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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: We need bold, sweeping change, an FDR type change. Elizabeth or Bernie are the only ones capable. [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)40. Why? FDR faced 25% unemployment, a falling GDP, and 33% poverty
We just aren't in that kind of existential crisis right now. This is the best economy of my lifetime, and I remember the 1990s.
In 2016, we idiotically rolled over and agreed with Trump that the nation was facing a dire catastrophe. He's not going to do that for us, and we aren't going to win a "tear the system down" election with 3.8% unemployment and the highest household incomes in history.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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We need bold, sweeping change, an FDR type change. Elizabeth or Bernie are the only ones capable. [View all]
brutus smith
Jan 2020
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Love 'em both too!! Glad the Bernie/Elizabeth team is reunited... they need each othe!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jan 2020
#126
I agree...it looks like we may have a play in Iowa which is shocking Joni the bull castrater
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#14
The problem with that is that Biden does not offer the change American society needs.
LonePirate
Jan 2020
#28
Except for possibly restoring our standing with our allies, Biden offers nothing for the other items
LonePirate
Jan 2020
#34
Replacing the ACA is madness...we won't be able to do it...would take years...working with what we
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#98
His climate change program is very strong, signed off on by the Sierra club. His education
emmaverybo
Jan 2020
#105
Indeed. Also, FDR was far more an establishment government 1% insider than either one.
ehrnst
Jan 2020
#39
ZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!! If we want REAL change, we should vote for the REAL progressive visionaries...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jan 2020
#131
The socialists of his day called FDR a plutocratic corporatist and a war-monger.
The Valley Below
Jan 2020
#13
Yep. FDR has enemies on both flanks to deal with who were isolationists
The Valley Below
Jan 2020
#30
And Bernie is not proposing the collective ownership of the means of production and distribution.
Prosper
Jan 2020
#110
But that's what a few posters did earlier. They nitpicked FDR's accomplishment s
brutus smith
Jan 2020
#48
Kennedy was replaced by a democrat, so they had 60 until Scott Brown won in Massachusetts.
Blue_true
Jan 2020
#86
Ok. I get it. I forgot about the protracted situation in the Minnesota US Senate
Blue_true
Jan 2020
#100
Why Joe's not the answer. Only the Bernie & Elizabeth team guarantees victory over the Pee-resident!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jan 2020
#128
FDR was an internationalist, pro-capitalist, pro-trade, anti-populist.
The Valley Below
Jan 2020
#12
To get an FDR type change, you need an FDR type Congress. Do you think Elizabeth or Bernie can
beastie boy
Jan 2020
#19
I thought Joe could bring people together? Your telling me he can't bring enough repubs over?
brutus smith
Jan 2020
#121
...going to just evade Bernie saying himself: "I don't consider myself a Democrat....
ehrnst
Jan 2020
#158
Interesting that it is primarily the Biden supporters that want to pick apart FDR.
rwsanders
Jan 2020
#83
Yep; people who invoke historical figures usually focus only on the superficial facts that bolster
LongtimeAZDem
Jan 2020
#58
+1000 "The house is on fire and Bernie and Liz want to talk about remodeling the kitchen".
UniteFightBack
Jan 2020
#74
That's under the current system. That's why the new green deal addresses this specifically
Kurt V.
Jan 2020
#142
No politician is perfect-not even Bernie, as many of his supporters claim
redstateblues
Jan 2020
#109
True, but Bernie's about as perfect a candidate as there is, with his bold progressive agenda
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jan 2020
#130