PoliticalChic
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It was a global depression. That means you have to compare it to what was going on in the rest of the world.
I am frequently left with the problem of how to address you....
Are you a dunce, or a liar....
Or a lying dunce?
In your fervor to shield the 32nd President from deserved contumely, you bend and misapply the facts.
Did Roosevelt do poorly as a manager of the economy as compared to other leaders.....?
Indeed he did.
Let's see.
The League of Nations collected data from many nations throughout the 1930s on industrial production, unemployment, national debt, and taxes.
How did Roosevelt's United States compare with other countries?
In all four of these key indexes the United States did very poorly, almost worse than any other nation in the study.
Most European nations handled the Great Depression better than the United States.
World Economic Survey: Eighth Year, 1938/1939 (Geneva: League of Nations, 1939) p.128
So then are the vast majority of historians wrong ranking FDR as one of the top three presidents in the entire history of the nation?
Indubitably.
'The only possible explanation is the mentality- actually, the psychosis- of historians, journalists, and other opinion makers that makes them impervious, and even hostile, to facts.
Even more so to the ineluctable implications of these facts, which are devastating to the conventional wisdom and venerated mythology. And this is the ultimate impact of Communist influence, the Communist conspiracy that Roosevelt and Truman laughed off: it is the complete subversion of logic itself.
It is so simple, so irrational, yet it has happened: the complete separation of fact from implication. There is a name for the gaps between fact and implication, between implication and judgment....it is called "political correctness."'
Diana West, "American Betrayal," p. 81.
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