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Frederick R Prete's avatar

Very interesting!

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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

One small nit that boomers aren't to blame. You've been in congressional power since the early 80s. You've held the presidency since 1992...and nothing changed. So as a Millenial (1981, and certainly not this 'triggered' generation idea) I have to say that there's a lot of ability to point fingers, but at a certain point, someone has to do something differently.

What's interesting in looking at the history of the New Deal is just how close we came to becoming a socialist country under FDR. If it hadn't been for our G.I.s seeing socialism up close, I think we would have tipped. The only thing that saved the US from socialism was WWII.

A great book on the topic is New Deal or Raw Deal

https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Raw-Economic-Damaged/dp/1416592377

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