BACKBAYGROUCH | 2009-02-17
Off topic. Put it here as The General Comments seem to have died in a switchover. Michael Barone did a fair column on the stimulus bill today, but in it as an aside he touched upon one of Bob's shrewder observation.
Money quote: "It was the war effort, the mobilization of big government, big business and big labor, that much more than the New Deal enhanced the prestige of the state. It got Americans proud of thinking of themselves as small cogs in very large machines. It made them amenable to statist policies that they would never have accepted in the 1920s and at which many of them were bridling in the late 1930s."
In short, war kills liberty.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/the_real_lessons_of_the_great.html
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Yes, the World War II Obedience Training I keep pushing. It is great to live in the Internet Age, when you can, with monomaniacal effort, put ideas into the top of the filter-down process without becoming part of the Establishment to do it.
More bluntly, I don't have to pimp for the respectable conservatives anymore.
It is a wonderful new age.  USE it!