014
#80
“government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.” FDR
adirondacker
Nov 2014
#21
You've made your point. One of the greatest Presidents of this country also made
Cleita
Nov 2014
#118
You can sensse his spirit so often in our party. "You have to compromise!" he was fond of saying.
raouldukelives
Nov 2014
#34
I do not think FDR would have been for TPP, the ending of public education or environmental
jwirr
Nov 2014
#43
I have read this post and apparently it is dead. So what the hell do we care what happens to Social
jwirr
Nov 2014
#41
I agree. One of the things I think that could have been done better is talking more about the things
jwirr
Nov 2014
#55
I think it may even be making a difference already. How many of us are spending as much at
jwirr
Nov 2014
#61
Here's a short snip from a great article that explains why we want FDR progressivism to LIVE
RiverLover
Nov 2014
#51
The FDR you're imagining never existed. Just as the Reagan the right imagines never existed
wyldwolf
Nov 2014
#62
Thanks for the links. But NOTHING here negates what he did for us while in office.
RiverLover
Nov 2014
#99
I'm not idolizing him. He came to be a populist slowly. I've read alot. What he DID though in ofc
RiverLover
Nov 2014
#101
Honestly I'd like to see the democratic party go into a more socialist direction. We need to
craigmatic
Nov 2014
#67