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.

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Dear Marianne, Thank you for your tweets these days. So many are letting themselves fall into defeatist language when so much is still at stake.Did a couple of rigged primaries make the problems we had all pledged to fight against just vanish? Hell no!So we're still fighting
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All capitalism is crony capitalism
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Really? I remember it happened 12 years ago too.
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FDR is the closest thing the US has ever had to a fascist dictator.
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