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In reply to the discussion: Is FDR Dead... In The Current Democratic Party... Because if It Is... [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)You are positioning him currently sort of a "tween" between what Clinton and Obama Proposed as Candidates and how they Governed.
Yet,WHY did the RW spend DECADES co-opting Both Parties to Undo his most Progressive Legislation where he did more to put in Safe Guards against Wall Street Raping Investors and the Public and did Public Works (putting men and women to work building roads, bridges and environmentally sound Projects) along with employing thousands to Catalog America's History to put the Liberal Arts folks to WORK...which is responsible for much of our Catalogof "American History" in Libraries for Research to this day.
There is More...that's different from what you are focusing on (which is to focus on the "flawed Man/President..They All Do the Compromise MEME"
to try to make him into the Compromising Clinton & Obama that I'd like to get into.
But....later...because I've got "TG Family" coming in so I've got to get out of here. We should try to reveal what a complicated man Roosevelt was. But, it was the legislation he passed that got the RW's "Knickers in Knot" where they worked for decades to undo his "New Deal Legislation"....that I'm focused on. And that's the legislation that he is KNOWN FOR.
"Happy TG" to you.....I'll check back and pick it up...later on.