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FakeNoose

(37,324 posts)
36. Everyone who remembers The New Deal is dead and gone
Sun May 11, 2025, 03:21 PM
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That includes our grandparents and even our parents. Anyone who was forced to live through the Depression ... many of whom were rescued by a program from FDR's New Deal ... aren't here to tell us how horrible and terrifying it really was. Democrats saved our country and got us out of the 1930's and 40's. Then in the 50's Gen. Eisenhower stepped forward as a "liberal" Republican and carried the New Deal forward another 8 years (he just didn't call it by that name.) Then JFK and LBJ kept the ball rolling through the 60's.

I'm a Baby Boomer - born in 1951 - and for my entire life I have benefited from the programs begun by Democrats (mainly FDR) in the 1930s and later. We have a lot to be proud of, and it pains me to hear these MAGAs spouting their ignorance about our Party. We can win and we HAVE to find a way to win because the Repukes have nothing.

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Sounds like a good idea to research. Stir the pot a bit (or a lot.) erronis Saturday #1
Funny how every time "disaffected former" Republicans throw themselves into 3rd party efforts, tanyev Saturday #2
Oh, fuck them. DavidDvorkin Saturday #3
Dems can't win BaronChocula Saturday #4
We have to learn the power of fear JustAnotherGen Saturday #17
I think the nazi idea of being humane as weak is, well, ananda Saturday #18
A Cooperacy! BaronChocula Sunday #26
Right on ananda Sunday #27
"oppression is disguised as part of the social fabric that is taken for granted as the best way to be.' mdbl Sunday #29
You know what else strikes me. The loss of law and morality. ananda Sunday #37
'Elon knows those computer vote tabulators and we won by alot.' travelingthrulife Sunday #32
Everyone who remembers The New Deal is dead and gone FakeNoose Sunday #36
You are so right BaronChocula Sunday #38
Yup, it's No Labels redux Fiendish Thingy Saturday #5
They can eff right off. FalloutShelter Saturday #6
true 3rd party efforts haven't really worked enough, and prior 3rd party efforts were mainly by the repug party SWBTATTReg Saturday #7
A strong 3rd party in Congress would be able to steer the vote on bills up for passage. patphil Saturday #8
Not this stupid shit again JBTaurus83 Saturday #9
Exactly! More republican shit...let's see who's behind this...Russia, jill stein, muskrat? Or all of them PortTack Sunday #33
A really bad idea. love_katz Saturday #10
Part of me wants to party, part of me wants a lobotomy... littlemissmartypants Saturday #11
Voters should vote Democrats in for more than two terms with a super majority to see what can really be done! chowder66 Saturday #12
There is no dispute I would argue that Independents and people who don't participate in general are where it's at for us Cheezoholic Saturday #13
Fuck that shit! ☝️👌👉 💩 Oopsie Daisy Saturday #14
These are always astro-turf movements designed to benefit republicans PSPS Saturday #15
Here we go again. Because of the horrible job the Republicans are doing Buddyzbuddy Saturday #16
The "rational middle" rears its mythological head. hay rick Saturday #19
There is no more "middle" in the middle Bluetus Sunday #20
Just another flavor of "both-sidesism". LudwigPastorius Sunday #21
F*ck them. BadgerMom Sunday #22
Begin and end with FDR. tirebiter Sunday #23
This message was self-deleted by its author tirebiter Sunday #24
Centrists can't win anymore paulkienitz Sunday #25
Oh, just call it the Let's Scapegoat Democrats (LSD) movement. betsuni Sunday #28
Interesting that the so-called "focus group" did not call the "r's" the niyad Sunday #30
I see the libertarians have not gotten any smarter. travelingthrulife Sunday #31
Yeah this is just what we need (sarcasm) thumper2547 Sunday #34
Sounds more like Quanto Magnus Sunday #35
Not Left not Right but Forward airplaneman Sunday #39
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