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To: Boogieman
I’m not so charitable to Roosevelt. I don’t think he just got “hoodwinked”. He was a radical progressive, basically a socialist himself, so he was sympathetic to the communists and probably wanted them to win, which is why he tried to hand them the world on a silver platter.

Roosevelt and his ilk undeniably wanted a country without our Constitution.

The totalitarian always imagines the utopia where he’s on the top of the pile rewarding those who agree with him and punishing those who don’t. They never imagine the dystopia that everyone else has to endure…

7 posted on 04/11/2024 5:56:08 AM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: IncPen; All

What FDR and his ilk were democrats in the sense of ‘majority rule’. Stir up mob thinking on an issue get a vote Bang! a new law! Your ‘majority’ just ruled! The Founding Fathers were very suspicious of that type of political system. They knew ‘mass emotion’ was capable of overcoming any amount of ‘mass education’. They designed a system where political power was divided between ‘the mob - people’ directly and ‘the people’ corporately - the state. Almost every Constitutional Amendment since 1912 has been to upset that balance and tilt power toward mob-ocracy. The argument for doing that has always been education will make people wise and immune to demagogic appeal. You see Progressives like Wilson were far far smarter than the Founding Fathers or so they told themselves and anyone who would listen! See any evidence of that in the last 100 years that they were? Any immunity mass education has given to keep from being stampeded into a voting mob has been negated by mass advertising and made more effective by the Internet. I cringe when I see people here use the words ‘our democracy’!

Repeal the 17th Amendment!
State legislatures couldn’t do worse!


14 posted on 04/11/2024 6:23:45 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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