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Politics : The Trump Presidency

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To: i-node who wrote (63471)	3/30/2018 11:28:19 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 363233

Liking someone's quote and glibly quoting it a lot doesn't make someone an authority. I don't think you know what an authority is. Mae West is quoted a lot about sex, but I would not call her an authority- I'd say someone who studied the biology and psychology of sex was an expert. I'd say Mae was an entertainer who knew people liked to hear about sex. Your problem, I think, is that you are confusing fame (for being president) with authoritativeness. FDR was not an expert on unions. He wasn't really an expert at anything- he was an elite rich guy who happened to become a politician and a pretty good demagogue. I'd say he was an expert at using propaganda- though I'm not sure he even totally understood his propaganda, I think, like the Nazis and Trump and Churchill, he just happened to be very good at it. Some people are natural propagandists. He was also one heck of a racist: huffingtonpost.com But an "expert" on unions? No. If you can show me that he studied unions, knew their history and was a real expert- I'm happy to read this. But I've read a lot about FDR and the history of unions, and I think you're going to come up empty. Which is why I said what I said in the first place.

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