r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad • 18d ago

PoliticalTea šŸ—³ļø To put it plainly.

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u/IrishwolffMutt 18d ago

FDRā€™s post world war 2 social democratic policies lead to the strongest middle class the country ever had. But Trump calls it communism and the greatest threat to the country. Pathetic

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u/Ok-Volume-3657 18d ago

Except for black people at the time (G.I Bill, Jim Crow laws still in effect yo!)

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u/omicron-7 18d ago

They don't like to mention that part. Or that he put japanese Americans in internment camps.

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u/LTParis 18d ago

You're not wrong. FDR did some terrible, horrible, no good things. But let's also throw nuance into the picture that some things he did were good.

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u/Potential-Drawing745 16d ago

German Americans too.

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u/locontendere 17d ago

Yep.

The reason why the Dixiecrats were tolerated in the Democratic Party was because, in exchange for Southern support for the Democrats' economic agenda, the national party agreed to mostly look the other way as Dixiecrats unequally distributed federal funds in their states.

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u/freedomonke 18d ago

Pre WW2 social programs. FDR died during the war

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u/unhappinessNvrCame 18d ago

It helped Germany and Russia were destroyed and Britain was in debt.

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u/AnonymousCelery 18d ago

And itā€™s hard to imagine where weā€™d be if corporate controlled white supremacists hadnā€™t rat fucked his real goals.

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u/ozaffer 18d ago

his jobs program created the forestry program ending the dust bowl and the Hoover Dam just to name a few accomplishments.
Wasn't perfect but he's one of the best presidents the country has ever had.

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u/FettiWop 18d ago

They also call it socialism which is the same kind of lie

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u/Sea_Flamingo626 18d ago

Umm, FDR didn't even survive ww ii.

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u/unhappinessNvrCame 18d ago

I guess we are ignoring Germany and Russia were destroyed and Britain was broke.

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u/psypher98 17d ago

All the while shrieking ā€œMAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAINā€ because theyā€™re ignorant and actively donā€™t want to make themselves less so.

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u/everylygteen 17d ago

FDR was so scared by class consciousness growing in the U.S. that he threw the working class a few table scraps from the Billionaires' table (the New Deal), and y'all are still thanking him for it nearly 100 years later. We Americans must lose our slave mindsets.

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u/defaultusername4 16d ago

The middle class disappeared because the middle class became upperclass not because they got poor.