During the Great Depression, this kind of mass despair was met by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the moral enormity of the New Deal. Today it is met with the most cruel and callous disregard.
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Sep 26, 2020 · 4:57 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
The days of centralized federal solutions are over. Can’t you see that, please? Life today (huge population, digital technology, trade globalization) is radically different from the 1930s! Diversity and decentralization demand new solutions; we must organize to aid each other.
Replying to @marwilliamson
"Now Congress is deciding, in conjunction with the White House, whether they want to avoid a compete catastrophe, or feed the American people to the wolves…they’re thinking it over." - Krystal Ball
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FDR took the people's gold.
Replying to @marwilliamson
That's because you had communist and socialist parties along with unions That went to FDR and forced Congress to pass the New Deal lest they face a socialist take over which I wish happened
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Replying to @marwilliamson
We must abolish poverty in it's entirety
Replying to @marwilliamson
If only someone had tried to subtly start a conversation on this point.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
It is universally accepted that FDR’s failed policies extended the Great Depression by 8-10 years. As Thomas Sowell says, he prefers Republicans to Democrats because he prefers tragedy to catastrophe. The market crash was a tragedy, FDR turned it into a catastrophe.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Roosevelt signed the Agricultural Act of 1933 to enter the “economic idea of Scarcity” it literally PAID FarMers NOT to produce as much food! Look it up
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Last night in a prosperous county in Virginia, police had a lane blocked for what seemed half a mile. It turned out to be a food bank line that backs up that far onto the main road. May God save this country from itself in time.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The unions went to FDR and said “if things don’t change your wealthy friends are going to lose everything.” It might take a Republicans + Democrats + other groups alliance to do the same.
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