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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 28 Mar \ on: How Hoover’s Interventions Paved the Way for the Great Depression econ

One of the great myths of US history is that Herbert Hoover was a laissez-faire president.

Yes, its programmed into our heads but its BS. FDR did many of the same policies that Hoover did. Blew my mind when I started learning this.

33 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 28 Mar

And actually, FDR ran on rolling back the extravagant programs that Hoover started.

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 28 Mar

Oh and Obama ran on rolling back the abuses of Bush... yet he continued them in a more intelligent way. He was basically Bush v2 in many ways.

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 28 Mar

Yeah, Obama escalated pretty much all of the bad Bush stuff.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 28 Mar

I remember reading some of Hoover's post presidential writings and he was expressing how one of his advisors proposed laissez-faire policies and he says, of course we didn't listen to him. The whole "media bias" thing isn't new and it isn't bias. The state education system has an agenda.

This also reminds me of how many modern "conservatives" seem to be clueless about how pro-socialism / fascism Americans were during this time. In many ways this era was more collectivist than we are today. When I started reading more about this period it really destroyed much of the respect I used to have for "conservatives". What are they conserving? A myth. Something that didn't exist.