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How America Changed from Being the World’s
Leading Democratic Nation under FDR, to Being the World’s Leading Nazi
Nation under Obama
Eric Zuesse
America has changed fundamentally since — and away from — the values
that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt represented both in his words,
and in his actions (that’s to say, in his actual decisions, his
choices, as the U.S. President). Though President Barack Obama isn’t
radically different from FDR in his words, he’s almost the opposite of
FDR in his real governing values and decisions, his real leadership of
the United States.
Unfortunately, most people see politics only by words, and ignore
realities. But, in some important respects (his actions, his decisions),
Barack Obama is — and I hate to say this — actually closer to FDR’s
enemies, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, than to FDR. This is true
not only regarding the contrast between FDR’s moving America away from
enormous wealth-inequality, versus Obama’s moving America toward even
higher wealth-inequality than before; it’s yet more starkly exhibited in
the international policies of these two post-economic-crash U.S.
Presidents, as will be demonstrated here.
FDR was viscerally and actively anti-fascist and anti-nazi, whereas
Obama simply is not. FDR was anti-aristocracy; Obama is pro-aristocracy.
FDR was pro equal-rights; Obama is actually anti equal-rights. That’s
the reality, not the rhetoric.
So, first, here’s FDR: