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So...having failed to convince everyone that austerity would lead to the fall of Western Civilization now the Keynesians are saying that austerity is the cause
by UncleEntity 9y ago
So...having failed to convince everyone that austerity would lead to the fall of Western Civilization now the Keynesians are saying that austerity is the cause of Neo-Nazism?
Not that I'm surprised, very little of their pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo (complete with equations) surprises me anymore.
What I don't understand is they claim austerity is the cause of Trump's rise to power when Clinton was pretty much the poster-child of the anti-austerity movement, I don't think anyone seriously considered she wouldn't continue following Obama's economic roadmap as opposed to Trump's claims of reigning in government deficit spending and waste.
- pjc50 9y ago> Trump's claims of reigning in government deficit spending and waste Trump also promised a huge infrastructure spending plan and a border wall. I wouldn't say Clinton was especially anti-austerity either, that was Sanders' thing.
- UncleEntity 9y agoTo reply to myself... Having gone down the rabbit hole I came up with an article about the Occupation of the Ruhr[0] (with no mention in tfa) after Germany defaulted on their reparation payments which claims: > In German politics, the French occupation of the Rhineland accelerated the formation of right-wing parties. If I were to look for the causes of the rise of the Nazis that would be pretty high on my list. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr