Thank you. The woke press and PBS story of The New Deal is "FDR inspired hope and solved everything." It's too tedious and controversial for them to look at what actually happened. It would offend some of their Boomer contributors.
Thank you. The woke press and PBS story of The New Deal is "FDR inspired hope and solved everything." It's too tedious and controversial for them to look at what actually happened. It would offend some of their Boomer contributors.
I do think the mistelling of the New Deal story has done a lot of damage to American politics. Most Americans have a very mythical understanding of what happened, and have drawn from it false conclusions about both parties, American history, and how politics works. The 1960s and Civil Rights era has this problem too. I think the past generation of the Democratic Party was too successful building up a mythology supporting their coalition for political reasons, and then a new generation of Democrats learned it and thought it was actually true.
I could write a whole book on the misunderstanding of Woodrow Wilson! The who guy sold himself, and has been enshrined in history, as a progressive when he was always at heart an old style Southern Jeffersonian Bourbon Democrat triangulating on Teddy Roosevelt's popular ideas!
There is almost nothing about the guy I like. When I read about how he always had to be the smartest guy in his White House and wouldn't listen to anyone and thought his gut instinct on every issue was better than the informed opinions of the people around him and pushed out anyone who dared challenge him, I was done with the guy. Terrible president on every account.
Thank you. The woke press and PBS story of The New Deal is "FDR inspired hope and solved everything." It's too tedious and controversial for them to look at what actually happened. It would offend some of their Boomer contributors.
I do think the mistelling of the New Deal story has done a lot of damage to American politics. Most Americans have a very mythical understanding of what happened, and have drawn from it false conclusions about both parties, American history, and how politics works. The 1960s and Civil Rights era has this problem too. I think the past generation of the Democratic Party was too successful building up a mythology supporting their coalition for political reasons, and then a new generation of Democrats learned it and thought it was actually true.
Well said. I suppose the story of Woodrow Wilson and his "noble quest to end war," stymied by those evil isolationists, is another one.
I could write a whole book on the misunderstanding of Woodrow Wilson! The who guy sold himself, and has been enshrined in history, as a progressive when he was always at heart an old style Southern Jeffersonian Bourbon Democrat triangulating on Teddy Roosevelt's popular ideas!
At least his overt racism has caught up with him, if not his other stupidities.
There is almost nothing about the guy I like. When I read about how he always had to be the smartest guy in his White House and wouldn't listen to anyone and thought his gut instinct on every issue was better than the informed opinions of the people around him and pushed out anyone who dared challenge him, I was done with the guy. Terrible president on every account.