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[David Horn]

(04-21-2019, 01:24 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: FDR didn't support all the "socialist" programs that LBJ brought in during the 60's. FDR set a record with the amount of veto's that he used to keep the socialist wing of the Democratic party in check back then. FDR wouldn't have set the record had he been a liberal like yourself and he wouldn't have signed off on legislation that eliminated the Constitutional rights of a certain ethnic group (Japanese Americans), rounded them up and had them shipped to internment camps either had he been a liberal either.

FDR was the most socialist President we've ever had in office. He had to be. The GD was beating the citizens of the country into the ground, so FDR created the WPA, CCC and other make-work agencies and put people to work. That's socialism. What LBJ did was social policy, but at the cultural level. Socialism isn't cultural, it's economic.

And yes, FDR made some horrendous mistakes: the internment of Japanese Americans was one and refusing the St. Louis the right to dock and disgorge it's refugees was another. Mistakes and all, he was still a great man. LBJ did some great things too, but he also got us bogged down in the Vietnam War. In short, both men were human beings. Both had good intentions. Both did good and some not-good.