liamliam1234 wrote:arasu wrote:[FDR was a socialist, and after claiming in his first campaign that his predecessor interfered too much with the markets--essentially promising he would do the opposite of what the New Deal became--he then reneged on his campaign promises and implemented countless failed policies that further ruined the economy and turned what should have been a temporary downturn into the worst economic disaster in U.S. history. His infrastructure projects were very valuable though, and the U.S. has relied heavily on that infrastructure through most of the years since. The only policies of the New Deal that made any sense were those that emphasized infrastructure projects. Such projects should be emphasized during the good times though, not during the worst of times. Unfortunately, that's not how people get things done. They wait for disaster. Maybe AOC will be old enough to be elected president when the next disaster hits, and she will help it get worse, and eventually a generation raised on hardship will emerge and bring everything back out of the mire. And the spoiled brats that dominate our recent generations will be all but extinct.
Ignoring the fact that you could not properly identify a socialist even if they smacked you in a face with a copy of the Communist Manifesto, even our heavily propagandised history teachers would laugh you out of the room for this ahistorical nonsense.
Your comment contains nothing to refute mine. I've studied this subject in depth. Socialism was sweeping across the West in the post-WWI era, which is why FDR had to lie on the campaign trail that he was pro-free market, only to turn his back on capitalism, creating government approved industries that were nearly as much top down, non-free market, and government controlled as any full blown communist economy, which is why he failed so colossally. Maybe it is you who has been propagandized by history teachers. I came to the conclusion that FDR was a socialist in practice by looking at his actual policies, not by hearing someone else tell me it's so.
