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In reply to the discussion: We lost because the corporate, wealthy owned Media in this country sane washed a lying child rapiest, failed [View all]Farmer-Rick
(11,866 posts)Back in the 1930s. But no, he had to save it. He worked to shut up the socialist. He quieted them down, along with the American Communist party, so capitalism could take control again. He planned and passed the New Deal. It worked. Socialist and communist quit complaining.
The US became a functional capitalist economy again, unlike Nazi Germany and most of Europe. But the goal was to control capitalism with strict regulations and strong union support.
And then capitalism turned around and did the same thing all over again. More crashes, fewer regulations, capitalism gone crazy.
I guarantee you we will have a huge economic crash before Trump's first 4 years are up. It will be a Great Depression worse than the pandemic because there will be no safety net anymore. There will be no functional assistance from the rubble of our federal government.
Marx predicted this is what would happen if capitalism was allowed to go unchecked, uncontrolled and unregulated. He just thought it would happen a whole lot sooner.
Thanks to FDR, it didn't happen in the 1930s, it happened now because all the breaks on the abuses of capitalism have been removed......all that remains is the FDIC. And Trump has plans for that to end soon.
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