On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: >> If they had Obama instead of FDR do you >> think the New Deal would have happened? > > Obama would be different if there were mass pressure on the state, > just as FDR himself changed as that pressure changed. I think that > it's a mistake to focus on a politician's personality alone, if that's > what you're doing here.
I am not *focusing* on one politician's personality. You seem to think that individuals and personalities do not matter, but I do not agree with that. My own opinion is that it is definitely possible to co-opt the DP for progressive purposes similar to the New Deal, but that requires first throwing the bums out beginning with Obama. The model for how such a co-optation could work is the Tea Party takeover of the Republican Party after 2008. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
