Each election cycle where FDR stuck to his liberal guns, more Democrats were elected giving Democrats the majority in Congress. In 1934 Democrats increased their hold on Congress, & that continued every 2 years until the 1937 recession hit (the result of conservatives' success in cutting spending), when Republicans stopped losing seats & gaining them.
Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him, a black man in good old r@c!st America, than ever in the history of the US. They did it because of his ability to persuade that he was going to change the system, end the corporatocracy & lobbyism in government -- He was going to be the People's president, not a corporate t00I.
But unlike FDR, no sooner had Obama gotten elected than he slammed the brakes on the momentum of his election & a filibuster-proof Senate (tentative yet, could end at any moment, because senators Kennedy & Byrd were at d.e.a.t.h's door), Obama did a 180-degree turn on his promises & sloooooowed everything down. To "work in a bipartisan manner with Republicans", after Republicans had already announced they were going to block everything Democrats wanted to do, & vote no on everything, in lockstep.
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