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Donald Trump is striking at the heart of the left’s mythology. No wonder leftists are panicking.
One of the reasons why Democrats are reacting with such fury to Trump’s efforts to end wasteful government spending is because this has simply never happened before. Republicans and even some Democrats — remember Bill Clinton proclaiming that “The era of big government is over” — have railed against the out-of-control growth of the federal government, but even the strictest fiscal conservatives only managed to slow down that growth, not reverse it.
And even worse for leftists, in reducing the size of government, Trump is directly challenging the left’s core dogma that government can and should fix all the problems of human beings. This idea dates back to the Great Depression, when the Democrats first formed the coalition that made them the majority party for decades. The disparate groups that originally made up that coalition, including ethnic minorities in the North and segregationists who largely despised those minorities in the South, were held together by a shared assumption that whatever was wrong, government could solve it.
This was and is the fundamental myth of the American left. Born in the Great Depression that began in Oct. 1929, this myth claims that Herbert Hoover, the Republican who was president when the Depression hit, did nothing, leaving the American people in misery rather than expand the size of the government and tackle the problem head-on. After the electorate decisively rejected Hoover in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt saved the nation, creating a dizzying array of federal programs that pulled the American people back from the abyss.
And so, you see, in our complex and multifaceted society, we need big government. That’s why Trump and Elon Musk are so irresponsible, you see, to take the pruning shears to government spending. Nancy Pelosi even recently claimed that Trump was suffering from a “lack of sophistication in terms of intelligence” that prevented him from seeing the damage that his efforts to control government waste was causing.
This central leftist myth, however, is wholly false, from beginning to end. Hoover’s inaction didn’t exacerbate the Great Depression. Big government didn’t end it. And we don’t need it today.
As “Rating America’s Presidents” shows, Hoover wasn’t inactive at all. He actually oversaw the massive expansion of the federal government in response to the Great Depression. Government intervention didn’t end the Depression; it prolonged it. Hoover’s programs only added to the burden ordinary Americans had to carry, especially when he increased taxes in 1932. The tax increases were unavoidable, however: contrary to the assumptions of many Americans today, big government programs don’t magically pay for themselves.
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Billy says
The deceitful, totalitarian Democrats detest America and its freedoms, and Democrats love totalitarian systems like Islam and its Muslims to help gain more taxpayer money, more political power, and more government control.
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, ISLAM is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL RELIGION UNDER WESTERN LAWS(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49, 21:921; 88,111,123;21:92; 49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah.
The FRUIT of Islam is incessant WAR, terrorism, discrimination, slavery, malice, ISLAMIZATIONislamization, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, its Courts, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Israel, Christians, and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 98:6-7; 9:29 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 3:22,151; 69:30-32; 98:6.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam when Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Western Muslims seek to ensure Islam’s legitimacy against Non-Muslim societies, to impose Islamic Law in Western Legal Systems, and to advance Islam’s totalitarian goals to conquer the West. Consequently, Islam promotes a limitless, terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Deceitful Allah promises Heavenly Paradise to Muslims for acts of Muslim killing in terrorist attacks against Non-Muslims and Muslim hypocrites when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
John Pepple says
When the rich “pay their fair share” of taxes, where does the money go? To poor Americans? No way. We now know that it goes off in all kinds of wild directions, to Cuba, to Hezbollah, to Hamas, for example.
All of the recent revelations should be the death knell of the idea that the rich should pay their fair share, because it makes no difference in the lives of the poor whether they pay their fair share or not.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Robert
Are you planning to update this book w/ POTUS #46 & 47?
Keys says
The Democrats used the Great Depression to promote that the idea that the government “can and should fix all the problems of human beings”. Also, during this time the Marxist ideals of atheistic communism were spreading throughout the world, and Monarchies were beginning to end.
Then, in the 60s the uber Democrat, Lyndon Johnson, gave us the “Great Society” fiasco expanding government even more! Government took over some of the work Christian Churches did; Churches began a steady decline; but the government still used the Churches as conduits for government power/“charity” (NGOs).
None of this is what the Founders had in mind.
Sister Alberti says
Actually, Obama launched an effort to streamline the government and save $10 billion.