If is not just ordinary Americans who find America's political system 'inside the Beltway' to be overly complex and confusing.
Outsiders - some as presidents with hands on nuclear red buttons and some as terrorists with hands on cellphone detonator buttons - find the daily mass/mess of signals coming out of the Beltway totally confusing.
Perhaps never more so than during FDR's 12 year reign when he closely mimicked Adolf Hitler's policy of setting up competing powerful bureaucracies and letting the strongest and most determined claw and elbow its way to the top.
So it came to pass that it was an unelected bureaucrat - OSRD scientist Vannevar Bush , not an elected politician like FDR - who created America's selfish 'go it alone' diplomatic policy on a-bombs and atomic energy that helped so much to usher in the Cold War.
But at that very same moment in time , FDR's WPB , headed up by another unelected bureaucrat (this time big businessman Donald M Nelson) , was showing America to be extraordinary generous and open , selflessly producing endless amounts of the precious penicillin - in the middle of a Total War - to share with allies, neutrals - and eventually enemies - alike.
As fast as Vannevar Bush fought to keep the selfish go-it-alone legacy of Hitler and Tojo alive, Nelson's team was working to restore and re-connect the human fabric.
Only in America ....
Outsiders - some as presidents with hands on nuclear red buttons and some as terrorists with hands on cellphone detonator buttons - find the daily mass/mess of signals coming out of the Beltway totally confusing.
Perhaps never more so than during FDR's 12 year reign when he closely mimicked Adolf Hitler's policy of setting up competing powerful bureaucracies and letting the strongest and most determined claw and elbow its way to the top.
So it came to pass that it was an unelected bureaucrat - OSRD scientist Vannevar Bush , not an elected politician like FDR - who created America's selfish 'go it alone' diplomatic policy on a-bombs and atomic energy that helped so much to usher in the Cold War.
But at that very same moment in time , FDR's WPB , headed up by another unelected bureaucrat (this time big businessman Donald M Nelson) , was showing America to be extraordinary generous and open , selflessly producing endless amounts of the precious penicillin - in the middle of a Total War - to share with allies, neutrals - and eventually enemies - alike.
As fast as Vannevar Bush fought to keep the selfish go-it-alone legacy of Hitler and Tojo alive, Nelson's team was working to restore and re-connect the human fabric.
Only in America ....
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