Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "FDR’s Letter To Corporate Democrats Will Blow Your Mind" video.

  1. They swept the investigation under the rug too, never did follow up to find out which oligarchs were in on the planned coup. It was basically an attempt if our system fail completely and monopoly business and banks became nationalized and we went toward a socialistic or communistic system that the oligarchs would go full Banana Republic Fascist on the nation with death camps and gestapos. Nearly did, if all the oligarchs lost their social status in income and had to sell apples or whatever on the streets and do odd jobs like so many other people during the great depression. To keep their cushy mansions and ownership of much of the wealth they wanted a fallback plan to cause coup and take over just as Mussolini and Hitler did, as those two acted as protectorate of their respective oligarchy; both Italy and Germany have monarchy titles attached to many of their oligarchs at the time.
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  2. Lincoln didn't end slavery immediately either. In fact, his initial proclamation emancipation was only to free Confederate owned slaves in the southern states. Union states and union controlled areas were not part of the emancipation at all. Lincoln mentioned several times he didn't really care either way that much; whatever was more expedient to ending the civil war. But all people have their weak points. You can take what you like and drop what was bad. Internment camps sucked. Just like LBJ who got in the quagmire of Vietnam, passed the Civil Rights Act and Medicare Act. This is where you can cherry pick, take the good qualities, and drop the bad ones.
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  3. Had it not been for FDR and the policies put into place by congress and him, we would look something similar to many impoverished rich countries like India, Mexico, Brazil, etc. Quite literally my grandma born in 1933 spent her first 5 years living in what later I got to visit was a shack or shed, she called a cabin. Dirt floor, with 4 other siblings, part of this shack/shed overhung a small creek for water. And a caste iron stove in a small village in Idaho. A cement plant was built in 1929, and would have remained bankrupt had it not been for FDR programs, which required large amounts of cement for the various dams and road construction which required expanding the cement plant, by 1940 my great grandpa was hired by the the cement plant, and that money enabled him to not only buy a car, but build a modern framed home with electricity and plumbing. Had it not been for the programs of FDR, much of the US would be like China is today, a few major modern looking cities with suburbs and rural areas as poor and impoverished as frontiers of the 1800's. Interestingly, the cement plant still survives however, in 2010 the production ceased, and several layoffs, part where they mined the silica and limestone is no more, they no longer make Portland Cement, but act as terminal for distribution... a railroad runs through there. After visiting the "cabin" I forever understood why my grandma and her still surviving sister, my great aunt would only vote democrat. What FDR did for the US in particularly was to keep us from remaining a sad impoverished hovel, kept us from potentially turning into a fascist state cooperating with NAZI Germany and Italy, and kept us from violent tyrannical authoritarian regimes similar to the violent Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc. under the now forever tainted feigning of Marx criticism of absolute capitalism, and the need for social economy for a mutually sustainable prosperous world. Unfortunately, nearly a century later, those lessons of the virtue to a mixed social-capital system are fading. Aristocracy are at it again, and as always with great avengeaunce.
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