Do any of them know what the word “liberal” actually means?

  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I mean they each protected capitalism in their own way:

    FDR, being old money who’d just seen MacArthur send in the tanks to raze a camp of rebellious soldiers and knew how these things tended to go, invested in guillotine insurance via the New Deal.

    Hitler and Mussolini used the other approach, privatizing/selling off state assets and applying colonial methods they’d perfected in Africa back home to buttress capitalism and protect profits.

    I’m not gonna get started on Churchill.