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What If Socialism Takes Over the Democratic Party? (jacobin.com)

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt has entered the chat.

FDR's policies included things like equal rights for all, massive spending on infrastructure, anti-fascism, and a minimum wage that would let people thrive, not just survive.

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[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

And he was so popular that it took a constitutional amendment to stop him.

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago

The really funny thing is that Republicans shot themselves in the foot when they pushed that amendment.

Ike and Reagan* could have been three term Presidents.

*If his dementia could have been covered up.

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