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FDR didn't need to be on the payroll to be on the socialist's team. There is a HUGE amount of material to be digested and I am not going to rewrite any books here on this thread. I would simply point out just a few relevant facts 1) the FDR administration was pretty well penetrated by the reds - Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss to name two 2) the economic policy pursued by the Roosevelt administration runs exactly contrary to what needed to be done to recover from the Depression - e.g. increasing the cost of labor (via social security taxes) surely made unemployment worse (there are MANY other examples of this economic ignorance) 3) a primary characteristic of many New Deal policies is significant increases in government intervention into American economic life, which before had been set by the market (e.g the NRA and other price fixing schemes). There is a LOT more to say about this but please let these few brief points be a summary of my case. FDR a) radically increased the size and scope of the federal government (beyond constitutional limits IMHO) b) he did so with the "central planning" model used by the Soviet Union in mind (and deliberately so, and contrary to our constitution) c) his active aid to the Soviet Union during the war is of much less import in making this case due to the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" effect.

You're describing lots of bad things FDR did. You're saying he did those bad things because his motivation was sinister and he knew exactly what he was doing and it all fit into a careful plan.

While I do agree that he did a lot of bad things, I don't agree that he was so smart that he knew and understood in advance the consequences of so many of his actions. I actually don't know whether FDR was a clever evil person or a part-time fool; but I do know that people in general are good and that when they do bad things it's more often than not because they're foolish.

Then again, I hang around a lot of stupid people (present company excepted of course).