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In reply to the discussion: Goodbye Will Twain: A ratfucker unmasked [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)but you know what? I am not going to bother writing a thesis to prove to you how wrong you are, on this. I have better things to do than try to prove to partisans that the sky is indeed cloudy outside my door right now. Or that a standard definition of the time line of US History is what it is.
You and your friend can live in an alternate, non standard, version of US History... it really affects me not.
You are wrong. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was NOT the first imperial president of the modern period, that is Trumman. Have fun with it That is a fact, regardless of how many times you try to get cute about it.
And this, the book, in case you are truly curious. I doubt you are, but hell, I am ok with it.
http://www.amazon.com/Truman-Presidency-Imperial-National-Security/dp/0930576128
For the record, Schlesinger also wrote an extremely good piece of work on anti intellectualism in US Politics, and you are exhibiting what he described in that book. And I am cool with that. It is what it is. Hyperpartisanship is truly a mystery to me. Perhaps, before I die, I will be able to decode it, but I truly doubt it, because I rather deal with realities in the field.
Have fun thinking that up is down and black is white. I guess war is peace, and the rations went up this week. I do not love big brother... so report me to big brother.
And I forgot, I find this extremely cute and telling.