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The greatest expansion of Rights in American history came in a period where Democrats had a very strong string of victories. From FDR to LBJ Democrats dominated in this country, it was also the period in which basically everything we consider the Cornerstone of our nation was developed. It's also the period that the conservatives are trying to roll back as hard as humanly possible.
Conservatives including some Democrats.
that's at a time when democrats were republicans and republicans were democrats; things change and so do political parties and whitewashing like this suggests either shallow understanding or willful misrepresentation.
It absolutely wasn't. This is a time when the new deal was created. This is the time when the American middle class was created. Social Security. Civil Rights Act. Voting Rights Act. All during this period thanks to the Democrats. The Republicans who left the Democratic party are those that left because they didn't like what the Democratic party was doing. The idea that both parties completely swapped places one day is an infantile understanding of that scenario.
it's crystal clear from your response that you could use a refresher on your modern american history so i found this for you.
So I'm you're confused your argument is that FDR did not Implement all the programs he implemented?
oic now; i think i can understand our disconnect now.
the democrats of the 1930's have less in common with the democrats of today than they have with the republicans of today. pretending otherwise is either shallow understanding or willful misrepresentation.
You think the Democrats of FDR's time have more in common with Republicans of today whose sole purpose is the dismantling of everything FDR did?
Talk about willful misinterpretation.
very true since you're efforts to steer the conversation away from party platforms towards a political outlier makes this clear.
You think FDR was a political outlier? The man who ran the entire party for 4 terms and crafted the legislation of over a decade? That's a political outlier?
And I guess his entire Congress was an outlier too?
he's our only 4 term president; he's one of the biggest political outliers there is.
why do you keep steering the topic away from the party platforms?
So I guess that entire decade and a half of History doesn't count for reasons? That's amazing isn't it? As for party platform we've already talked about it it was the New Deal, Social Security, medicare, civil rights, voting rights, Etc... All the things conservatives hate most in the world. But please try to pretend that conservatives haven't been trying to destroy those basically since the day they were enacted. Please try to pretend that you're conservative friends are actually in favor of freedom despite every single action they've taken. What absolute drivel.
the last 2 decades of progress happened because of hollywood along with political agitators and the only drivel presented here are your failed attempts to create a link between fdr with today's democrats where they share nothing more than a party name.
also you are the only one who said anything about conservatives attempting to destroy the new deal, social security, medicare, civil rights, etc. and, for the record, i agree with you on this point.
Hollywood!? What abdolute bunk. You are simply an absurd person.
Democrats were never Republicans or vice versa. Prior to 1964 both parties had a diverse balance of Bigots. Democrats having a large contingent of racist southern Dixiecrats. Republicans had also long been the party of fascists and Nazi sympathizers. What happened post 1964 was not a party or ideological switch per se. Democrats just ditched the bigots courting a much bigger potential voting block. Republicans having lost the chance to court the same voting block instead courted the bigots fleeing the Democratic Party. It was a concentration of bigots. Not a change of ideology.
it's crystal clear from your response that you could use a refresher on your modern american history so i found this for you.
That doesn't contradict anything I said. Care to try again?
if you're still not understanding; you're beyond any help i can render.