The populists and progressives of the day were snake oil salesmen writ large. Convinced the people that we needed a big central government to look after us little people. Then when all went south and their policies sent the worlds economy into a great depression, up from the ashes arose a great sPhincter, er Phoenix of all humanity, the socialist messiah, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The rest is history. And history repeats itself before our very eyes.
“And history repeats itself before our very eyes.”
As then, “..you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
If it didn’t translate, I was being facetious with the ‘louses’ remark.
He and I both know what that generation was like.
Ah yes, the liberal intelligensia is trying VERY HARD to make Obama's Regime the Next FDR, replete with a new Great Depression Permanent Crisis to get Government to hook Americans into dependency. What they remember from history is that FDR'a innovations radically and permanently altered the relationship of the people with the Federal Govt. All your description is a definition of Federal Government as it existed from 1789 to 1933.
What Obama wants is the next step in that evolution: Handing power to the UN; controlling the energy sector and socializing the healthcare sector; tax rates back in Carter era levels.
The Tea Party movement and the rapid negative reaction to the Obama agenda is an indicator that this times it's different. What we need to understand is that any policy innovation has to survive 3 tests: 1. The test of getting affirmed by candidates for office. 2. The test of passing legislation. 3. The test of permanence, when it doesnt get repealed.
We may have to spend the next 10 years fighting to clean up the messes made NOW by the bailouts, ObamaCare, etc. But the fight we wage needs to be focussed, specific and have a clear agenda in mind: Defeat and repeal these 5 key elements of Obama's agenda: 1. Higher taxes. 2. Bailouts and takeovers 3. Obamacare socialized medicine 4. Cap-n-trade energy taxes 5. Out of control deficit spending. Walking back the rest of American liberalism will take more education and activism than is available in this CURRENT EMERGENCY. Focus on defeating Obama's agenda as the #1 goal and you will have a achieved a victory as important as Reagan's election in 1980..