My parents were FDR Democrats. My parents raised me to be a FDR Democrat

[William769]

I have been one my whole life.

With the BS some Senate Dems are trying to shove down our throats, FDR is rolling in his grave crying. All this man did for the American people some Senate Dems plan to help the republicans dismantle it all! Yes this is what it boils down to.

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF

I am truly disgusted with some in our party & you can bet your last dollar when it comes election time, guess where my money is going in the primaries.

[maptap22]

1. My parents were Republicans but I asked one day...

who they thought was the best President in their lifetime and without hesitation each of them said FDR. I don't know why they voted Republican since we were pretty poor. Funny, 5 out of the 6 kids that they had are Democrats.

[brush]

2. Agreed. "Nothing to fear but fear itselt"...so IMO Dems should shut down their fear...

and shut down the trump/government in it's tracks to stop the maniac — force them to come begging to Dems and agree to our short term CR because the longer the shutdown goes on, the rethugs will be blamed because they control both houses of Congress, the WH, the DOJ and SCOTUS.

Dems are in a power position if those in the Senate leadership would just realize it...and it's probably the last time for quite a while that will happen.

[William769]

4. Thank you for this.

[dutch777]

27. Totally agree. Dems are in a position where leverage must be used when it is available or be impotent

[Emile]

3. K & R

[William769]

5. Appreciated.

[Jokerman]

6. My mom voted for Eisenhower...

She later said it was the worst vote she ever cast.

She went on to chair the county democratic party for more than a dozen years and never again voted for a republican.

[William769]

7. Good for her.

[Lovie777]

8. My G ma was able to be adopted by a US couple ...........

she was born in South Korea (Korean war) like hundreds were because of President Eisenhower, in late 1950s.

My family are proud Democrats, and G ma still thanks President Eisenhower.

I remember when G ma told me that when JFK Jr was assassinated 1963, her mother cried.

I also remember when President Obama won, my neighborhood celebrated.

I remember the hatred also from our side regarding HRC. I voted for her over shithole.

I was so happy when President Biden won.

And I still will support the Democratic Party.

[Emile]

9. My grandfather was an immigrant from Belgium.

He came here with his new wife in 1911 to work in the non union coal mines in Westville, Illinois. After just obtaining his citizenship, a man called FDR was running for President. Grandpa, not real familiar with American politics didn't know if he was a Republican or a Democrat. There was a union movement at the coal mine he was working at that time. The coal mine owner told his miners if they voted for FDR he would close down the coal mine. That's when grandpa discovered he was a Democrat.

[Martin Eden]

10. My father was born in 1922, served in WW2. I was born in 1957.

When I was old enough to understand, he explained the difference between the two parties:

Republicans argue that putting more money in the hands of business owners will revive the economy.

FDR understood that when people have money to spend, businesses will find a way to get that money by offereing goods and services the people want. This creates more jobs and shared prosperity.

[William769]

11. You have a smart father.

[Martin Eden]

12. He passed in 1985, same year as my mother

They were both big lefties back in the day, before I was born.

But my Aunt Kate, who lived with us during most of my childhood, was semi-famous. She was one of three elderly ladies featured in the Acadamy Award nominated 1976 documentary Union Maids, about women involved in the labor movement. Kate started getting involved in the mid-1920's when she was a teenager laboring in a Chicago factory.

Kate was born overseas (all my grandparents came over on the boat before WW1) and she was jailed for ten months during the McCarthy era for her political activities. They tried to deport her to Yugoslavia, but there was no record of her birth in the small Croatian village (ancestral home of my mother's family) -- so they finally had to let ger go.

Sadly, my Aunt Kate was never allowed to become a citizen of the country she loved so dearly.

[William769]

13. My father passed in 1982, my mother 2015.

I miss them both dearly.

[CountAllVotes]

34. My father was born in 1922 as well

1956 here!

And yes, they were The Greatest Generation, a title well-earned!

[Martin Eden]

39. The Greatest Generation made great sacrifices in the war against fascism

Today, home-grown fascism is taking over our government.

[wendyb-NC]

14. Yes, thank you, we can't enable their destruction of our country

[DrMJG10]

15. I still call myself an Unrepentant New Dealer.

While I was not born until the Truman administration, I had FDR's programs nurtured in me by my grandfather. Despite political setbacks, I never have regretted the way I was brought up.

[SocialDemocrat61]

16. FDR supported segregation

Illegally imprisoned Japanese Americans, turned a blind eye to the Holocaust and created the military industrial complex.

[anamnua]

18. Is there not some rule here

about not thrashing democrats? I presume that also applies to those who are gone to the great Oval Office in the sky.

[SocialDemocrat61]

19. Is anything I posted untrue?

If not, then it's not trashing.

[thought crime]

36. FDR, still the best

FDR didn’t transform society with respect to its deeply ingrained racism. And during WW II there were some terrible mistakes. Easy to judge when you are not the one fighting a World War. Creation of the “military industrial complex” was obviously necessary at that time, and the complete focus was on winning the war.

FDR also created the New Deal which is the closest we have come to Social Democracy. It inspires the best agenda we have for the future; the Green New Deal.

Woody Guthrie summed it up pretty well in a song. “This world was lucky, to see him born.”

[SocialDemocrat61]

42. Didn't say he wasn't

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But he was not perfect. He had many flaws and has a flawed legacy. The New Deal is flawed as well in that the benefits mainly went to white people and most people of color were excluded.

[AllaN01Bear]

17. k & r. a rare thing for me if u please .

i liked f d r myself .

[scarletlib]

20. I am also an FDR Democrat and always will be.

My Dsd taught me this lesson as a child. In his youth he worked at gas station in Nashville Tn. The gas station was in Belle Meade where the wealthy lived.
The owner of the station was expected to extend credit to these people to run a tab. He then had the constant problem of trying to collect what was owed to him.

How dare he ask these privileged people for his money.

I have nothing but contempt for wealth. FDR was wealthy but he understood the Nation needed to share and protect everyone.

[William769]

21. Kicking this since it was temporally sidelined yesterday.

[SheltieLover]

22. My parents were strong FDR Dems as well, William & I share your sentaments!

Not one cent of my money will go to those whom I perceive as voting against our best interests.

[William769]

23. Agreed.

That's the only power we have left.

[SheltieLover]

24. That's all we've got.

Sad that the veterans' protests yesterday are bardly mentioned in the US media.

[bigtree]

25. I'll bet that FDR didn't campaign against his own party Congress

...weeks into their term.

[William769]

26. He did what a great President does, he kept the party together.

Not letting others in the party capitulate to the other side.

[Emile]

29. FDR had very large Democratic majorities because he was

not a centrist.

[betsuni]

28. FDR had very large Democratic majorities and a normal Republican Party who'd be voted out of office

in an instant if they didn't help the American people during the Depression, and voters not brainwashed by a vast right-wing media empire.

Completely different times. Democrats are FDR Democrats. Liberal Democrats. Not populists, not progressives (meaning anti-establishment with Democrats being the establishment -- FDR was the epitome of elite establishment), not "democratic socialists."

[William769]

30. Yes he had large majorities but he had to keep them together.

The larger the group the harder to heard. They would not let him go to war like he wanted to so he had to get savvy with land lease until the Japaneese hit pearl.

[CountAllVotes]

31. My grandfather was a teamster

My grandfather was one of the first Union teamsters in America (Oakland Teamsters Local #70).

He was born in 1893 and is found listed in their records as marching in the first Labor Day event in 1918. He was a veteran of WWI.

He had a giant 4X6' picture of FDR over the dinner table.

He knew where his food came from and who was keeping my family going.

When will these idiots ever learn?

[William769]

32. Thanks for sharing that story.

My parents were UAW all their adult lives.

[CountAllVotes]

33. I grew up hearing all about the Great Depression

It was no joke, believe me.

It scared the hell out of me.

I found the worthless stock market certificates from 1928 that belonged to my great grandfather who died of T.B. in 1929. I still have them and look at them every so often.

My father was 100% Union as well and you could not get him to put a nickel in the stock market as the family lost it all in the crash of 1929.

[William769]

35. My father was 30 years older than my mother

Which means he was an adult during the depression & like you I got first hand account of how bad it was. My father was the baby of 14 siblings & he was a change of life baby so his parents were already old during the depression. To make ends meet he started hauling shine to Detroit (hence Uaw) & chicago. He did well enough to keep the whole family & thier kids fed & clothed.

Harlan County Kentucky is where my dads family is from and I remember going down to the court house square & listen to the old timers stories. I loved it.

[Jilly_in_VA]

37. My parents were FDR Democrats

whose parents were old-variety Republicans.I am a blue-diaper baby, born 1943, as are my brothers, born 1945 and 1947. My little brother and I got left of the parents, but my mom caught up with us in the 1970s, although my dad never quite did.Mom was always kind of left of him, although she never let him know it. My other brother is the political one who actually worked in the system, being campaigner for the late Allard Lowenstein and later on a member of Gerry Brown's California Coastal Commission.My other brother and I became healthcare professionals after being pretty radical anti-Vietnam warriors.and worked for change in that system.

[William769]

38. Thank you.

I love hearing stories like this.

[H2O Man]

40. Way recommended.

Both sides of my family were FDR Democrats. On my father's side, most worked the railroads. Hence, they loved that as governor, FDR had appointed Leland Olds, who would also work for him in DC. Olds was pro-union, at a time when unions were deemed a communist threat by corporate owners.

[William769]

41. Thank you for the story.