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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders, LBJ, JFK, Ike, FDR, and Teddy Roosevelt -- rank them from most Socialist to least Socialist [View all]HassleCat
(6,409 posts)2. What is socialism?
LBJ promoted his Great Society program, which was not very socialist. It's classic liberalism. Anyway, it's a good point that the Sanders platform is not really very radical. We have shifted so far to the right that programs like Social Security and the Peace Corps would not even pass Congress today.
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Oct 2015
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The only way Sanders can be painted as a fringe candidate is to ignore history. We must not let that
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#29
Socialism is governmental regulation of the marketplace, and the use of collective assets to create
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If you compare Sanders' platform to the New Deal, the Great Society, Ike's public interstate highway
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In fairness, ACA significantly reduced the number of uninsured and greatly improved access to health
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#32
LBJ's foreign policy nightmare has drawn attention from his unprecedented domestic policy triumphs.
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#33
Truman was so busy with foreign policy that he didn't advance the ball much domestically. Many New
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I think Hillary Clinton and Obama would have vetoed it (I hope). Bill Clinton, I'm not so sure about
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#21
I didn't mean to imply that Truman did no good (he did plenty of good things). I was saying that he
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#36
Truman faced some tough opposition from Republicans who wanted to reduce th government.
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Oct 2015
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I had hopes Obama would have done some comparable game change on the environment but instead of
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Eugene Debs has been crying for the past 45 years, and this is the first ray of hope he's seen since
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#38
But he offers a more conservative platform than FDR, LBJ, JFK, Ike or Teddy Roosevelt. DLC has taken
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#42
Name three things that Sanders proposes that are more Socialist than what FDR or LBJ actually passed
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