NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
FDR did not make the Depression worse. The peak of the Depression's 'worstness' was in 1933, when FDR had been in office less than a year. From then on things improved.
That FDR made the Depression worse stands as a textbook example of how the Right uses mythology for propaganda purposes.
You're a pathological liar, NYcarbineer.
I asked what are the components of FDR's legacy that most Americans today object to?
So far no one has been able to name ONE.
You're a liar. The following is what you wrote, and the following is what I responded to:
And what, precisely and specifically, did Roosevelt do that qualifies as uniquely fascist under any sane definition of fascism, and that was uniquely an FDR policy?
You have yet to address this blatant falsehood.
FDR's demand-side interventions in the economy, particularly his progressive corporatist regime of artificially inflated prices and wages, made the Depression worse as they prolonged it for years against the market's self-correcting forces. Unemployment peaked at roughly 24% in 1933, but never got below 17% prior to the war production years. In short, roughly 16 to 17 million remained unemployed for years for no good reason at all. The matter has been well-understood for decades.
Anything that doesn't jell with lefty's magical world of Disney is myth. Myth. Yeah. That's one of lefty's favorite words. For more than a century, the American economy grew at a rate unparalleled in all of history, with cyclical downtowns and rapid recoveries. And then suddenly, for the first time in American history, the government got all jiggy with it and turned a depression into a Great Depression lasting nearly 14 years.
But for lefty all that history and subsequent economic experience and analyses is . . . well . . . you know, myth.
In truth, most leftists are pathological liars, and I'm done with this one in particular, because like most leftists nowadays, he's also an anti-Semitic. By the way, what is it with these liberal/progressive fascists and Jews ever since Wilson especially? They just can't seem to shake of the myths off that ancient disease.
The Depression bottomed in 1933.
Saying Roosevelt's policies made the Depression worse is simple idiocy.
Claiming that Roosevelt delayed recovery is putting forth an unprovable speculation that is enticing but fallacious as are most 'what if's'.