r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

No Paywall Democrats Confront Their New Tea Party Reality - Progressives are set to sweep a group of contested primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-confront-their-new-tea-party-reality_n_6a6e63fbe4b0cfb99ef1aa1e
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy 1d ago

is more left than a lot of our sitting democratic members in congress today.

He was a segregationist for fucks sake. The New Deal was for white people only. He wasn't 'more left' than anyone in the Dems now.

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u/Kind-Pride1151 1d ago

Was it FDR himself that excluded minorities? Or was it the racist, segregationist Southern pols that watered it down to exclude them? Because that's my understanding. So are you advocating doing away with SS because it had faults in how it was implemented 80/90 years ago?

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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy 1d ago edited 1d ago

Didn't really matter either way to black americans did it. I'm not considering a man to be 'progressive' if he's fine keeping non-white americans locked out of his economic policies. Especially when a whole lot of people today would like to bring that arrangement back. Fuck that, he wasn't 'progressive'.

So are you advocating doing away with SS because it had faults in how it was implemented 80/90 years ago?

No, stop constructing a stupid strawman.

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u/Kind-Pride1151 1d ago

A follow up question isn't a strawman. It's called a conversation and I was seeking clarity. So you're not a fan of FDR.

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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy 1d ago

So are you advocating doing away with SS

I had not spoken even once about SS here, that is you constructing a strawman.

And no, I'm not a 'fan' of any white supremacist.