For anyone who lived during the Great Depression

[windy252]

was there an immovable percentage of average people that would support Herbert Hoover no matter what? I'm just trying to wrap my brain around this immovable 35%.

[FormerDittoHead]

1. Some things to remember...

1) they managed to get an amendment to the Constitution passed BANNING ALCOHOL!

2) the children and grandchildren of these people are alive and well today.

A 'senior friend' of mind said, in a quiet moment, "they never really did give prohibition a fair chance..."

One extra note: an ancestor of mine was executed for being a witch in Salem.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. All societies have about 30-35% wtih fascistic

tendencies... thsi was a finding after WW II... that is why it is immovable. Hell these days I have even met Nixon fans...

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Hoover got 41% of the vote in 1932.

The Magic 8-Ball says "Yes."

[Warpy]

4. yeah, my grandmother was one of them

who thought Hoover had the right idea and that taxing the rich and borrowing a huge amount of money to put the "great unwashed" back to work in busywork jobs was a terrible idea and would make them weak and dependent. Yes, she was wrong, but she was immovable. I have two enormous scrapbooks filled with anti-FDR newspaper articles that she saved, trying to prove herself right when the world was proving her wrong.

I think the immovable dreamers are around 28%-32% of us and are so for various reasons. We generally just have to work around them as they sit and complain that the world isn't proceeding to their satisfaction.