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If you think this reading an FDR speech, try reading a Leon Blum speech
Every time I read an FDR speech it breaks my heart to see someone who assumes his audience is actually capable of understanding complex ideas and interested in learning more.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If you think this reading an FDR speech, try reading a Leon Blum speech
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Also the inexplicable pivot to FDR comparisons? Also the conclusion that Americans love paying mortgages is hilarious
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Also the inexplicable pivot to FDR comparisons? Also the conclusion that Americans love paying mortgages is hilarious
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What really gets me about FDR is that he introduced his Second Bill of Rights idea in 1944, and it's an idea so progressive that you almost couldn't run a campaign on it today because it's too far-reaching. It would be trying to accomplish too much. How far we have fallen.
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What really gets me about FDR is that he introduced his Second Bill of Rights idea in 1944, and it's an idea so progressive that you almost couldn't run a campaign on it today because it's too far-reaching. It would be trying to accomplish too much. How far we have fallen.
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when fdr was president, there were campaign contribution limits
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
when fdr was president, there were campaign contribution limits
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@khanna.house.gov in conversation with @neeratanden.bsky.social: "We are in an FDR moment... We're making so much wealth; we need to make sure that prosperity is shared.”
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
@khanna.house.gov in conversation with @neeratanden.bsky.social: "We are in an FDR moment... We're making so much wealth; we need to make sure that prosperity is shared.”
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The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
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With language like this FDR would never gain the endorsement of such Democratic titans as Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
With language like this FDR would never gain the endorsement of such Democratic titans as Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
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Let's see: Grover Cleveland won three straight popular vote victories: 48.8-48.3, was turned out on an Electoral Vote flip of New York state, but won the PV 48.6 - 47.8, and won the PV and the EC the third time 46.0 - 43.0. FDR won 4 PV victories with 57.4, 60.8, 54.7 and finished with 53.4.
March 25, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Let's see: Grover Cleveland won three straight popular vote victories: 48.8-48.3, was turned out on an Electoral Vote flip of New York state, but won the PV 48.6 - 47.8, and won the PV and the EC the third time 46.0 - 43.0. FDR won 4 PV victories with 57.4, 60.8, 54.7 and finished with 53.4.
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And when they call FDR a socialist remind them America elected him four times. His smallest margin 53.4% and his largest was 60.8% ✊
September 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
And when they call FDR a socialist remind them America elected him four times. His smallest margin 53.4% and his largest was 60.8% ✊