Franklin D. Roosevelt from the elite

[barack the house]

What is their point when they talk about the elite. One of the finest presidents was from the elite. If that is what elite and class brings then why not. I just happens Barack is from our side of the tracks but even if he wern't it would be aoubt his overall character and clearly it is fine and upstanding.

[splat]

1. It's not where you're from, it's who you look down on

[barack the house]

2. To mislead & misguide is 2 look down on as it show no respect for their intelligence or common sense

[splat]

5. Mislead and misguide aren't related to elitism

[underpants]

3. I believe that Washington consider himself quite elite

:shrug:

[barack the house]

4. So if FDR was here today would we ground him down with the word elite or if Al Gore was prez. Nah.

[Selatius]

6. FDR was wealthy, that's true, but he helped the blue collar workers when they needed it most. One...

reason why being "elitist" has become synonymous with bad is partly because wealthy people on Capitol Hill haven't really done much to help the working class in America for the last three decades. The factories still kept getting closed down, and the jobs were still being sent away, and their wages still kept losing ground to inflation, and the pay of their bosses still grew faster than inflation.

If people got pissed at the elitists for a reason, it's because they kept losing to them, and the Repubs took that anger and twisted it into anti-intellectualism and anti-liberalism. The Dems? I don't know where they were.

Today's Dems are timid and pale on economic issues. FDR-era Democrats made their bread and butter on economic issues.

[splat]

7. Agreed: "A chicken in every pot"

[barack the house]

8. In fairness the story I hear is that he was elite but the people pushed the new deal started in NY.

As Zinn has always said change has always come from the people. " we are the one we've been waiting for".

[barack the house]

9. We shouldn't be mad at the elite or the rich just the corruption. Good and bad in all folk.