A fantastic cartoon from 1934, entitled “Planned Economy or Planned Destruction”
Amazingly accurate, incredibly prescient. Note Stalin in the bottom right corner. This cartoon, according to sources, was created in 1934. The Great Depression was on, people were destitute, things were lousy – yet here is a cartoon that exhibits the same beliefs that a growing number of Americans feel. You can not spend your way into prosperity. Capitalism is good. The Republic (and the rule of law) is always better than the oligarchy (and being ruled by a few.) That the last thing we need is another “new deal.”
The past is trying to tell us something.
