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(32,139 posts)the policies and overall direction of this administration and the Democratic Party.
Your comment about FDR is a very poor analogy. FDR authored the New Deal, which provided sweeping assistance to Americans devastated by the Great Depression. Obama's record is overwhelmingly one of corporate predation. Even the signature achievement, the ACA, is fundamentally a Heritage Foundation plan that entrenches corporate profiteering into our health care system. Inequality is skyrocketing, not reversing, under Democratic policy, and our Constitutional protections are under constant assault. The overall trajectory of this administration is corporate/authoritarian.
That's not debatable, unless you choose to misrepresent reality. Please see this post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025104323#post14
It's about the overall direction. And the overall direction of this administration, and of the Third Way which now controls the Democratic Party, has been and remains corporate and predatory.