Why would you say stuff like this? Do you seriously think Christianity is anywhere close to the violence that has been a part of Islam since the beginning. Right now Christians are being exterminated in Nigeria by Islam.
Christianity is was built this nation, the freest nation to have ever existed. This nation wasn't created by force or terrorism. We did fight to separate from England but that war didn't start after 20 years of negotiating with England.
Oh and by the way, that's a seriously weak effort to try to blame the devastation caused by the Democrats locking down businesses on Trump. Democrats using Covid as a tool just about collapsed the economy, Trump had nothing to do with that.
The day Trump was elected in 2016 the economy begin to rebound. When Trump took office businesses then began to invest in themselves again after 8 years of not knowing what Obama was going to do to them.
Trump didn't have to enact any policy for the economy to rebound. All that needed to happen was for Hillary to lose.
And the economy just kept growing until COVID. I can't prove it but my opinion is that COVID was intentionally released to control the world's population and to take down capitalism. That's why the Democrats (and some Republicans) began an unconstitutional shutdown across America. It wiped out millions of small and midsized businesses all across America and around the world.
It was just what the World Economic Forum was hoping for. And I think that was what Event 201 was all about. In Oct 2019 Event 201 was held to discuss a global pandemic caused by a Corona virus. Remember, the corona virus is just the common cold virus. It would take an outside force to manipulate that virus into something deadly and ever so coincidentally the Wuhan lab, in partnership with Dr Fauci had such a virus they had been working on since 2014.
Event 201 was spun as how they would handle such an outbreak and help everyone.
But timing and my conspiracy theory mind (which I'm constantly trying to suppress) just looked at all of these things and who was involved and it's just too coincidental.
But like I said, I can't prove anything and I'm not trying to.
"Yeah. Given your language style, you came of age in the Reagan era, which is the modern era peak "Free Market" fairy tale."
I turned 20 in 1978, when Carter was president.
The concept of the free market predates me and Reagan. Like I said, Adam Smith was the first to identify it, but one could argue that the seeds of it could be found in John Locke.
It was expanded by the Austrian school and later the Chicago schools of economics.
Your dismissal of it as a fairy tale tells me you're more inclined to Marx's pie-in-the-sky gibberish.
I will say this. An anarchists I knew pointed out the fact that there cannot be a free market if a government exists. I cannot argue against that but it is possible to have a much freer market than what we have now.
Freedom is always the answer, not more government control over our lives. We used to be much freer than we are now. In fact we have less freedom than we did when King George ruled the colonies.
"Because what happened as a result of the policies in each of those eras you mention?"
Are you aware of the Great Depression of 1919? No? Because it never happened. A stock market crash very much like the 1929 crash happened. The difference is Warren G Harding and Calvin Coolidge. They gave us one of the greatest eras of prosperity this nation has ever seen.
And despite history revisionism, Coolidge fid not cause the 1929 stock market crash and the subsequent depression. The crash was caused by Woodrow Wilson's Federal Reserve. The Fed cut the money supply too much and that caused a panic.
Herbert Hoover didn't understand that he should have just left it alone and it would have corrected itself. He began a series of policies to correct it that just made everything worse. He lost re-election because of that. FDR came on his policy of "change". But he didn't change anything. He just doubled down on Hoover's failed policy and instituted a bunch of his own failed policies. He somehow convinced the people that he was working hard on fixing the problem and they agreed and kept re-electing this turd. That was my parents generation. My parents came of age during the Great Depression.
If Hoover did what Coolidge and Harding did there would never have been a Great or any other kind of depression or recession. We would have rebounded in about 18 months, like it did in 1919.
We are still suffering under some of FDR's policies and many more Band-Aids supposed to fix the economy but only make it worse.
