"a322x1n" wrote in message
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> The question is now when some future Republican conservative runs for
> office, will the American voter fall for it again? Who knows?
They'll vote in anyone who will bring order to chaos.
"Last time around" people had a strong leader to rally behind (FDR), but as
the Depression worsened, Communist and Fascist political factions came out
of the woodwork and didn't seem so whacko anymore. Populists like Huey Long
were regarded as bad jokes until Wall Street laid its proverbial egg and
people lost faith in the "system." By 1932 things had gotten so bad that,
aside from historians, few people today realize just how close the U.S. came
to becoming a police state.
Two or three generations hence, today's pampered society wouldn't stand for
standing in bread lines all day or living in Hoovervilles. Back then people
had it a LOT tougher, with no employee retirement plans, no Social Security,
no Welfare and foot stamps, no minimum wage law, no 1964 Civil Rights Act,
and since the U.S. population was a lot more rural then, doing without
running water or electricity. When food riots broke out, or strikes were
crushed ruthlessly, the public was lucky if it got to see 30 seconds of
grainy, silent, 16mm newsreel footage from Movietone News. Most of the
footage of that era showing strikers and mobs in general being tear-gassed,
clubbed, and shot by police and National Guardsmen that you see nowadays was
never shown to 1930's audiences. What Rodney King went through was dished
out by cops on a daily basis.
With the mass media of today, especially with the Internet, trying to keep
"bad news" like that away from the public would be impossible. There are no
FDR's out there anymore (nowadays he wouldn't stand a chance of getting
elected anyway) and with the likes of Black Lives Matter running around
preaching insurrection, it wouldn't take much of a spark to set off the
powderkeg in time of crisis.
Oh, and another thing: "Race riots," prior to the 1960's, involved TWO
races, usually blacks versus Whites. They were big, oversized brawls that
took to the streets, in other words. But in the last 60-some years, "riot"
has come to mean an orgy of looting and arson by ghetto dwellers who think
that "society" owes them something. Had, say, an "uprising," as Maxine
Waters calls it, happened in L.A. c.1935, the bongo party would have been
brought to an abrupt and brutal end with the LAPD and National Guard simply
spraying lead at every LOOTer in sight. By morning there probably would
have been 1,000 dead, and in the weeks following, entire black neighborhoods
would have been razed just to get the niggers out of town. Just imagine how
the Reginald Denny incident would have been reacted to had that shown up in
movie newsreels. You'd have had a 1921 Tulsa on your hands, multiplied a
hundredfold.
In 1984 there was an old, white-haired black security guard where
I worked, and he was more than a little disgusted with today's black
Americans. Once he told us about how he and his teen-age great-grandson
were watching a documentary on the Civil Right movement, and when the
footage of the demonstrators being fire-hosed and mauled by police dogs was
trotted out, the kid bragged, "Man, dey wuddn'a done dat shit to ME!"
Great-grandpa replied, "No, boy, they'd have just blown your fool head off."