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It's a book, the TV series is an adaptation. Also, I'm an FDR fanboy but I still think it's rather a stretch to pretend he single handedly won WWII (or even th
by andrepd 1y ago
It's a book, the TV series is an adaptation.
Also, I'm an FDR fanboy but I still think it's rather a stretch to pretend he single handedly won WWII (or even that he single handedly defeated the great depression).
- hedora 1y agoIt’s possible an “average” president could have done OK, but I’m comparing to his predecessors. It’s hard to see how the isolationist macroeconomic geniuses that created the Great Depression would have built a war machine that could have won the war. I doubt they would have wanted to. It’s more likely that, like the Bush family, they were supporting Hitler behind the scenes during the war. That crowd’s running the US today. We need another FDR.
- mystraline 1y agoFDR was an appeasement to the business community in opposition to IWW, socialists, and communists. Not too much later, is when you get 'National Day' or Labor day, as opposition to international workers day, or May 1. FDR was just a moderate capitalist. But still a capitalist. Money/power gets more money/power.
- tormeh 1y ago[flagged]
- bongodongobob 1y agoAn actual centrist looks a bit like Bernie Sanders. A centrist in the US is a moderate republican that "is fiscally conservative but socially liberal". Ends up looking a bit like a libertarian, so I kinda get it.
- DaSHacka 1y ago[flagged]
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- sellmesoap 1y ago[flagged]
- slater 1y agoMuch like the German Democratic Republic was democratic, and the DPRK is democratic, too.
- sellmesoap 1y agoDawns flame retardant Vinalon suit
- slater 1y agodon
- sellmesoap 1y agoDahaha and there I was trying to cleverly tie an internet trope with a bit of DPRK fashion history, I doft my cap to you sir!
- slater 1y ago*doff
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- lazide 1y agoHe was an appeasement to the populists. Which is why he got a 3rd term. The capitalists barely were able to hold their nose to what he did to stop the rich from being eaten alive, but they knew what the alternative looked like. Because of this, the socialists and communists, et. al. couldn’t get enough momentum to ‘win’ an argument form a coherent group and mostly just fought among themselves, and FDR was able to salve the hurt lower classes with enough give aways they mostly lost steam. But the business groups got totally reamed in the process.