IMO The Best President The U.S. Has Had.

[Xicano]

:toast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP4H6tVBdmc

[hfojvt]

1. I am not seeing a President in that video

as much as the American people taking to the streets. If Roosevelt was pushing a progressive agenda it was because that is what the people were demanding.

[Captain Hilts]

2. FDR had life experiences that made him a progressive. nt

[AllentownJake]

3. and an angry mob of unemployed starving people

a growing fascist and communist movement and a good read of history of what happens in bad economic times and people don't get relief.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Yes. Times were more clearly dire. That helped a lot. nt

[AllentownJake]

5. They are just as dire economically

Difference is we have a social safety net that is preventing people from hitting rock bottom.

Judging from what I'm reading on State Budgets in 2010, that net is about to be lowered a little closer to the ground.

[DailyGrind51]

6. We are seeing the beginning of that now, with the teabaggers.

"Personality cults" around demagogues like Palin are strikingly similar to what occurred in Europe during the 1930s.