You Might Be A Racist, Not For Valid Obama Criticisms, But For Posting Rightwing Obama Smears

[truebluegreen]

183. Very true, and thank you.

What so many don't seem to realize (remember? ever know?) is that FDR, far from being some crazed socialist, saved capitalism.

His safety net programs, progressive tax structure and regulations made capitalism acceptable to the majority in this country because they got a share of the pie. Without him, and without his programs, we could have gone the socialist route, or far more likely the fascist route (certainly many conservatives of the era were in favor of the latter). His deficit spending pulled us out of the Great Depression and built a manufacturing capability that, when retooled for peacetime, built the economic powerhouse of the 50s and 60s. The GI Bill was a huge part of it too. Passed in 1944, it provided returning soldiers with low-interest mortgages, or small business loans, or tuition with room & board for higher education (and prevented civil unrest caused by high unemployment after the war).

To me, liberalism is the sensible middle, the safety valve that prevents the pressure cooker from exploding. The fact that "liberals" have been recast as lefties says a lot about how far both parties have drifted to the right (well, one drifted and the other charged headlong).