re: I wonder what it was like during the Great Depression

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Need I go on?

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nope - I have mulled all of that over again myself many times.

however, I do not think he was anywhere near as maliciously evil as the Democrats of the past 40 years have been, culminating in evil at the nth degree with this latest decade.

His CCC corps did some great work. As I was traveling thru the National Parks a decade or so ago, I marveled at the structures they created back then - at least he had them work for their pay.

I'll even give a partial pass on the Japanese imprisonment. We had just been attacked. There were spies everywhere. We were vulnerable. That was not a time to take a chance. The danger was unknown but overwhelmingly urgent. There is no doubt it could/should have been handled a little more humanely and more 'vetting' of the individuals performed.

But I do not like to put myself into past moral situations unless the information is overwhelmingly conclusive and abundantly evident to everyone at the time.

Of course he did set in motion the structure that has morphed into the base for all the evils we suffer today.

And it is not obvious that he did the right thing relative to the economy at the time - but that too requires a lot of retrospective 'what ifs' - I am reluctant to do that. I lived thru it but was too young to have any sort of cause//effect analysis.