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    5 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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          So I’m you’re confused your argument is that FDR did not Implement all the programs he implemented?

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            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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                  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?

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                    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?

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      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.