Teddy wasn't perfect, but he was a decent president. FDR was a bloody socialist.
Yes, yes, anyone to the left of Reagan is a socialist, we know this is the song of the tradcons and Reaganites, that they use to pretend that what happened with the USSR at the end of the war was all FDR's fault.
Oh, many others made mistakes after FDR, and there's a long list of traitors in the Democrat party who should have been hung for their crimes, but none of this takes away the fact that FDR set the stage for the Cold War through his malfeasance.
You mean the Democrats...the same party FDR was a member of...and didn't do really anything about segregation.
You mean, he was the one that helped engineer our involvement in WW2 and making sure that we sent our children off to die in a war that could have been prevented.
Like what?
Yup, because Teddy did one thing really well. He grew the federal government. Just like FDR did later.
Yup, national parks, ie. federalizing more land in the west so those states can't control their own territory. Great job Teddy.
I mean, teddy did it to prevent it from being destroyed by the people.
Sure...and parks are wonderful. That territory should be the states though, not some Federal land. The Fed shouldn't have ANY territory except for national defense and D.C.
Eh, I disagree, because if it us federal land, states can't make laws rather negate aspects of it
You're missing the point, and falling for one of the Federal government's modern myths, that it is a SUPERIOR government to the State governments.
In the sense that they survived long enough to screw things up? Yes.
I mean, I see your point.
And where the fuck are the states going to get the funds to maintain all those federal lands to the same degree?
Military bases are relatively small in actual land use. I mean, you can see on the map I posted even places with lots of military based like Virginia barely breech 10%.
The East Coast and central US States seem to handle it just fine and maybe, just maybe, there is to much land held as parkland that can and should be privatized? Heck, much of the land in the US West has been effectively bait and switched by the Federal government, it was originally set aside as reserved meant for economic development for things like long term lumbering and strategic resource reserves MEANT to be tapped into when existing reserves ran low, and has now been turned into untouchable land thanks to the systemic ideological capture of the Federal bureaucracy by radical greens.
Have you considered that the East Coast should not be seen as an example of good environmental practices or urban development that doesn't fuck most of the local ecosystem? Have you considered the national parks and lands out west are so big because the East Coast has barely any wild spaces left, and destroyed most of the natural predators that are protected in national parks?
...well, congrats on convincing me those who say you are just a troll pretending to be a strawman of the Right by staking out ridiculous positions are actually right.
Teddy Roosevelt literally created them as hunting grounds.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boone_and_Crockett_Club
Except he didn't, because the Parks came about to preserve landscapes as well.
But...the bases I'm those areas are tiny.
This is just repeating the 'Federal management and oversight of lands is fucking-over the actual residents of the region' point.
