Opinion of Franklin D Roosevelt

[Mechaman]

I love how like some people (and it's hilarious who) are saying FDR will get a bad score because *gasp* this forum is lurking with libertarians.

I mean talk about deluded.

Then again, as we can see with evangelicals it is usually members of the majority who like to purport to not being the majority.

Think I'm wrong?  Check back on this thread in five days times and see how many pro-FDR posts there are compared to anti-FDR posts in this thread (in regards to Franklin Roosevelt).

And even at that a lot of those anti-FDR posts are almost as likely to be conservative posters as they are libertarians.

[Mechaman]

I love how like some people (and it's hilarious who) are saying FDR will get a bad score because *gasp* this forum is lurking with libertarians.

I mean talk about deluded.

God I love you.  FTR though, you should have left it unedited.  Your second half kind of ruined it.

Oh really?

Or are you just worried that the little FDR idolators will have their little New Dealer hearts hurt once they see the comparison to christian fundamentalists?

Because I'm not.

[Mechaman]

I love how like some people (and it's hilarious who) are saying FDR will get a bad score because *gasp* this forum is lurking with libertarians.

I mean talk about deluded.

Then again, as we can see with evangelicals it is usually members of the majority who like to purport to not being the majority.

Think I'm wrong?  Check back on this thread in five days times and see how many "THOSE WERE DAYS IN PARADISE!!!!!" posts compared to "OMG!!!! EVIL FASCIST!!!!!" posts are in this thread.

There are almost as many "Very Bad President " votes in this thread as there are for "Great President".

Yeah because voting results after only three hours are clearly indicative of this forum's demographics as a whole..........

Also, last time I checked the poll results 60% of this forum believes FDR was either "good" or "great".  You wanna know what 60% also correlates with?

Oh yeah, that's right........

Oh how hatefully libertarian this forum is if FDR does almost as well on here as he did IRL!!!!

OMFGosh!!!!!!

[Mechaman]

I love how like some people (and it's hilarious who) are saying FDR will get a bad score because *gasp* this forum is lurking with libertarians.

I mean talk about deluded.

God I love you.  FTR though, you should have left it unedited.  Your second half kind of ruined it.

Oh really?

Or are you just worried that the little FDR idolators will have their little New Dealer hearts hurt once they see the comparison to christian fundamentalists?

Because I'm not.

No.  I was talking about the part where you got a little off tangent.  It went from funny, to overboard.

A little off tangent maybe.

But I still stand by it because it's a very valid comparison.

Whenever a thread like this comes up Atlasian leftists love to make it about how an evil libertarian monstrosity that inhabits most of the forum will skew the results.  Kind of like how fundamentalists like to claim that a very small elite cabal of atheist baby eating f*****s are taking over American society.

[Mechaman]

I love how like some people (and it's hilarious who) are saying FDR will get a bad score because *gasp* this forum is lurking with libertarians.

I mean talk about deluded.

Then again, as we can see with evangelicals it is usually members of the majority who like to purport to not being the majority.

Think I'm wrong?  Check back on this thread in five days times and see how many "THOSE WERE DAYS IN PARADISE!!!!!" posts compared to "OMG!!!! EVIL FASCIST!!!!!" posts are in this thread.

There are almost as many "Very Bad President " votes in this thread as there are for "Great President".

Yeah because voting results after only three hours are clearly indicative of this forum's demographics as a whole..........

Also, last time I checked the poll results 60% of this forum believes FDR was either "good" or "great".  You wanna know what 60% also correlates with?

Oh yeah, that's right........

Oh how hatefully libertarian this forum is if FDR does almost as well on here as he did IRL!!!!

OMFGosh!!!!!!

A majority of Americans loved FDR.

A majority of this forum loves FDR.

.....

Your point?

You were arguing that the forum is littered with libertarians who would skew the results.

From what I've gathered it is (at the very least) there with the American average.

[Mechaman]

Meh, he wasn't the greatest president.  And as much criticism as I may get from like minded individuals he definitely wasn't the worst (in my opinion Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Richard "the Dick" Nixon, and George W. Bush could probably be in the grand tournament for the worst.  FDR probably ranks somewhere in the high twenties-mid thirties).  However, his record of accomplishments is probably equaled only by George Washington (that isn't to say, however, that all accomplishments should be viewed positively).

That isn't to say, however, that I approve of all of his policies and accomplishments.  In fact a good many deal of them fall too easily into the pro-government growth and expansion side.  As a libertarian it would be ideologically inconsistent for me to call the President who made government intervention sexy a "good president".  Sure, FDR wasn't all bad (and might as well be a f***ing boy scout next to his predecessor Wilson, the scum of humanity) with his administration's efforts to defeat protectionism as an effective force in the US and the repeal of Prohibition.  The internment camps though.........yuck.

So yeah, bad president it is.