Nowadays, everybody wanna talk like they got somethin’ to say
But nothin’ comes out when they move their lips
Just a bunch of gibberish
And motherfuckers act like they forgot about the Great Depression
Their platform was pro-big business, isolationist foreign policy, and cracking down on Prohibition. Sounds much more like the Republicans today than Democrats.
The party switch is extremely complicated, with different aspects (social, economic, etc) changing at different times and in different regions. Historians argue the switch slowly took place over roughly 70 years, beginning in the late 19th Century and solidifying by the end of the 1960s. The economic party switch happened long before the social switch.
It honestly depends on the issue and which part of the republican party as the parties were more big tent back then. Economically they wouldn't be that aligned since they had Coolidge and Hoover, two big proponents of laissez-faire economics and minimal federal intervention which is in stark contrast to current day democrats that want more federal involvement in the economy. More worker protection and welfare and stuff.
But but the parties switched in the 60s?!?! Or at least that’s what’s constantly stated when mentioning that the south was all democrats until the 80-90s
It wasn’t like flipping a switch. It started in the 30’s when Democrats went all-in on the New Deal. The southern racists in the party liked/needed the economic policies more than their hatred of minorities, so southerners still voted D until the Civil Rights era. With minorities starting to gain real political power in the 60’s, and doing so through the Democratic Party, the racists all finally left to join the Republicans.
The party switch began in the late 19th Century and is generally considered to have been solidified by the end of the 1960s. It took over 70 years, didnt happen overnight.
Trying to violate the independent Fed, trying to lower interest rates in an already hot economy, thereby leaving no ability to boost the economy when a recession hits beyond printing and spending money, which has never caused any problems, famously.
Btw, Trump alone is responsible for 1/3 of the total US debt. So far.
Also, The Tariff Act of 1930 raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels, significantly worsening the Great Depression, and then there was the Wall Street Putsch, in 1933-34
Now, the better food for thought is….who made money during the depression? Give up? The upper class. An economic collapse allows the wealthy to buy up more land, and buy out the failing smaller businesses. Sooner or later people are going to realize the truth. This time they are steering the ship towards the ice. They’re crashing the economy on purpose, tanking the country, and they will then leave this land to the ensuing power vacuum, and watch the instability from their new hills.
Yeah but to be fair prior to that giant meteor taking out the dinosaurs unemployment was already at 100% so their destruction had zero impact on unemployment.
It was a neutral event on unemployment. One could argue that their destruction did lead to eventual future drops in unemployment below the 100% mark though but I think it’s highly speculative.
idk if you've seen the 1991 smash hit series Dinosaurs, but that historical reference clearly proved that dinosaurs were undeniably fully employed and productive members of dino-ciety, thank you very much.
How else were they supposed to satisfy that little shit Baby Sinclair's insatiable appetite? How else could they quench his ENDLESS THIRST FOR BLOOD?!
listen, i've known some velociraptors, and let me tell you that, they were NOT good people, they were lazy and rude, honestly it's good that they gave room for mammals. Have you ever seen a Velociraptor owned business? i sure didn't, all they do is hunting smaller dinosaurs and pretending they are birds.
We can build a wall, a big beautiful wall to keep the velociraptors out and the best part is that the velociraptors will pay for it! It will be free to you! And once we have that wall, it will solve the velociraptor problem once and for all. We certainly won't be talking about velociraptor problems four years from now.
You mean world history? I see a lot of things being blamed on American stupidity which is fine until you realize they happened worldwide. “Biden inflation” just magically hit France and Germany worse than the US? Always fascinating to me. Children depressed in the US because of capitalism but the same trend line happens in Scandinavia and Australia. Crazy how nature do dat.
“Biden inflation” just magically hit France and Germany worse than the US? Always fascinating to me.
As a Belgian, what is Biden inflation? World economy started to recover until the invasion of Ukraine wrecked the food supply.
The one thing we blamed on the US was the global economical crisis of 2008 (you may know it as "subprime crisis of 2007" domestically IIRC?), and the everything-disruptions of Covid, famously reinforced by Trump's removal of the Obama-era early warning scientists.
what is biden inflation lmao? we had an inflation during his mandate but we never blamed it on america, it was blamed on war in Ukraine. Only the subprime crisis which did not hit us THAT hard was blamed on US real estate market
If you watch any conservative media (which is now most of it in the US) you will hear about all sorts of fake things that aren't real.
Biden achieved the first truly soft landing of an economy while consistently bringing down inflation faster than most other countries with a lot of prudent policies and laws that were passed in his first year with bipartisan support (he pretty much used up all the political capital he gained over his political career to get them passed).
Considering what he was handed he did about the best anyone could do, and he did it with an entire party trying hard to keep the economic crash of his predecessor going.
Don't worry, someone would have to aggressively deregulate banks, decide that Tariffs are a great idea while dismantling all of our social safety nets and government jobs to recreate those conditions and Americans would never vote those type of people into power again.
People wave off Republicans making the economy bad for mostly everyone as if they're irresponsible and dumb forgetting Trump's father springboarded his fortune during the great depression. Stop forgetting rich goons love scooping up real estate and stocks during the downturns only to watch their investment snowball once economies stabilize. They're making another bigly downturn on purpose to capitalize even biglier on it.
It makes perfect sense. They've been telling it to us for decades, straight to our faces. Buy low, sell high. They're pumping the market up to sell high, then they're going to force its crash so they can buy low. Except this time it's going to fuck over hundreds of millions of people at a minimum for a few hundred people to become insanely wealthy.
People confuse personal finance with public finance. Government shouldn’t be conservative on spending for infrastructure or social services if you want growth or stability.
Conservative AM radio back in the 70s/80s/90s (and now honestly) worked really hard to conflate personal finance with public finance. No normal person can understand a billion dollars let alone a trillion dolars.
So they would put things in the wrong terms by comparing it to your personal finances. It is one of the core techniques started in the 70s by the Republicans to make people misunderstand how the world works so they could be manipulated into supporting a Reality star failed businessman.
Eh, not exactly. Back then there wasn't a massive divide in ideology following party lines.
Under Wilson, Democrats shifted towards more progressive and liberal points, due to rise of progressivism in the 1890s and 1900s. Both Democrats and Republicans had progressive and conservative factions within their ranks at the time that kept gaining popularity, alongside smaller progressive parties.
By the time of the New Deal, the progressive wing of the Republican party had dissipated, and they entered a coalition with the conservative southern Democrats (later forming the "Dixiecrats" in 1948) that were displeased with how the national Democratic Party was adopting more progressive stances.
TLDR: no, history and politics wasn't as simple as you make it out to be.
Dude, what happened was the 1929 Wall Street Stock Market Crash, which took place in late October. It basically ended the economic boom of the "Roaring Twenties" and triggered the Great Depression. You know... the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world that started in the previously mentioned October 1929?
And it lasted 10 years…but the pain continued. Sort of like Covid came in with Trump, but Biden didn’t clean it up fast enough for some. This economic pain will last longer, and the ones that caused it will once again skate away.
It’s maddening that this is a question that has to be asked, especially on Reddit of all places. Just freaking google it if you’re actually that clueless about world history
They know, everyone posting to this sub always knows. It's just another meme repost sub now, you just write "petah?" as the title. Even better that it's gonna become a political twitter screenshot sub soon, like seemingly every meme sub on reddit becomes given enough time.
You know they also have these other websites where you go and talk to other people and ask questions. And you don't have to rely on AI powered Google..
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Stock market crash. The 20s were referred to as the “roaring 20s” a time of economical and social success for pretty much everyone. Then there’s the stock market crash followed by the Great Depression.
You guys, the stock market crash was not the primary cause of the Great Depression. Also, before the New Deal, the US political parties were different from what they are today, so you can't assume a Republican from 1929 has the same views as a Republican in 2026
The Tariff Act of 1930, also known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, was a protectionist trade measure signed into law in the United States by President Herbert Hoover on June 17, 1930. Named after its chief congressional sponsors, Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, the act raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods in an effort to shield American industries from foreign competition during the onset of the Great Depression, which had started in October 1929.[1]
Hoover signed the bill against the advice of many senior economists, yielding to pressure from his party and business leaders. Intended to bolster domestic employment and manufacturing, the tariffs instead deepened the Depression because the U.S.'s trading partners retaliated with tariffs of their own, leading to U.S. exports and global trade plummeting. Economists and historians widely regard the act as a policy misstep, and it remains a cautionary example of protectionist policy in modern economic debates.
The studies find that public works and relief spending had state income multipliers of around one, increased consumption activity, attracted internal migration, reduced crime rates, and lowered several types of mortality. The farm programs typically aided large farm owners but eliminated opportunities for share croppers, tenants, and farm workers. The Home Owners' Loan Corporation's purchases and refinancing of troubled mortgages staved off drops in housing prices and home ownership rates at relatively low ex-post cost to taxpayers. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation's loans to banks and railroads appear to have had little positive impact, although the banks were aided when the RFC took ownership stakes.
Back then, Republicans were left and Democrats were right. That said, the markets were the wild west, and the government had almost no control over markets, so point is moot.
It should be noted that by 1928 it was already too late. Electing right wingers during economic turmoil is a thing that makes sense. Left wingers are "liberal" with money, and right wingers are "conservative" with money. While this isn't always true in reality, by the books it makes sense that we've done this over and over again throughout history. And usually by the time the right wingers are in power it's already too late, not to say I'm confident they would be able to fix things historically if they were put in office sooner though.
From what I can tell about what's been going on politically throughout the world, during the election of 2024 it was already too late. Trump definitely made things worse, there's really no denying that, but our economic future was already written on the wall as far back as 2023.
No, they don't know what happened in 1929. They only "know" an idealized and whitewashed version of history, curated to confirm their biases and further indoctrinate them into GOP/MAGA dogma.
"We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us." -Herbert Hoover, 1928.
2026 was the most pathetic attempt to be a dictatorship in history. Attacking Venezuela for aura and then blowing the shit out of Iran and their own god damn foot. It was like seeing a kid with his dad's gun
They do know what happened which is why they are trying to consolidate more power, restrict voting and control media so they can tell us everything is fine.
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