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It seems that the Alfred E. Newman character was created by opponents of F.D.R., and not as a pro-F.D.R poster or postcard. Doesn't it say that anyone supporting him was a simpleton?

Incidentally, there's a figure in a large mural at the Metro Headquarters in Los Angeles (One Gateway Plaza) that looks suspiciously like Alfred E. Newman. https://www.flickr.com/photos/40285828@N00/4656796089 or https://www.dailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2014/201411/NEWS_141119251_AR_0_NBKPUWQODYJW.jpg

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Calling billionaire capitalists socialists is the equivalent of calling the Bolsheviks, the 26th of July movement, the North Vietnamese government or the FMLN capitalists.

Fidel Castro was named every year as one of the world's wealthies men by Forbes, (https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7227989), yet he died without ever having had a bank account.

You tell me where Castro's alleged billions went when he died. They never existed. It was a lie.

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