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[ex_lost_kit]

How Government Prolonged the Depression
Policies that decreased competition in product and labor markets were especially destructive.By HAROLD L. COLE and LEE E. OHANIAN

Comments

[shibato]

More people who just need to take a history course, obviously!

OP, not sure of your intent. Clarify?

[schonste]

OHH IT IS ALL SO CLEAR TO ME NOW

Also I herrrd that if you read about Germany in the late 1920s Obama sounds A LOT LIKE A SUPER CHARISMATIC LEADER WHO WAS ALSO BORN OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY amirite amirite

[faerieglen]

You won't believe how many Germans are making that comparison, too. It's really depressing. That's why we'll never, ever have nice things a truly charismatic politician over here again.
(Well, there's one guy who is trying (and failing) to emulate some Obama spirit, but having the dumbest-sounding name in history and looking like Harry Potter's nerd brother doesn't really help...)

[schonste]

lol I'm not up to date on Germany's politics since moving back to the US, what's the guy's name?

[schonste]

He's totally going to enslave white people to make pyramids made of gold to reinforce our economy (?) and a new princess will arrive from alaska with some tablets and will save us all or something

wait

I think I'm getting my "jesus wtf neo cons" references mixed up

[train_diskense]

omg YOU'RE RIGHT.

SCARY.

[ex_lost_kit]

It's simple. The usual response here to any historical view which disagrees with your own is to assume that the person is just completely uneducated and hence, needs to take a history class. This applies no matter how many credentials the person who disagrees has.

Sometimes they need to take a sociology class, if they say something about social dynamics that disagrees with your anointed views.

[sinthrex]

Credentials are nice, but they don't make one automagically right.

[ex_lost_kit]

No, and neither does vapidly asserting that the problem of those that disagree with you is that they just simply don't know as much as you do.

[sinthrex]

Precisely.