It did come to this country, and it was wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.
In his Sept. 24, 1935 letter to the Rev. A.F. Whitehurst of Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Roosevelt wrote, "I am particularly anxious that the new Social Security Legislation just enacted, for which we have worked so long, providing for old age pensions, aid for crippled children and unemployment insurance, shall be carried out in keeping with the high purposes with which this law was enacted."FDR continued, "We can solve our many problems, but no one man or single group can do it, - we shall have to work together [clergy and government] for the common end of better spiritual and material conditions for the American people."
Can't you just hear the Star Spangled Banner playing in the background?
Roosevelt went to Groton School, an Episcopal boarding school in Massachusetts. He was heavily influenced by the headmaster, Endicott Peabody, who preached the duty of Christians to help the less fortunate and urged his students to enter public service.
Is making this observation somehow "leftist," when it was FDR, the biggest leftist of all American history, who imposed it upon our nation?
By itself? No. But then Paul wasn't content simply to condemn politicians' pandering to the religious, was he? No, he had to go and quote a card-carrying socialist, as if that would somehow help his argument!
I'll say it again: Paul fancies himself so far to the right that he often goes full circle and ends up on the far left. And this is just one example of many.