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soldierant

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39. A Democratic Socialist is essentially an FDR Democrat
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:52 PM
Feb 2020

without the racism. At that, FDR wasn't bad, and Eleanor was as woke as it was possible to be at the time and in the circumstances.

We need to recover and strengthen New Deal programs like Social Security - and Medicare Medicaid (not FDR, but in the spirit of the New Deal.) Think we can sell that?

I personally think that some other New Deal programs could benefit us from being brought back. The CCC, for instance, not to build roads and bridges and lavatories, but to build solar and windmill farms. Probably not to clean up superfunds themselves, but to take enough projects off the backs of the EPA so that it would have the resources to do it.
There are several which could beneficially be updated IMHO.

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And he's a Socialist. I not looking to pick the person who is the hardest to sell in general, no UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #25
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