It is Nazism turned upside-down, âinverted totalitarianism.â While it is a system that aspires to totality, it is driven by an ideology of the cost-effective rather than of a âmaster raceâ (Herrenvolk), by the material rather than the âideal.â. Inverted totalitarianism reverses things. Whereas in Nazi Germany the state dominated economic actors, in inverted totalitarianism, corporations through political contributions and lobbying, dominate the United States, with the government acting as the servant of large corporations. 2  This is considered normal rather than corrupt.
In 1910, he entered politics, winning a state senate seat as a Democrat in the heavily Republican Dutchess County. In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson named Roosevelt assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. 32nd U.S. president, famous for guiding his country through the Great Depression (with the institution of the programs that made up the New Deal) and the second world war. The only president to be elected to more than two terms, Roosevelt was voted into office four times.