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9. They need to read some history.

FDR was Bill Clinton on steroids. He was hawkish on foreign policy, saved capitalism from the leftists and unleashed the corporations during WW2 so we could supply the war machines the rest of the allies needed. Which he gets away with because he was on the right side of history. Also, wildly racist policy implementations. But there it is....

JFK was also hawkish, Vietnam was basically his fault, even though LBJ gets left holding that bag. there is a bunch of revisionist thinking that he intended to pull out after his second election. But certainly not before, and that was for political reasons.

Both were wealthy and privileged..... Great men, but men of their times and hardly as perfect as the political rhetoric of Bernie Sanders makes them out to be. All this white male liberal nostalgia for men who never had to check their privilege is tedious, IMO.