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uh...ace? there is a distinction between paying attention to history and using the past as a reservoir for arbitrary factoids. you are doing the second.
on the other hand, things must be getting really tough for the conservative set if they start working the fdr angle: given the prominence of the hoover institute in pioneering what rightwing think tanks do and by extension in the development of contemporary far-right (republican) ideology, fdr has long functioned as the Great Satan against which the pathetic hooverites would rail endlessly. behind every opponent loomed at one level for another the spectre of fdr and the Evil that was the New Deal--"gasp! the redistribution of wealth--horrors! trade unions recognized---stunned! people actually given jobs by way of large-scale public works projects--why the Market was to decide all this! any other way is, well, UnAmerican--socialist even--fdr=communist!--now let's all join hands and prop up the economy the American Way--war and preparations for war! yay defense contractors! yay the people who own them!--what are a few thousand little peoples' lives when Big Profits are Possible? NOTHING! I LOVE AMERICA!"----so if the conservative set is starting to pull random factoids about fdr out of their---um----hats...yes, hats....then fact is that they are running low on material.
so i'd be careful, ace: you're hitting the bottom of the fuel tank.
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