Reply #11: Just remember... [View All]

[Jankyn]

FDR arrived on the scene with the New Deal just in time to forestall violent upheaval (many feared the equivalent of the 1917 Russian Revolution) as a result of the Depression. And his humane social programs promptly got him called a Socialist. And the robber barons tried to launch a coup on his administration that only failed because Gen. Smedley Butler actually believed in the Constitution.

FDR's administration could just as easily have gone badly wrong. I don't think the oligarchs will be as unprepared the next time.

Jankyn, trying not to be too pessimistic