Who Was FDR?

A Brief Overview of His Abhorrent Legacy

Image: U.S. postage stamp illustrated in a socialist propaganda style, promoting the New Deal’s National Recovery Administration (NRA). Note its reference to the “common” good, à la socialism.

(In the following I’m quoting myself. It is my Facebook response to a friend who said he thought we needed a New Deal-style public works system to help the U.S. economy. This is intended to be food for thought, not a thorough investigation of each subject herein):

“FDR was a socialist, and [it is not a stretch to say he] was literally a Nazi, unlike the people that get that word thrown at them arbitrarily, who aren’t even socialists:

His New Deal was modeled after the War Industries Board (WIB) of the Marxist teacher of Bolshevism at Princeton, later president of Princeton and then POTUS, Woodrow Wilson.

Wilson made Bernard Baruch, who was arguably the most powerful Wall Streeter ever, the “economic dictator” overseeing the WIB. Baruch later invested $200,000 in FDR’s presidential campaign—a huge sum for that time.

Then Baruch wrote the National Recovery Act (NRA) of the New Deal, and trained Hugh Johnson, who became the administrator of the NRA. [The NRA was ruled unconstitutional by the SCOTUS in 1935.]

In his May 1, 1930 speech, Baruch said business councils (i.e., ‘soviets’ which means ‘councils’) were needed, and that their power should lie in the ability to license, or refuse or revoke licenses for businesses, based on their ideology, which was to be scrutinized “wholly scientifically.” (Covid-1984 tyranny, much?) [Note that ‘scientific socialism’ was the basis for the ideologies of Mussolini, Hitler, and the Soviets.]

FDR had two Nazis working in his office after the German defeat. They were Ernst Sedgewick ‘Putzi’ Hanfstaengl and his son. Putzi wrote the song that the Nazis used to march through Brandenburger Tor, the day Hitler was given emergency dictatorial power. And Putzi was staying in the room of the Presidential Palace that connected via a basement tunnel to the Reichstag, on the night that the Reichstag burned down.

When word got out that Putzi and his son worked in FDR’s office, he had to give them the boot to Canada and the Philippines, respectively, to save face.

FDR even went to school in Germany and was fluent in German. (Not that that alone would make him a Nazi.)

In the Butler Affair, FDR had multiple Wall Street big wig ties to a group of conspirators who attempted to use a coup to install General Smedley Butler as the military dictator of the U.S., at the head of a corporativist socialist dictatorship. The conspirators included George Peabody, Woodrow Wilson [tied to the conspirators], J. Milbank (the director of Rockefeller-controlled Chase National Bank), the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, and John Davis of AT&T, and others. But Butler blew the whistle. A Congressional investigation ensued. (Butler is the author of War is a Racket.) It was initially reported in the mainstream media, but when the names started getting named, an early Operation Mockingbird-style coverup was used to shut up the bad press.

The New Deal greatly prolonged and worsened the Great Depression. And some of the agricultural parts of it essentially never disappeared, and have led to the farm subsidies that lead to [I should’ve said ‘contribute to’] world hunger, and to families in Congress getting paid more than a million dollars annually, to not farm their land.

[The] eugenics that largely arose under FDR led to the forced sterilization of 70,000 Americans.

There is much more to say about FDR and his disastrous New Deal.”

(My primary source for this info is my notes on Wall Street and FDR, by Professor Antony C. Sutton. I also used his other two books of the Wall Street series, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (source for Wilson’s teaching history), and Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler. The blip about eugenics comes from the documentary End Game by Alex Jones, and verified by several other sources including open-source Wikipedia. The New Deal info comes from multiple sources including Foundation for Economic Education.)