I was looking through my Notes to clean out deadwood and ran across this saved quote. I found several of the memes and attitudes to be eerily similar to what we still hear today.
Just remember that there was an American Nazi Party rally in NYC while Hitler was having them in Germany before America entered the War. History DOES Rhyme
“They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands. They saved the big banks, but the little ones went up the flue.” ~~Will Rogers, “And Here’s How It All Happened” (Nov. 26, 1932)
Racism is SO American that when you protest it, they think you’re protesting America.