[–] SocialJustice_Wario [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
How can somebody be nostalgic for an era they weren't even born in? he had no part in that era of America, so how can he long for it when he wasn't there? that's like being in love with someone you never met before. Seems kind of strange no? that's like me being nostalgic for pre civil war America.
[–] BoiseNTheHood 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
You asked when America was last great, and I answered.
It has nothing to do with nostalgia. The fact is, our country has embraced self-defeating policies and gone away from what works.
[–] SocialJustice_Wario [S] 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
and I'm asking, it doesn't seem strange for a guy to be nostalgic for a time and place that he had no part of?
[–] SocialJustice_Wario [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Also Coolidge was seen as one of the reasons for the depression
[–] BoiseNTheHood 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
Coolidge has long been smeared by leftists, who have an interest in making laissez-faire economic policies out to be the devil, but anyone who knows anything about economics will tell you that Hoover and/or the Fed were to blame for the Depression.
When Harding and Coolidge faced a depression of their own in 1921, they slashed spending while the Fed hiked the discount rate - the exact opposite of Hoover and FDR's response to the Great Depression. The 1921 depression is forgotten mostly because Harding and Coolidge's approach worked - the economy had started to make a full recovery within a year of the crash. It also doesn't fit the big-government narrative, hence why it's kept out of history class in school and rarely mentioned in the media.
[–] AlphaWookie ago
(((You))) should take yourself back to Eddit.