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Can we please just have a real progressive party instead?
With the current voting system, no real restrictions on billionaire funding, and a complicit mainstream media... I don't think we're gonna get much from electoralism at this point, we're kinda on our own. FDR didn't have all these obstacles back in the day.
FDR didn't have all these obstacles back in the day.
Yes he did. The difference was that he had to respond in a way that satisfied a militant labor movement without going too far to disrupt the capitalist class. It was a fight up hill the entire way by working class union members.
The wealth disparity is the same, but the populace and circumstances are a bit different:
I don't disagree that it was a hard fight for the working class to even get that much, even without those externalities
FDR also was from the 1%, so he knew how to talk to his fellows.
In other breaking news, the fire department announces an initiative to ban all fires after their station burned to the ground during a live streamed flashmob arson attack.
Rep. Greg Cesar (D-TX) replacing Rep. Pramila Jayapal who was term limited.
Ready to 'Fight Billionaires, Grifters, and Republican Frauds"
With what, exactly?
We should keep our eyes on them in case they ever end up in camps...
It was these people. They did the UC guy.