The Revolution Was by Garet Garrett

The Myth of Roosevelt ^ | 1938 | Garet Garrett

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This is a great read.

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Modern man makes fun of the Greek and Roman myths of the ancient past. Yet, modern man is no more exempt from this cultural phenomenon than his more ignorant ancestors. Urban myths abound in modern culture. One of those myths surrounds the life and presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, America's 32nd President.

To this day, he is credited with pulling America out of the Great Depression. Yet, nothing could be further from the truth. Roosevelt was hardly a learned man. He knew little about economics either in theory or practice. He was indeed a great orator, but that was the extent of his gifts.

Due to his lack of philosphical roots, FDR was easily persuaded into being the mouthpiece for the latest fad in social and economic engineering - all of which failed to bring about economic recovery. Only by the "grace" of the second World War did the economy recover. And then there was Yalta, where FDR agreed to allow Stalin to add 750 MILLION human beings to his tyrannical and evil empire.

"Communism is the greatest threat to this country and Roosevelt helped put it there." --Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT) in letter to John M. Gizzi, October 23, 1969 (From the Wheeler Papers, Montana Historical Society)

FDR: "Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle." (NOTE: This is a paraphrase of Karl Marx's Communist maxim, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.")

BOOKS:
	Admiral Kimmel's Story by Husband E. Kimmel
	America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard
	Communism at Pearl Harbor by Anthony Kubek
	Final Secret of Pearl Harbor by Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald
	The Revolution Was by Garet Garrett
	The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn
	Roosevelt's Road to Russia by George N. Crocker
	The Sacrifice of Bataan
	The Yalta Betrayal by Felix Wittmer
LINKS:
	Links to Other FDR Sites
	Errors of History in Our 20th Century
	FDR: The Man, the Leader, the Legacy
	Great Myths of the Great Depression
	Person of the Century: FDR vs. Reagan
	Phony of the Century
	Victim of Roosevelt's Appeasement Speaks Out

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Talking about the New Deal (sound familiar!?):

“The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.

The end held constantly in view was power.”

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I added a couple of names to the following:

“There was a prodigious literature of revolutionary thought concealed only by the respectability of its dress.”.....

“To the revolutionary this same dreary stuff was the most exciting reading in the world. It was knowledge that gave him a sense of power. One who mastered the subject to the point of excellence could be fairly sure of a livelihood by teaching and writing [AYERS], that is, by imparting it to others, and meanwhile dream of passing at a single leap from this mean obscurity to the prestige of one who assists in the manipulation of great happenings; while one who mastered it to the point of genius [OBAMA] that one might dream of becoming himself the next Lenin.”

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Here’s some more info on Garet Garret:

Was there ever a prose stylist on the Right as elegantly idiosyncratic as Garet Garrett? “We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire,” he warned in a 1952 polemic, his voice husky with tragedy. The moment went unheralded, however, and even unnoticed: “There was no painted sign to say: ‘You now are entering Imperium.’ Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: ‘Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.’ And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: ‘No U-turns.’”

Garrett wrote novels in his youth, short stories and serials for the old Saturday Evening Post – he later became the magazine’s chief editorial writer – and his flair for the dramatic, the unexpected turn of a phrase, embellishes his later essays and nonfiction books. His classic trilogy of booklets, The Revolution Was, Ex America, and Rise of Empire, is a bittersweet elegy for our old Republic that, read today, has about it the air of prophecy. After twenty years, he was turned out of the Saturday Evening Post in a general purge of America Firsters, and like most of his Old Right brethren – Mencken, Albert Jay Nock, Frank Chodorov – sent into a kind of internal exile, estranged from liberals and conservatives alike.

Yet he did not fade into silence. In a last burst of eloquence he turned out three books in the final few years of his life, including The American Story – a history book such as could not be written (or published) today. To begin with, it starts out in a most politically incorrect fashion, with a dialogue between the “Supreme Voice” and “Mankind’s Advocate,” a philosophical argument of sorts that takes place against a backdrop of stars and endless night: “Mankind’s Advocate had been speaking continuously since last the Great Dipper was in a spilling position.” After a long silence, the Supreme Voice speaks: “They have done badly with the world they possess.” The advocate admits it, but blames the knowledge of good and evil, which “made them both better and worse.”

“And now you ask for a new world,” says the Supreme Voice after a while. “What reason is there to suppose they would do better with a new world – the same people?”

Mankind’s Advocate replies in a voice that sounds like Garrett, the American nationalist: “They will not be the same people. As the mountains select mountain people and the valleys select valley people and the deserts still others, so a new world will select its own people – those in flight from evil, from oppression, from the glory of war. They will begin all over again and they will have no history.”

“They find no benefit in history?” interjects the Supreme Voice.

“History,” replies the Advocate, “is their fatal luggage. They were better when they had no history. Now they fight endless wars about what they remember.”

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One last excerpt from his 1938 booklet (WAKE UP PEOPLE!:

“One effect was that private borrowing and lending, except from day to day, practically ceased. With the value of the dollar being posted daily at the Treasury like a lottery number, who would lend money for six months or a year, with no way of even guessing what a dollar would he worth when it came to be paid back?”

“No man outside of a lunatic asylum,” said Senator Glass, “will loan his money today on a farm mortgage” But the New Deal had a train of Federal lending agencies ready to start. The locomotive was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.”

“The signal for the train to start was a blast of propaganda denouncing Wall Street, the hanks and all private owners of capital for their unwillingness to lend. So the government, in their place, became the great provider of credit and capital for all purposes.”

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FDR: “Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.” (NOTE: This is a paraphrase of Karl Marx’s Communist maxim, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”)

Sound familiar!!??

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Bump with a 1938 quote, coming soon (again) to a town near you:

“The signal for the train to start was a blast of propaganda denouncing Wall Street, the hanks and all private owners of capital for their unwillingness to lend. So the government, in their place, became the great provider of credit and capital for all purposes.”

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THANKS.

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Early excerpt:

“The test came in the first one hundred days.

No matter how carefully a revolution may have been planned there is bound to be a crucial time. That comes when the actual seizure of power is taking place.....

Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another, taking them in the proper order, according to revolutionary technic; and if the handling of one was inconsistent with the handling of another, even to the point of nullity, that was blunder in reverse. The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.”