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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (431096)	2/27/2020 11:25:15 AM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Recommended By Maple MAGA Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543440

FDR was a super Democratic socialist. The same as Bernie. Democratic socialism is like what they have in every western democracy in the world. People get dictatorships with socialist names mixed up with Democratic socialism. Communism and fascism and dictatorships like they have/had in Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and China is not what FDR or Bernie are about. Bernie is about the same Democratic socialism they have in the Nordic counties. Look below a how much socialism FDR instituted! << In the four years just past, Roosevelt had transformed the purpose of the United States government, making it a constant companion in the lives of Americans. The Social Security Act of the previous year was merely the crowning achievement. Roosevelt’s initiatives, meant to curb the misery brought on by the Great Depression, directly funded millions of government jobs, employing everyone from photographers to brush-clearing conservation workers. To pay for this, he raised the income tax—which hadn’t even existed two decades earlier—to 75 percent on the highest incomes. The rich were subsidizing the poor, and that was A-OK with FDR.