I often heard my parents say that Franklin D Roosevelt was the best president ever known to them. I know he made many mistakes in his presidency of which I would not have agreed upon BUT economically FDR was a giant.
What is wrong with some of these people in Congress today? They don’t want to legislate. They don’t want progress and they don’t want accountability. Basically, I feel they do not want America to succeed or even survive.
People used to want to vote. People marched to get the right to vote. People thought electing officials smarter than they were was they right thing to do. Money? Is it all about money? Is it propaganda? Is it lack of leadership? Is it apathy? Is it church interference? Is it power? Is it laziness? Could it be all of these things?
The younger generation and those post Boomer age are going to endure even worse times than we have now from climate change to a host of other consequences if We the People don’t stop the obstruction and madness. America is not Burger King. We don’t get it our way most of the time but we should be able to function as a civilized common sense society.
Roosevelt brought in Social Security, the CCC, jobs, Banking Insurance and all of these ideas were considered socialism but during years of nearly starving to death during the Great Depression, he was not held back by a whiney and obstucting congress.
The Supreme Court topped FDR's list of concerns. If the Court had ruled the centerpiece of the early New Deal unconstitutional, FDR reasoned, it was likely to do the same to subsequent programs, such as the Social Security Act, when they appeared on the Court's docket. Roosevelt's best hope was for the composition of the Court to change. But older, conservative justices opposed to FDR's program refused to retire—and some of the most ardent New Deal supporters surmised that these jurists simply refused to die—so FDR sought a more systematic way to shield his policies from court action.
In early February, 1937, he proposed legislation that would expand the membership of the Court, adding a new justice for every sitting justice over the age of seventy-five. This maneuver would have put six new Roosevelt-appointed justices on the Court, giving FDR a comfortable majority that could be expected to validate the New Deal. Though most of the press erupted in fury, denouncing FDR as a would-be dictator, he had so large a majority in both houses of Congress (5-1 in the Senate, 4-1 in the House) that political commentators expected the bill to pass. But in late-March the Court began to uphold state and federal social legislation in what has been called "the switch in time that saved nine." When the bill finally reached the Senate floor in July, Roosevelt no longer had the votes he needed. He claimed, though, with good reason, that though he had lost the battle he had won the war, for never again did the Court strike down a New Deal law. Scholars differ on why the Court changed, but they almost all agree that what happened in 1937 was nothing less than a "Constitutional Revolution." From that day to this, the Court has not invalidated a single piece of major New Deal legislation regulating business or expanding social rights.
I think Biden strives to follow FDR as FDR was neither a strong liberal or strong conservative according to what I have read but he was a President who was fortunate enough to have a congress not fighting him every step of the way. No one ever cried that Roosevelt had stolen the election.
Some of the more liberal measures of the New Deal encountered stiff resistance in Congress, often from conservative Southerners within the President's own party. As a result, FDR attempted in 1938 to purge conservative congressional Democrats by supporting their more liberal opponents in the party's primaries. He went after Senators Millard Tydings (MD), "Cotton Ed" Smith (SC), and Walter George (GA), as well as seven other conservative Democrats. FDR's plan failed miserably; of the ten Democrats he targeted for ouster, only one lost. The others returned to Washington even more antagonistic toward the President. In addition, many other Democrats resented the President's meddling in local affairs.
FDR had his problems with party as well but I wonder what would have happened had a January 6th happened before Hoover left office. I truly wonder.
One thing you can say about the idiots on the right. They stand by their man even to the point of inssurection and destruction of democracy. We constantly bicker among ourselves and I am getting pretty tired of it.