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FDR was a vile racist , antisemite, anti-Asian ( long before Pearl Harbor, which he let happen as a vehicle to slaughter the Japanese-it gave him a legitimate reason. He was a narcissistic serial adulterer, as was his lesbian wife . And he was a power hungry socialist Nazi sympathizer, more proof that Nazis were socialists. There is very little difference between Communism, Nazism and Islamism. They all stem from collectivism with a goal of global conquest and a shared hatred of Jews, minorities and individualism.

The U.S. is the very definition of fascism. Mega-Corporate Multinational monopolism / Government symbiosis .

Here’s a stunning example. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defined fascism as Mussolini coined it- Government/Corporate coordinated government. And then it was purchased by a corporation and the definition became “ authoritarian, totalitarian ironfisted despotism/ dictatorship.”

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Spot on! With regard to the Japanese, FDR wrote scathing anti-Japanese and generally anti-Asian pieces for the Macon, Georgia newspaper in the early 1920s, when he was down there for treatment of his polio. He was anti-black and anti-Semite as well (and made that clear during his term as Assistant Secretary to the Navy from 1913 to 1920), but I happened to delve deeper into his anti-Asian stances when I was researching my husband's family (all four of his grandparents and two sets of great-grandparents were legal Japanese immigrants, having come between 1900 and 1920. FDR's anti-Asian writings were a part of the push that led to the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, which closed the door to almost all immigration from Asia from then until the immigration act of 1952 (which opened the door to Asian immigration on a quota system and finally allowed legal Asian immigrants to apply for citizenship, which all four of his grandparents did) and the Immigration Act of 1956 (which did away with the quotas).

He did much more than just "let" Pearl Harbor happen--he actively orchestrated it. His manipulation of Japan started in the early-to-mid 1930s when his New Deal policies were failing miserably, and began as a move to export not just steel but several other raw materials and war materiel in order to generate income into the US. He enabled their empire-building and their military actions against China as they became dominant in the western part of the Pacific Basin, and then began systematically cutting them off in 1939, leaving them over-extended with regard to resources and desperate. This was part of his well-orchestrated scheme to get them to attack the US somewhere--he needed a war to fully reverse the economic failure of the New Deal, and Americans were reluctant to get involved defending their allies against Hitler. His initial plan did not include an attack on a specific location--he just wanted Japan to attack the US somewhere in the Pacific. That said, the US broke both the naval and diplomatic codes a week or more prior to the attack, and knew not only where but when it was going to happen. FDR specifically withheld that information from US commanders in Hawaii, so they had no time to prepare for it--ensuring maximum damage and loss of life, but from FDR's perspective, the loss of materiel was massive and sufficient to put the US on an immediate production footing to replace and increase military resources. Hitler's subsequent declaration of war against the US was an added benefit, from FDR's economic perspective.

FDR also greatly admired Hitler other than his goal to massively expand Germany through military conquest. They were both great admirers of Margaret Sanger and her eugenics policies, and they had many other commonalities.

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