Damn Dirty Nationalist
Has nationalist hatred so permeated society that even an open coup involving intelligence groups is tolerated? How you feel about that question is a litmus test on your view of nationalist fascism or American democracy. Read the following carefully. Is this Trump's reaction to criticism? Are these pompous statements what you would expect from someone leaning toward a dictatorship?
"Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administrationthat in it these forces met their master."
There is a new generation of the same parties that want the same policies today as their forebears did in 1932. There are Ukrainian nationalists, some Democrats, and some Republicans. In 1932 we were in the Great Depression. The real unemployed figures then are only rivaled by the unemployment today.
Democratic Party leaderssaw Adolf Hitler's Third Reich as a model and so did most of Europe. America and the world looked up to Adolf Hitler. It took one of the greatest Democratic presidents in US history to stand up to this and stop it cold. The quote above was from FDR. Franklin Roosevelt was the most hated president-elect ever at that point.
Democrats with bi-partisan support from some Republicans then tried to work a sitting coup on FDR after the assassination attempt by the OUNb Ukrainians failed. Killing FDR was to facilitate the original coup plan. Some Democrats and some Republicans wanted to side with Adolf Hitler going into WWII.
Media then did what media is doing now. They tried FDR in the pressand convicted him. And yes, Republican McCarthyism was a direct outgrowth of this. McCarthy got the "White Book" nationalist/fascist investigations closed and opened the Red Book and Red Scare.
Roosevelt set about Constitutionally questionable reforms that put America back to work. In the 1936 election, FDR won in an unprecedented landslide. He took 46 states and more than 60% of the popular vote.
To make the New Deal work Roosevelt worked with Progressive Republicans. It was a bi-partisan effort and would have failed otherwise. To put America back to work, progressives had to be involved from all sides. Otherwise, America and Axis Germany would have been partnered.
What Is Progressive?
According to Roosevelt, "The true conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative."
Am I proclaiming Donald Trump is the new FDR? No. What I'm saying is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not FDR when he was elected either. He had to become that great leader in short order just to survive. It was the progressive bipartisan effort that put the country first and politics second that made FDR who he was.
Reforms that are put forward by the Trump administration need progressive support. If this president is going to create jobs, will political pride get in the way of putting as many of 94 million fellow Americans back to work as possible?
If Trump attempts real government reforms like limiting lobbyists ability to influence elections, Federal employees becoming lobbyists, or even pushing term limits, is it supportable?
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