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Interesting points davidd. Even if you do not completely agree, you can see where the logic stems. The argument can be made of course if each of those things was a net benefit or loss.
The most interesting thing to me, is that with each of those points (e.g. expansion of government power at the expense of personal liberty) they were done with the absolute best of intentions by some of the all time great leaders this country has ever seen. They also (helped) solve real, horrible problems the country was facing at those times. It makes it very difficult to argue "states rights" when in doing so, you are allowed slavery to continue. At the time, the issues were much more complex than what we see them as today.
I do somewhat wonder what the country would be like if FDR hadn't died when he did, and had a couple decades of steering the country after WWII simply by being involved in the political stage. While I certainly can be made to look at some of his policies in a different light, I still feel he was a true patriot and one of the last presidents who truly cared about the nation and it's people above all else.
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