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In reply to the discussion: This is what a REAL Democrat sounds like. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)communists and socialists who opposed FDR.
I for one credit FDR with saving capitalism. I do not consider the corporatism we have today to be healthy, creative capitalism.
We have a form of corporatism that cannibalizes what is left of capitalism. Wall Street is still trading with huge, fast computers that mince the money of small investors and regurgitate with the evening champagne dinners of the fat cat hedge-fund managers and cheats in the big houses on Wall Street.
I wonder whether there is a shred of human decency in many of the large corporations we have today. The employees are great. But those at the top and the system they have to survive in regards social justice and the common good as luxuries that our country, our world cannot afford.
Pollute the environment, let the poor starve, profit personally from public education, produce food that makes people sick and does not nourish, produce products that are poorly made of low-quality materials by labor paid near-slave wages. That is the way of corporatism today. And it isn't just in America.
That is not capitalism. That is not the virtue and hard work that a capitalist society is supposed to reward.
That is just cheating. And there is far too much of it. Cheating and corruption. That is what FDR fought. He stood for a capitalism that provided jobs for people and that had the goal of raising the standard of living of everyone -- not just the Koch brothers and their greedy friends.
We need to return to capitalism that has some fair rules so that hard work really does win.