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It sounds like FDR really believed the Left’s propaganda about what a big economic success the Soviet Union was.
If Russia can do so well with socialism, why not the United States, he might ask.
But he also would have had to have been without devotion to the ideals of liberty! He called for a set of “rights” that would undo the actual bill of rights, such as:
Oh, but it was articulated before FDR. It was articulated in Smith. Free-market economics and it as the best path to prosperity and poverty alleviation–articulated very nicely in Adam Smith.
Not as nicely, of course, as the free-market tradition as a whole–with its Smith, its Von Mises, its Hayek, Sowell, @LarryKudlow, Friedman, et al.
I think it’s important that the language of economic rights fits so nicely with our liberty priorities over here at Ricochet.
I believe in the right to buy health insurance. It’s a right to do something without anyone stopping me–not a right to have something given to me.
Curiously, in their freak-out over some people not being given health insurance, the anti-economic rights party (also known as the Democrats) literally banned health insurance in the USA.
To be fair, FDR wasn’t a Communist or (by some definitions at least) a socialist. He’s more of a Keynesian, and literally employed Keynes. But he was still too far to the left to be right (in both senses).
Also, @MichaelStopa, we have MeetUp.com here in Hong Kong too!
I’m not sure what you should call it, but his views fit in perfectly with the blue blood spirit of the times. I think they were rebelling against the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers, etc. Every age has to have an enemy for the disinherited to blame their misery on (not always unjustly).
Then why on earth is there no meetup.com in Boston? or not many events?
I have no clue at all.
You point out the study insinuated that recently former Democrats who voted for Trump are racist. But these voters supported Barack Obama.
The new motto of Mississippi: “At least we’re not California.”