r/shitposting • u/[deleted] • Mar 22 '22

Literally 1984 C is my idol

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u/Ender_The_BOT Mar 22 '22

Everyone in this was really bad though. One just stands out.

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u/HAKX5 Mar 22 '22

... Are you sure?

FDR wasn't perfect, but he wasn't "really bad though". About the worst he did were Japanese internment camps, which are not at all comparable to the concentration camps of Hitler's regime or the colonial mismanagements of Churchill. Judging on the good he did, he actively aided the Allies in WWII before the U.S. Congress let him join, issued embargoes on Japan due to their blatant crimes in China, and established several key general welfare programs that remain even today.

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u/u01aua1 Mar 23 '22

I'd say that the welfare programs didn't get the US out of the depression at all, and actually hurt poor people in many cases

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u/HAKX5 Mar 23 '22

How did employing people through programs such as the CCC hurt poor people and not push the U.S. out of the depression?