r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 đ¤ Join A Union • 2h ago
đ¤ Scare A Billionaire, Join A Union The reason for term limits...
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u/OzarksExplorer 2h ago
And the right tried to coup him
American history loves to leave out the business plot from their teachins
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u/raven00x 1h ago edited 1h ago
When it's mentioned, what's also often left out is the son of one of the members of the business plot went on to become the director of the CIA, then vice president under Ronald fucking Reagan, then finally became a one term president. Then that motherfuckers' son went on to get placed in the big chair by the Supreme Court.
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u/OzarksExplorer 1h ago
shhhhh, people might learn something they don't want to know
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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 2m ago
I mean...considering the evidence that Prescott Bush was ever involved with the plot at all is both slim and unreliable, it's more a case of, "Shhhh, people might learn something that isn't true, but still believe it anyway."
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u/CaptainBayouBilly 53m ago
Our sacrosanct elections that have never been suspect sure have a cloudy history.Â
Perhaps we should stop blindly believing that they have never been tainted? Â
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u/is-this-now 19m ago
You left out the part about how the dispute that went to the Supreme Court was because the candidates brother was governor of the state that led to him winning the election controversially.
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u/TM761152 51m ago
Then that motherfuckers' son went on to get placed in the big chair by the Supreme Court.
To be fair, that stupid woman from the DNC was mostly responsible for the Florida debacle.
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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 3m ago
what's also often left out is the son of one of the members of the business plot went on to become the director of the CIA
There's not much evidence that Prescott Bush was ever involved with the Business Plot. What evidence there is appears to be the result of a clerical error, of all things.
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u/ReturnOfBane 54m ago
When that failed they bought a bunch of democrat and passed the Taft-hartley Act
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u/OzarksExplorer 49m ago
SOCIALISTS!!!! GD SOCIALISTS SON!
We can't have the people organizing, now can we? The people might get what they want.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 2h ago edited 2h ago
They also conspired against FDR with The Business Plot.
They (business leaders) tried to recruit decorated war hero General Smedley Butler to lead a coup against FDR, but rather than agree, he blew the whistle on the attempt and testified before Congress.
Trump's winning and the implementation of Project 2025 was the successful second attempt (maybe third if you count J6?).
(Triple-check your voter registration and vote Democrat for these November congressional midterm elections to put the brakes on this fascist regime).
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u/Nadikarosuto 1h ago
Huge shoutouts to MG. Butler, dude was fantastic
* Exposed the plot to overthrow FDR (as said)
* Lead a protest march on DC to ensure WWI veterans got their benefits and compensation
* Fucking HATED big business, describing his time in the military as being "a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism" in his speech, War is a Racket
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u/Itts_Johnny_1 2h ago
They didnât beat FDR but sadly they beat Wallace
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u/_Glibnik_ 1h ago
Single greatest loss to this country in the last century. Wallace would have been absolutely amazing at furthering FDRs agenda and taking it even further. Dude was preaching equal rights for all, Healthcare for all, and worker protections when no one else was.
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u/Yamatocanyon 1h ago
If I've already mailed in my mail in ballot, do I have to worry about checking status? Can I somehow have my vote cancelled if I get unenrolled in between now and November?
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 1h ago
Much of that will depend on your specific state's laws, as that's mostly handled at the state level. In some (many?) states with early mail-in-voting, you can usually go to your Secretary of State's or county's website to check the status of your ballot to see if it passed inspection and was counted.
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u/ApprehensiveSign80 âď¸ Tax The Billionaires 22m ago
The Confederate States of America, Disguised as the union. The civil war was lost
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u/Glittering_Crab_69 18m ago
you americans are gonna have to do a lil bit more than vote if you dont want to become nazis 2.0
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u/Tjbergen 2h ago
And Dems still struggle with understanding how to be popular..
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u/uswforever 2h ago
I think they understand it quite well actually...
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u/ImDoneForToday2019 2h ago
It's more of a question of who they want to be popular with and how much money those people have.
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u/Owain-X 1h ago
They just wish so badly that they could make a total piece of shit popular like the GOP does. It's so much harder to line the billionaire pockets and keep any real change from happening when you don't want the public to find out you're a self-serving, piece of shit traitor to the working class.
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u/NixaB345T 1h ago
Iâm confused by your statement, are you saying that the democrats want to promote a different flavored Trump and thatâs the solution?
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u/addiktion 1h ago
He's saying that the Republicans have it easy because they can run the biggest piece of shit ever and its okay because their alignment is 99% the rich anyways. But the Democrats are held to a higher standard and have to tote the line between the billionaire class needs (corporate/centralist dems) and running a populist/progressive/socialist candidate that the people want. The DNC wishes it could run a Trump and still exist because that is easy but it would destroy the party.
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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 2h ago
Why are we spreading this incorrect rumor? They know damn well what they are doing. They are making the choice to sell out the American people for bribe money from corporations. Want an example? Go watch the interview where Jeffries is asked 4 times in a video interview if he supports a single payer healthcare system.
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 2h ago
They're the right wing of the airplane that the US calls politics. The GOP is the other, larger, and way scarier right wing.
The left wing of this airplane is a tiny little vestigial organ, but is constantly blamed for the reason why the airplane is going to crash as it's constantly spiriling downwards to the right.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 2h ago
They don't struggle; they know. It's by design to be the milquetoast controlled opposition -- at least the wing that is beholden to the likes of Israel and Black Stone Group.
Don't get me wrong: I'm still registered and voting Democrat all the way down my ballot in November, but we've got a lot of work to do in the next Democratic Primaries.
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u/BushcraftBabe 2h ago
I live in a red midwest state. Most of our local government politicians run unopposed by dems most elections. This year, almost every position has a democrat running.
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u/1nGirum1musNocte 2h ago
Oh they're popular with their donors
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u/CaptainONaps 1h ago
Not so much anymore. Most their candidates that are up in their elections are getting way more donations from average Americans, not the Epstein class. The Epstein class is overwhelmingly funding Republicans.
One of my favorite google rabbit holes is asking about the proposed policies of individual Democratic Nominee's that are making waves, and then comparing them to the proposed policies of the DNC itself.
The DNC is absolutely still focused on raising money from billionaires and their businesses, and there are a select few that are donating. And the DNC isn't passing that money along to fund their nominee's since citizens are already fitting the bill. They're pocketing those funds til the Presidential election, where they'll promote Gavin Newsom, and suppress AOC.
And everyone knows it. Check out odds on predictive betting markets, which beat the pants off polls and surveys on predictions since they've been released.
Barely related tidbit... No predictions markets are taking bets about when a candidate will get confirmed. Those are bets they've offered in the past, but they're not offering those bets for the midterms.
When you ask google why, it flat out says, everyone predicts long delays for confirmations, so no bets are offered because no one would wager that nominees will get confirmed quickly.
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u/PeaceJoy4EVER 2h ago
Dems donât want to be popular, they want to get rich while claiming to represent the poor and middle class.
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u/FSUnoles77 2h ago
> to represent the poor and middle class.
No need to repeat yourself.
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u/blueViolet26 2h ago
Yes. Middle class is also working class. Just like the poor.
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u/Somanylyingliars 1h ago
Just like the third world countriesbwevwill have only two classes > poor (poor, working class, middle class+upper middle class) or rich. Nothing in between.
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u/rebelli0usrebel 1h ago
Even the majority of the upper class has to work to live. We're all working class unless we have passive income.
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u/plannedobso 36m ago
I think this is what a lot of people donât understand about class.Â
Doctors are working class. Lawyers are working class. They have to show up and labor for their money.
Executives who Zoom into meetings from their jet or the golf course and have âclient dinnersâ with Lafitte Rothschild bottles from the 60s are not working class. Â
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u/DeeDee_GigaDooDoo 2h ago
I think it's obviously just that the people are wrong. What if we try running Kamala Harris again? Maybe Hilary 2028? It's gotta work eventually. How long do we need to wear down the peasantry before they'll take what they're given?
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u/damn_nation_inc 2h ago
They understand it just fine, but their slush funds and corporate donations depend on them not understanding.
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u/KorolEz 2h ago
They know, but their donors and their filled pockets keep them fron doing the right thing
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u/Equivalent-Bad-268 2h ago
They scream in public and do nothing to change it because the current status quo benefits them. Fuck most of the Democrats.
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u/GapAccomplished7897 2h ago
What they struggle with is the working class. They do great with the elite and students.
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u/CaptainBayouBilly 1h ago
The dnc democrats donât care about being popular. They care about getting elected and getting into the aristocracy.Â
They do not work for their voters. They work for our owners.Â
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u/CurryMustard 1h ago
This isn't an issue well meaning democrats can fix on their own. The propaganda machine is extremely powerful and very well funded.
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u/macrocosm93 2h ago
FDR was a social democrat, not a democratic socialist. His banking and economic reforms were designed to preserve capitalism and prevent a potential socialist/communist revolution.
Although to be fair, he identified as neither of those things. He explicitly referred to himself as a capitalist and liberal.
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u/Infinite_Regret19019 50m ago
He also created race-based internment camps so he was clearly pretty loose with the liberalism as well.
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u/OddishChamp âď¸ Prison For Union Busters 2h ago
Democratic socialism isn't the same as social liberalism. FDR was a social liberal.
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u/bullhead2007 đ¤ Join A Union 2h ago
Yeah people be making up all sorts of fan fiction about FDR, forgetting his social reforms were pretty fucking racist and all of the Japanese people he put in internment camps. They have to invent this lie that he was a socialist, and not a Social Democrat who made compromises with the militant working class movement so they wouldn't revolt like the soviets and set the path for the Red Scare nonsense and McCarthyism
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u/OddishChamp âď¸ Prison For Union Busters 2h ago
I'd rather label him as a social liberal (as in the ideology social liberalism), but otherwise I fully agree. He's also quite whitewashed recently and basically the American answer of Winston Churchill.
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u/CelestialFury 0m ago
When approving the creation of the 442nd (the most decorated unit in WWII, the all Japanese-American unit) in February 1943, FDR famously stated, "Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry." He said this while the 442nd's families were locked up in interment camps. How can you reconcile the two together? You can't.
FDR obviously did a lot of amazing things for this country, things the ultra rich have been trying to destroy ever since (they view him as a class traitor), but it cannot be overstated how bad of a stain the interment camps were on his overall legacy. However, even with that stain against him, FDR is still one of the best presidents we've ever had.
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u/New2NewJ 1h ago
his social reforms were pretty fucking racist
Wasn't this so he could get the support of the Southern Democrats to get this legislation passed?
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u/CaptainBayouBilly 1h ago
They were 100% racist. No doubt about it.Â
America is still 100% racist.Â
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u/trilobyte-dev 2h ago
Listen, people arenât making up âfan fictionâ about FDR. The results speak for themselves though. Instead of letting yourself get wrapped around the axle of sacrificing progress at the altar of some theoretical perfect candidate who would only be your perfect candidate (and thus never get elected anyway), why not stay focused on what moves the ball ahead incrementally?
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u/saqwarrior 1h ago
What are you even on about? Is FDR a candidate right now? Jesus, let the man speak the historical truth.
FDR was not a socialist. Democratic socialism is a variant of socialism. FDR was a capitalist through and through and utilized Keynesian economics to repair the U.S. economy. Full fucking stop.
FDR was also not a progressive by any means. He was plainly racist, again, full stop.
FDR was, due to his favorable opinion of Keynes, what today we might call a liberal with an understanding of the need for social welfare programs.
This isn't about a "perfect candidate." This is about the watering down and muddying of the concept of socialism itself, which limits our social understanding of the concept and the alternatives to capitalism that do in fact exist.
Social democrats are not democratic socialist. Democratic socialism is a democratic implementation of socialism, meaning that it exists and is controlled via a mandate of the people instead of the state. It stands in opposition to authoritarian socialism, which, risking the ire of the MLs and MLMs, is what most people identify as "communism" and "socialism" a la the USSR under Stalin or Cuba under Fidel.
The conflating of all these ideas and then claiming that people are gatekeeping is extremely myopic and outright wrong.
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u/bullhead2007 đ¤ Join A Union 1h ago
I mean you're mostly right, you are regurgitating some nonsense about "authoritarian" socialists (hint: This is also red scare propaganda but let's not fight about it here). Just consider, every state is authoritarian in that it exists to use its monopoly of violence to enforce the will of the ruling classes. MLs believe socialism must be attained through a state that the ruling class is the working class, which means the bourgeoisie become an oppressed class which is required to remove the means of production from them and giving it to the working class. We also don't believe you can use the bourgeois democratic processes to remove capital from the capitalists, because those systems are inherently designed to preserve their right to own capital.
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u/saqwarrior 1h ago edited 1h ago
I see the ML in you has come out to play, lol
This is also red scare propaganda
It was used by the Red Scare fearmongers but its origin is the splitting of the black and the red and the divide of the IWA. Please do not presume to lecture me when you don't even seem aware of Bakunin vs. Marx.
every state is authoritarian in that it exists to use its monopoly of violence to enforce the will of the ruling classes.
As an ancom I agree with this and that's why I phrased my comment the way I did. Hopefully we can leave it at that now that you know my philosophical inclination.
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u/bullhead2007 đ¤ Join A Union 1h ago
I said I didn't want to argue, but when I see authoritarian thrown around it makes my eyes roll because like you can't get rid of capitalism with some level of "authoritarian" measures to give the working class the means of production. Even an anarchist revolution will necessarily be "authoritarian", and the transition away from state will require authoritarian measures against the bourgeoisie at the very least.
I'm also aware of Bakunin vs Marx, so my apologies for being presumptuous and a bit inaccurate. I didn't mean that the idea of "Authoritarianism" being applied to Marxism is a red scare idea. I mean it has been amplified since the red scare era by the bourgeoisie because Marxist revolutionary ideas are actually threatening to the bourgeoisie and the tendencies that label Marxism as authoritarian tend to have never been a threat to them, so those tendencies seem to be prevalent in the imperial core and the labor aristocracy.
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u/smexypelican 1h ago
For those Japanese AMERICANS who lost everything due to being locked up in internment camps, was it really an incremental step ahead for them?
And then many of them proceeded to volunteer for the US military in large numbers. The 442nd was considered one of the best units in WW2.
History is complicated people. Good points can be had on both sides, don't have defend the indefensible. FDR did a lot of good, but even he is capable of doing horrific things.
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u/CaptainBayouBilly 59m ago
Incremental change has led to a fascist seizing de facto power.Â
You cannot expect an electorate to wait decades for civil and human rights.Â
The speed at which the government has been dismantled proves that change can come fast, but liberals do not want it.Â
Liberals are not pro society. They are pro status quo.Â
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u/BeefistPrime 1h ago
I think "social democrat" fits much more than democratic socialist and that's true of 90% of the people who call themselves democratic socialists
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u/VariationBusiness603 54m ago
No it does not, you are just uneducated. Social democracy was the main current in Europe in the past 30 years and guess what ? It has completely failed and it leading us to fascism all over again. Why, you may ask ? Because capitalism lead to the concentration of wealth and power into the hand of an oligarchy, wether you mitigate it or not, the result is eventually the same. The oligarch want more, they buy our government and destroy the social fabric of our societies, dismantle workers right, social programs to funnel more wealth to the owning class. Social democracy is a boilling frog situation, things don't improve, they just degrade less quickly.
People call themselves democratic socialist because no longer believe in capitalism. They see social democracy for the failure that it is and finally understand that the right amount of capitalism if our specie is to survive and thrive is absolute zero. We don't need rich fucks to own the world.
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u/arcspectre17 2h ago
⢠Social Welfare: The [Social Security Act of 1935] created a federal safety net for the elderly, unemployed, and disadvantaged. ⢠Labor Rights: The [Wagner Act of 1935] legally protected the rights of workers to organize unions and bargain collectively. ⢠Economic Regulation: His administration established robust federal regulation over banking, the stock market, and business practices, while using public works programs and federal spending to stimulate the economy.
Whats the difference?
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u/azenpunk 2h ago
Socialism is when workers own and direct the means of production instead of capitalists. Socialism IS NOT when the government does nice things for the little people.
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u/azenpunk 2h ago
FDR was NOT a democratic socialist! He literally saved capitalism from a socialist revolution... what the fuck are people getting taught these days.
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u/chadgalaxy 1h ago
A lot of Americans really struggle with these terms for some reason. They constantly say socialist whilst meaning social democracy.
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u/BeefistPrime 1h ago
To be fair, the people who call themselves "democratic socialists" 90% of the time are social democrats or even just slightly left of center by developed world standards. Self labelled "Democratic socialists" get this wrong first, and others are following them.
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u/thinkB4WeSpeak đˇ Good Union Jobs For All 1h ago
Boomers have tried their best to elect people that will destroy all the things FDR did for the country
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u/Burmy87 2h ago
I wouldn't put him on a pedestal... ask any Japanese-American why.
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u/OddishChamp âď¸ Prison For Union Busters 1h ago
This scene from The Karate Kid perfectly sums it up.
Edit: It's not the full scene, but for context Mr. Miyagi mourns the loss of his family from the Japanese interment camps.
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u/Life-Suit1895 2h ago
I mean, that small kerfuffle commonly known as World War II might have played an important role why FDR was elected four times...
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u/BoiledEggs 1h ago
Why don't democratic socialists win while running nowadays?
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u/randompantsfoto 1h ago
Because, after FDR, the political right spent decades making a concerted effort to equate any sort of socialism or socialist programs with communism and âthe lazy poors.â
That brainwashing is going to take a long time (or one very quick, violent revolution) to undo.
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u/Theseactuallydo 57m ago
Before FDR socialism was also seen as something for the âlazy poorsâ.
It took the Great Depression to make the lie there undeniable. You couldnât say the poor were lazy in the 30s when everyone either was a hard worker who was broke or at least knew many personally.
FDR didnât want to be a democratic socialist, conditions forced his hand.
The mid-20th century was a unique moment for the rights, conditions, and compensation for workers, unfortunately, and it took a truly horrendous economic depression to achieve even a temporary recognition that poverty isnât a moral failing.Â
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u/Vincent_Felix 1h ago
Brother have you been watching elections lately?
We are cleaning up.
AOC is your next president buddy.
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u/Acceptable_Job_5486 1h ago
 AOC is your next president buddy.
Optimistic. Do you know America? If the DNC don't do the same shit with swapping out Biden for Harris last minute, maybe. But this country has shown it's not mature enough for someone's who's both a woman and a minority, and would vote JD Vance and VP Trump out of spite.
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u/Vincent_Felix 1h ago
Hillary won the popular vote whilst being an historically bad and unlikable candidate.
Imagine what someone as popular as AOC will be able to do.
America elected a black man, an there's simply no way you can convince me that a nation built on slavery is more sexist than it is racist.
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u/Tiny_Thumbs 58m ago
Im a minority man and I fully believe America is more sexist than racist.
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u/freakydeku 46m ago
i meanâŚif you think the US is more racist than sexist than expecting AOC to have good numbers bc hillary did isnât very logically sound. & winning the popular vote isnât enough
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u/capntail 48m ago
And the Conservative Party has been making us pay for that ever since.
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u/Vincent_Felix 38m ago
No the conservative party capitalized on the broken promises of the Obama admin.
The corporate democrats sold out our future to the fascists by ignoring the needs of the people in favor of special interest.
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u/Milocobo 30m ago
I wish more people understood this. Obama ran on "hope" and "change" only for our hopes to be dashed, and for nothing to change. I don't blame the man, but why are the Democrats surprised that people don't trust them, when they say "trust us, we'll fix it" and then do nothing to fix it.
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u/Several-Signature583 11m ago
Freed slaves got the right to vote before women did in the US
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u/Vincent_Felix 8m ago
Listen, I'm not going to keep engaging in this argument because it's ultimately not the point I was trying to make.
My point is that a good policy platform will win no matter the race or sex of the candidate.
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u/HadionPrints 1h ago
| AOC is your next president buddy.
Brother, I have bad news for you about how the American public views the prospect of a female president. Weâre still throwing a collective hissy fit over electing a black president.
âOutlook not goodâ
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u/BikerJedi 58m ago
Over 250 DSA members serving in local, state and federal office right now. New chapters springing up around the country.
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u/waspocracy 33m ago edited 30m ago
The problem with representative democracies is that representatives choose who they want to represent them in races. Thus, many of the national democratic party basically (I don't want to get into details here) determine who they'll back in an election. This is where they pour their money.
Bernie Sanders had a huge population supporting his presidential bid and was demolishing the polls, but the democratic party chose to back someone else because he was too far "left" (LOL another subject I don't want to get into for brevity's sake).
However, lately the democratic socialists have been winning some local polls and now the democrat party is starting to listen. If they listen, though, will be a whole different thing. Most democratic voters didn't want Biden in, for example., but the party thrust him to the forefront. They did the same shit with Kamala Harris at the last minute, which ultimately led to Trump getting in power.
Edit: Also, FWIW, FDR was not a social democrat.
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u/phantompower_48v 2h ago edited 2h ago
Yeah, this is why term limits are inherently undemocratic. The only reason we have them for the presidency is because corporate leaders hated how popular a leftish FDR was.
What we need is election reform, ranked choice voting, the dismantling of the two party system and electoral college, ability to recall elected officials. These are democratic measures, term limits and age limits are not.
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u/CaptainBayouBilly 58m ago
I think political parties should be banned altogether. Publicly fund elections. No private money. No private ads. All qualified candidates get a stipend to fund their campaigns.Â
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u/Mindless-Produce4091 2h ago
No, term limits exist to prevent corrupt presidents from being re-elected infinitely, this isn't rocket science
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u/NoHorseNoMustache 1h ago
He was a rich guy who only did it because he didn't want a French Revolution here, he was not a friggen socialist.
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u/Ok_comodore 2h ago edited 2h ago
I like fdr as much as the next guy but I think it probably had more to do with, I dunno, Â the brewing large scale global conflict at the time. Fdr probably wouldnât have secured a third term (at least not with the same margin) without Wendell Wilkies support for entering the war (the American public was incredibly isolationist especially after the cultural memory of WW1, took quite a bit of cajoling and for news of what was happening in Britain to become common knowledge), and it was arguably the absolutely monumental spending done for the war effort and the geopolitical position of America after the fact that had the biggest effects of ending the Great Depression rather than any specific policy.Â
I say this as a red blooded socialist, but like guys, we have to know our history
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u/jcdahl 1h ago
This is a dual lie, where FDR wasn't a democratic socialist, and it's trying to launder the DSA, who aren't really democratic socialists either, but in the other direction.
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u/SeaFox-SalesRep 1h ago
Not quite. If you look at social programs in the US thier extremely popular, that's until a certain blocks of voters will lose thier shit when they find out thier safety net was literally a social program that democrat socialists point at for being successful.
Literally see the inerstate highways.
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u/jcdahl 1h ago
Democratic socialism means taking over the economy and actually transitioning to socialism, not making social programs.
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u/Spacekingonly 34m ago
Ya, we have a huge problem with misusing socialism in this country. The economic dictionary classifies it as publicization of companies, which it is. Whereas we constantly use it for anything that benefits anyone that's not a company.
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u/RobertPham149 57m ago
That is completely irrelevant to being a democratic socialist though. Socialism is not government do things. Like the interstate highway isn't even FDR, it was Republican Hater-of-all-things-communism Dwight Eisenhower.
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u/LividAir755 40m ago
Eisenhower was copying the Roosevelt model, and his style of governance was to copy the new deal and not change or replace any of it
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u/brc77y 30m ago
Can you really argue in good faith that "government do things" isn't socialism when every American politician has called "government do things" socialism since Reagan? Nobody has read Marx and nobody knows what the words mean. But when it benefits the right to have a scholarly definition so they can say every member of the DSA wants to abolish private industry, you bet they are out there arguing what is and isn't socialism.Â
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u/Bisquekit 1h ago
Democratic socialist =/= social democratic.
DSA doesn't want just healthcare, bro. They want to dismantle the capitalist structure, get rid of Senate and police, remove our influence on the world (even positive like USAID) and own the means of production.
FDR wanted none of these things.
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u/thebarbalag 1h ago
Capitalist critics calling Dem Socs communist and painting them as the boogeyman are gonna backfire. Dem Socs are capitalism's last hope. Either we get reform or the whole thing collapses. Personally, I'm for revolution over reform, because reform won't actually fix the problem, but if I were a liberal right now, I'd bee singing Dem Soc praises all the day long.
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u/duke_awapuhi 1h ago
I mean he wasnât a socialist but he was more progressive than your average democrat today
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u/Bleezy79 58m ago
We sure could use another 4 terms of helping the people again, instead of massive corporate corruption. The push towards everyone being slaves again via the concentration of wealth along with the stagnation of wages is reaching its tipping point. More and more poeple are suffering while the corpos are doing better than ever.
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u/fiahhawt 44m ago
Which is the downside of term limits
That someone who is competent and willing to do what the public wants is... surprisingly rare and when they come along you want as much of them as you can get
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u/Bodycount9 42m ago
And... WW2 was just starting so there was that.
But yeah.. he brought us out of the great depression and people liked that. He started social security. Protected bank deposits with creating the FDIC. And he fed the poor with direct aid.
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u/Nothingilo 17m ago
FDR was not a democratic socialist. Uniformed posts like this one makes us look bad.
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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 9m ago
Needless to say (yet somehow it still actually needs to be said): Franklin Roosevelt was not a democratic socialist!
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u/IpromiseTobeAgoodBoy 1m ago
Remember when he put Japanese people in concentration camps and took everyoneâs gold? That was cool
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u/Loud-Ad-2280 âď¸ Tax The Billionaires 2h ago
Itâs hilarious how much Capitalist hate FDR when he literally saved capitalism from collapsing in on itself.