Was Roosevelt really guilty of compromising American capitalism with elements of socialism, or was it a temporary measure to deal with an economic crisis, and in fact save capitalism? The answer to the question is yes, President F.D Roosevelt had to compromise. His plans and actions might have seemed that he was for socialism, but it was rather a temporary measure. He made the decision, as the president, to compromise American Capitalism with elements of socialism for the time being as there were more options and different ways of going about it in socialist setting than there was with capitalism. He made this decision also because he knew that if he were to change his mind-set from a capitalist to a socialist one there would be more ways of getting the country back to what it used to be even though many people would not agree.
President Roosevelt knew what his modus operandi was and would be in terms of making America, “America” again. He knew that the country, as a whole needed to convert to socialism and bear the minds of socialist temporarily. He had to make Americans see where he was coming from and how his plans would benefit everyone even if there weren’t immediate changes . He would say things such as “only a foolish optimist can deny the dark
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And that when it came to business that everything and everyone was on equal playing fields when it came to their incomes and how their businesses grew. Involving the government allowed for people , which was fair , to naturally assume that president Roosevelt was moving toward socialism and running the country as a socialistic whole when that was not the case. The case was merely to save capitalism