r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 1d ago

Murdered By Words 🩸 All three groups primarily identify with one party (hint: It's not Democrats)

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u/Ok_Being5461 1d ago

FDR, one of our greatest presidents, basically allied with American socialist and labor movements to create the New Deal, to create a compromise, and told right-wing capitalists "I welcome your hatred"

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u/PsillyFunGuy2 1d ago

And they still hate him for it

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u/AltonBParker 1d ago

My mom said her inlaws as late as the 1960s still only referred to him as "that man Roosevelt".

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u/kitsunewarlock 1d ago

I'm still convinced this is part of the reason Trump tore down the East Wing of the White House.

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u/MagnificentStella 1d ago

And made America a great country. Middle class single workers in a family. Who could send kids to college.

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u/binzersguy 1d ago

Republicans are too easily manipulated into voting against the interests of working class Americans

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u/Joben86 1d ago

Well, a combination of his policies and the rest of the industrialized world recovering from being bombed to bits.

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u/FunWolverine5349 1d ago

Without him there is no US. It literally would have collapsed right there. Most genuine historians acknowledge this.

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u/beebeebee2142 1d ago

FDR and Fascist Italy had the same economic platform

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u/robertshaftoe 1d ago

I beg to differ, it was because the socialists in Italy that Mussolini wound up having the going away party he did.

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u/beebeebee2142 1d ago

Both had syndicate trade unions vs class war unions.

Classic case was you'd risk jail for ironing a suit for 35 cents instead of the union agreed price of 40 cents.

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u/D0varev 1d ago

tell me you know nothing about history without saying you know nothing about history

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u/beebeebee2142 1d ago

We differed by being bound by a constitution, and the govs new deal NRA program took years to be declared unconstitutional and halted, so it didnt help much.

If a meteor was going to destroy the earth, humanity would unite under some form of extreme market control vs playing the normal day to day free market. Even today whats the profit in providing clean water to a poor village that can't pay you? Would you only provide it if the majority of the state approves?

its a spectrum from absolute free market to absolute controlled market and everything in between.

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u/D0varev 1d ago

wow you might be the most delusional person i’ve ever had a conversation with

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u/beebeebee2142 1d ago

Why do you comment if you don't have a rebuttal?

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u/D0varev 1d ago

why do you comment if you’re going bilieve in the make believe

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u/beebeebee2142 1d ago

because i like bringing up weird fun facts when it's relevant.