Vaguely about FDR. in The Napkin.

The legacy of FDR is an odd one. If you’re a liberal, he’s a beacon of hope, something to aspire to. If you’re a modern republican, you’re probably vomiting in your toilet at how he tried to help the common man.

But that’s it right there. Did he help the common man? All I know is that modern republicans oppose most of what FDR tried to promote.

Which begs the question: What ended the Great Depression?

As a flaming liberal, I’ll certainly acknowledge that it wasn’t FDR’s policies. It was the Second World War. But why? How? I enjoy the joke that poor people were always poor, and that the “depression” only became a thing when it hit white people.

Without going into the, “trickle down economics means give to the 1%, and fuck everyone else because they don’t matter.”

Wait. What was I saying?