Roosevelt fought for the 99%. He was against corporations as persons, against child labor (hey Newit!), for a progressive income tax, for health care, and for conservation and National Parks. Amazing how far the Republican party has sunk in its quest to only represent the 1%.
Actually, no. The Republican Party never forgave TR for running as a third party candidate in 1912, thereby assuring a Dem victory. Repub friends he’d known for decades were crossing the street to avoid speaking to him, it was that bad.
Again, almost too silly to warrant a response; however, this Democratic party isn’t even CLOSE to being socialist. The modern Democratic party is right of Eisenhower, and that includes President Obama. I know that stupid people like to try to throw the S word around like it’s some kind of Scarlet Letter, but if you can put aside the labels for a minute (and I know you can’t) you’ll see that the progressive movement is pointing out that this country is run by corporations for whom profit is not only the bottom line, but the ONLY line! People lose out when profits rule and these corporations have purchased our government. Deregulation has crashed the economy and thrown millions of people out on the street, people with no healthcare, people with starving children. Deregulation is threatening to take away the environmental protections we’ve fought so hard to win. If corporations get their way, the rivers will be catching on fire again, and cancers will increase.etc., etc., etc. Drop the labels and try thinking for a change you idiot!
Neither party is what they were in the ’50’s. The Republicans became the opposite of TR, and the Dems lost their KKK folks. Not all bad, not all good, however, today’s “Republicans” aren’t EITHER party of the 50’s, more like 30’s, in that country on the other side of the Atlantic.
The only Socialist in the federal government (Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders) says that Obama is nowhere near socialist.TR’s Progressive Party Platform of 1912 is too liberal for the Democratic party today. It included, for example, universal healthcare and taxing the rich.http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=607
Christopher Shea over 12 years ago
TR, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan — all too liberal for the modern Republican party.
SaltWaterCroc over 12 years ago
Roosevelt fought for the 99%. He was against corporations as persons, against child labor (hey Newit!), for a progressive income tax, for health care, and for conservation and National Parks. Amazing how far the Republican party has sunk in its quest to only represent the 1%.
Simon_Jester over 12 years ago
Actually, no. The Republican Party never forgave TR for running as a third party candidate in 1912, thereby assuring a Dem victory. Repub friends he’d known for decades were crossing the street to avoid speaking to him, it was that bad.
pirate227 over 12 years ago
Fight fire with fire, I always say.
tcolkett over 12 years ago
Again, almost too silly to warrant a response; however, this Democratic party isn’t even CLOSE to being socialist. The modern Democratic party is right of Eisenhower, and that includes President Obama. I know that stupid people like to try to throw the S word around like it’s some kind of Scarlet Letter, but if you can put aside the labels for a minute (and I know you can’t) you’ll see that the progressive movement is pointing out that this country is run by corporations for whom profit is not only the bottom line, but the ONLY line! People lose out when profits rule and these corporations have purchased our government. Deregulation has crashed the economy and thrown millions of people out on the street, people with no healthcare, people with starving children. Deregulation is threatening to take away the environmental protections we’ve fought so hard to win. If corporations get their way, the rivers will be catching on fire again, and cancers will increase.etc., etc., etc. Drop the labels and try thinking for a change you idiot!
oneoldhat over 12 years ago
bho motto speak alot and bow and kiss ring just because you borrow a phrase does not make policies the same
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
Neither party is what they were in the ’50’s. The Republicans became the opposite of TR, and the Dems lost their KKK folks. Not all bad, not all good, however, today’s “Republicans” aren’t EITHER party of the 50’s, more like 30’s, in that country on the other side of the Atlantic.
Motivemagus over 12 years ago
The only Socialist in the federal government (Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders) says that Obama is nowhere near socialist.TR’s Progressive Party Platform of 1912 is too liberal for the Democratic party today. It included, for example, universal healthcare and taxing the rich.http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=607
halfabug over 12 years ago
Obama will never be anyone but who he is. Thats very scary.
Dtroutma over 12 years ago
The “Republican” party is repugnant to TR, Ike, and even Reagan, as they go for ’12, 2012 that is.
cdward over 12 years ago
Of course the old Democrats (you know, the Jim Crow folks) are now Republicans. Funny how things switch around.