2016 Postmortem

bread_and_roses

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16. "hey hey LBJ / how many kids did you kill today?"

Reply to grasswire (Reply #9)

Sat Nov 8, 2014, 01:28 PM

Nov 2014

No. Not LBJ. Being "liberal" on the domestic front does not give you a pass to slaughter overseas.

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The Roosevelt Party - a party within the Democratic Party that actually champions liberal ideas. [View all] EEO Nov 2014 OP

Count me in. CanonRay Nov 2014 #1

Are you trying to start a Democrat Tea Party named Roosevelt Party? Thinkingabout Nov 2014 #2

Sort of. But this one will be the opposite in just about every other way. EEO Nov 2014 #6

How would you feel if the party purged the liberals? Thinkingabout Nov 2014 #21

If they purged liberals, they might as well just call themselves Republicans. Enthusiast Nov 2014 #26

FDR Party: Martin Eden Nov 2014 #3

I may like that better. EEO Nov 2014 #7

I'm in roguevalley Nov 2014 #11

We do need to distinguish real democrats vs. what we have now... TheProgressive Nov 2014 #4

Roosevelt Party acknowledges the big three Roosevelts. EEO Nov 2014 #41

What would be the liberal ideas? hollowdweller Nov 2014 #5

All of that. EEO Nov 2014 #8

80 percent tax on rich down from ninety percent under dwe roguevalley Nov 2014 #12

reads like John L. Lewis, or the Reuther Brothers rustbeltvoice Nov 2014 #10

how about the FDR-LBJ party grasswire Nov 2014 #9

agreed roguevalley Nov 2014 #13

Yes, Johnson, our last liberal president, rustbeltvoice Nov 2014 #14

"hey hey LBJ / how many kids did you kill today?" bread_and_roses Nov 2014 #16

Yeah. LBJ's legacy will forever be tarnished by Vietnam, which is unfortunate. EEO Nov 2014 #27

Yes, that is precisely what we need. onecaliberal Nov 2014 #15

Bernie Sanders suggested a 50 state org to get people behind Progressive principles. jtuck004 Nov 2014 #17

Why not starting the Progressive or Socialist party? Thinkingabout Nov 2014 #23

No point. Just need an org. We will have our ideas heard and considered without the baggage. jtuck004 Nov 2014 #28

It takes work, jump on it, anything worth having has to have some Thinkingabout Nov 2014 #30

Bernie already has... jtuck004 Nov 2014 #32

Without Instant Runoff Voting ... Martin Eden Nov 2014 #29

Yup. Has to be a slow and methodical reworking of the party from within. EEO Nov 2014 #36

Much needed, way over due. DNC has buried FDR and by the looks of whereisjustice Nov 2014 #18

They are helping the conservatives turn back the clock. EEO Nov 2014 #47

If you included both Roosevelts you'd have a powerful Populist reform movement demwing Nov 2014 #19

Love it. I'm in! Aldo Leopold Nov 2014 #20

I'm in too! Have been an FDR dem for a while now. Roosevelt dem would work also! RiverLover Nov 2014 #22

I like it. proReality Nov 2014 #24

K&R Party semanticwikiian Nov 2014 #25

Kick and recommended... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2014 #39

why not include Eleanor Roosevelt as.well ALBliberal Nov 2014 #31

Are there policies that Roosevelt championed that work against modern African Americans? Did FDR ALBliberal Nov 2014 #34

The "Roosevelt" Party would have never elected a black man President ConservativeDemocrat Nov 2014 #33

There was more than one Roosevelt. EEO Nov 2014 #40

For DUers that want populist reform demwing Nov 2014 #35

I support a group to discuss populist reforms within the Democratic Party Martin Eden Nov 2014 #38

And that's what we should be doing. santamargarita Nov 2014 #37

In 1966 I joined the Democratic Party for these values: bvar22 Nov 2014 #42

^^^^^^^That right there^^^^^^^^^^ BrotherIvan Nov 2014 #45

Good idea, but wrong name Onlooker Nov 2014 #43

People tend to have a certain romanticism for the past. EEO Nov 2014 #44

Kick grahamhgreen Nov 2014 #46