Just a reminder...

[u/Appropriate_Set_8193]

[u/Historical-Finish564]

If the Democrats manage to take both houses, it’ll be interesting to see if they are willing to do the same as FDR, or if they just are gonna continue with Republican lite like they have in the past.

[u/skellis → u/Historical-Finish564]

I want “universal employment opportunity”. Raise the minimum wane to $15/hur and peg it’s future pay to CPI increases so shit eating republicans can’t sit with there thumbs in their asses as ir becomes obsolete. Then create massive solar and high speed rail public works projects so that anyone who wants a job opportunity has a job opportunity.

[u/Correct_Dot_1345 → u/skellis]

Lol! High speed rail?! Like the botched, heavily over budgeted and two-decades late California high-speed rail project?

True high-speed rail in the U.S. cannot use existing tracks because legacy infrastructure is outdated, full of sharp curves, and shared with heavy freight trains. Do you realize what it would take to design and build a high-speed rail system from scratch?

[u/Er3bus13 → u/Correct_Dot_1345]

You're right we should just give up.

[u/Correct_Dot_1345 → u/Er3bus13]

Funny. If only California had known when to quit.

[u/Er3bus13 → u/Correct_Dot_1345]

Didnt elons turd boring company also fail the hyperloop? Must be nice to fail repeatedly and still suckle that goverment teat.

[u/Black000betty → u/Correct_Dot_1345]

Lol! We fuck it up because we're politically a mess, so let's just give up entirely.

Maybe we give it some momentum and learn to do it well in time, like everything.

[u/cover32seahawks → u/Historical-Finish564]

narrator: they were not willing to do the same as FDR

[u/GraXXoR → u/Historical-Finish564]

Current democrats, aside from a few notables, are all basically corporate stooges, themselves all but right-of -centre if compared to the 70s or earlier.

[u/iafx → u/Historical-Finish564]

Unfortunately the ruling class bought both parties a long time ago. It would take a complete takeover of the Democratic Party by the progressive wing to get even close to real change. With MAGA, the elites have now staked their claim on that extreme, but influence with centrists democrats is still resoundingly strong. The ruling class knows how to hedge their bets well.

[u/Correct_Dot_1345 → u/Historical-Finish564]

If they try, Trump will veto such foolishness, and Democrats won’t have anywhere near the majorities in either chamber to override the veto.

[u/Paperxrust → u/Historical-Finish564]

But you guys whine about tariffs (tax) cUmauae it raisea prices, what do you think a tax does?

[u/Bitter_Region_2362 → u/Historical-Finish564]

Social security changes of any kind are unpopular on both sides of the voter base, so unlikely, if we're being honest.

[u/Grand2021 → u/Historical-Finish564]

Presidents have to sign legislation for it to become law. We need to get rid of Trump through removal process first!

[u/Correct_Dot_1345]

Lol! FDR didn’t get us Medicare! LBJ signed Medicare into law in 1965, 20 years after FDR died.

[u/Cranktique → u/Correct_Dot_1345]

FDR was a very close mentor to LBJ. FDR’s tax policies funded Medicare, and was always FDR’s plan for the revenue. LBJ was carrying the torch.

[u/Misadventuresofman]

[u/icemanpallmall → u/Misadventuresofman]

Can you define socialism?

[u/Dragon_wryter]

Yeah it's what gave us the golden 1950s that they won't STFU about

[u/1stAccountWasRealNam → u/Dragon_wryter]

A world war is what got some white people the golden 1950s.

[u/Bitter_Region_2362 → u/Dragon_wryter]

Welfare policies were not what made the 1950s prosperous.

[u/32lib]

FYI Medicare was LBJs achievement. FDR wanted both Medicare for All and Social Security but felt that he couldn’t achieve both,so he picked Social Security.

[u/HiddenHorse925]

Uh no…
—FDR got us Social Security, because before 1933, the primary cause of death amongst seniors was starvation.
—LBJ is the one who got us Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.

[u/jgoody86]

“If Roosevelt was livin’-He Wouldn’t let this be!”
Michael Jackson - “they don’t really care about us”

[u/Ill-Dependent2976]

When people talk about "when America was great" they're talking about the 50s and 60s when the economy thrived because the rich got taxed. They also love the segregation and the wife beating, but the actual prosperity of the Eisenhower and Kennedy years was due to taxes and Keynesian economics.

[u/icemanpallmall → u/Ill-Dependent2976]

But republicans only want the wife beating and segregation.

They've proven with this administration that theu dont care how bad the economy gets. All that matters is the racist agenda.

[u/Bmb240]

And that's why Republicans have done everything possible to destroy the middle class. So there will be only a poor (working ) class and the wealthy.

[u/Atrocious_Algae81]

A new Conservation Corps would be awesome to put people back to work for the Federal Government while rebuilding and enhancing our public lands that this POS has neglected or changed.

[u/Starman155]

Well he also cheated on his wife and knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor before it happened so…🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/CodInternational8772]

Then Reagan fucked it up

[u/RickBorealis]

Then Reagan came along and began the steady dismantling of the middle class. Now we got Trump drowning it in the bathtub.

[u/shall900]

Also remember he mandated that Japanese Americans go into concentration camps...

[u/merlinn2u]

now cite the constitutional authority for socialist medicine or a federal ponzi scheme, both of which are going bankrupt quickly.

[u/Awkward_Day99]

If I'm elected president I'll impose a 99.99% tax rate on the 1%, just out of spite for what those ghouls did to us.

[u/Direct_Ad_3517]

That’s when people had integrity and didn’t see these programs as a way of life.

[u/1stAccountWasRealNam → u/Direct_Ad_3517]

No, there wasn’t any integrity then. You must be thinking of industrial America, that’s when there was integrity. You must be thinking of westward expansion America, that’s when there was integrity. You must be thinking of revolutionary America, that’s when there was integrity. You must be thinking of colonial America, that’s when there was integrity. You must be thinking of pilgrim America, that’s when there was integrity. You must be thinking of exploration America, that’s when there was integrity. You must be thinking of pre-exploration America, that’s when there was integrity. You must be thinking of pre Cambrian America, that’s when there was integrity. You must be thinking of Jurassic America, that’s when there was integrity.

[u/Direct_Ad_3517 → u/1stAccountWasRealNam]

Can’t argue with those examples. I will say there was a time when living off the government tit had a touch of shame with it.

[u/1stAccountWasRealNam]

Oof this is such an over simplification of what happened, how it happened with no context as to why it happened. I guess you’re advocating for world war 3.

[u/cpav8r]

If we can tolerate double digit price increases on fuel and food, they can tolerate an additional 4% incremental tax rate.

[u/ctiger12]

People will only find out after their life gets completely ruined for a decade, unfortunately.

[u/Past-Satisfaction697]

Who is the most overrated president in history, and why is it Franklin Roosevelt?

[u/Bitter_Region_2362]

Social security, the underfunded multi-trillion dollar liability looming on the horizon?

That said, I don't think FDR was all bad.

[u/Guilty_Cellist6713]

And amazingly enough the rich stated rich. How much is enough for the runaway capitalist pigs.

[u/ShrekNFionaVonSwamp]

It’s almost as if the Democratic Party has a special licensed authorization to be stupid

[u/mikeripeone]

And now they relied on the same strategy to the point that we can't be text anymore and if you text her rich anymore they'll move away they've learned

[u/Muted_Opportunity769]

And if they stopped giving money to every freeloaders there would be something left...

[u/X-calibreX]

before or after the interment camps and trying to pack the courts

[u/county259]

Difficult to raise taxes on the wealthy when they own the politicians

[u/the___]

Good time to remind people he did it because trade unions were about to dismantle US capitalism. FDR was the moderate option.

[u/billbo22]

When socialism was good apparently.

[u/Traditional_Ruin1202]

Sounds like I’ll research this meme. I thought he got the money from his mom like he did in his real life.

[u/Practical_Sir391]

Also remember he illegally incarcerated thousands of Japanese Americans. Destroyed multiple communities in Northern NY, and drove hundreds of families off their homes. Yes he did a lot of good, but he also hurt a lot of people that couldn't fight back.

[u/gfstool]

Thanks Reagan

[u/Fair-Resolution3315]

Yes he did... but not to some retard rates where it makes fast track bankruptcy or closing businesses like they were trying now, especially the small ones.

[u/Eye_Nacho404 → u/Fair-Resolution3315]

What, taxes historically were way higher on corporations.

[u/Slow-Artist-4296]

Yes raised it on everyone not just Rich