If Republicans had been in charge when America needed FDR's New Deal

[berni_mccoy]

Can you imagine if a Republican president had been in charge when America needed the New Deal?

Here are just some ideas of where we'd be today:

1. Mexico would be passing anti-immigration laws to keep Americans out
2. Debtor's prison would be a reality today (bankruptcy would be a crime against the Constitution)
3. Homeless would be required to go to a Evangelical Church service before getting food and/or shelter
4. Women would have lost the right to vote, could not go to school and would be required to serve in convents until they were married (unless they came from wealthy families)
5. We would have lords, barons and royalty who's wealth came from serfs and indentured servants

Please feel free to add to this list.

[BlueJazz]

1. "It's a Wonderful Life" would have NEVER been made.

[uponit7771]

2. Republicans were in charge when America at the beginning of the GD for 4 years there was no

...large injection of money to make up for lost GDP because Hoover was a "hands off" small government type person.

Then FDR came into power and within months the GDP starts to pick up....

The similarities between now and then are scary. Like then at this current time there's no interest rate to drop because it's already at .25% the big difference between now and then is the banks didn't have money to lend because people stuffed it in their matress's etc...but now the banks have an excess reserve of 778 billion (up from 2 billion in August/08.

If someone doesn't make the banks loan at rates commensurate with the TARP funds they received then the feds are going to be the only ones throwing water on the fire.

[damntexdem]

3. Many Americans would tune in their TVs when they awake to "Good Morning, Comrade."

Either that, or many of us would be dodging the Baptist Inquisition.

;-)

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Republicans would NOT have been in charge for very long during the Great Depression

If Republicans had been in charge, they would have offered little in the way of relief as the economy steadily deteriorated. Unable to detect even a hint of hope from their government, starving people would have affiliated with the wobblies, communists, socialists & anarchists - and confrontations with the repugs would have been inevitable. It would have been another Civil War, and I'm confident that the working classes would have eventually prevailed against the party of capitalism.

I've never been much on the 'alternate history' genre, but my imagination has a field day with how the Great Depression could have turned out much differently - perhaps affecting the outcome of World War II.

[Doremus]

5. They fought tooth and nail against the New Deal.

When that didn't work, they chastized and criticised it at every turn.

I posted about this game I found recently, self-published by repukes in 1936.






Notice the blackface. The New Deal was a big welfare project, dontcha know. :sarcasm:



As much as things change, they stay the same.

[FarLeftRage]

6. Most likely allied with nazi Germany

a one prescott b*sh would have made more $$$ off of the Holocaust... no doubt.