FDR The Most Bigoted POTUS In Modern U.S. History – The Lid

I’ve never understood the reverence for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He gets points for picking great Generals and leading this country to victory in WWII. But he totally mismanaged the economy, making the great depression longer…in 1937, unemployment spiked again, reaching 19% (the previous high was 25%). His freedom-sapping policies never did get this country out of the Great Depression. He tried to circumvent constitutional separation of powers (now who does that remind me of?). And then there is the issue never discussed. FDR was a bigot, he threw Japanese-Americans in camps, and his hatred of Jews caused two hundred of thousands to be added to the ranks of Hitler’s victims.

Typically, when one asks a Democrat about FDR, they immediately develop a sense of awe that reminds me of those little green aliens (undocumented spacemen?) in the movie Toy Story. Every time they saw Buzz Lightyear.” AHHHHH!”

While other modern presidents may have been bigoted, none acted on their bigotry as much as FDR (Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama fight for #2).