By Vibhu Vikramaditya
One of the great myths of US history is that Herbert Hoover was a laissez-faire president.
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 28 Mar
Yes, its programmed into our heads but its BS. FDR did many of the same policies that Hoover did. Blew my mind when I started learning this.
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33 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 28 Mar
And actually, FDR ran on rolling back the extravagant programs that Hoover started.
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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 28 Mar
Oh and Obama ran on rolling back the abuses of Bush... yet he continued them in a more intelligent way. He was basically Bush v2 in many ways.
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 28 Mar
Yeah, Obama escalated pretty much all of the bad Bush stuff.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 28 Mar
I remember reading some of Hoover's post presidential writings and he was expressing how one of his advisors proposed laissez-faire policies and he says, of course we didn't listen to him. The whole "media bias" thing isn't new and it isn't bias. The state education system has an agenda.
This also reminds me of how many modern "conservatives" seem to be clueless about how pro-socialism / fascism Americans were during this time. In many ways this era was more collectivist than we are today. When I started reading more about this period it really destroyed much of the respect I used to have for "conservatives". What are they conserving? A myth. Something that didn't exist.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 29 Mar
To tell you the truth, it wasnt one man who made the depression happen.
It happened over time, with many wrong decisions, and many perfect combinations of happenstance.
Just like this covid era, not one person is responsible, it was a collective of people making wrong decisions.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Mar
That's a good analogy, because I would speculate that if someone like Joe Ladapo had been in Fauci's place the pandemic would have been a very different experience.
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