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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo did the magic trick work?
I've been out of circulation for a week... is Hillary now Eleanor and FDR rolled into one?
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So did the magic trick work? (Original Post)
tk2kewl
Jun 2015
OP
Welcome back.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)2. Oh. Thought you were talking about the one...
that turned Bernie into a Democrat.
Sid
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)3. Good one.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)4. lol. That was perfect.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)6. i guess he is too far left for some dems
TM99
(8,352 posts)5. Yes, but with certain caveats.
You see, FDR and the New Deal is the old racist and non-social justice Democratic Party. We have evolved into a newer more enlightened version.
But at the same time, HRC's husband Bill and Obama himself are both channeling FDR while she considers him a mentor and Eleanor a hero.
So if the old is bad and the new is good but the new is channeling the old for its 'goodiness', who is really good and who is really bad? Are old Dems good or bad or are New Dems good or bad.
It seems rather paradoxical and quite incongruent but that seems to work for some people.