If you don't believe in (recognize) white privilege why the fuck are you on a Democratic Forum?

[AverageJoe90]

112. "Those are some astonishing claims about the New Deal." And they're pretty much all B.S., too.

Whatever flaws the New Deal might have had, it was very much intended as a truly progressive and egalitarian movement.

What happened, however, is that the Dixiecrats sabotaged it. They had no love for the New Deal; initially, many actually condemned measures such as Social Security, exactly because of the hardcore version of racism that they subscribed to; really, the only reason they largely backed off after around 1937 or so was because they began to realize that railing against Roosevelt was starting to look like a possible career killer. So they changed their tune, at least in public.

His claims about the Ku Klux Klan being an entirely Progressive phenomenon are also inaccurate(and, btw, this is a favorite claim of right-wing historians as well), and I will address this at greater length at some point in the near future. I will say this: using semi-progressive rhetoric, and occasionally aligning with progressives, does not make one a progressive themselves; otherwise, Rand & Ron Paul would be progressives, because they are quite well-known for doing such(and they are not.).