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rogerashton

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5. And you are overlooking the common interest of the rich visavis the rest of us

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 05:48 PM

Feb 2016

tRump is no FDR. Taking issues and deciding them on the basis of his personal interest will, as a rule, decide those issues in the interest of the billionaire class. (The example of eminent domain illustrates this.) No solidarity needed. This is where a class with a few hundred members differs from something like the working class, a huge majority.

FDR, by contrast, identified his own interest with his success as a politician and thus tried to act on the basis of the interests of the majority, so far as he understood them.

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Let's see if i understand tRump's position. He says he can't be bribed by the rich [View all] rogerashton Feb 2016 OP

Yes. And actually there is some truth to that. Warren Stupidity Feb 2016 #1

I don't think that is quite true. rogerashton Feb 2016 #2

Well you are conflating class association and solidarity Warren Stupidity Feb 2016 #4

And you are overlooking the common interest of the rich visavis the rest of us rogerashton Feb 2016 #5

again the differences between Trump and FDR are entirely within what each of the believed. Warren Stupidity Feb 2016 #6

He's rich enough to bribe the judges meow2u3 Feb 2016 #3