They don’t call him Warren ““I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.” -Warren G Harding” Harding for nothing.
He was less racist than your average fellow at the time is just about all I’ll give him. And giving us Coolidge is a little based, even if Coolidge did nothing to prevent the upcoming depression. Otherwise, he gets a “F - see me after presidency” rating. Probably died to get out of that awkward meeting.
I think Coolidge is definitely underrated even if he couldnt predict the future depression. For his time a very progressive guy (I’d say most progressive, for the day) and he understood the limits the people put on his position and held himself back to those standards. The worst thing he did was signing the Immigration Act despite his concerns raised in a sworn statement.
No man is perfect in history but in terms of even keeled presidents I think Coolidge stood out.
Not that Coolidge was an ideal to strive for. But he really did respect what he understood to be the limits placed on his position.
as a sidepoint it’s insane how people demonize unions so much. I saw an Australian documentary about how “greedy boat employees are stealing vital medical supplies and are destroying this country” when it was literally just them not being paid for overtime so they stopped working overtime
Guess who has the money to fund shit tons of anti-union rhetoric? Guess who also owns almost all the media? Guess who also owns all the companies that produce school books?
I could go on, but I think you probably see my point. If you do, congratulate yourself, you’re smarter than the average blue collar American worker.
I seriously hope you aren’t talking about Jewish people.
I mean there might be a big overlap but thats not causal. It just kinda happened like that, no conspiracy required.
Funny enough, there is a bit of conspiracy involved. Christian conspiracy, namely. Turns out when you forbid an ethnoreligious minority from holding any except a few careers for hundreds of years, many of those ethnoreligious families will develop the capital and social connections necessary to do those jobs well. Who could have guessed??
Racism/religious bigotry is so fucking dumb. And self-defeating. Fuck, forbidding Jews from farming? “We don’t want you to be peasants, that’s too good for you - handle large amounts of money instead”? Medieval Christianity was stupid as fuck.
I believe they mean capitalists, who benefit from spreading such rhetoric.
From a Norwegian point of view it was really confusing reading American news about unions and how they’re so controversial. Until then, I just assumed unions were a fact of (work) life everywhere.
What really kills me is that there are absolutely corrupt unions in the US but nobody wants to accept that and talk about how it happened. I’m pro union but man, police unions and construction unions are some really really questionable unions in the grand scheme of things just for what they get up to.
Come all of you good workers, good news so you I’ll tell. Of how the good ol union has come in here to dwell.
Which is also why I hate modern country music.
Me and all my redneck homies hate harding
Yet the vast majority of modern rednecks support anti-union and anti-worker candidates because at least they aren’t Democrats.
There’s a deep and sick irony to it. Like seeing Confederate flags flying in West Virginia.
I saw a rebel flag popup stand in Jefferson county that I found deeply offensive. They were selling stars and bars and trump flags. I was like “motherfucker, what the fuck do you think this state was founded as an act of resistance against?”
