07-03-2016, 10:52 AM
(07-02-2016, 10:15 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: Both Germany and Russia had strong government which were able to institute decisive solutions to the great depression. The success and prowess of all the belligerents in WW2 was directly proportional to their level of non-establishment government. Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy, Both of the primary Chinese factions, and even to an extent the US under FDR had these conditions. Britain and France floundered in WW2 because their elites refused to allow substantial reform.
Benjamin Franklin: Those who would surrender their essential Liberties for the Sake of temporary Safety get neither Liberty nor Safety.
Modern variant (mine): Those who would surrender their essential liberties for economic gain lose their liberty and get no economic gain.
We can learn much from Benjamin Franklin. I suggest that you study him. I'd rather have been in America in 1936 than in Germany in 1936 even if Germany had started to solve its problems of unemployment faster. At least Americans with industrial jobs got real pay on those jobs.
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.