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In reply to the discussion: Don't buy it... [View all]strategery blunder
(4,225 posts)He would have been a billionaire in today's dollars I'm sure.
But he understood that the economy could never recover from the Great Depression, if no one except the very wealthy had any money to spend. And he ACTED on that truth, and fought like hell to use the leverage and reach of the Federal government to help those less fortunate than himself, and by extension, get money circulating in the economy again.
He was venerated within the Democratic Party up until the time of Reagan. Even now he is still venerated amongst the Democrats fighting to bring the Democratic Party back to its modern-day roots.
Yes, even Berners (like me) understand that not all rich people are evil.
The rich people who believe that their fair share is "all of it" (to quote one of them), and who buy our politicians, are the evil and sociopathic ones.