[rmlew]

Roosevelt (spitting) what did he do for Jews for such loyalty? Was it giving the State Department to the antisemite Breckenridge, who gleefully ensured that Jews could not immmigrate even when quotas were not met? Was it refusing to back the Cubans after they agreed to allow refugee centers to be built? Was it The National Recovery Act administration, which all but banned kosher butchers (look up the Schechter case) through their fascist policies?
But then again, I am not descended from the sheep who voted for Roosevelt. I am a son and grandson of those who survived.

[VR-21]

Your points are well taken rmlew. I wasn't really talking about Jews when I mentioned FDR however. I was pointing out how some people (in the case of the FDR Democrats I mentioned, they were not jewish) slavishly hold on to an irrational mindset as do modern left-leaning Jews in this country do. I'm perplexed by how many of them continue to support political institutions that are presently very hostile to them. It bewilders me.

Thank you for reminding me of the disgraceful manner in which the FDR administration dealt with the SS St. Louis.

[justiceseeker93]

Granted, the National Recovery Act was an absurd, counterproductive government intrusion into even the smallest businesses, that for all its attendant hype, was justifiably knocked out by the SCOTUS unanimously in the Schechter Poultry case.

Granted, Mr. Schechter operated a kosher poultry shop that was adversely affected by Roosevelt's NRA, and had the courage and persistence to take his case against Big Brother all the the way to the SCOTUS. As such, Schechter stands as a long-forgotten hero of free market economics in the United States.

But I've never heard it argued that the NRA was in some fashion antisemitic because it had an adverse impact on kosher butchers. Were kosher butchers treated more harshly by the Roosevelt Administration bureaucrats than non-kosher butchers? If so, IIRC, that was never part of the Schechter litigation.