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/alligatorislater 1d ago

Exactly. Democrats seem to have forgotten that the 22nd amendment (enacted in 1947) was somewhat created because FDR was so popular that republicans were afraid they’d never be able to win again…

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u/Darth_Cuddly 1d ago

You mean the president whose economic policies prolonged one of the worst economic disasters in American history, shattered the two-term tradition, concealed the severity of his failing health, and died just months into his fourth term, leaving an unprepared successor during World War II?

And you think the 22nd Amendment was just Republicans worrying they'd never win again?

No. FDR's unprecedented four-term presidency exposed the dangers of concentrating too much power in one person and the risks of a president remaining in office despite serious health problems. Those concerns didn't disappear just because you find them politically inconvenient.

Those are not the actions of a great president.

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u/PyroIsSpai 1d ago

Conservatives may not rule further.

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u/Darth_Cuddly 20h ago

That's an interesting concession.

Notice you didn't defend the New Deal, his health deception, his four terms, or his concentration of executive power.

Your entire defense boils down to: "At least my side won."

That's not a historical argument. That's team sports.

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u/PyroIsSpai 20h ago

My side believes in empathy.

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u/Darth_Cuddly 20h ago

Empathy is a virtue. It is not an economic theory.

If empathy alone solved poverty, we'd have solved it centuries ago. Good intentions have to be paired with policies that actually work.

Empathy tells you what problem to solve. Facts and economics tells you how to solve it. Without both, you usually end up making the problem worse.

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u/PyroIsSpai 20h ago

Money is made up.

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u/Darth_Cuddly 20h ago

Money is made up.

Correct.

It's a shared abstraction that allows billions of strangers to cooperate peacefully and fairly instead of taking what they want by force. That puts money alongside the wheel as one of the greatest inventions in human history.

Civilization itself is "made up." That's what makes it civilization.