So FDR is not good enough for you.

[rusty quoin]

[murielm99]

2. I am not sure where you are going with this.

My son, a millennial, and I had a conversation about this. We both like FDR. We think we are going to need a new FDR, an FDR on steroids, to take care of the current crisis. People will need more help than ever, more jobs than ever, to get our country back on track.

[Alwaysna]

3. Best thing for US after Biden is voted in is to re-instated the fairness doctrine to

knock fox news and Limbaugh off the air.
It won't cure what ails us but it would lessen some of the brainwashing of Republican shit for brains.

[Grokenstein]

4. The first step in a long journey.

Get ALL the lying rightwank trash off the air.
Oh, and maybe make Sean Hannity keep that promise about waterboarding? Nah, that's probably a little too far.

[Soxfan58]

5. 100%

[Lulu KC]

7. +1,000

[Celerity]

9. The Fairness Doctrine never applied to cable, so Fox News would not come under its purview.

It only applies to the public airwaves/spectrum, not private cable.

[whathehell]

10. That said, I'm not sure it could not be made applicable..

I know this thread is from awhile ago, but with the latest mass shooting and ALL the insanity going on, Right Wing media is on my mind..

[Celerity]

11. it can't be applied to private cable/satellite networks, you instantly run into 1st Amendment issues

[whathehell]

12. The First Amendment is not absolute..

and as I said, in concurrence with another poster on another thread. I can't believe some Democratic legal minds can't find a legally valid "exception" to this toxic threat to our democracy and our very lives.

[Celerity]

13. It's not absolute, but it's damn close & will likely be a very key part of the national suicide pact

Same for the 2nd Amendment, the Senate as it is constituted (profoundly imbalanced population-wise), the Electoral College, the filibuster, the SCOTUS (lifetime appointments, ability for the Senate to block one party for years if need be from replacing justices, etc), etc etc.

[whathehell]

14. "The national suicide pact"?

Things don't look good, but I'm passing on that one.

[Celerity]

15. 'National suicide pact' meaning constitutional long wave flaws that will, if not altered and also

(especially) when clung to by one party (ie insist on playing by the rules even whilst they massively damage us. a perfect example being Manchin and Sinema's insistence on refusing to do eve small, targeted filibuster carve outs) even as the other party ignores them and/or uses them to tyrannical ends. These long wave flaws, and the resultant actions/inactions emanating from them will likely lead to the dissolution of the Union of the States.

[Soxfan58]

6. Seeing he died before us boomers were born

I would prefer a living President. But with the courage and instincts of both Roosevelts.

[whathehell]

8. No, we weren't planning on resurrecting him,

but many of our parents were true FDR Democrats and they passed on his values and accomplishments.