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**spamkillerj** · 02-27-2008, 10:10 PM

Originally posted by David Floyd
The "Red" comment was a)an exaggeration I admitted to immediately, and b)much of what that comment referred to was his willingness to bend over backwards to prop up the most brutal regime in history (Stalinist USSR). Of course I don't think FDR was an actual Communist - he was simply the closest thing to communism that could ever have been elected in the US. Henry Wallace, who was probably an ACTUAL Communist, was so despised by the Democratic Party that FDR had to dump him from the ticket in 1944. Doesn't creating huge government for the poor count for anything? Of course, it might have been illegal in your eyes, but there's no way the government could have gotten away with not doing something for the poor without creating some kind of fascist state to force the government onto the people, but then that would be illegal also wouldn't it?

02-27-2008, 10:10 PM	#12
spamkillerj Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 422 Senior Member	Originally posted by David Floyd The "Red" comment was a)an exaggeration I admitted to immediately, and b)much of what that comment referred to was his willingness to bend over backwards to prop up the most brutal regime in history (Stalinist USSR). Of course I don't think FDR was an actual Communist - he was simply the closest thing to communism that could ever have been elected in the US. Henry Wallace, who was probably an ACTUAL Communist, was so despised by the Democratic Party that FDR had to dump him from the ticket in 1944. Doesn't creating huge government for the poor count for anything? Of course, it might have been illegal in your eyes, but there's no way the government could have gotten away with not doing something for the poor without creating some kind of fascist state to force the government onto the people, but then that would be illegal also wouldn't it?
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