And That's The Truth
Republicans aren't the solution to all of our problems, but the Democrats are certainly the source of most of them - and they always have been.
Where does it exist in American history that the GOP has been fascist, an enemy of democracy or a destroyer of the Constitution?
Because that’s what we have been accused of doing for the past two decades.
But when we look at actual history, it is the Democrat Party leaders who have been the greatest fascists, have worked to create more anti-democratic movements and institutions and have done more to destroy the Constitution than any other entity other than our foreign enemies.
From Woodrow Wilson to Joe Biden, two men who share much in common – down to their wives literally running the government, it has been the Democrats who seek to violate everything sacred about America.
A great account of how much damage, seen and unseen, was done by the FDR regime can be found it Amity Schlaes’ 2007 book titled “The Forgotten Man” . Writing in a review of the book in September of 2007, a favorite of mine, James Piereson, notes:
“…she tells the story of the Great Depression and the New Deal through the experiences of some of the more influential figures of the period—Roosevelt men like David Lilienthal, Rexford Tugwell, Henry Morgenthau, Felix Frankfurter, and Harold Ickes; businessmen and bankers like Andrew Mellon, Samuel Insull, and Wendell Willkie—and of genuinely “forgotten men” like the Schechter family of Brooklyn, small-businessmen who ran afoul of FDR’s regulatory ambitions.”
The victimization of the Schechter family by FDR’s government became a landmark Supreme Court case, Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935).
What emerges from these stories is a New Deal that was more experimental in its policies, more hostile to business, more vindictive toward its foes, and far less successful in reviving the economy than previous writers have acknowledged. The sluggish economic response to New Deal policies, Shlaes suggests, was due partly to Roosevelt’s need to bait businessmen and bankers for their supposed role in bringing about the crisis. They were “economic royalists” who had hoarded profits, exploited workers, fixed prices, and grown rich by speculation. FDR even egged on Morgenthau, his Treasury Secretary, to initiate tax-evasion cases against Mellon and Thomas Lamont (the head of J.P. Morgan), going so far as to urge prosecution for their having taken deductions that were perfectly legal when their tax returns were filed.”
What was surprising is how little we have learned and changed. Our political battles are the same today as they were nearly a century ago. Perhaps we “Lockeians” will always be at war with the “Hobbesians” of the world. As it was in 1927, there are still forces that believe that for man to truly experience freedom, his existence must be one of planned productivity and behaviors. Since the late 1800’s, it seems that we are forced by this battle into alternating 50-80 year cycles of dipping our toes into the dark pool of Marxism and then spending the next cycle unwinding the damage resulting from those flights of fancy.
Then, just as today, the progressive leftists were seemingly so enamored with the Marxist approach to economics and society that they simply could not acknowledge the damage that a Marxist state must vest on its people to make it “work”. Roger Nash Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU, was part of a junket of very influential men who travelled to Russia in 1927 to experience the glory of the Marxist revolution. Ninety-five people paid the princely sum of $1,000 to take part and all were associated with liberal causes and ideas. These individuals would come to significantly influence American policy and politicians and along with Baldwin, included people like Stuart Chase, Rexford Tugwell, John Brophy and Paul Howard Douglas.
Perhaps unintentionally ironic, Baldwin wrote this in support of the “successes” that he saw:
“Everybody is poor together. There is much discontent, much regulation of life, but not much terrorism or repression except of the old upper classes.”
Shared misery. I doubt that a less ideological observer would have seen “being poor together” as harbinger of success – but that really isn’t the objective of a “progressive”. Baldwin is expressing joy in the fact that there are no individual successes and those who had power and affluence were now being persecuted. That theme carried forward in an encounter between Douglas and Communist activist, Betty Glan, as Douglas was speaking at Russian collectivist factory. Douglas launched a counterattack in the argument, repeating an ugly story he had heard about the factory: “
But what about yourselves? Two months ago, a group of bank clerks were arrested at two o’clock in the morning; they were tried at four o’clock and executed at six. Where was their right to assemble witnesses, to engage counsel, to argue their case, and, if convicted, to appeal?”
Glan approached him with a countering argument. “You talked only about individual justice. Individual justice is just a bourgeois idea.”
In the early 1900’s the Democrats marveled at the “efficiency” of the post Bolshevik Russian state even as journalists like Walter Duranty of the New York Times hid the ravages and savagery required to concoct these “successes”. Duranty reported fallacious “successes” even as Russia starved 6 million Ukrainians to death, forced collectivization of agriculture, nationalization of industry and actively engaged in persecution of individuals in the free exercise of their rights – can’t happen in America, you say?
The Democrat lean to the left was beaten back due to the horrors vested upon the world by war, and for a period, they became anti-communists while preaching social liberalism, but that began to fall apart in the 60’s - coming to an end with the demonstrations and police brutality surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
That was when the Democrats began to be pushed (or pulled) to the left – so much so the Lion of the Senate, murderer Teddy Kennedy, contacted the Soviets for help keep Ronald Reagan out of the White House. Now the so-called “Progressive Caucus” and the “New Democrats” make up almost 200 seats in the House – meaning that almost every Democrat is a member of one leftist caucus or the other.
It is the Democrats, folks.
Everything of which they accuse Republicans, they are and are doing. Destruction is in their genes and is their legacy.
And that’s the truth.
It's 2022. Yes the Democrats are evil. And the Republicans are right there w them enabling and collaborating w them. So which is worse, the guy who tells you he's going to rob you or the one who pretends he's your friend and robs you. Choose your poison. This sham of the Uniparty has to ended.
I remember "that's the truthththth." Most accounts of FDR success ignore the continuing policy failures until the US joined in WWII battles. Thanks Japan!