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  • JDPoZ@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•First Presidential Debate Megapost!English
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    17 days ago

    FDR threw 200,000 Americans into concentration camps.

    Yep… Congrats, Captain Obvious. Guess what? All presidents are shitty. He also helped us push to start building “the bomb” after Pearl Harbor.

    • Truman helped pass the Marshal Plan to rebuild all of Europe… but also dropped those 2 atomic bombs on civilian cities, killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
    • LBJ got us in to Vietnam proper. But he also pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act.
    • Obama passed the Affordable Healthcare Act, but increased drone strikes 10-fold.
    • Eisenhower gave us the Interstate Highway, but went along with anti-left coups all over South America (lots of the other presidents also did this sort of stuff, too, unfortunately)
    • FDR passed social security, helped get us out of the Great Depression, passed the GI bill, made electricity accessible to rural areas, gave us the Warren court - AKA the only non-conservative Supreme court in the last 100 years (Miranda rights, Brown v Board of education, right to attorney even if you can’t afford it, etc.)

    So I count FDR on the RELATIVE (not absolute) “good” side of US presidents… who are all shitty overall to lesser degrees at best.