Cecilie1200
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- Nov 15, 2008
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FDR was doing what he thought was best for our country during incredibly difficult times.Nope. Democrats still believe some human lives are property to be disposed of at the will of its owner. Nothing has changed.The positions of the parties have changed radically.Learn some history. Slavery was a British institution. Not an American one. The founding fathers knew not how to end slavery at the time of founding but did put plans in place for it to perish. They wrote into the constitution the earliest date the importation of slaves could cease and stopped it on that date. In the meantime they wrote laws that halted the spread of slavery. Unlike your beloved Democratic Party which reversed those laws in the late 1820’s when they gained power.
I think you need to face the facts that the Democratic Party was responsible for the spread of slavery and the perpetuation of slavery.
In 1860, the Democratic party split into the Northern and Southern Democrats and remained so for some years. Even when they unified, they were sharply divided over race. However they were unified when it came to small government and states rights and their opposition to republicans which was the party of big business, big government, and big spending. This continued till the great depression.
Roosevelt completely changed the direction of the democratic party from a fiscally conservative party with little interest in racial causes to the tax and spend party, willing to support labor movements and slowly moving toward a more liberal racial policy. By the 1970, the democratic party had become the liberal party we know today.
Today the two parties are the opposite of what they were a hundred years ago. Republicans were responsible for passage of women suffrage in 1919. In the 1980's they were responsible for the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment. Republicans were the champions of civil rights and getting blacks registered to vote in earlier 20th century. Now republicans are calling for repeating of Voting Rights Act and changing Civil Rights Act. Religious fundamentalists were far more likely to be democrats than republicans in early 20th century. The reverse is true today. Margaret Sanger, a campaign of women rights, birth control, and founder of Planned Parenthood was a republican and got strong support from republican allies and was constantly being attacked by democrats. The money that founded Planned Parenthood came mostly from republican donors. Today Margaret Sanger is cheered by democrats and condemned by republicans.
You do realize that the Democratic Party has never apologized for their racist heritage, right?
FDR is still revered by pretty much everyone despite being the most racist in the 20th century.
What other President locked up innocent Americans simply because of their race?
So is Trump. Trump tried to issue a travel ban for countries with the most terrorism. They just happened to all be Muslim. Imagine that.
Well then the press said that it was a Muslim ban, which was a lie. The ban would have let well over 90% of other Muslims to immigrate who were not from these countries. In fact, Obama had a similar travel ban at one time but nothing was said about it.
But now we are to believe the FDR was a much better President than Trump and that Trump cuz he is the racist one? I don't think so.
I call BS.
FDR also wanted to implement the Court Packing Scheme in order to get SOCTUS to do as he wanted, a clear repudiation and disdain for the Constitution. It should then be of no surprise that Democrats today want to do the exact same thing.
FDR was a little tyrant and evil racist. It was so bad, Congress implemented term limits for the role of President.
Trump's travel ban was NOT all Muslim countries. If I'm not mistaken, it included North Korea and Venezuela.
Other than that, you are correct.