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In reply to the discussion: This is not about Obama or Snowden, this is about the corporate takeover of our democracy [View all]tblue
(16,350 posts)that FDR had a Democratic Congress, to which I hope you'll reply with this link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=186609&mesg_id=187398
It was a different time, etc. and so on. But what FDR did was unprecedented. The 'System' at that time was deeply ingrained in our economic culture, and probably no one thought it would be possible to confront, let alone reform. FDR knew he was taking a huge gamble, he could have lost everything, and he did it anyway. That took an enormous amount of courage and conviction. So we do have a precedent for reforming an economy against the will of the economic PTB, but we do not have anything like an FDR now. That's just the truth. And maybe no one today could take on this ginormous task and succeed. But could a person TRY to take it on, doing everything in their power, despite the risk of failure? I think so.