Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "What Killed The New Deal?" video.

  1. What Killed the New Deal; the answer is very simple. Roosevelt's New Deal eventually died thanks to the oligarchs and their Austrian/Libertarian philosophy and economics that today is called Neoliberalism. C'mon Sam, you interviewed Kevin Kruse back in May 2015. This great Princeton history professor gave a detailed account how the New Deal was beginning to unravel at the hands of Wall Street back in the 50s and 60s. Maybe you could get Kevin back and let him discuss further this period of American history that led up to Reagan and the final nail in the coffin for the working man. Kevin's book, "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America" is a critical piece of American literature to understand this period of history. It's sad Kevin hasn't done a similar honest treatise of history from Reagan to at least the 2008 "Too Big to Fail: Too Big to Jail" era. The world needs that style of comprehensive and intellectually honest style of the recording of events. Maybe you should explain the slow erosion of the rights of the working man; the slow erosion of the union movement; the disassembly of the communist and socialist movements by the oligarchs to the final nail in the coffin - the McCarthy trials. Then, and only then, can you start to include the tactic of divide and conquer by selling the population on individualism. Kruse's book details the deceptive methods of selling the population on Christian Capitalism but the transition to mindless consumerism didn't take much more effort. The degradation of the education process was just the icing on the deception cake. Once you have an intellectually compromised population programmed to only think of themselves and what they can buy at the mall, you are circling the drain as a nation.
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