FDR is the most overrated president in American history and it is not close.
People treat him like a saint. The reality is he inherited a recession and turned it into the longest depression in the history of the developed world. Every other major economy on earth recovered faster than the United States did under FDR. Sit with that. We had the most resources, the most industry, the most capacity, and we recovered slower than countries that got bombed.
Unemployment was still 19% in 1938. Six years into the New Deal. Six years of "bold experimentation" and one in five Americans still could not find work.
Why? Because his policies were economically illiterate. The NIRA cartelized entire industries and made it illegal to lower prices during a deflationary collapse. He paid farmers to slaughter livestock and plow under crops while people stood in bread lines. He launched a war on business so aggressive that investment dried up because nobody knew what insane rule was coming next. Even his own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, admitted in 1939 that they had spent enormous sums and "it does not work" and that unemployment was as high as when they started.
Then in 1937 his policies triggered a second brutal crash so embarrassing the textbooks gave it its own polite little nickname, the "Roosevelt Recession," so they would not have to attach his name to the failure in the obvious way.
A UCLA study in 2004 concluded the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression by roughly seven years. Seven years of extra suffering sold to you as heroism.
So what actually saved the economy? Not the alphabet agencies. Not the fireside chats. A world war. Twelve million men shipped overseas and the entire planet's industrial competition reduced to rubble. That is the "recovery." That is the legacy.
Strip away Pearl Harbor and FDR is a guy who took a bad recession and stretched it into a decade of misery with bad economics and a cult of personality. He is not ranked on results. He is ranked on the luck of being in the chair when Hitler invaded Poland.
Greatest marketing job in the history of the presidency. Nothing more.
After Mao killed 45 million people through incompetence, Mao spent the last decade of his life killing more, this time through deliberate cruelty. And this time, the killers were teenagers.
Mao mobilized China’s youth high schoolers, college students as Red Guards, empowered to attack anyone deemed “bourgeois,” “revisionist,” or “counterrevolutionary”
In Beijing alone, in August–September 1966 (“Red August”), 1,772 people were beaten to death, mostly teachers and school administrators, by their own students
On August 5, 1966, Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of the Beijing Normal University Girls Middle School, was beaten to death by her own female students girls between 13 and 17. This event marks the start of “Red August” and is one of the most-documented single killings of the era.
Total death toll: between 1.1 and 8 million killed outright, depending on methodology, with the Stanford sociological estimate by Andrew Walder at 1.1 to 1.6 million killed and 22 to 30 million persecuted
A leaked internal CCP document places the toll at nearly 2 million killed and 125 million “struggled against” a euphemism for public humiliation, torture, and denunciation.
But sure keep listening to the Turkish Muslim brotherhood for what America needs.
WOW 🚨 Los Angeles Democrats paid $100 million dollars to a private company owned by a Chinese billionaire for a homeless hotel
Democrats also agreed to pay for ALL rooms regardless if anyone was housed
The deal was so shady the Chinese billionaire fled to China when the FBI started investigating him
You’re not going to believe this, this Chinese billionaire who go this insane very obviously money laundering deal WAS A DEMOCRAT DONOR
“The city agreed to pay the owner, a company called Shenzhen New World, $154 a night for every room in the building, meals included. Not per person, per room, whether anyone was in it or not.
At one point, only 24% of the rooms were occupied. The city was paying over $600 a night per person actually housed”
- 14 rooms were taken offline for fire damage
- A school in the same building sued the city after documenting break-ins, drug paraphernalia, and human waste outside their entrance
- The city set aside $5 million just for glass repair
The owner is a Chinese billionaire named Wei Huang. $100 million to one company. He fled to China in 2018 after the FBI started investigating.
This is a misquotation, in the clip he says he would never make fun of Mao Zedong, not that he would never criticize him. He criticizes Mao within the clip.
@NateSilver538 Mises wrote about this back in 1956 in "The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality." He noted the resentment from intellectuals who observed far less educated people earning far more money. The system was clearly therefore unfair and must be changed.
The most loyal Democrats in America are broke ass postgrads who spent six figures on degrees and still make less than a union electrician.
People with postgraduate degrees pulling in $30,000-60,000 vote Democrat at 70%, harder than every other income and education combo in the country.
Thomas Sowell clocked these overcredentialed specimens years ago when he called them “intellectuals”, the ones whose entire currency is ideas instead of results.
A business owner or a farmer goes under when their ideas fail, while these people just get more grants, more peer approval, and another invitation to the same conference.
That is the actual base. The group that never has to live with the bill when everything they pushed turns to sewage.
Reality has a permanent anti-left bias because these people never have to pay for being wrong.
@NateSilver538 The most left wing people in America are people with post graduate degrees who are financially strapped and the most right wing are people without 4 year college degrees who are rich.
@chrislhayes@NateSilver538 So people who believe they are owed the world because of their fancy degrees are miserable and those built themselves up from nothing are bullish on life.
Sounds about right