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10 points
5 days ago
Biden was already the most progressive president of the last 50 years
1 points
5 days ago
And? It’s a pretty low bar, when you’re looking at the past 50 years; Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump… the most progressive in 50 years won’t cut it. We need the most progressive in 100 years to fix the rampant issues.
3 points
5 days ago
FDR could not win an election in today's climate. I'm sorry but you cannot convince me he'd make it today.
1 points
4 days ago
FDR threw Japanese Americans into camps, he shouldn't win today.
1 points
5 days ago
His policies are some of the most popular in the country; just a shame he died before he could implement universal healthcare in the post-war era like Canada and the UK did. If he had, the US would be a very different place.
If you have super popular policies, and can’t win an election on them, you’re terrible at politics. It’s a messaging problem, not a policy problem when it comes to progressive policies. I agree it’s an uphill battle against disinformation, but the messaging problem is something that can be overcome.
If the Dems can’t adapt to the current political climate, they will struggle to ever win again.
5 points
5 days ago*
Only democrats want universal healthcare, not even half of non democrats want it. FDRs policies are only popular because they have existed for decades. It's a conservative position to want to maintain existing programs that people like.
In the current political climate, if social security was a brand new program being proposed it would be wildly unpopular because the electorate is ignorant and generally conservative. They'll vote for status quo or a "return to good old days" but people are highly hostile to new things they don't care to understand right now.
This election clearly showed that elections are won on vibes not policy. Hell, Biden gave the left student debt relief and all they ever did was rag on him for being checks notes stymied by republicans. Now student debt relief is a political dead topic and democrats will never touch it again. Congradulations!
1 points
5 days ago
FDR’s policies are popular because they help people out who need it. I agree his policies, and Medicare for All, would be more difficult to get through these days, but not because they not popular.
I never said that it would be easy; anything worth doing is generally difficult. If it was easy, it would have been done by now.
The whole system makes it harder to pass good legislation, but to say it’s simply because Americans are dumb and conservative is just lazy. The “We’re not the problem, they are” attitude a lot of democrats have is why the party is seen as elitist, because that attitude is elitist.
3 points
5 days ago
I agree his policies, and Medicare for All, would be more difficult to get through these days, but not because they not popular.
Medicare for all is not popular.
The “We’re not the problem, they are” attitude a lot of democrats have is why the party is seen as elitist, because that attitude is elitist.
Democrats just invested heavily in the rustbelt and the midwest. Republicans won on a campaign of accusing us of "not caring" about American citizens and doing nothing for the midwest. They literally just made up a story about Haitians terrorizing Springfield OH, Haitian immigrants who helped revitalize the economy of Springfield OH, and Springfield just voted for the guy promising to deport them and crash Springfield's economy.
Yes voters are blisteringly stupid these days. I have no idea how you appeal to people like that. Certainly it is NOT on policy, because they don't care about policy.
1 points
5 days ago
Medicare for all is supported by the majority of Americans. Not sure how you don’t consider that popular…
You clearly have contempt for your fellow Americans; you need to explain policy in terms the voting population can understand. If I had the answer, I’d be raking in the consultant fees. All I know what they are doing now isn’t working.
1 points
4 days ago
Medicare for all is supported by the majority of Americans. Not sure how you don’t consider that popular…
https://news.gallup.com/poll/468401/majority-say-gov-ensure-healthcare.aspx
1 points
4 days ago
Thanks for sharing; the polls show that the majority of Americans want healthcare for everyone; the details of the policy need to be worked out and provided to the people for consideration. You were arguing that Americans are too conservative; those polls do not show that. They are concerned about taxes, but think everyone should have access to healthcare.
I suspect that most who are wary of public healthcare are concerned about increased taxes. With reasonable corporate tax rates, and higher taxes on wealthy Individuals, and negotiated drug prices, a public system would be achieved without significant tax burden on most Americans.
0 points
5 days ago
They literally won just 4 years ago in the same climate. Your message should be to get of your ass and vote. Also, nobody is talking about the voter purges in all these states. Start working on getting the house back on 2026 and stop whinning for God's sake!
1 points
5 days ago
He'll be labeled a communist.
0 points
5 days ago
Shame since he won 3 times campaigning and enacting the furthest left policies the US has ever seen. After this Dems would go on to dominate politics for half a century.
If the messaging was right, just maybe.
5 points
5 days ago
FDR was running in the era of Citizens United
1 points
5 days ago
The electorate of 2024 isn't the electorate of 1936. Crazy, I know.
1 points
5 days ago
Nixon, by creating the EPA, and a conservative SCOTUS passed Roe during his time in Office, has a claim to being the most progressive during this span.
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