This documentary I showed my history students for twenty five years, purportedly compares and contrasts the childhood and formative years of development of “the Democrat,” U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with that of “the Dictator,” German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in shaping their distinctive personalities and leadership of their two nations. It is hosted by the sycophantic Bill Moyers and amounts to sheer hagiographic agitprop. There is so much more to FDR not told is this fairy tale account. When you finish viewing it join in a rousing chorus of The Roosevelt Song. It is sung to the familiar music of America the Beautiful. The lyrics are below:
For infamy, for welfare state,
For fascist NRA.
You gave East Europe to the Reds
In Yalta one fine day.
Oh Roosevelt, oh Roosevelt,
God curse the likes of thee.
The bums you fed
Are glad you’re dead.
And so, by God, are we!
Regarding the origins of this song: In 1976, while we were both ballot drive petition “road warriors” for the Roger MacBride Libertarian Party Presidential Campaign, a young Tom G. Palmer (before he got Koched up and went Catonic) told me about an audacious “fight song” that members of the legendary Circle Bastiat used to sing while engaged in their gregarious camaraderie. The story of the Circle is lovingly told by Justin Raimondo in his superb An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard. Besides Rothbard and his wife, Joey, this merry band of brothers consisted of future libertarian scholars Ralph Raico, Leonard Liggio, George Reisman, Robert Hessen, and Ronald Hamowy — names familiar to LRC readers.
3:52 pm on July 31, 2020
