And that is new how?
Politicians have been buying votes since there was politics. You do what you gotta do to win.
Again, FDR was as shrewd and canny as they come. He even managed to hide the fact that he was a cripple from most Americans and went on to win presidential elections four times in a row despite his handicap.
Significantly though, he couldn't do anything to l end the Depression. (Except start a war.)
There you go. If it took a war to end the depression and get the economy booming, he was going to do it. Not to mention he wanted to get into the war on the side of the Brits from the get go. He could kill two birds with one stone and he did.
Wow, spoken like a total socialist and globalist. You can't even understand some principals of economics that don't envision ending a depression any other way that going to war and executing half a million noble Americans?
That's idiotic. There was no possible way the U.S. would be on the side of the Germans, or Japanese for that matter.
The point is, FDR did not have to acquiesce to the needs to stupid plans of the British or the Russians, which we did.
Well, you need to read up on how the New Deal was a system to buy votes.
And that is new how?
Politicians have been buying votes since there was politics.