01-19-2017, 06:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-19-2017, 06:53 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-19-2017, 03:36 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-19-2017, 02:02 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: We are about to get the most authoritarian President in the living memory of any American under the age of 90. (Coolidge might have been rather authoritarian, but one would have to be past 90 to remember him.
Donald Trump clearly fits the authoritarian model...and he is well to the Right of center. Britt's warnings of fascist character of a government apply strongly to him on just about everything. We all know the list.
"Keep cool with Coolidge" Coolidge? He was about as hands off and the opposite of authoritarian as possible.
FDR was pretty authoritarian, though, what with packing of the Supreme Court and all that.
The usual libertarian economics deception, is what you posted. Authority is needed, since humans aren't perfect. More crimes occur without authority. Especially, the bosses need authority over them. That's why the bosses hated FDR, and why you knock him and applaud Coolidge. It takes just a little use of the brain. Coolidge was the most authoritarian, because he allowed the bosses to rule over us without restraint, resulting in poverty and depression. FDR liberated us from the bosses, so he was less authoritarian. Like I said, people need to see beyond the smoke of "freedom" laissez faire slogans and discern the truth.