• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    7 months ago

    Like, even Obama’s campaign healthcare plan was more conservative than FDRs. Their goal for tax rates were way lower, their minimum wage was lower after inflation

    Seriously, take you pick of them and make a single economic issue you think they’re more progressive than FDR on.

    Out of quite a long time that I’ve spent arguing with the shills, this is the first time that I’ve had a strong suspicion that any specific shill was specifically not from the US.

    Accusing a politician of being less progressive than literally the single most progressive president in US history, as some kind of gotcha, is such a weird nonsensical flex that it seems like it might come from a position of not actually having a native understanding of US history. Evaluating FDR with this anachronistic modern-day political analysis, is such a weird confusion of ideas that I have trouble seeing an American doing it whether they are liberal or conservative. E.g. I have literally never heard from any other person who thinks that moderates and Republicans “kicked out” FDR, or talks about FDR’s “healthcare plan.”

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      7 months ago

      I have trouble seeing an American doing it whether they are liberal or conservative

      ah, the two genders