Under the guise of fighting monopoly, FDR created vast new monopolies:
FDR's new cartels (which ossified commerce in the middle of a depression) were explicitly modeled after Mussolini:
A curiosity of American politics is that we discuss various ultra-Leftist economic policies as if they've never been tried
But they have been tried: in Puerto Rico, which has labor and energy policies that make California look like Texas. And PR is essentially a failed economy.
I figured Tugwell for a Keynesian. I had no idea he was essentially a Marxist:
I wouldn't have believed that FDR tried to reduce hunger by destroying crops, except that it's 2020 and I just watched my government push hospitals into bankruptcy to fight a pandemic
The Cancel Wing of the modern Progressive movement is awfully silent on the original Progressive movement's love of eugenics
People joke about politicians trying to revoke the law of supply and demand. But it really happened:
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Extremely right wing friend talks about what it's like on the inside to be a successful Ashkenazi financier. Says that beyond the intelligence, the characteristic traits are a somewhat neurotic hyperactivity and a bit of disregard for social convention...
I watched him rise meteorically in his 20s, and it was true. He has a manic, self effacing good nature, and his days seem to be one long laugh. Twice he arrived in a new city, pressed bumptiously and good humoredly in every direction, and within months knew everyone
He thinks the key non-Gentile trait is a willingness to look foolish, to ask the possibly dumb question at a pitch dinner that nobody else will. Thinks a sort of dispositional gravity therefore leads Ashkenazim toward places where the *social* fabric of a market is broken...
It goes under remarked-upon that British colonial subjects were immediately granted civil rights
The British didn't know how to govern a possession (Ascension Island) of 380, so they declared it to be a ship and left it to the Admiralty
"How is it that these pale-cheeked exiles gave security to a race of another hue, other tongues, other religions which rulers of their own people have ever failed to give"
Israel "waiting for the green light from the Americans" before the 1967 war..."combing word by word through a column in Newsweek'
Apparently Israel was content not to broadcast the fact that it had destroyed Egypt's air force, because it thought the UN would not intervene as long as Israel was believed to be losing
"In almost all the great peasant nations, marriage for women is soon after puberty, in the late teens. This congrats strongly with the late age at marriage, twenty-five or later, found in parts of northwestern Europe from at least the 16th century"
The 1976 Soweto student uprising is mythologized as an early noble skirmish in the fight against Apartheid. But the commencing act of violence was a student stabbing a female teacher with a screwdriver because he didn't want to learn Afrikaans.
Much stoning of police and police vehicles. Much revolutionary not doing of homework.
The riots soon became an excuse for gangsters ("tsotsis") to loot businesses