re: When did Middle America lose its Voice? *Long AF*

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TheFonz

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As stated, those were very different times. But I think your overlooking one crucial fact. What caused the Great Depression to happen. I've been reading into this topic myself. Many of the policies created the roaring 1920s led to the crash of the 1930.

Those policies are very similar to what Republicans today want. I'm not resting this as solely a GOP problem, but the private sector of that time period was largely to blame for the Great Depression.

I don't understand why there is so much hatred for social programs when those are the very things that helped create the middle class prosperity we saw in the 1950s to 1960s.

War got us out of the Depression, but that inevitably led to the MIC we have today. It is a lack of restraint on private endeavors and the MIC that has led to overspending.