[Grovenet] T Roosevelt

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Julie wrote:

Roosevelt wasn't all bad, certainly, when you look at his conservationism
and his trustbusting, but he certaintly wasn't terribly good either.  For
his time he wasn't a racist, but for our time he is simply deplorable. He
was believed very strongly in Social Eugenics. He was also a terrible
militarist who died a broken man after his own son died in World War I. 

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Isn't is true that the most we can expect of someone is that they be the
best person possible *for their time*? 

Who knows what FDR, Eisenhower or JFK would be like in the White House
today? 

This is the third or fourth time that post come to me recently, so either I
have a lot of like-minded friends or it's getting a lot of action being
passed around. 

What I see in the message from AumaMarie is a desire for something clear-cut
that says "This is America. We're good. We're strong. We're successful."

That's what I was saying before was missing from our country. Each political
party is obsessed with winning the next election because, in our current
system, it's "Winner take all. Loser be Damned!"  That's why the current
administration had free reign in the first term. It's why FDR had such free
reign years ago the Supreme Court was the only organization to successfully
challenge his decisions. 

Depending upon which side of the Blue/Red line one is on, one or the other
was doing exactly the right things in both cases. 

And that's the problem I see with our current political structure. Our
country staggers through the years, lurching left, right, left, left, right,
right right like a power-drunk bully, with each side of the Red/Blue divide
blaming the other for the stagger. 

I'd like to see that change.

I'd like to see how we make decisions change.

I believe it's past time to bury the red/blue divide. 

Ron D'Eau Claire