“voters were not against those programs at the time.”
Are you sure about that? I recall my grandparents saying many were, that there was no Constitutional establishment for a welfare state. They were poor at the time but knew any penny given to the government was a penny from their pockets.
Yes.
“I recall my grandparents saying many were, that there was no Constitutional establishment for a welfare state. They were poor at the time but knew any penny given to the government was a penny from their pockets.”
Well, no less a person that Michael Barone, who knows more about US political history than any current analyst, has stated that the only other time, when the public was so adamantly against a bill, and the congress (Democrats) passed a bill against the wishes of most American voters was in 1854. I am sure that was before even your grandfather was grown up.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/reform_bill_likely_legacy_SejC2P2VSHtmAB1ZjygnnM
The American people would sell themselves into slavery if they thought they could make a buck. Lenin understood them better than our own “leaders”.