this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2024
1214 points (97.4% liked)

Political Memes

5509 readers
2255 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How can you say it was one and not the other? I'd say it was more likely a bit of both.

[–] JohnOliver@feddit.dk 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am just guessing that had it been due to exclusively the ideology of a democratic socialist, that there would have been more people to choose from.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

FDR was popular because the policies worked. If he'd crashed the economy again instead of beginning the recovery it doesn't matter how much people liked him, he'd have lost reelection.

[–] JohnOliver@feddit.dk 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But was it him who came up with the policies or his political oeientation? were the policies socialistic democratic policies? If so, why didn't they reelect an other democratic socialist if the policies based on that ideology worked, instead of voting for the same person again and again?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

They did, and it eventually ended up with ending segregation with the Civil Rights Act (more or less)

And then Reagan