What the GOP doesn’t understand is that ‘socialism’ is not a bad word for the unemployed. If the GOP had fair trade and had not bled jobs from this country, they would not have lost the election. You can say anything. People without jobs won’t listen. The GOP will be blamed for this recession/depression.
This is not unfair. I think both parties share the blame, but the party that holds the presidency sets the monetary policy. My Grandpa was a big FDR fan. He told me once that ‘everyone knew that FDR cared about the people’. He believed without FDR, millions of Americans would have starved. There was a connection-a trust if you will of FDR. The GOP has lost the trust of the American people. It will be hard to combat this in the short term. Perhaps in the the coming years Repubs can win back the trust of the people.
“What the GOP doesn’t understand is that ‘socialism’ is not a bad word for the unemployed.”
More importantly, the Dems DO understand that making more people dependent on Govt will “HOOK” them
” If the GOP had fair trade and had not bled jobs from this country, they would not have lost the election.”
Disagree. We created jobs and had unemployment at the remarkable low level of under 5% in 2006 ... and we still lost the Congress. Since then, the Dems have mucked things enough to weaken the economy. That weakening had nothing to do with ‘bled jobs’, when in fact trade has created the best high-paying jobs in the economy. It did have something to do with Democrat threats to raise taxes.
“My Grandpa was a big FDR fan. He told me once that ‘everyone knew that FDR cared about the people’. He believed without FDR, millions of Americans would have starved.”
Your Grandpa was sold a bill of goods.
FDR lengthened the great depression and his policies failed to cure unemployment and haremd the ability of the country to grow:
http://www.parapundit.com/archives/005635.html
It was ironically the Great Depression precisely
The scary thing is that FDR’s PR was better than his economic policies and the Republicans were not able to offer a credible alternative. The fact that your Grandpa and millions like him revered a man whose policies made them poorer is a testament to the dangers of patronage socialist economics.
The GOP will need to be ready with pro-growth policies.