[Hacksaw]

After learning more about that power-hungry ice-cold lesbian bitch Eleanor, and the "deal" she made with her husband for not sandbagging his political career, it increased my sympathy for FDR enormously.

Could you elaborate?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Sure.

After Eleanor found out about her husband’s affair with Lucy Mercer, she issued him an ultimatum. He would have to either stop seeing her entirely, allow her to “do her own thing” (meaning cavort with her own lesbian friends/pursue her radical political agenda and other pet causes WITHOUT interference), and never have intimate relations again with her... OR... she would divorce him and publicly ruin him with details about the affair and destroy his political aspirations for the future. He chose the former (but later on, secretly saw Lucy).

Worse, yet, FDR’s mother was on Eleanor’s side and was happy to see her son ruined if he didn’t stay in that sham marriage. Nice, huh ?