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Old 10-05-2014, 11:40 AM
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Forgot to thank you for the backhanded complement.
That was a little snarkish on my part, sorry.
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Old 10-05-2014, 12:45 PM
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I too swim with the snarks.
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"Pragmatic...keeping the ship of state afloat" is one thing. "Maintain the status quo" is another. The latter can be read as 'protect the privileges of the privileged,' and that's what I call a leftist reading.
The hard left wanted to overthrow the bankers, Roosevelt knew he had to work with the bankers without literally giving them the farm. There had to be some give and take or it would have been gridlock and the prospect of a general uprising of dissatisfaction, and worse.

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I too swim with the snarks.
The trick is to.....

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