Rate the Presidents, Installment #32: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Fascist=HP. One star

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Chester Allen Arthur was a much better president so I don't see what would be so absurd about him getting a higher score.

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Terrible. Japanese internment, the Tuskegee trials, government overreach with the socialistic New Deal, knew about the Holocaust and did nothing, tried to stack the Supreme Court, worked closely with big businesses and established a system of crony capitalism that still affects us, and did not even improve the economy at all. That was World War II.

Wait, was he a crony capitalist or a socialist? You lost me.

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Terrible. Japanese internment, the Tuskegee trials, government overreach with the socialistic New Deal, knew about the Holocaust and did nothing, tried to stack the Supreme Court, worked closely with big businesses and established a system of crony capitalism that still affects us, and did not even improve the economy at all. That was World War II.

Wait, was he a crony capitalist or a socialist? You lost me.

Socialism and crony capitalism are not necessarily opposed to each other. Both are systems involving a strong intertwining and close relationship between business and government, and both are opposed to laissez-faire free market capitalism. The only real difference between crony capitalism and socialism is that the government runs the economy through its crony businesses in crony capitalism, while it runs it directly in socialism.

Stop embarrassing yourself

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Chester Allen Arthur was a much better president so I don't see what would be so absurd about him getting a higher score.

How so? Provided you're not giving enormous weight to FDR's setbacks (Internment was probably worse than anything Arthur did) I find it hard to believe how anyone can compare the two and come to the conclusion that Arthur is really in the same ballpark.

Of course they aren't remotely in the same ballpark. Arthur was a top ten president.