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Harold Meyerson Responds to CAP's Attack on Bernie Sanders

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 "In his nationally broadcast  speech on the eve of the 1936 election, FDR identified his “unscrupulous enemies” as business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.  Franklin Roosevelt  attackied the reactionary rich more directly and vehemently than Sanders ever has!   He was the heir to an old New York fortune who raised taxes on the wealthy, legalized collective bargaining, and levied attacks on the rich far more coruscating than anything Sanders has ever said ."I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master." Whew! Next to that, Sanders sounds like Mr. Rogers.

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