It is time to make changes in our government and hold our Congress responsible. In my time, Franklin D. Roosevelt handled the Great Depression by regulating banks and corporations, and setting wage and price controls. FDR put men back to work after World War II. He had a hand in creating Social Security. For all his work, he was called a socialist, a loaded term often used as a weapon.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been called a socialist because he proposes control of banks and corporations that are buying Congress. Sanders is the only candidate who has the correct method to bring our country back to a true democratic system. Sanders said, “We are going to ask the wealthiest people in this country, who are doing phenomenally well, and many large corporations that are making billions of dollars of profits and not paying a nickel in taxes, to in fact start paying their fair share of taxes.” He has self-identified as a democratic socialist.
There are many examples in U.S. history of government intervention in the economy, from FDR’s New Deal to President Richard Nixon’s price controls. If anyone hurls the word socialist as a label for Sanders, the politics of Teddy Roosevelt, “Ike” Eisenhower and other GOP presidents should instantly come to mind. As Sanders said, “I’m not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.”
Comparing Sanders to FDR is a good thing and puts Sanders in the right position to be our next president.
