Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Pete, what were you thinking? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)wasn't actually meant to be major change and updating just because she presented the parts individually instead of trumpeting a remaking of America.
What was her/our very comprehensive plan for making the Appalachia coal country as as healthy and prosperous as it is beautiful except a new Tennessee Valley Authority type project?
I like Mayor B's kind of big, forward thinking a lot, but everyone should remember that FDR didn't run on half the things his administration accomplished. FDR was very much a member of the establishment who ran on recovering the economy and creating what he called a new deal for the American people, given credibility by his creation of jobs and other efforts as a governor to combat the depression, but not on THE New Deal by a long shot.
He had to keep a safe distance from the socialist candidate so Hoover's camp couldn't successfully tar him as one of them, though they certainly tried. (And at that the 1932 Democratic convention saddled him with a conservative Southerner for VP to make him palatable to that faction.)
This could have been a poster for Hillary. Thank goodness he was such a rousing speaker.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden