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If Mamdani and Fateh Become Mayors, Will Dem Elites Still Collude to Sink Them? (truthout.org)

submitted 8 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Parts of Fateh and Mamdani’s platforms would be difficult to execute without cooperation from their city councils.

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[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The DNC under FDR was very different. It used many successful socialist policies to fix the economy and massively improved the lives of most Americans.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely nothing about what FDR passed was socialist. FDR's policies were capitalist concessions to labor in order to stave off actual revolution, which was a legitimate threat in the 30s, and was never intended as anything more than that meme of paying someone $100 to fuck off.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Social Security

Farm subsidies - Agricultural Adjustment Act

Many job creation programs

Unemployment benefits

The New Deal - there’s a reason why the GOP and every right wing think tank has spent massive amounts of money and decades of effort to destroy it.