Kasz216 said:
SaviorX said:
After a certain age, I never expected any future president truly capable of making many positive changes that change the way you or I live.
All I want from the guy, is to make as few people hate America as possible. He's doing a good job on that, so I'm satisfied. I liked Clinton too, but then again, I'm "naive".
Ask anyone else, and the only Pres they did not complain about was FDR! |
I think you have the wrong Roosevelt.
Teddy is generally the consensus "Everyone likes" president.
A lot of people don't like FDR.
Largely economists, historians and history enthusiasts.
While most people think his leadership got us out of the great depression, for most economists at best he didn't prolong or make it worse... with a lot of economists taking the opposite route. Not even Keynesian economists think he saved it, but instead point to WW2 and claim it's like government intervention.
Whole historian wise... when you get to all his civil rights abuses, his chronic cheating on his wife, his attempt to destroy the supreme court by making it so the president could just keep appointing judges until he got a result he liked. His imprisoment of a completely innocent man who overheard conversations with Churchill that stated the EXACT opposite of what he was campaigning on at the time. His literal suggestion of the actual physical castration of the German population. Price controlled the crap out of everything and paid farmers to NOT grow food to constrain the food supply... rampant union breaking despite the fact that he was supposed to be the little guy... used the FBI and IRS to dig up dirt on political enemies, internment of the Japanese, shutting down the press that disagreed with him... and much more!
Roosevelt was actually one of the most ghastily horrible presidents... but gets a pass because getting us in the war to singlehandidly win WW2 and prevent the people of today from living in one of those horrible alternate universes run by nazis that are always in the media.
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