Liberal Forum

Polar1ty » 20 Jun 2021, 8:52 am » wrote: ↑

20 Jun 2021, 8:52 am

If you ask liberals what kind of government/administration they support, the majority will say something that resembles the policies of Canada or some country in Western/Northern Europe. You would say that you want someone mimicking FDR in 2021.

If we had an "establishment" that is liberal/actively pushing liberal policies, why would liberals oppose what THEY WANT?

​​​​​​​​Well, first, we don't. So your question is hypothetical, and even if it exposes a flaw in the OP, it leaves it standing, flawed though it be.

Second, my thesis is that even liberal administrations are conservative by nature and by necessity. No way around it.

We could do a **** of a lot worse - are doing a **** of a lot worse - than mimicking FDR in 2021. No more bank failures. Sane protectionism. Genuine public works projects. A genuine graduated tax scheme giving rise to a burgeoning middle class reaching ever lower and lower, becoming ever more accessible to more and more people - and a working class that can live with dignity and pride of accomplishment.

As do all leaders, FDR committed enormous crimes. Even the great Vladimir Putin has committed a few petty crimes. But FDR did more good for more people for more decades than any president in our history. We still draw power from his dams, access his electrical grid, and benefit from the genuine infrastructural developments he undertook.

But he left plenty for liberals to oppose, did he not?