On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> And after you romp in this rhetoric for a while, start reading accounts of what FDR _did_ in 1937-8 after being overwhelmingly reelected. Boom! Up went the unemployment rate again. And FDR was soon on the phone urging Gov. Murphy of Michigan to call out the National Guard to suppress the sit-down strikes. And of course the New Deal was strictly for whites only. The DP hasn't really changed. It responds to great pressure -- if and ony if that pressure threatens serious public disorder.
Carrol, the DP sucks, but this is really overdone. Social Security and the WPA weren't nothing, and the American right has been at war with the New Deal ever since. Sometimes cows are different colors, even if they all look black at night.
Doug