the consistent effort by conservative, corporate dems to try and tarnish progressive

[stupidicus]

39. well, that's not the only por sense of reality and history they show

it's like they are completely ignorant of who and what we once were, or in the alternative, prefer to be something different.

I know I have and I'm sure others have made this same case

These days, the Democratic Party acts more like an enabler of the Republican Party as it seeks to poison the memory of the 32nd president and bury the significance of what FDR accomplished. Instead of highlighting Roosevelt’s remarkable legacy, today’s Democrats seem afraid to argue the point that government is vital to a successful society. They shy away from that debate despite the fact that the lessons of Roosevelt are central to solving the problems that the nation faces in 2014.

Besides the mainstream Democrats and their timidity, many average Americans suffer from “terminal historical amnesia” and appear oblivious of the history of FDR’s era. Too many who came of age in the years of Ronald Reagan (and after Reagan) bought into his idiom that “government is the problem” and his prescription of ”trickle-down economics” (giving massive tax cuts to the rich and trusting that their investments and spending will spill over to raise the living standards of working- and middle-class Americans).

http://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/04/fear-itself-democrats-duck-fdrs-lessons/

although I see it more of a matter of cooperation rather than timidity. There's no debating this as a factual matter imo, there's just mealymouthed nonsense designed for and intended to obscure it. DC has moved continually rightward as we the people have moved collectively in the opposite direction.

FDR was spot on with his "there's nothing to fear..." line, because it is the fear of the ever escalating rightwingnuttery that provides the impetus for acceptance of our "liberal" leaders to keep taking steps in the rightward direction with those feared. Call me silly, but I see orchestration in all of this, not happenstance. This can be seen in seemingly innocuous things like replacing "inequality" and the focus on it that most accurately describes the elephant in the room, to weazel words like "opportunity".

I've long wondered when and over what will enough be enough for the prisoners of fear to show the good sense of and exclusive support for what works and what doesn't that those like FDR gave us.