FDR is a perfect example of revisionist history or whatever you call it--the concept of history favoring the winner. The idea I always got from school about FDR was always very positive. You know he saved us all with the most illustrious New Deal, only President to win three terms, saved us from Hitler, etc.
Instead everything I've learned in the last 5 years or so about him, he was horrible for the country and perhaps one of the key reasons a lot of the shit we are in today even exists.
Four. He basically got himself set up as president for life. It was only after he died that the two-term limit was made an actual law rather than the gentleman's agreement it had been before, to prevent it from happening again. Look up the 22nd amendment.
FDR is a perfect example of revisionist history or whatever you call it--the concept of history favoring the winner. The idea I always got from school about FDR was always very positive. You know he saved us all with the most illustrious New Deal, only President to win three terms, saved us from Hitler, etc.
Instead everything I've learned in the last 5 years or so about him, he was horrible for the country and perhaps one of the key reasons a lot of the shit we are in today even exists.
Four. He basically got himself set up as president for life. It was only after he died that the two-term limit was made an actual law rather than the gentleman's agreement it had been before, to prevent it from happening again. Look up the 22nd amendment.