I think a few here is fond of the old Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but looking into the actions that he did during the years into the prelude of World War 2 was really interesting. At his behest, he supplied Joseph Stalin and the whole Soviet Union of military equipment and intelligence to prepare for the Nazis. I really don't think that Americans during at the time was on board with supplying another enemy, the communists, with their own handmade products just to hold off the Reich.
Let's not get started with the internment camps he did against Americans of Japanese lineage after the Pearl Harbor attacks, how the Democrats were tight-lipped about it to this day, and the communist project that the former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt did in Arthurdale, Virginia, that was still left untold on how many people died due to starvation on that god forsaken experiment of hers.
FDR deeply admired Mussolini and fascism.
FDR on fascism: "It's the cleanest … most efficiently operating piece of social machinery I've ever seen. It makes me envious."
FDR was arguably the most authoritarian President that the U.S. ever had.
https://mises.org/library/three-new-deals-why-nazis-and-fascists-loved-fdr
In terms of harm committed to the nation, only Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society policies can be said to be more disastrous than FDR's policies.
https://ammo.com/articles/lbj-great-society-war-on-poverty-welfare-state-helped-ruin-black-communities
I know all about Lincoln's authoritarian acts, I just think FDR still narrowly wins the title because FDR held overwhelming power for a much longer time and FDR didn't even respect the two term tradition that every other President respected.
It's a good thing communists never allied with fascists to invade Poland or this comment would look silly.
The USA-USSR alliance ended immediately after WW2. What's your point?
This is the only intelligent comment in this entire thread.
ArchVile is a self-admitted fascist. You're a self-admitted communist. Both of you butthurt bitches agreeing in this very thread. I guess history does always repeat itself.
Fascism is just communism with the illusion of private property and the propaganda telling you to hate a different out group than the wealthy.
It's not even the illusion of private property.
Fascism is "Communism in Practice", because "Communism in Theory" flies in the very face of human nature.
FDR would have never went to war against Germany or Italy where it not for Japan and Pearl Harbor.
FDR admired fascism and the fascists admired him.
I agree that Mises does have a slant on certain issues but here that is not the case.
Wasn't that office set up after Pearl Harbor?
I agree that FDR did have many commies in his inner circle and the man himself had far leftist leanings.
At the same time FDR openly admired Mussolini but he never spoke positively about Hitler.
"Hitler's goal was not 'world domination' but to save Europe from communism" Why did he invade countries like The Netherlands who weren't a threat to them?
I think you may be the single biggest moron posting here. So what did your beloved Fuehrer accomplish by starting a war on two fronts, except to bring communism to Europe? His aim, by the way, was to create 'living space' for his race.
Meanwhile some US companies such as IBM were working with Nazi Germany.
Pearl Harbor being allowed is plausible.
So we have OP claiming that FDR's great crime was that he helped the USSR beat off the Germans, and here we have a claim that FDR did not care at all about defeating Germany. Which is it? Also, have you heard of something called 'constraints'? A president is not a dictator, and it has often been remarked that Germany did FDR a favor by declaring war, because that would have been quite difficult.