r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Jul 27 '26

PoliticalTea šŸ—³ļø To put it plainly.

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u/IrishwolffMutt Jul 27 '26

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 Jul 27 '26

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

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u/omicron-7 Jul 27 '26

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

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u/LTParis Jul 27 '26

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 Jul 29 '26

German Americans too.

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u/locontendere Jul 28 '26

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 Jul 27 '26

Pre WW2 social programs. FDR died during the war

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u/unhappinessNvrCame Jul 27 '26

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

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u/AnonymousCelery Jul 27 '26

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 Jul 27 '26

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 Jul 27 '26

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

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u/Sea_Flamingo626 Jul 27 '26

Umm, FDR didn't even survive ww ii.

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u/unhappinessNvrCame Jul 27 '26

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

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u/psypher98 Jul 28 '26

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 Jul 28 '26

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 Jul 29 '26

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