07-27-2020, 02:08 PM
(07-27-2020, 08:54 AM)David Horn Wrote:(07-26-2020, 09:47 PM)Marc Lamb Wrote: A solid case for the most dominate issue of the 1932 political campaign was not the 1929 market crash, but rather repeal of the 18th Amendment. Kinda destroys the notion of a sudden catalyst, resulting in a world-changing epiphany...
... but the victors tell the history, so Schlesinger et al were "right" and 1929 remains the cause of it all.
My parents graduated from high school in 1932. If they were still around, I doubt they would agree with your assessment.
Hoover was a "dry" and Roosevelt was a "wet"... licit production and sale of alcoholic beverages at the least meant jobs for people from brewery workers to bartenders. The only harm from Repeal was a spike in DUI incidents with resulting deaths from traffic crashes.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.