“FDR was pretty much just a socialist political hack but the Greatest and Silent Generations idolized him.”
Well, my Dad (a WWII bomber pilot) didn’t, and for just that reason.
Neither did my Dad, a WWII Navy fighter pilot. I guess that is where I got my lead to an independent point of view from what we were taught in school.
From the history we were taught you would conclude that everyone agreed with everything FDR said and did. What they agreed with was winning the war.
The current narrative that FDR was universally idolized is due to the leftist penchant for shaping history to suit their needs and views via the media and higher education, both of which are controlled, run, and populated by their acolytes.
There were many who despised and detested him, and for good reason as we recognize.
But I have to also admit he largely did a good job for getting the groundwork laid for getting this country on a war footing (from both an industrial perspective, and a political perspective) at a time when the majority of Americans were indeed isolationist.
And I also give him credit as a wartime leader, but not without recognizing mistakes which were made. It happens. We don’t want to fall into the liberal trap of throwing out the baby with the bathwater in that respect.
I am no fan of Roosevelt in any domestic area (even if I like some of the large projects like the Hoover Dam, etc...but for different reasons) but I give him his due as a wartime leader.
My parents — God rest their souls —had no good things to say about FDR.
Sequoyah wrote:
“FDR was pretty much just a socialist political hack but the Greatest and Silent Generations idolized him.”
My dad didn’t idolize FDR either, reason being, he (FDR) knew beforehand that the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming, & didn’t do anything about it.