ROO-sevelt (as my Georgian grandparents called him) was terrible, and prolonged the Great Depression for years with his domestic policies, so my only disagreement is that he wasn't the first.
Wilson was even worse. Permanent income tax, Federal Reserve, harassment of business, the FTC, farm subsidies, etc. etc; in addition he lied us into WWI, created the Versailles debacle, and like most all Democrats didn't know when to let go of power.
By the way my grandparents idolized FDR, good southern Democrats that they were. "He was the only one that gave us hope."
It's all emotion over substance, that's the left's game, and there are enough ignorant people to make it work. Goodbye America; I think we can look forward to one of two possible futures: death on a civil war battlefield or life under totalitarianism, worse than it ever has been yet. Rant off, sorry for the pessimism.
Archie Bunker:
[Maude refuses to get out of Archie’s chair] Well, I got the secret weapon that can lay this little lady right away. Here we go....
This country was ruined by Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Cousin Maude:
You’re fat.
Archie Bunker:
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Edith Bunker:
Archie, you promised never to say that name again in front of Maude.
Archie Bunker:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Edith Bunker:
[to Maude] He don’t mean nothing. His whole family was for Roosevelt.
Archie Bunker:
That was for two terms. But that was it. We didn’t know the guy was going to hold on to the job like a pope!