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The Magistrate

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24. I Do View Him As a Mixed Figure, Ma'am

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #23)

Sat Jun 27, 2020, 06:44 PM

Jun 2020

He certainly had a dictatorial heart. But on the state level he did things that badly needed to be done, and on the national level he said things that needed to be said.

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'People just quietly took it in the Great Depression, but people won't do that nowadays' said in 70s [View all] bobbieinok Jun 2020 OP

Well, it depends on who and what dawg day Jun 2020 #1

As Usual, Ma'am, Yes And No The Magistrate Jun 2020 #2

My mom grew up on the family homestead in S.Dakota. She said they were just fine as far as food and brewens Jun 2020 #3

People are no less skeptical. Igel Jun 2020 #7

When this is over they will probably tell us some outrageous percentage of wealth evaporated brewens Jun 2020 #15

My Dad grew up in Reading PA during the Depression Freddie Jun 2020 #4

Have read in early 1900s OK was most socialist state in the country! bobbieinok Jun 2020 #8

The Cross of Gold speech spoke to them, I believe bobbieinok Jun 2020 #9

In college in the late 60s.... Grins Jun 2020 #5

Some believe FDR's election stopped a man (Huey Long of LA?) from becoming a fascist leader bobbieinok Jun 2020 #6

The Kingfish Was All Right, Ma'am The Magistrate Jun 2020 #18

I thought a lot of historians viewed him very negatively bobbieinok Jun 2020 #19

Many Do, Ma'am, But To My Mind Mostly In Error The Magistrate Jun 2020 #22

You reminded me---when I 1st read about him, his ideas sounded great. Then... bobbieinok Jun 2020 #23

I Do View Him As a Mixed Figure, Ma'am The Magistrate Jun 2020 #24

Read "Grapes of Wrath" before you say they "quietly took it" McCamy Taylor Jun 2020 #10

Those '30's peoples/voters, ran the republicons out of power for 24 years, empedocles Jun 2020 #12

There was massive Left political activism during the Great Depression greenjar_01 Jun 2020 #11

Well, they were older, may pretty conservative. One had argued vehemently against the use of Ms! bobbieinok Jun 2020 #13

There was a lot of unrest during the 1930s. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2020 #14

Ya know, it's totally unreal how much we do NOT learn in school! Carefully planned, ya think! bobbieinok Jun 2020 #16

Hard to disagree BannonsLiver Jun 2020 #17

Absolutely. It was incredible what our parents went through during the Depression. Frustratedlady Jun 2020 #20

so many people living in cities and suburbs now.. difficult to impossible to make do the way Demovictory9 Jun 2020 #21