I'm reading a biography of FDR at the same time that I'm watching the Gilded Age on Netflix. Fascinating how FDR - and America - transitioned from the first Gilded Age into a progressive era. And we can do it again. History is just repeating itself.

Mar 27, 2022 · 7:04 AM UTC

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Correction: HBO
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It’s on HBO not Netflix but yeas it’s fun!
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Omg the clothes.
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Are you really putting FDR as the transition from the gilded age to the progressive era?
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I'm talking about the society he grew up in and the arc of history he lived through. He wasn't the transition but he lived through it and was influenced by it, leading ultimately to the New Deal.
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It is either going to be the worst case scenario corrupt incompetent Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump low approval ratings OR, Biden does the impossible to be the reverse ronald reagan center left re-elected.
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SHOCK DOCTRINE October 1973 "Energy Pearl Harbor" RISING OIL PRICES CREATED A SHOCK TO THE US ECONOMY USED TO CREATE A RIGHTWARD SHIFT MOVING AWAY FROM THE KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS OF FDR's NEW DEAL ERA USHERING IN THE NEOLIBERAL POLITICS OF THE PRESENT marketplace.org/2016/05/31/h…

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Joe Biden ain’t it.
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Got to find someone from the elites like FDR and Theodore Roosevelt were who don’t mind being “a traitor to their own class.”
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