Reply #14: Brooks. Realizes this is a bursting point New Deal change scale event. [View All]

[Bernardo de La Paz]

Brooks! Edit your thread title!

Very interesting discussion with Brooks, Oliphant, and Clarence Page. Brooks made a good point that events like this expose the reality of how the rich have been taking care of themselves at the expense of the poor and can be the bursting point that leads to changes on the scale of the New Deal. Drew the analogy of the Jonestown flood where a lake owned by robber barons including Andrew Carnegie was part of the impetus for the progressive reforms at the turn of the 19th to 20th century. Analogy of the New Orleans flood in the 20s that helped usher in the New Deal. Analogy of the 70s that people just wanted to be over which helped usher Reagan in. This is more like the 20s when Republicans were in power.

Populism will be transcendent for a while.