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BigmanPigman

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7. My sister is a huge FDR fan
Thu Apr 28, 2022, 03:35 AM
Apr 2022

and gave me an FDR Christmas tree ornament commemorating him which she got on her last visit to DC.

One of the things that was obvious in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books was the anti-FDR bias. Her daughter co-wrote them with her and she was a strong Libertarian (up there with Ayn Rand). In her own writing she constantly wrote about how horrible FDR and his social programs were bad for the US. In true hypocritical fashion both she and her mother and their family took advantage of tons of FDR's programs yet they proclaim that they survived on their own.

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