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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

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EEO

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Fri Nov 14, 2014, 12:27 AM Nov 2014

The Roosevelt Party - Branding and the Details [View all]

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The records of FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt taken together cover many of the ideals liberals hold dear. While those ideals were limited by the era they lived in, the name Roosevelt can help us lead the Democratic Party back to the left through educating our fellow Americans how socialism is one of the things that makes America great. Liberals should be known as Roosevelt Democrats, as should politicians who have records in line with liberal ideals.

What we need to do is make a clear platform of what liberalism offers to Americans, both in the present and in the future, so Roosevelt Democrats can be identified and ranked. On that subject, I recently found this site, which ranks members of Congress as liberal or conservative:

http://thatsmycongress.com/senate/index.html

Once we come up with a framework of what we want the Democratic Party to look like then we can decide how to get it done.

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