So, anyway, I get around to all kinds of irregular points of view you won't find treated thoroughly in any public school or college. Definitely not on the media.
The LaRouche folks elevate FDR to the level of the paragon of all intelligent, rational socialists, a true defender of the common man. The true essence of the Democratic Party. The Bush League or recent RINO positions are actually more "Left" than FDR ever was. Coming from an elite family, FDR was a fav of the bankers/progressives. The CPUSA ordered it's people to vote for FDR. Eleanor Roosevelt put on airs for being the highest sort of elite leader of the ordinary housewives, ignoring some facts of FDR's conduct gratuitously. Solzhenitsyn wrote about Eleanor's visit to the Russian prisons and how she was completely taken in by the commies. Folks like Milton Friedman, as well as many actual conservatives, view FDR as man who broke the dam and let the gov grow without check. But isn't it the fact that FDR built the Hoover Dam? The singular event that really launched Las Vegas as the sin capital of the world? And, which brought in advanced industries of the MIC along with a very impressive cohort of former Nazi scientists?
FDR is about as popular in the urban legend sort of way as JFK. Listening to some very conservative radio talk host the other day, it was asserted that FDR had a close friend lodged virtually in his White House who had connections with the Russian commies. Not only did FDR meet with Stalin and work things out so Stalin got what he wanted from WWII.... Eastern Europe...., but he altered the game plan for ending WWII in a way that cost thousands of US soldiers their lives.
Here's how.
The Nazis had already been defeated in Africa, and we had already moved on into Italy. Stalin wanted us to open another front to the West rather than move through Greece and Romania, or go from the south into France. Stalin insisted we should let him have the Eastern front, and that we should start our campaign directly at the most heavily defended part of the entire Nazi perimeter. So FDR committed us to attack Normandy, which sure cost tens of thousands of lives just getting to the beaches. It was the wrong place to launch a military front. In all, it cost many thousands of US lives, unnecessarily.
Because a "Democratic" President, who had the support of the CPUSA, and many crucial links to the communists personally, wanted to give Stalin Eastern Europe.