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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: But, but .. "Americans would NEVER elect a Democratic Socialist as President!!!!!" [View all]Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)44. Aha! Semantics!
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But, but .. "Americans would NEVER elect a Democratic Socialist as President!!!!!" [View all]
99th_Monkey
Dec 2015
OP
If I was looking for a plausible excuse to entirely miss the point of the OP
99th_Monkey
Dec 2015
#4
FDR did what we both know he did, and was called a "socialist" for doing it.
99th_Monkey
Dec 2015
#9
He may have been called socialist but he was and his family were registered Democrats
FloridaBlues
Dec 2015
#58
Income and wealth disparities are similar to the late 1920s just before the Great Depression
Uncle Joe
Dec 2015
#15
FDR was not a Democratic Socialist. He never claimed to be a Democratic Socialist.
Drunken Irishman
Dec 2015
#17
It's not semantics. I don't think you understand what that word means.
Drunken Irishman
Dec 2015
#46
read about his opposition. FDR didn't have to say it. Everyone against him did
roguevalley
Dec 2015
#33
Hitler and the Nazis had "socialist" in their name. Does that make them in the sense of the word?..
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#76
You're right a "democrat" is a member of a political party. There is no comparison...
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#86
FDR can be Democrat and have SOCIALIST PHILOSOPHY just like Eisenhower arguably was socialist too!
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#92
He never called himself that, but his enemies did and his policies were exactly that.
Scuba
Dec 2015
#56
Politifact: Obama right that Roosevelt was called a socialist and a communist
99th_Monkey
Dec 2015
#34
Bernie "calling himself a Socialist" takes the issue head-on, and guess what?
99th_Monkey
Dec 2015
#39
He also strongly asserts "democratic socialist" as the term that describes himself...
cascadiance
Dec 2015
#77
Watched. Didn't hear once FDR say anything about socialism or claimed to be a Democratic Socialist.
Drunken Irishman
Dec 2015
#25
FDR made some political compromises that make Hillary Clinton's look downright puny.
Zynx
Dec 2015
#27
Have you read the actual history or watched the American Experience vids on his amazing presidency
underthematrix
Dec 2015
#57
I see...FDR was a "Democratic Socialist" because an internet graphic says so...
brooklynite
Dec 2015
#63
FDR's political foes incessantly accused him of being a Socialist, just like Obama's have. n/t
99th_Monkey
Dec 2015
#75
Oh please. I'm not even trying to "prove" FDR "called himself a Socialist".
99th_Monkey
Dec 2015
#79
Bernie Sanders is not Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and 2016 America is not 1932 America.
NuclearDem
Dec 2015
#85
Remember when Sanders made a "major policy speech" on Democratic Socialism?
brooklynite
Dec 2015
#90