Re: Conservaturd ARE trying to kill us
Baxter <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Oct 2025 14:59:19 -0000 (UTC)
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Out With Them <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]: > On 08 Oct 2025, Baxter <[email protected]> posted some > news:[email protected]: > >> Klaus Schadenfreude <klaus.schadenfreude.Zwergentö[email protected]> >> wrote in news:gdidekt24mnn0oofi8qsmjogrhsm6ljrc0 >> @Rudy.Canoza.is.a.forging.cocksucking.dwarf.com: >> >>> [Default] Baxter <[email protected]> typed: >>> >>>>Every conservaturd in these forum is complicent [sic] >>> >> >> KKKlaun, fascist liar and bigot, has nothing worthwhile to contribute >> to the issue. > > Baxter keeps changing the scope of the discussion. > Out With Them, a fascist liar and Klaun, has nothing worthwhile to contribute to the issue - which is why he snipped: =========== A century ago, bureaucracy was minimal. The 1920s followed a worldwide pandemic that killed an estimated 17.4-50 million people. While the virus spread, the Great War raged; we can still picture the dehumanizing use of mustard gas and trench warfare. When the war ended, the Roaring Twenties erupted as an antidote to grief. Despite Prohibition, life was a party-until the crash of 1929. The 1930s opened with a global depression, record joblessness, homelessness, and hunger. Despair spread faster than the pandemic had. This was the context when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933. The nation was demoralized by nonresponsiveness, corruption, and rot. Over the next decade, FDR passed a series of policies that made up the New Deal for American workers. He reset our measure of success from "take what you can hold" to "a chicken in every pot." Large public projects put people to work. Pride in earning a living, providing for families, and building together helped heal. These common efforts-Hoover Dam, CCC reforestation, rural electrification-are reminders of what's possible. They still belong to us, the people. FDR fought with industrialists and their politicians to level the playing field for working Americans. Before FDR, Presidents Warren G. Harding (1921-23) and Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) championed a "small government, pro-business" creed-lower taxes and regulations, high tariffs, and a hands-off posture toward corporate power. Their era also carried the stain of major scandals like Teapot Dome. With that context, today's moves-tariffs, shrinking federal capacity, pressuring the Fed, and a fog of favoritism-feel like a remix of the 1920s playbook. So what do we do about this? The 1920s ? 2020s: the rhyme we can't ignore A century ago, America flirted with minimal federal guardrails just as new risks were exploding. The decade glittered-right up to the cliff's edge. Today, we're repeating patterns that predict more suffering and earlier deaths, especially for kids, elders, and low-income families. Public health pullback. The 1920s briefly invested in maternal and infant health (Sheppard-Towner) and then let it die in 1929-exactly when families needed it. Today, cuts or rollbacks to public-health capacity (disease surveillance, vaccination programs, mental-health lifelines) send the same message: you're on your own. We know how that story ends-avoidable deaths that land heaviest on those with the fewest resources. Environmental non-protection. In the 1920s, national air and water protections didn't exist. Industrial growth came with a hidden casket count: heart and lung disease from soot, chemical exposures, poisoned rivers. Now, attempts to weaken pollution standards, methane controls, conservation rules, and climate resilience push us back toward that pre- regulatory baseline-just as heat waves and wildfire smoke intensify. Labor and child safety were viewed as "cost centers." Before modern labor law, workplaces were more lethal and kids worked dangerous jobs. Loosening enforcement today or expanding hazardous youth work echoes those risks-and robs children of schooling that lengthens lifetime health and earnings. Breadlines without safety nets. The 1920s offered little protection when incomes collapsed. Today, proposals to shrink SNAP, Medicaid, and IRS capacity (which delivers the EITC and Child Tax Credit) weaken the very programs proven to improve birth outcomes, reduce medical debt, and stabilize families. Moral panics, real violence. Then, Prohibition and nativist politics. Now, defunding community violence-intervention and loosening restrictions to carry weapons even as political temperature spikes. Then as now: when prevention capacity is stripped, the funeral homes get busier. The throughline is simple: when we dismantle the basic public functions that make freedom real-health, safety, fair rules-life expectancy falls. There's nothing "pro-life" about that. https://thefulcrum.us/governance-legislation/public-health-governance- trump