Reading The Defining Moment about FDR's first 100 days

[Hamlette]

it's a great read...especially because it puts what's going on now into perspective. (They were seriously talking that a dictatorship might be a good thing for the country).

Pick it up.

[kansasblue]

1. I had read the the Republican were...

scare to death of FDR and the state of the country. Thought the country would go socialist, dictorship.

Remember that FDR tried to pack the Sumpreme Court when it struck down some of his programs.

[Hamlette]

2. not sure that's true, FDR was pretty much an unknown at the time

his platform was basically that we should try anything and everything to fix the problem. Implying that Hoover had done nothing. Hoover said things were on the way to recovery and the depression was FDR's fault (his election anyway).

But if you think things are scary now, there were real concerns about whether the country would survive then. Unemployment was over 25% and the banks had failed. People who had money in the bank or the market lost most of it, or all of it.