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The Way Forward

yellow dahlia

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1. Some of it seems so obvious.

Reply to ProfessorPlum (Original post)

Sun Jan 26, 2025, 02:01 PM

Jan 26

I ask - where is our FDR? He was smart and savvy. He was intellectually rigorous and rigorously aware. He was sophisticated and affable. I am not an FDR biographer, so my observations are limited. But it seems to me one of the things that made him successful as the leader of our country during fraught times was that he was multi-faceted. He wasn't cookie cutter. IMHO

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Democratic politicians need to act like they are trying to win popularity contests by being populists [View all] ProfessorPlum Jan 26 OP

Some of it seems so obvious. yellow dahlia Jan 26 #1

gosh who would have thought of this ... stopdiggin Jan 26 #2

second take stopdiggin Jan 26 #3

maybe you could provide a list of all of the branches of government Democrats control. I'll wait ProfessorPlum Jan 26 #5

and of course Fetterman will turn that corner for us. stopdiggin Jan 26 #6

Fetterman, for all of his weird unknown motivations, WON ProfessorPlum Jan 27 #7

populism is one thing stopdiggin Jan 27 #8

OF COURSE sanity is important. More than anything. I voted for the sane candidate in the last election ProfessorPlum Jan 27 #9

Unfortunately the leadership is risk averse and will continue the game of 'not as bad as those guys'. Voltaire2 Jan 26 #4

Talk about enhancing Medicare... raising SS benefits... WarGamer Jan 27 #10