People are worried about America's solvency

Re:People are worried about America's solvency by danaris on Monday August 17, 2026 @01:45PM (#49334863)

This is utterly untrue.

The Democratic Party has been the left-wing party since around the turn of the 20th century. Yes, there was a flip, but it was (roughly) under Teddy Roosevelt. Not Franklin Roosevelt.

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Re:People are worried about America's solvency by IAmBroom on Monday August 17, 2026 @01:56PM (#49335028)

Actual data, like party voting by states, disagree.

And the comment you are replying to didn't mention Franklin Roosevelt. Are you in the right thread?

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Re:People are worried about America's solvency by scarecrowbob on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:40PM (#49339686)

Ah yes, I remember Strom Thurmond, that great firebrand of the left, and his 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Basically Lenin. /s

To be fair, US political culture (and capitalism in general) contain deep, deep contradictions so it's going to require a whole lot of glue and squinting to say that there is any coherence to any US political party...

The person you're responding to has it correct, though, that there was an important cultural shift around Johnson and Nixon and the Southern Strategy and all that... not that these cultural politics could ever touch the materialist facts of capital.

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