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>There seems to be a naive belief that it can never happen here, just because it never has. What do you mean it never has? FDR literally stole everybody's gold
by logicchains 5y ago
>There seems to be a naive belief that it can never happen here, just because it never has.
What do you mean it never has? FDR literally stole everybody's gold in 1933 and got away with it.
- starkd 5y agoGood point. Tyranny is not all or nothing gambit.
- EGreg 5y agoFDR was, in a sense, the Trump of the Democratic party. Hated by the industrialists, and he welcomed their hatred. Big populist, had the Japanese put into internment camps, turned back ships full of Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, and so forth.