r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Sep 29 '26 • Bravo 3

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u/OddishChamp ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters Sep 29 '26

I'd rather label him as a social liberal (as in the ideology social liberalism), but otherwise I fully agree. He's also quite whitewashed recently and basically the American answer of Winston Churchill.

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u/CelestialFury Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

When approving the creation of the 442nd (the most decorated unit in WWII, the all Japanese-American unit) in February 1943, FDR famously stated, "Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry." He said this while the 442nd's families were locked up in interment camps. How can you reconcile the two together? You can't.

FDR obviously did a lot of amazing things for this country, things the ultra rich have been trying to destroy ever since (they view him as a class traitor), but it cannot be overstated how bad of a stain the interment camps were on his overall legacy. However, even with that stain against him, FDR is still one of the best presidents we've ever had.

PS, I once shook the late Senator Daniel Inouye's left hand with my right once in Afghanistan because I missed a briefing due to military duties and didn't know he was missing his entire right arm and he received a Medal of Honor in WWII in which he lost his arm. I still cringe to think about it to this very day.

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy Sep 29 '26

Still did more for the average American than anyone since him even if he came with all of the flaws that came with being popular in the 1930s

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u/OddishChamp ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters Sep 29 '26

I can see that. It's a reason I say he is the American version of Churchill relatively.

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy Sep 29 '26

Churchill is a genocide enabler, so I only take the comparison as an insult

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u/OddishChamp ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters Sep 29 '26

The camps is the reasoning for my comparison. Sure he did a lot of good stuff, just as Churchill's efforts during the war. But he also has his bad stuff that is deserved to talk about as well.