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In my opinion, FDR was one of the evilest men in American history,
particularly since he bankrupted the British while simultaneously aiding
the Soviets with no strings attached
The result was communism controlling half the world, killing tens of millions in the process🧵👇
First, FDR had used his power well before the Second World War to destroy old America
He not only was a class traitor whose own family despised him, as
@NormanDodd_knew pointed out in a recent podcast, but used the "New
Deal" to demolish non-leftist power and rule across the country
Particularly, he would ensure that funds were withheld from those
jurisdictions and localities that were politically opposed to him,
hindering relief and recovery for those who simply wanted to live like
Americans ought rather than being part of some socialist hellhole.
He then directed the funds only toward New Dealers, ensuring that those
who pushed his brand of socialism and Big Government, both of which were
formerly abhorrent to Americans, and solidified the power of such
thought in the country
And, of course, he destroyed the legitimacy of SCOTUS by browbeating it
and threatening it with court packing to get it to go along with his
unconstitutional, un-American agenda
As a result of FDR's firehose of money to socialists, Old America, a
land of ordered liberty, small government, and little regulation, died
What replaced it was the bureaucratic state of today: a massive
governmental apparatus, welfare and social aid programs, high taxes to
pay for it, a predilection for relying on the national government rather
than community members, and federal agencies that reach into every
aspect of formerly private life
As might be expected of such a man, FDR didn't just push socialism on the country
He also filled his administration, from the Cabinet-level positions to minor bureaucrats, with Communist Party members
For example, Harry Hopkins was a Soviet agent; he was close with FDR and
headed much of the New Deal, then handled American WWII relations with
Britain and the USSR, with which he was quite friendly
Then, as Whitaker Chambers, himself a former Soviet agent, exposed in
"Witness" and Congressional hearings, much of the low-level bureaucracy
was full of Soviet agents
That included men like Alger Hiss, who "aided" FDR at Yalta and was
behind closed doors with FDR as he handed Europe to Stalin, letting
communism advance like a murderous wave across half of Europe
Then there's World War II
FDR has a reputation for saving our Anglo brothers across the ocean, which isn't true
Instead, he bankrupted the Empire, drawing every last ounce of gold out
of Britain and taking over its bases. The Brits even had to confiscate
wedding rings to pay for the outdated equipment, from rust bucket old
destroyers to near-useless airplanes, that FDR sent them
He also prodded the Germans into war with us by sending US destroyers
to, under the flag of neutrality, sink German U-boats or radio their
locations to the British, much as Wilson had done during WWI
Meanwhile, as @realDianaWest exposed well in "American Betrayal," and
Sean McMeekin notes in "Stalin's War," FDR did everything possible, well
beyond necessity, to aid the Soviets
In addition to the weapons and equipment, from trucks and tanks to
planes and trains, we sent in massive numbers, FDR provided them with
all the bases of American success. Industrial secrets, intellectual
property, factory processes and equipment, and so on, were sent to the
Soviets en masse, along with vast amounts of raw materials. The Soviets
were, as Diana West exposes, allowed to steal whatever secrets they
wanted, whatever the cost to American business and industry, as a matter
of FDR policy
None of that was done for the British. They got to bleed themselves dry
financially while the Soviets were freely given whatever they asked for
The aid to the Soviets continued even as the war's end was a foregone
conclusion, and much of it ended up in the hands of post-war communist
guerillas, while the industrial aid led to Soviet economic might that
long threatened Europe and challenged America
Meanwhile, as the Soviets were given all they wanted, they also
tormented our men and even imprisoned Americans in their slave labor
camps
Sailors who braved U-boats to deliver supplies were berated and
demeaned, and airmen who landed in the USSR were often thrown in gulags.
At the end of the war, potentially 15,000 Americans remained imprisoned
in the USSR, never to be released. Neither FDR nor Truman did anything
of note to help them; even non-military, economic aid wasn't conditioned
on their release
So, like the German units and Eastern Europeans that FDR handed to the
communists, thousands of Americans rotted and died in Soviet slave labor
camps thanks to FDR
Then there's the matter of war policy. "Unconditional surrender"
needlessly prolonged the war and led to the Soviets r*ping and killing
their way across Eastern Europe, r*ping millions, if not tens of
millions, of women and killing millions of civilians
FDR's Morgenthau pressed to deindustrialize Germany after the war,
something that would have meant endless suffering and yet more Soviet
power over Europe, as there would be no German bulwark. FDR entertained
the idea
Meanwhile, Ideas like invading through the Balkans to block off Soviet
forces from invading Europe were scorned, and instead we trodded across
France and Germany as the Soviets gobbled up territory
Throughout the war offers from the Germans to kill Hitler and replace
him in exchange for peace and an alliance against the Red Menace were
shunned; instead, FDR wanted the Soviets to march across Europe and
commit endless atrocities as they did so
FDR was all on board with such behavior
A particularly gut-wrenching story shows that: during the Tehran
conference, Stalin said the Allies should execute 100,000 German
officers after the war to break the back of Prussia.
Roosevelt joked that, "maybe 49,000 would be enough." His son and aides laughed
Only Churchill was outraged and stormed out, and it was only at that point that Stalin pretended he was joking.
Then after the war, Americans and Brits often handed German units to the
Soviets, who proceeded to work them to death in slave labor camps, well
exceeding the 100k Stalin initially suggested
FDR, though dead for most of that, would have been all on board with that, as Truman was
So, if a man is to be judged by his accomplishments, what did FDR achieve?
The r*pe and murder of half of Europe
The turning of the Soviets into a global hegemon, armed and industrialized by America
The bankruptcy and demolition of the British Empire
The destruction of Old America and replacement of it with a bureaucratic
welfare state administered largely by Soviet agents of the Alger Hiss
and Harry Hopkins mold
In short, pretty much all of it was evil, worst case scenario for the formerly free world
FDR is regarded as a savior of sorts
If you're a communist or Soviet sympathizer, I suppose that's true
But if you support Western civilization, if you view the modern
bureaucratic welfare state with horror and despise what the Soviets did
to Europe and the post-colonial world, often with the aid of communist
run-America, then FDR was one of the most evil men America has produced
And following WW2, of course, was the Cold War “against” our former “ally”…
But what was that period really about?
