Reply #8: Do you really think another FDR can help at this point?

[chknltl]

Sometimes I listen to others here in the DU (and elsewhere), and find myself thinking that America really is lost. It is when I read things like what FDR said in that speech that I grow hopeful. Perhaps if American Democracy survived the Great Depression once, it can survive it again.

In my heart I feel that Democracy is the one true government of human-kind's future. It seems fairest. It seems to me that the masses can not long suffer kings and dictators and such, especially if those masses feel they have little to no say in their own future. It is my suspicion that Democracy must at some point invariable break out when the majority of the masses determine that "enough is enough". I think that is what happened during the Great Depression and it is my hopes it will happen here again.

(No, don't ask me why China never had Democracy break out...I really have no answer there...it may be that it hasn't broke out "YET")