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Can't believe I am saying it but the tax rates during the WWs gave the whole system a needed reset... like we do now and WWIII might the only way to get it thro

• markus_zhang 8mo ago
  I kinda said the same thing about the Cold War. But with AI and such, I'm afraid that they are going to just fast track AI development and deployment because AI has the potential and they don't want to lag behind.
• mrguyorama 8mo ago
  This was only the case because FDR wanted entry level socialism and disliked how capitalism was doing things and he had immense popular support and then once the USA couldn't avoid the war any longer, real, undeniable power to change things, and was followed up by an administration who wanted to continue his work and wanted to again limit the capital class from running the US and genuinely wanted a Democratic future for the world. Big war policy under fiscal conservatives looks like the GWOT, they will just charge everything to the Country credit card, rack up tens of Trillions of Dollars bombing sand, and bombing the sand again when it doesn't magically turn into an allied country, because then if they ever lose control of the Whitehouse they can scream about the debt and austerity for another term, and get to cut taxes for rich people and maybe finally kill that horrific welfare state that FDR made. IE, what you are seeing now is literally the wealthy class's response to that WW2 reset. They've been itching to "Make America Great Again" for them and their class alone ever since.