Votto
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If you want an overreach of power by FDR....look at how he took over ALL industrial production in the US and told them what they could produce and what resources and workers they could have
Nothing short of total socialism
Yet, it is the reason we won the war
To be fair to the young, Right winger, they do not have the slightest understanding of just how desperate the situation was back then.
Most younger people do not.
FDR was Human. He made mistakes, but his accomplishments far out weigh his mistakes.
They have no conception of a world with only radio’s, telephones with Operators.
I was born in the 50s but have read quite a bit about the war years. It was a different country with different values. Some values were better, some worse......but patriotism consumed the country. People would do anything FDR Said was needed......and we had it significantly easier than any other beligerant nation
FDR and Churchill were the two greatest leaders of the twentieth century. Without them, the postwar world would be significantly worse
Churchill, like Washington, was fighting for freedom and for their very lives.
FDR though, was not.