Part of American history and culture is to constantly and consistently make fundamental changes. We adapt, adjust and progress as our intellectual and technological abilities advance. Rarely does a decade or two go by that the United States does not make huge fundamental changes. It is what maintains our strength in the world.
"....huge fundamental changes."
Let's specify what you mean by that post.
Based on your history, it would seem that you are fixated on the deleterious effects of the administration of Joseph Stalin's long-time associate, Franklin Roosevelt, under whose auspices, the Constitution and the rule of law was set aside.
It takes a certain kind of sickness to find that sort of 'fundamental change' beneficial.
Raise your paw.
Good lord you are an ignorant person. You are the one with the fixation on FDR, not me. I simply defend some of his policies that I believe have been helpful and beneficial to America. You are the one who seems addicted to him. I was speaking of historical events that changed America throughout our history from long before FDR and periods long after FDR. You will probably never comprehend the impact of being an immigrant nation and blending cultures has been to building the unique American culture that by definitions brings about drastic and fundamental changes on a regular basis. Hence, you will never understand the true nature of America's strength. I don't believe FDR had anything to do with the waves of immigration that had profound impacts and caused fundamental changes. Nor did he have much to do with the ending of slavery, or even the introduction of integration into the military and schools. He had little to do with the discovery of gold in California, the Louisiana Purchase, the policies of Teddy Roosevelt that transformed business and boosted the use of Executive actions as a common form of Executive law making. Nor did he have anything to do with the inventions and developments of technology that drastically transformed our nation and made fundamental changes in the way we live. You know, things like electricity, mass production of steel, railroads, the automobile, the telegraph, telephone and pony express. You would be amazed at what lies outside that little shoe box you live in.
You can run, but you can't hide.
It was Stalin-associate, Franklin Roosevelt who did what you stated....fundamentally changed America.
The change was the disrespect and disregard for the Constitution.
There are numerous examples....
Here's one.
1. Some believe that there are three co-equal branches of government, yet, under FDR, that was only intermittently true. The Supreme Court, for example, upheld the confiscation and arbitrary revaluation of the price of gold, and the cancellation of mortgage debt…both plainly violations of the Constitution’s Contract Clause.
a. The Great Depression was a perfect opportunity for American socialists, interventionists, and advocates of omnipotent government to prevail in their long struggle against the advocates of economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited, constitutional government.
FDR led the statists in using the economic crisis to level massive assaults on freedom and the Constitution. A good example of the kind of battles that were taking place at the state level is the 1935 U.S. Supreme Court case
Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell,in which the “Four Horsemen” — Supreme Court Justices George Sutherland, James C. McReynolds, Willis Van Devanter, and Pierce Butler — banded together in an unsuccessful attempt to hold back the forces of statism and collectivism.
b. The Blaisdells, like so many other Americans in the early 1930s, lacked the money to make their mortgage payments. They defaulted and the bank foreclosed, selling the home at the foreclosure sale. The Minnesota legislature had enacted a law that provided that a debtor could go to court and seek a further extension of time in which to redeem the property. The Supreme Court of Minnesota upheld the constitutionality of the new redemption law, and the bank appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Constitution: “No State shall . . . pass any . . . Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts. . ..” Did the Minnesota redemption law impair the loan contract between the building and loan association and the Blaisdells? It would seem rather obvious that it did. But in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court held otherwise.
American statists and collectivists won the
Blaisdell case, which helped to open the floodgates on laws, rules, and regulations at the state level governing economic activity in America. And their leader, Franklin Roosevelt, was leading their charge on a national level.
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0302a.asp
In 1937, the court buckled and ceased to act as the guardian of economic liberty, and as a limit on the extension of federal government power. It now upheld many New Deal measures.
The reason? Franklin Roosevelt 'fundamentally changed' America.
