Reply #59: I disagree. [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

Sure, the great depression was worse in many respects, but at that time a quarter of the population still lived on small farms. We didn't have imperialist ambitions, and a three million man military trying to impose our will on the rest of the world. Many of the robber barons had already gotten their comeuppance with stock market crash, and people recognized that things had to change. And the oil industry was growing, not declining - peak oil was only a science-fiction scenario. If the US was poor, it wasn't because foreign powers owned most of our debt.

We have never seen a more dangerous time, other than perhaps the nuclear stand-off with the Soviets. And even then, the people in power knew there was no way a nuclear war was survivable - something the current crop of militarists seem to have never learned.