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Imallin4Joe

(752 posts)
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 11:23 AM Apr 2021

Biden is the next FDR.

I'm 50 years old. I've been actively engaged in Democratic Party politics since 1992.

The only Republicon that I ever voted for was in 1990. I immediately saw the error of that choice because the fucker cut state spending on college assistance. Arnie Carlson Rethug gov of Minnesota. He tried to undo Minnesota's high quality of life by undoing our states progressive policies such as high standards of public education, health care, social programs that work etc.

Since that folly in 1990, I have moved far to the left. Today, I consider myself quite far left. Just to give an idea of where I come from on a political scale. IOW I'm an old crotchety left-wing yellow-dog. Kinda scary to look at, but get to know me....

I support left-wing causes because they invoke compassion for our fellow human beings.

I support..
Universal Health Care

A $17 federal minimum living wage

Employee Free Choice Act

Major federal police reforms

Banking regulation

Carbon emission regulation

Environmental protection

Taxation for the super-rich and a taxation on accumulated super-wealth

Balancing our budgets(once we recover from the pandemic)

Cleaner, sustainable energy solutions

A New Deal-like infrastructure rebuilding program

There are so many more progressive topics that I could rant about all day but these are just a few to give an idea of where I come from.

President Joe Biden is fighting for much of what is mentioned above. He's fighting for a $15 minimum wage, albeit implemented slowly, still a major step in the right direction. He's calling for a New Deal-like infrastructure program. He's calling for price-controls on prescription drugs, so very needed. He has a great plan for environmental protection and carbon reduction. His plan to tax the super-rich needs to happen.

In 3 months, Pres Biden has already written an incredible progressive legacy. On par with FDR.

(Fun Fact: The New Deal took several years to implement fully. The New Deal 2 was signed into law by FDR several years after the New deal.)

IOW, give Biden time to heal this nation and the mess left by Trump.

He's the most progressive political leader of my 50 year old lifetime.

In closing, I'm not ranting this OP at fellow DUers, I get it, we're all Biden fans. Just want to chat about my very favorable view of my beloved Pres, Joe.

He's doing a great job in spite of the shit-show he was handed by Trump.

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Biden is the next FDR. (Original Post) Imallin4Joe Apr 2021 OP
Enthusiastically agree! Bayard Apr 2021 #1
Or 70! PatSeg Apr 2021 #25
FDR's portrait is front and center in Biden's oval office Botany Apr 2021 #2
❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️ Lucinda Apr 2021 #3
WOW incredible pics! Imallin4Joe Apr 2021 #4
Google Biden's oval office and look @ the paintings and busts he has in the oval office. Botany Apr 2021 #10
I agree, FoxNewsSucks Apr 2021 #14
I noticed a bust of Bobby Kennedy n/t wryter2000 Apr 2021 #23
He also has a bust of Cesar Chavez displayed prominently in the Oval. Tanuki Apr 2021 #42
Yeah that bust of Bobby really stands out. Even with it slightly obscured by the lamp. Imallin4Joe Apr 2021 #43
Wonderful rebe303 Apr 2021 #35
Biden wasn't my first choice Nictuku Apr 2021 #5
Yes, I've been thinking the same! He's doing an incredible job!!! RKP5637 Apr 2021 #6
My history with respect to all you mention seems so similar. RegularJam Apr 2021 #7
The reason for my life-long love of Scottish Terriers. Scottie Mom Apr 2021 #8
K&R, its starting to look that way ... that's not a stretch at all. I got more than what I voted for uponit7771 Apr 2021 #9
"I got more than what I voted for" PatSeg Apr 2021 #24
Yes, and to the great surprise of many here... MineralMan Apr 2021 #11
Why "Balancing our budgets?" PETRUS Apr 2021 #12
"Why "Balancing our budgets?" pazzyanne Apr 2021 #21
States don't issue their own currency. The US government does. Gaugamela Apr 2021 #30
Good politics? PETRUS Apr 2021 #32
Yes, he's on it. wendyb-NC Apr 2021 #13
FDR and Democratic control of BOTH houses of congress for 12 YEARS Hortensis Apr 2021 #15
Joe Biden has the makings of a modern-day FDR FakeNoose Apr 2021 #16
I only wish he had the super-majorities that FDR had Polybius Apr 2021 #17
Indeed soothsayer Apr 2021 #20
I hope that comes true, no doubt! Imallin4Joe Apr 2021 #37
Very true. nt Imallin4Joe Apr 2021 #36
President Biden is impressive. gab13by13 Apr 2021 #18
Yes. I love how nothing sticks to Joe.. Imallin4Joe Apr 2021 #44
He certainly could be...if Manchin and Sinema get the fuck out of the way...nt Fiendish Thingy Apr 2021 #19
I'm old enough to remember LBJ wryter2000 Apr 2021 #22
So do I. LBJ ushered in Civil and Voting Rights and a War on Poverty...FOR ALL! No Exceptions. nt Kahuna Apr 2021 #26
revive the 2nd bill of rights . AllaN01Bear Apr 2021 #27
I guess you would consider me "quite far left" as well, because I also support those things. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #28
Taking dark money out of politics is the foundation for all of your reforms dlk Apr 2021 #29
Citizens United is like a curse upon this land. Imallin4Joe Apr 2021 #38
Money isn't speech dlk Apr 2021 #41
Biden had two big advantages: Paladin Apr 2021 #31
He has the potential to be, but so far he's passed 1 major piece of legislation. FDR, in his first Gaugamela Apr 2021 #33
And much of what was passed was struck down by Scotus...Roosevelt lived in different times... Demsrule86 Apr 2021 #39
Yes. I acknowledged that in my post. When the Lochner court resisted FDR's legislation he went to Gaugamela Apr 2021 #45
I like Roosevelt...he was of course before my time...but my favorite president in terms of Demsrule86 Apr 2021 #40
Ditto rebe303 Apr 2021 #34

Imallin4Joe

(752 posts)
4. WOW incredible pics!
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 11:45 AM
Apr 2021

I imagine Joe draws great inspiration from that portrait of FDR.

Thank you for posting these great pics!!


Botany

(70,291 posts)
10. Google Biden's oval office and look @ the paintings and busts he has in the oval office.
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 11:52 AM
Apr 2021

Joe has his goals, has surrounded himself with a really great team, knows that
his window of getting things done is short and so he is going for it, and he knows
the Congress too.

BTW Joe and the K-Bomb are building a new Democratic party that might be a Juggernaut.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,375 posts)
14. I agree,
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 12:14 PM
Apr 2021

and they need to really push to get SB1 passed or people won't be able to vote for a Democrat again, and none of these great things will get done.

Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
42. He also has a bust of Cesar Chavez displayed prominently in the Oval.
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 08:14 PM
Apr 2021
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/23/959985623/dolores-huerta-reacts-to-cesar-chavez-bust-in-bidens-oval-office

From radio interview with Dolores Huerta:

"MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

...."Chavez dedicated his life to advocating for farmworkers. He pushed for better wages and was one of the founders of the United Farm Workers of America, or UFW. Dolores Huerta, a famed activist in her own right is also a co-founder of the United Farm Workers. She worked alongside Chavez for many years, so we called her to hear her thoughts on this moment. And she is with us now.

Dolores Huerta, welcome back. Thank you so much for talking with us.

DOLORES HUERTA: Well, thank you for inviting me.

MARTIN: So what was your reaction when you heard that President Biden had chosen to honor Cesar Chavez so prominently in the Oval Office?

HUERTA: It's really a very strong message that the strongest person in the whole world, the president of the United States of America, would have a bust of Cesar Chavez, a very simple, humble farmworker, a leader, a person who stood up for gun violence, who dedicated his life to make life better for the poorest of the poor - to me, that was a very strong message. And it really indicated that the president issaying to everybody, I am your servant leader, and I am here to serve you.

MARTIN: And I'm not trying to make you the spokesperson, you know, for all Latinos. But we couldn't think of another Latino leader who has been so honored with a presence in the Oval Office - I mean, that his likeness is there, along with other iconic figures in U.S. history - Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln. And I just wondered, does this - how does this speak to you as a Latino?

HUERTA: Well, a very strong healing moment, I think, for all Latinos, especially when we have been under such vicious attack under the Trump administration. It was an acknowledgment, and it was not only for Latinos. I think it was for all people of color. And it was also a big acknowledgment, I think, for all working people and for labor unions also."...(more)




Imallin4Joe

(752 posts)
43. Yeah that bust of Bobby really stands out. Even with it slightly obscured by the lamp.
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 09:08 PM
Apr 2021

Incredible workmanship and artistry on that bust. Bobby and JFK were so similar in their brotherly looks so a bust would have to be perfect to distinguish between the two. It's easy to see that the bust is Bobby.

Thanks for bringing up that point!

Nictuku

(3,570 posts)
5. Biden wasn't my first choice
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 11:49 AM
Apr 2021

... but he continually surprises me, in a very good way.

He is much more progressive than I thought he would be.

I only hope that we are able to get these important things done, and don't lose control of the houses in 2022. Republicans are very good at being the opposition party.

I'm so sick of the lies from the right. I'd like to tattoo a large L on the forehead of every politician who lies while representing their office.

 

RegularJam

(914 posts)
7. My history with respect to all you mention seems so similar.
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 11:50 AM
Apr 2021

If I would have read your op one year ago I would have laughed about him possibly being FDR like.

I've never had a politician exceed my expectations like this. I sure didn't expect it.

I happily voted for Biden for many reasons. It was not a difficult vote in the least. Not one of those reasons was that I thought he was going to be a progressive champion.

I've never been big on speaking bad about Biden. Even with his past warts he brings so much humanity to the table. I don't look for my idea of perfection in people.

From the agenda he is pushing to the people he is putting in place, I'm beyond happy.

It will soon be our turn to make sure it's built upon. To show him we have his back. We have to get people out in the next two election cycles.

Scottie Mom

(5,812 posts)
8. The reason for my life-long love of Scottish Terriers.
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 11:50 AM
Apr 2021

FDR was my first childhood hero. I absolutely LOVED Fala and begged my parents over and over for a "Fala dog." When I was in the sixth grade, sure enough, they gave in and I got the first of my seven Scottish Terriers that have graced my life and homes. My wee lassie of nearly 4 years is with me today and sitting close by as I write this.

Yes, IMO, President Biden will go down as another FDR. The workingman's President and the President who brought people out of poverty. Biden's love of those who labor and those who are unfortunate, is wonderful to see. Especially after the cruelty, hate and anger that was displayed in the prior Administration. His love for children, his family and his dogs...brings a smile to my face quite often. Then there is First Lady Dr. Jill. What an awesome human being in her own right...and what a breath of fresh air as First Lady.

Then, of course, there is VP Kamala Harris. I adore her and I believe some day she will be the first female and second POC to grace the Office of POTUS.



PatSeg

(46,804 posts)
24. "I got more than what I voted for"
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 01:03 PM
Apr 2021

I think a lot of people are feeling that way as well. Biden was my first choice and I had a hunch he might be an FDR-style leader, but he has gone above and beyond anything I had expected or hoped for. Oh yes, I too got more than what I voted for and every day he surprises me. He is truly the antidote for Trumpism.

PETRUS

(3,678 posts)
12. Why "Balancing our budgets?"
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 12:04 PM
Apr 2021

I wouldn't call that a left-wing cause, although perhaps you weren't meaning to imply that you see it that way. Are you willing to explain why that's on your list?

pazzyanne

(6,518 posts)
21. "Why "Balancing our budgets?"
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 12:57 PM
Apr 2021

Balanced budgets are good politics. Every U.S. state other than Vermont has some form of balanced budget provision that applies to its operating budget. Republicans, even though conservative, are not good at balanced budgets. They focus their budgets on increasing military spending and protections for corporations but cut social programs that benefit citizens. Bush, Jr and tRump being examples. Democrats, on the other hand, often step into large deficits and finacial messes. They most often pay down their inherited deficits and manage to increase social program spending through budgets and fiscal management. Examples are Bill Clinton and Obama. In Minnesota, Gov. Mark Dayton took over after years of fiscal mismanagement by Tim Pawlenty and Jesse Ventura. He managed to pay down the accumulated debt and left a surplus as well as sound social programs.

Gaugamela

(2,486 posts)
30. States don't issue their own currency. The US government does.
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 01:46 PM
Apr 2021

As economist Stephanie Kelton points out, the US balanced the federal budget 7 times in it’s history, and each time it led to either a major recession or a depression. That’s because federal deficits seed the economy and create growth. Balanced budgets are a fetish of the right because it’s used as justification for slashing safety nets and other federal spending the rich don’t want to pay for. Right now the country and the world are facing converging existential crises. The only way out is through massive change that will require massive spending.

https://smile.amazon.com/Deficit-Myth-Monetary-Peoples-Economy/dp/1541736192/ref=sr_1_3?crid=22LBTPEX7CGE3&dchild=1&keywords=stephanie+kelton&qid=1619199854&s=books&sprefix=Stephanie+%2Cstripbooks%2C379&sr=1-3

PETRUS

(3,678 posts)
32. Good politics?
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 01:53 PM
Apr 2021

I don't know what you mean by that, but I can say definitively that it's not good economics. The Federal government issues our currency, and can never run out. (The states are different - they are users of the currency, and have to tax or borrow in order to spend. That's not really the case with the Federal government.) Literally anything that is possible to do (i.e., if the know-how, labor, and natural resources are available), the Federal government can afford to do. Insisting on balancing the Federal budget (or reducing deficits) generally hurts the most vulnerable (poorest) people. To take your most recent example (the years Obama was in office), the Federal government's failure to make up for the lost demand following the collapse of the housing bubble (i.e., we could have - and I would say should have - run larger deficits) cost millions of jobs and left a lot of people (and their children) worse off than they needed to be.

There are potential pitfalls associated with persistent large Federal deficits (inflation), but we'd all be better off with good infrastructure, education, healthcare, plentiful jobs, and a big Federal debt than we would be with the inverse.

wendyb-NC

(3,250 posts)
13. Yes, he's on it.
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 12:06 PM
Apr 2021

I am very pleased by what he is doing, as our President. He's doing his job, and doing all he can, to get us out of the pandemic and mitigate the scourge of the last 4 years.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. FDR and Democratic control of BOTH houses of congress for 12 YEARS
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 12:19 PM
Apr 2021

were "FDR," and it was the voters of that day who put and kept them in power made the New Deal possible.

Also the conservative incompetence and corruption that dragged our nation to the brink both times, forcing the electorate to turn to the liberals to save them. Gotta thank the conservatives for making it possible.

Democrats in the WH and congress are once again called on to rescue our nation, and it will happen if THE ELECTORATE gives us enough power to do it.

FakeNoose

(32,351 posts)
16. Joe Biden has the makings of a modern-day FDR
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 12:29 PM
Apr 2021

However the work that needs to be done is going to take longer than 2 years.

Can we maintain Democratic control of the House after next year? I sure hope so but there's no guarantee. Can we win Democratic control of the Senate? It doesn't seem likely right now, but maybe something really good will happen by next year.

We can be hopeful, and we should give him all the help he needs. But let's not count chickens before the eggs have even been laid.

Polybius

(15,238 posts)
17. I only wish he had the super-majorities that FDR had
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 12:34 PM
Apr 2021

Passing a New Deal 2 will need lots of liberals in Congress.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
20. Indeed
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 12:50 PM
Apr 2021

Maybe we’ll rock the midterms. Things that are repressed/suppressed (ability to vote) come back 10 times stronger, as we saw in November.

THEN he can rock and roll and ensure a government that serves the people.

gab13by13

(20,864 posts)
18. President Biden is impressive.
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 12:46 PM
Apr 2021

The right wing personal attacks have had zero effect. Congress needs to follow suit.

Imallin4Joe

(752 posts)
44. Yes. I love how nothing sticks to Joe..
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 10:01 PM
Apr 2021

no right-wing attacks, nothing. Biden stands tall through their fascist BS.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,535 posts)
28. I guess you would consider me "quite far left" as well, because I also support those things.
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 01:38 PM
Apr 2021

I cast my first vote for a party of avowed socialists (the NDP, or New Democratic Party) which actually won that election in the first year I was eligible to vote, 1972. It is a pretty Lite brand of socialism, but it has prevailed in other elections since, and is currently our provincial government.

This govt has done a pretty damned good job of managing the pandemic, and that was largely the lever that got the reelected last year.


dlk

(11,435 posts)
29. Taking dark money out of politics is the foundation for all of your reforms
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 01:39 PM
Apr 2021

I like your ideas and in order to implement them, the dark money has to go. It has polluted our politics and government in endless ways. Biden has been doing an outstanding job, especially in light of the enormous cesspool that was left to clean up. We're on the right track and must do everything we can to keep the momentum going.

Imallin4Joe

(752 posts)
38. Citizens United is like a curse upon this land.
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 07:23 PM
Apr 2021

I know that sounds like something from Lord of the Rings but sadly its the state we find our nation in right now.

You're 100% right about getting dark money out of politics!

Paladin

(28,202 posts)
31. Biden had two big advantages:
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 01:48 PM
Apr 2021

1.) A piece-of-shit predecessor like trump; and

2.) Low expectations from the media and from the party he has served so well.

I love what he's accomplished, so far. So nice to see this country strike it lucky, after so many dark years.

Gaugamela

(2,486 posts)
33. He has the potential to be, but so far he's passed 1 major piece of legislation. FDR, in his first
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 02:16 PM
Apr 2021

100 days . . .

immediately summoned the United States Congress into a three-month (nearly 100-day) special session, during which he presented and was able to rapidly get passed a series of 15 major bills designed to counter the effects of the Great Depression.[1] President Roosevelt passed 76 laws during his first 100 days as well, many directing towards reviving the economy of the United States through various public works projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_100_days_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt%27s_presidency



Moreover, Biden opposes Medicare for All, only wants to forgive $10,000 in student loan debt, and is reluctant to expand the Supreme Court (FDR pushed for it when SCOTUS got in his way). And he favors returning to a talking filibuster, rather than eliminating it altogether. Why is Louis Dejoy still postmaster general? And why isn’t Biden waiving the patent rights on the COVID vaccines, which he has the authority to do under federal law, and which taxpayer money developed? The WHO, many countries, world leaders and Nobel laureates are all calling for it, and 60% of Americans favor it.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/21/it-about-saving-lives-doctors-without-borders-calls-us-eu-stop-blocking-vaccine

Of course FDR was working with a congress fully controlled by the Democrats, so the comparison isn’t really fair. And I think Biden is doing a great job. But as for being the new FDR, I think the case is yet to be made.

Demsrule86

(68,351 posts)
39. And much of what was passed was struck down by Scotus...Roosevelt lived in different times...
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 07:50 PM
Apr 2021

The GOP actually gave a crap back then...not anymore. They are content to do nothing ...they have done nothing since 2008. Biden need more Democrats in congress.

'During the long administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933 to 1945), the Democratic Party controlled both houses of Congress. As a result, the Democrats obtained 60 of the 96 existing Senate seats and 318 of the existing 435 House seats; hence the party now controlled two-thirds of Congress.'

We had a 60 vote majority in the Senate and held 318 seats out 435 in the House. You want a liberal president,give him a strong majority in Congress...but you have to ask yourself is that even possible today? We need a few more to get rid of the filibuster for sure...and getting that first piece of legislation was a BFD.

Gaugamela

(2,486 posts)
45. Yes. I acknowledged that in my post. When the Lochner court resisted FDR's legislation he went to
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 11:01 PM
Apr 2021

the mat and threatened to expand the court. The court relented and he was able to pass necessary legislation. FDR was a fighter. Also, there are things I mentioned that Biden could be doing without congress. Namely get rid of Dejoy and and waive the patent rights on the vaccine. Waving the patent rights and funding the worldwide distribution of the vaccine would be like a new Marshall Plan and reassert our position in the world. As I said, Biden has the potential to be a new FDR.

Demsrule86

(68,351 posts)
40. I like Roosevelt...he was of course before my time...but my favorite president in terms of
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 07:52 PM
Apr 2021

legislation was Lyndon B Johnson. He was great president...vastly underrated.

rebe303

(143 posts)
34. Ditto
Fri Apr 23, 2021, 02:22 PM
Apr 2021

I couldn't agree more; absolutely wickedly awesome! I was for my Senator/Professor Elizabeth Warren but couldn't be happier than am with Joe.

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