FDR didn’t just pull us out of the Depression. He fundamentally altered economic/banking/political rules so it wouldn’t happen again. Several decades ago we started dismantling some of the very protections that FDR created, so crony capitalists could party more. And here we are.

Mar 18, 2020 · 3:37 PM UTC

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Matt Stoller's recent book Goliath is a great history of that, our century and a half struggle with monopoly, FDR was our high point.
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Hates say "its because of FDR that the recession lasted so long" as if Chase & Wells Fargo werent eating steak every night and were in any rush.
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You can't think Joe will alter the rules. Too often he barely knows what decade he's in Returning to the devastating #ObamaLegacy policies isn't how the DNC can win.
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he saved capitalism
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Have you ever read ‘America’s Great Depression’ by Murray Rothbard?
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Well, FDR didn't pull America from the depression, WW2 did ... So there is that
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The thing that made this politically viable for them to do is anti-communism. For as long as Americans see communists as bigger or equivalent enemies than corporate monopolists, we’ll never be free.
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