How does that explain Franklin D. Roosevelt? Huh?
This sickness started generations ago! If we educate generations of children in socialist-modeled, socialist-pay for, government owned SOCIALIST schools, we will get generations of socialists!
Please read post #44.
By the way, I graduated from university in 1974. The university I attended was filled to the brim with Marxist and socialist sympathizers who were many decades older than their students. Where did these geezer professors get their indoctrination?
Pull back to the larger macro view. Democracies are an automatic fail, so the trick by any group of (banking) manipulators was to convert the republic to a democracy.
Everything, and I mean everything, flows from this conversion. Once democracy was firmly in place, there was simply nothing, absent a conquering foreign power, that could supplant the growth of government.
Money is the mother's milk of politics. If we didn't have a central bank to finance the federal government, and the ability to tax the citizenry in order to pay the bankers' interest on the use of our very own money, the whole system would collapse.
Once basic human vices are understood, it only takes a little leverage to get the ball rolling. The ball has been steadily rolling for quite some time now. How much bigger can fed.gov get before it comes all apart?