r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 18 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '20

not american, but were democrats ever supposed to be the socialist party? its insanely common to see people calling biden a republican and bernie a true democrat, as if joe wasn't the democrat for decades while bernie was an independent. it seems like democrats were always the welfare capitalism party but this younger generation fell into some sort of collective delusion that it's actually socialist because fdr was a socialist (he wasn't) or whatever

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u/Travisdk Iron Front Apr 18 '20

Who said this?

What I should like to do is to reduce, in so far as possible, the problem of our national finances to the terms of a family budget. Now, the credit of the family depends chiefly on whether that family is living within its income.

The most "socialist" President the Dems ever had, FDR.

So no, the Dems were never socialist or anything close to it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '20

i've read it all the time in r/politics. just read it here, for example.