The Spirit Of FDR Is With Our Revolution (w/Guest Nina Turner)

[thomhartmann]

Thom Hartmann talks with Nina Turner (Former Ohio State Senator and current President, OurRevolution) about the People's Platform which holds a striking similarity to President Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill Of Rights.

[BainsBane]

1. Really? The FDR who presided over Jim Crow?

The FDR who when asked to address the surge of lynchings in the South refused, saying it would alienate White Southerners? The FDR who implemented the New Deal is explicitly racist ways?

Okay, Nina. If you say so.

[JHan]

2. FDR is used as a cudgel to bash modern democrats, it's so obvious.

Most of the time the bashers don't know the full truth of the man, and only selectively focus on what they want to focus on.. It's such intellectual dishonesty.

[BainsBane]

3. They have had the truth pointed out hundreds, thousands of times

Ignorance of history is no longer an excuse.

[JHan]

4. +++

[LongTomH]

5. K&R Thanks Thom!!

[George II]

6. Nina Turner has admitted that she won't be supporting some Democratic candidates...

...in an interview with The Nation on June 30:

https://www.thenation.com/article/nina-turner-it-is-not-our-job-to-fit-into-the-democratic-establishment/

"Will the group be endorsing non-Democrats?"

Nina Turner: "You know what, yes. We are open to it. And for me, I’ve also heard the senator say this lately too."

Good thing she and the senator aren't members of DU, they would be banned by the administrators for violating the TOS

[BainsBane]

7. She said she would endorse and fund Repiblucans

Evidently ratfucking the election for Trump wasn't enough. Now she wants to use the PAC to raise money for the GOP.

[George II]

8. Exactly. (did autocorrect change your word to "age"?)

[BainsBane]

9. Yes. This IPad drives me crazy.

[FreepFryer]

11. Lovely. Counting down to cyborg/bot assault defending the 'People's Platform' on DU (n/t)

[FreepFryer]

10. Whose revolution, exactly? They are expressing a willingness to oppose Democrats, so ... ? (n/t)