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    Ok, this is my problem with liberals. They do have some noble goals and policies in their best days, but they are also half blind (usually blinded by capital).

    This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights-among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.

    Complete nonsense. America was founded on the genocide of the Amerindian peoples and abject slavery. What rights did they have? Political rights my ass, the only people who had political rights in the beginning were rich landowning white men. Many of these systems (eg. electoral college) or inequalities (eg. prison slavery) remain to this day. As FDR filled his mouth with this shit he was sending more than a hundred thousand people to internment camps FFS. Even today the bill of rights is curtailed time and time again to serve capital or good ole white privilege.

    FDR was re-elected three times and was by far the most popular American president of all times. In my opinion his New Deal is the best we can do to keep capitalism fair.

    You say communism is s fantasy, but I think what you wrote there is a fantasy. You can't regulate capitalism, capital is always finding loopholes or using its might to undo regulations. That's what happened during the post war period and why we are today living in a new gilded age, with borderline environmental catastrophe to boot.

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     6 years ago  

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