“over the age of 80, and they will say that FDR cared about the working man”
OMG, 20 years ago I had a secretary in our office who was of that group, and she said exactly that. I wasn’t overly combative at that point, so I just frowned and bore it. She was also such a nice lady.
But I was raised by parents a bit younger who didn’t buy that. Of course, neither did their parents who actually lived it. Mom told me her mother reacted with total nonchalance when her neighbor, who loved FDR, spread the news about his death. She was melodramatic about it and grandma basically said, “sorry for you, but no skin off my nose”.
My father, if he had lived, would be an “over 80”. He knew the truth about FDR, and wasn’t afraid to say it. Even so, I wish FDR had lived another six months so that he could have celebrated the victory in WWII.
My Inlaws worshipped FDR and JFK.
My parents, and their parents, thought FDR was a socialist commie.
Guess which side of the family made the guns for Smith and Wesson, and which side was a VP for Smith and Wesson?
My grandfather, who would be well over 80 today, he’d be 115..born in 1899..hated FDR. (He married my grandmother November 21, 1929 a month after the stock market crash.) He worked for Western Union his entire life so was able to be working despite the depression.