02-18-2019, 10:25 PM
(02-18-2019, 10:10 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Matt, FDR was pretty radical as well. He was also an autocrat as much as he was could swing it. His plan to pack the SCOTUS is borderline Nazi party plan to destroy the current government from within. In any event, AOC; 90% top tax rate? Allowing people to not work if they don't feel like it? Eliminating ICE? The government paying to rebuild or reconstruct every building in the nation? These are radical ideas.
90% tax rate - had it before
Work thing - don't know anything about this claim, any further info?
Eliminating ICE - that's a relatively new agency, why is going back to the way it was before so radical?
Rebuilding every building - also one I hadn't heard before, any info?
As for FDR, I don't deny he was radical at the time and I don't deny he had his flaws. But his policies were also what made the Democratic party a powerhouse. He brought the Democrats back to being a reputable party after the Civil War. There were a lot of things he did wrong, but there were a lot of things he did right and the ideas he had were ahead of their time. They aren't radical any longer.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
