Democrat's Response (Connolly) To The NLRB Hacking Is Pathetic

[PatrickforB]

21. Those were different times. FDR had the spine to face down Wall Street and the wealthy to create the

New Deal. Sure, we could call up all the stuff that we know now is wrong - and what the current administration seems to want to bring back. But to dismiss the guy who saved the US during the Depression and guided us through WWII seems a bit 'cancelly' to me.

And, if you REALLY look deeply into history, you seem to be blaming FDR for the 1930s antics of the then GOP and the Dixiecrats. The internment camps were wrong - we know that now in hindsight. But back in the day, Japan had a massive army and navy and its empire stretched in December 1941 to the point where they conceivably could have attacked our west coast.

And the military was segregated when FDR got there - don't discount the sheer power of the racists, bigots, American Nazis and so on.

So please don't be so dismissive of FDR. And look at Eleanor, one of the truly great Americans who ever lived, and who would not have had nearly her impact had he not been elected by a divided country.