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[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Can we make out? 😂

Obama said we weren't ready for gay equality and handled the insurance lobby the Heritage Foundation's ACA promising customers while redefining enemy combatants to execute American citizens without due process.

Bush2 revenge for Daddy where Cheney's Haliburton mercs made half a million while troops had to write home for rations and body armor.

Clinton balanced the budget but unleashed the third way neo liberal rainbow Republicans.

Bush 1 tax cuts and bullshit oil wars.

Reagan. Fuck Reagan with a rusty pike. Between repealing the fairness doctrine and education sabotage, a lot of this falls on that cunt's shoulders...

But Nixon gave away healthcare to Permanente.

Johnson warned of the very racists he courted but luckily he loved black votes more than he hated black voters.

Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex he empowered much like Biden warned of the oligarchs he spent 40 years working for and not taxing.

Goldwater warned of the religious fanatics taking over the Republican party.

But you go back to Smedly Butler and the Business Plot and you'll see the last 100 years have been a slow walk back of all of the things FDR accomplished.

They really gloss over the fact FDR was a socialist elected into office for 4 consecutive terms. The 2 term limit stemmed from business interests upset that people were being protected and didn't want any more of this socialism nonsense where society works for society and not just the rich.

In fact, every study on term limits shows they're bad because you don't get rid of paid for shills but you do lose the Sanders types that do the job well because they've done it properly.

I've always found it funny how the people that fall for this shit also have very firm stances against estate taxes despite having negative net worth.

Most people's opinions are spoon fed to them and they just never really question why they believe anything or notice how most of it is conflicting nonsense.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can we make out? 😂

Lol. Where are you located (vaguely is fine)? Are you female and between the ages of 25-45? If so and not on the other side of the world, maybe! 🤣

Yes to all the rest although I’d argue FDR was a social democrat and not a socialist.

Fair, but right now everything left of the children long for the mines is socialism...