" it is sad that in the intervening 75 years we have yet to get another FDR."
Part of that is because of the effectiveness of the programs he was able to get passed albeit with reluctant GOP help..
If we had not had the Roosevelt era, safety net programs, like unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws and Social Security, I doubt that the Republicans could have reduced Obama to the placeholder president they have managed to do with their orchestrated racism.
Although in any ways, the recurring GOP curse, Roosevelt's Hoover to Obama's Bush, visited similar symptoms as a result of the greed driven, elitist policies that are hallmarks of Republican governance, the suffering was never as widespread or as public as the Hoover residue, because of what FDR managed to set in place
...as a result, the Republicans have been able to neutralize much of what Obama has tried to do in responding to the Bush depression by the simple expedient of tapping the embarrassingly large pool of latent xenophobia that exists in this country
The populist reactions to the fleecing of the country have not been as pronounced since the suffering has not been as obvious and public, thanks to Dem policies successfully championed by FDR
..give it some time though, Americans can't remember very far back, although Burn's is helping in that regard
..as Citizens United continues to help bring fascism back, by giving us even more Republican SCOTUS "leadership" and the effective repeal of Glass Steagall by way of Gramm Leach Bliley, those conditions that have brought the depressions will continue to be reinstated, and the revolution against Republican greed, that our children will eventually experience is getting closer.. |
