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In reply to the discussion: White progressives’ racial myopia: Why their colorblindness fails minorities — and the left [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I mean, for his flaws, FDR was a giant of a President, AND he pulled us out of the great depression- probably not surprising that his legacy would come up after the economic clusterfuck this country endured at the end of the Bush II years.
That said, there have been significant changes to the world, economic as well as cultural and not the least of which technological, and to expect that somehow we will go back to the highly unionized manufacturing economy of the postwar era- which, as you rightly mention, benefitted some while leaving others, particularly minorities, behind- is facile.
But, then, DU skews old -- and cranky. It's equally facile for people here to expect that somehow their "oversexed culture in crisis" griping is going to get teens to stop twerking, or HBO to stop showing full frontal nudity. It's facile on the international stage for people to expect that somehow the State of Israel is going to fold up and disappear.
We are in the 21st century, like it or not. Deep denial isnt limited to fans of FDR and the new deal.