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[–] BoiseNTheHood 2 points 1 point (+3|-2) ago 

Probably during Coolidge's presidency. Back then, we had a government that understood they were spending other people's money and made damn sure not to waste a penny of it - or overtax us, for that matter. We had relatively free markets. We had actual manufacturing. Immigrants were expected to come in legally and integrate into American life - in fact, Coolidge signed off on what was then the strictest immigration law in American history.

America wasn't perfect - it was still a segregated country, after all. But unlike most of his successors, Coolidge genuinely supported civil rights for racial minorities and wanted to improve race relations. There just wasn't much he could do without the political will for it.

After Coolidge, Hoover got into office, ignored everything that made Coolidge's presidency so successful, and started wrecking the economy. And after Hoover, the left took over once and for all and started subverting everything that made America great, which they continue to do today.

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[–] SocialJustice_Wario [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Also Coolidge was seen as one of the reasons for the depression

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[–] AlphaWookie ago 

(((You))) should take yourself back to Eddit.

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[–] BoiseNTheHood 1 point -1 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.

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[–] SocialJustice_Wario [S] 0 points 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.

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[–] BoiseNTheHood 1 point 2 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.

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[–] AlphaWookie ago 

(((You))) have to really go back to Eddit.