Democrats Must Learn from FDR: Mamdani Has
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart
Those of you who read me on occasion or frequently, are
aware that I have solid reasons to allege the 2016 and 2024 elections were “rigged”
by an arrangement between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. The method used in
2016 was primarily the worst thing to happen to the truth in history, social
media. In 2024, U.S. companies discovered evidence encouraging them to claim
that Russian hackers gained access to voting machines in all seven swing states
and altered the results of the election.
That is likely the truth. Anyone who compares the 2020 and 2024
elections, and possesses average intelligence and common sense, will find it
impossible to accept the massive changes over four years.
However, this does not change the abject failure of the
Democratic Party to attract American voters. Our nation’s people are the least
informed in the world and frequently choose to believe lies and reject facts.
I believe that the primary reason Democrats fail to win
every election in blue and purple states can be found in one simple word: identity.
No one, including yours truly, an Independent voter, can understand
what the party on the left side of the aisle stands for. They all present their
concern about social issues and how America has become a plutocracy, creating
income inequality, but no one, with the exception of Vermont Senator Bernie
Sanders, offers concrete solutions. This cowardly situation is based on unsubstantiated
fear, fear that if they move far enough to the left, allowing them to offer
programs and laws which will protect the rights of all Americans, they might
lose votes.
Senator Sanders espouses a belief in “Democratic Socialism,”
and so do I.
Our Founding Fathers created this nation with two primary
objectives at the forefront: prevent the New Nation from being ruled by a king,
or any other form of autocract, and ensuring that all Americans have a voice in
what happens in our nation’s Capital.
In 1932, the greatest President in history, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, won his first election and became America’s 32nd
president. He will always be remembered by working class Americans as “the People’s
President.”
FDR was unbeatable and died while still holding the office
of President of the United States in 1945. It was this undeniable fact which
forced congress to place limits on presidential terms, but not on their own.
Since 1945, no one in the executive or legislative branches
of our government has displayed the courage to place our nation’s people first,
and ignore big business, the billionaires/oligarchs who now control everything
which happens in our daily lives.
In a very interesting primary election in New York City on
Tuesday, June 24, 2025, one man prevailed. His primary issue was founded on a
single policy: Democratic Socialism. His name is Zohran Mamdani, a member of
the State Assembly.
New York voters rejected his closest opponent, former New York
Governor, Andrew Cuomo, and what they perceived as the “status quo.” The cost
of housing, food, transportation and entertainment have become unaffordable for
most residents of the five boroughs.
Although this is not a unique problem, proven by the fact
that my own state, Nevada, has similar problems which are ignored by our
Trump-supporting governor, the cost of living in one of the greatest cities in
the world is outrageous and unacceptable.
Until the Democratic Party decides to follow the example of
FDR, who always placed the needs of the people first, not his reelection, today’s
fake-Republicans will remain in a position to destroy everything which made
America the most respected nation in the world.
Trump is without a doubt the worst thing to happen to
America in its nearly 249 years, but he could not have accomplished his
destructive ambitions without assistance from Putin, his American Fascist
Party, and the mainstream media.
If the great majority of the people, the working class, align
behind one party, it cannot lose. That has not happened since 1945.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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