"As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and... provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead. "
i simply cannot fathom the deep-seated american fear of socialism. i really can't.
Damn.
American political history is interesting (no, shut up, it is!) because the sheer size of the country and the diversity of the population made the national parties into these weird, contradictory coalitions of local and regional interests. Until about the 20's/30's, the big issues seem completely alien and disconnected from what goes on today.
Then you get the New Deal coalition against Coolidge/Hoover laissez faire types, and we get cursed to have the same arguments over economic policy for the last 80 or 90 years (and the same arguments about social policy for about 50 years).
i simply cannot fathom the deep-seated american fear of socialism. i really can't.
i simply cannot fathom the deep-seated american fear of socialism. i really can't.
i simply cannot fathom the deep-seated american fear of socialism. i really can't.
Damn.can you point me somewhere to read up on political issues before the 20's/30's?
American political history is interesting (no, shut up, it is!) because the sheer size of the country and the diversity of the population made the national parties into these weird, contradictory coalitions of local and regional interests. Until about the 20's/30's, the big issues seem completely alien and disconnected from what goes on today.
Then you get the New Deal coalition against Coolidge/Hoover laissez faire types, and we get cursed to have the same arguments over economic policy for the last 80 or 90 years (and the same arguments about social policy for about 50 years).
i simply cannot fathom the deep-seated american fear of socialism. i really can't.
can you point me somewhere to read up on political issues before the 20's/30's?
i simply cannot fathom the deep-seated american fear of socialism. i really can't.
I have no idea why anyone would ever think differently than me. :dur derp derp.