DezNutz wrote:FDR wasn't the reason the US got out of the Great Depression. The economy was stagnant until after 1939, when industry and manufacturing kicked into high gear as a result of the war in Europe. His policies at best helped dampen the worst of the depression, but did nothing to actually stimulate or turn around the economy.
Socialist ideas are poor at best, and historically have accomplished little to nothing.
The USSR was a communist country. Go find someone that lived in Soviet Russia and ask them how great socialism and communism are.
I didn't say all Liberals were snowflakes. However, the current generation of leftist snowflakes need safe spaces so they don't get offended. Can't accept another person's opinion, and when provided facts contrary to their beliefs and feelings, call people racists, sexists, etc.
DoS wrote:Electoral Colleges were placed because people believed other people were too stupid to vote. In this day and age, and from their day and age, that is probably still true. I nevertheless find that it does carry corruption and otherwise don't support it.
China may have a dying work force, but they do have a growing educated population as more people move from rural areas to urban areas. Who knows, maybe China could prosper as a nation that creates technology instead of mass producing it.
The Electoral College was and is to prevent Mob Rule, amongst other purposes. If we didn't have the Electoral College, CA, NY, FL, and TX would decide all of the elections and laws in this country. Thus disfranchising the majority (46) of the other states.
On FDR, he created plenty of agencies to employ others, and tried to fix the Run on the Banks. There was truly no better president that could have taken office. He was so good at it, he ran 3 terms.
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Funny you say to ask someone about the USSR. My entire family is from it! My father and mother lived most of his entire life in it. It isn't communist, but it tried to achieve Communism.
If you want their view on it. My father states it was never communist, but it had certain obvious downfalls that kept it from ever reaching the Manifesto. There were low rations of food and especially red meat, he remembers eating chocolates with the filling of crunchy cow blood that schools gave out so the children could have the required vitamins.
Education though is a different story. He was born in Kiev and in Kiev there were thousands of schools and all in walking distance. Many great and welcoming schools. Gifted schools on every block because many were smart. My dad himself attended a very prestigious school in Kiev for the gifted, and became an engineer all for free. He did have to pay by means labor though. It is a mandatory sentence to serve in the military and it is mandatory to do some kinda work. So he was surveying old bridges to see when repairs were needed. Hard work indeed for he went to Siberia in order to do so. But, if you see it, his life was not all bad. And neither were other Russians.
I have many other Russians in my family that all have lived under the USSR at a point in their life. It wasn't always this negative feel.
Let us talk about Communism though. It started in the book called "Utopia." Now this book described a far away people on a rich island. The people are happy and there is plenty of wealth that goes around the island. People are not upset about money, because it does not exist. In this island, there was no greed.
It is an idea that seems impossible, but it was never achieved. The USSR could not get rid of currency, and failed before it could ever do so. Part of the reason was because of deterring relations with other countries and the already dislike of Communism that was employed by Stalin's "iron curtain."
Universal education and medicare is already employed in successful countries such as Canada and France.
My point is, we can't just sit here and chant that our way is the only way. This cutthroat no change capitalist approach is getting old. There is no change, because people just hear all this BS about how NK and USSR are "communist" then chant off saying it is bad.
Worst part is, people aren't happy with our economy, would a few modifications ruin the USA, or better our standing. For this "sitting to wait for better times" is no longer working. People want a president that stands for changes, but yet dislike change at the same time. It is the most ironic bullshit out there, we all say politicians have been bullshitting us forever, but has anyone ever thought where these politicians came from? They come from the people, the same people have bullshit themselves into believing they want change.
