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appalachiablue

(41,103 posts)
3. Thank you President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Bernie Sanders for your concern
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:03 AM
Apr 2016

for the people and our great country of America.

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
6. We're having to fight for it this time
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:34 AM
Apr 2016

FDR must be rolling in his grave. If I live long enough to see FDRs 2nd Bill of Rights get enacted, that would bring great peace

appalachiablue

(41,103 posts)
8. Would I love to live to see the beginnings of a move for FDR's Second Bill of Rights.
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:52 AM
Apr 2016

When the economy crashed in 2008, I was bewildered why Dems. didn't clean up like they've always done. Little did I know the extent of the New Dems. and Neoliberals alliances forged with the banks, WS and big money since the late 80s and 90s. But I caught up fast. Thank heaven I was raised in an FDR-JFK-LBJ liberal, civic minded family. Wish I had fully realized that and thanked my parents and grandparents more for their sacrifice, perseverance and strength. Catch up is a bear, but full on necessity now. It's all out...for posterity, the young ones and this Good Earth.

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
11. Both my parents were old school Republicans
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 12:30 PM
Apr 2016

we didn't see eye to eye on all things, but they always spoke with reverence and often about FDR and what he did for their generation. They both grew up very poor, yet with a civil servant job, there were standard benefits. Military also used to have more benefits.

They were humanitarians, believed in preservation of the Earth, fiscal responsibility (wow haven't heard that in awhile) and equality. People cannot fathom how far right this whole country has come.

All of these basic human rights have been politicized and denied to us out of sheer blind greed, nothing less. It is a social disease, is contagious and addictive, but it is curable

appalachiablue

(41,103 posts)
14. Your parents have a lot in common with mine and many others. There were a few progressive
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 01:54 PM
Apr 2016

Republicans in my family, one a governor and senator c. 1913 who held high regard for civics, democracy, good government, and belief in human advancement and respect for nature and the earth. I know others like that. But by the 1980s things really changed for the worse, rampant government destruction especially dismantling the Safety Net, encroaching financial and industry deregulation, union bashing and ceaseless war mongering continued by conservative Dems. We are living and paying the enormous price of those destructive policies now as is evident.
At a crisis point we must take serious action to move forward beyond the harsh rightward movement of both political parties. The only way..



jwirr

(39,215 posts)
13. Amen. We need to restore the world that he helped the
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 01:51 PM
Apr 2016

people build and safeguard it from the likes of the Clintons and their WS friends.

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