The meme that FDR's
liberalism saved us from communism is of recent manufacture by his
apologists. It sounds plausible, but I
remain unconvinced. We were then a nation still too
independent to fall for Stalin's crap hook, line, and sinker. The
era's destitute became hoboes (migratory workers); today
they're
bums who won't work for a meal. We were then a common culture
directly descended from 1776; now we're two, and one is marked
by innercity cultures that subscribe to different laws, create
"safe harbors," and are welfare dependent. Mommy's people,
but this mommy is a cruel bitch..
 These
stories about the end of Liberalism, Keynesian economics, and the
Democrat Party that are popping up all over the place make me shudder.
Katrina holds the answer to that foolishness. The periods before,
during and after that hurricane leveled New Orleans was, and still is, marked by huddled and
trembling masses waiting for government agencies to fix things.
The historical story line will be if President Bush had just
cared enough to interrupt his Texas vacation and flown to
Louisiana, none of this would have happened.
Grown men, brave warriors mortally wounded on the battlefield,
will instinctively cry for their mothers. On the brink of
major economic hardship, as we are, is hardly the time to get
cocky. Not with the siren Liberalism, aka mommy government, ready
to steer the weak onto the rocks. I don't think things are
hopeless, but we have to dismantle that new culture entirely, and that
will take a long time, with
no backsliding.
In my newest novel the opening chapter is about people gone berserk for
a week. They hang every employee of the democrat media complex
from lamp posts, about 30,000 of them in all. The carnage is just
terrible. That's followed by a period of contrition and moving
forward. My novel has a happy ending. Yours may differ.
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Mine is reality based. 30k isn't even openers. The weak and stupid will die, along with the unlucky.
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FDR, I believe, was too naive about Communism to ever save us from it. To paraphrase an old joke, "If he'd had as many Communists sticking out of him as he'd had stuck in him, he'd look like a fecking porqupine."
ReplyDeleteI wont say he was soft on Commies, I'll just say he was stupid on Commies.
OK, maybe he was soft.
I am, Casca, filled with the Christmas spirit (and Bourbon-Zoloft-Ritalin cocktails). That chapter was written, and replaced - but not shredded.
ReplyDeleteRead Amity Schlae's "Forgotten Man" to see what an arrogant, bumbling prick FDR really was, how his "Brain Trust" was a bunch of Stalin-praising academics, how he persecuted and prosecuted law abiding citizens who disagreed with him, how he drove companies out of business by forcing them to compete with the bottomless wealth and power of the Federal government, how he confiscated gold from citizens @ $20 per ounce and sold it back six months later at $35 per ounce, how he willfully and knowingly usurped the Constitution (esp. see Wickard vs. Filburn) how he even drove his loyal Brain Trust out of the administration due to his arrogance and indecision.
ReplyDeleteNot a nice man, and the prime mover of the mess we're in today.
The book is not a screeching hit piece, but a well documented case built on the correspondence and observations of people there at the time.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick
Yes, the record supports the conclusion that FDR was a lasting disaster and an "arrogant, bumbling prick," and nevertheless, a broad segment of our fellow-citizens worship his memory to this day and he stands for all that is good and true in democratic policies in their imagination. Obama will get the same treatment from the same population.
ReplyDeleteAh!
ReplyDeleteIf Will Rogers had not passed the hat to his friend Frank Delano...
According to his bio, he was the favorite but he declined,
to the nation's later great sorrow.
He had horse sense, while the crip had the sense of a horse's ass...
But what can you expect from the spawn of narco-trafficants!
And that's where a lot of the "elite" come from, today as much as yesterday...dig a little under all these big democratic donors...