General Discussion

It looks like you are depending on one person’s view of FDR. There are many views. The rich elite considered him to be a traitor to his class. Conservatives called him a Socialist (to be fair, some extremists also called Eisenhower a communist). Huey Long attacked him from the left. He was greater than all of that. He was a pragmatist who sought the best solutions from different factions or “lanes”. You called him a capitalist; I’ll call him a Social Democrat. There is much in Bernie’s message that echoes FDR’s New Deal, and he offers much praise for FDR. He grew up during the New Deal and obviously turns to it as a model. That is why it is absurd for people to stridently claim “Bernie is not a Democrat!”, as if it somehow disqualifies him.