The “Democrat” and the Dictator

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 … Continue reading The “Democrat” and the Dictator