Liberals: Obama Abandoned Us - Politico

[RufusTFirefly]

73. I hope you're being facetious

If not, I don't know whether to be saddened or frightened by your response.

Regarding FDR: In his time, there was an actual Left. Not some sort of corporate-sponsored, safe-for-family viewing version of the Left. An actual Left. And, thanks to a tiny clause (Section 7a) in the National Recovery Act, there was also a feisty, muscle-flexing labor movement. As an example, in 1934 there were three gigantic strikes (Minneapolis, Toledo, and almost the entire Pacific Coast) as well as hundreds of other smaller actions. An estimated 100,000 Communists and Socialists (arch enemies by the way) held separate rallies in Manhattan on May Day. At the end of that same month, 10,000 New Yorkers took to the streets to rally against war -- even though the U.S. wasn't even involved in a war! Hearings were held in Congress not only to investigate whether large corporations were responsible for forcing the country into World War I in order to increase their profits, but there was the beginning of an investigation into "un-American" activities, which, despite our impressions from the 1950s, was actually focused on domestic fascism back then. Meanwhile, the Governor of Minnesota, Floyd Olson told delegates at the Farmer-Labor convention, "Now I am frank to say that I am not a liberal… I am what I want to be — I am a radical." A number of U.S. cities had Socialist mayors, while the most liberal big city Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, was a Republican.

There's none of this now. None of the forces that FDR had to tug him left. The organized left is essentially gone. Destroyed.

The notion that Pres. Obama is "liberal" is truly pathetic. Dramatic proof of just how far we've fallen.