On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Bullshit. Hillary & Obama and
> EDwards and t he rest of the war criminals are every bit as
> imaginative,
> sensitive, and intelligent as FDR. Only the condtions of the empire
> have
> changed.
Well, the threatened collapse of capitalism led FDR to agree to some social democratic reforms. It was a rare moment in American politics when the "left" was collective rather than individualist/populist. Didn't last, but it was a departure.
Doug