Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
That's not what he was saying. What he said was that the U.S. became a superpower in the wake of the New Deal--suggesting at least circumstantially that the New Deal was one factor in their economic dominance in the middle of the last century.
|
And I was suggesting that right-weaving-left was much more powerful than left-all-the-way.
Hardly the opposite of my original point: the USA is the truest experiment of limited self-government in my lifetime and has been the preeminent world power in my lifetime.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
I'm also puzzled by your statement that the U.S. is "moving left."
|
I listen to Ron Paul talk, and he has the same messages as Ronald Reagen, but he's totally off the current political map.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
In fact, if anything the "circumstantial evidence" suggest exactly the opposite of what you claim. As I said, you're free to believe in supply-side economics for moral reasons, but your claim that it inherently leads to prosperity and power is just bad history.
|
I think I'm looking at it from a little more marcro-level.
The USSR crumbled into abject failure, the USA ran the world.
Doesn't seem like that bad of history to me.