07-24-2015, 05:44 PM
(07-02-2015, 09:59 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I guess you could call it historic backlash if you skip the 8 years previous to his.
What is a FDR or JFK type of person? Most people have three initials. JFK was in office less than three years. "Ich bin ein Sozialist."
By historic backlash I was referring to how often he was filibustered. Obama has been filibustered 82 times. All of the previous presidents combined have been filibustered 86 times. Bush faced media and popular backlash partly due to him winning an election despite receiving fewer total votes in a supposedly democratic system. The Iraq war and tanking the economy certainly didn't help his cause either.
Explained the JFK/FDR association below.
(07-02-2015, 10:37 AM)Benton Wrote: I'm not getting the comparison, outside of the fact both were popular.
They're trying. They're running an Indian, a Canadian, a black man, a white woman and a Cuban. Ranging from 40s-70s. They're shotgunning the canvas and seeing who they hit.
FDR and JFK were both fearless liberals. FDR busted up trusts/monopolies and got behind the idea that a working wage should be a livable wage. JFK had the nerve to keep the US out of war many times despite tremendous pressure from the Pentagon(he was also gutsy enough to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis). JFK enacted Social Security, printed money without the Federal Reserve's blessing, and helped to get the Civil Rights ball rolling. Sanders has that same sort of vibe, not being afraid to call out the very powerful and also bucking party lines on some issues(gun rights in particular). That's why I see Sanders as similar to FDR and JFK and believe that he would be a similar type of president.
The huge problem that the GOP has is that their base is quite out of touch with most Americans. See: the support for Donald Trump. Trump is one of the stingiest bosses and most fraudulent business men in the US - he will never get elected.
