Freedoms Truth

Policy Lessons from the Great Depression

> John Galt,
> Interesting that you would categorize FDR as the worst president in the history of the US.
>
> Yet, US Presidential polls covering many thousands of historians,
> researchers, academics, writers, etc who have spent their entire
> professional lives studying US Presidents and writing about them totally disagree with you..."

American History in academia today is the polemic of the liberal left that adores more government power and wants the original constitution trashed and replaced by one more in line with socialist thinking. Surveys of academia now show a bias so strong that Republicans/conservatives are an endangered species and on college faculties, you have a mix of 'left' and 'far left'. As such, they adore FDR, the man who did more to destroy American liberty than any other President.

ebworthen: "FDR has been similarly mythologized and his transgressions against the Constitution and the rights of the individual ignored by those who look to others rather than themselves for security.

The nation recovered despite FDR. Our leaders don't save us or condemn us, we do. The writers of history have decided to put FDR on a pedestal because he was a progressive, a socialist, a man who lived by the maxim "do as I say, not as I do" and whose presidency marked the turning point from state power to oppressive federal hegemony.

This centralized planning nanny state perspective appeals to historians and the media because they are, for the most part, liberal leaning national socialists (remember - that is what the Nazis were) who are afraid of the freedom and liberty and requisite responsibility of individualism and self-determination."

Exactly so.