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In reply to the discussion: FDR: "I welcome their hatred" [View all]YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)And communications. The world is "smaller" now. Far more people live in the cities now. The rate of unionization is far, far smaller in the 21st century than in the 1930s-hell, "union" is a dirty word for many now! Not to mention, how much more racially diverse America is today. Issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, and others are far more salient now. And the influence of commercialism, advertising, public relations, and TV/internet (neither of which existed in the 1930s) propaganda is far greater in this day and age than it was in the 1930s.
All of this focus on who the President is-without any reference or sensitivity to historical and social context-is painfully provincial, and reveals a lot about the filtered, edited memories of the past that many have.