RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events "person of the century"

I have to say FDR. Capitalism was about to fail. At the same time, in the young Soviet Union, communism appeared to be thriving. The communists thought they were going to win. They thought the capitalist United States would fall, and in it's place, a superior communist society would rise. Thank God for President Roosevelt. He was called a communist by his oponents, and why? Because he changed the way the government operated with response to capitalism. That's the short version, anyway. He was a unique thinker at a time when staunch censervatism wouldn't cut it. (I use the term conservatism as meaning sticking with the status quo, nothing more.) The New Deal put America back on the right track. Yes, the war helped, there is no doubt about that, but the US was beginning to see a positive return, a slow one, but a positive one, before the war. Anyway, as President Roosevelt lead this great nation back up, away from the depression, things went terribly wrong in Soviet Russia. (Somewhere in these events is also a great argument that there really is a God, but that's another argument, for a different thread.)

To sum it all up, FDR saved capitalism, and by doing that, he saved the free world. Had the US fallen then, Hitler probably would have won the war, and the world would only be populated by blonde haired and blue eyed "aryans," with any "lesser race" still around to serve them as slaves (that was Hitler's intentention, at least with the Slavic people).