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Originally Posted by SluttyShemaleAnna
Whuuu????
Another case of 'back in the good old days' syndrome. People did riot during the depression, you could say they didn't riot much, but on a historical scale, these current riots were not much of a riot.
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Certainly there was lots of unrest particularly in the labor unions. The National Guard in California brought in tanks to help quell longshoreman strikes.
Also there was a huge march on Washington by veterans demanding funds due them.
In the 30s farming was still a big deal and many city dwellers had family still on the farm. This helped tide over a lot of unemployed city dwellers.
John Rehill
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John F. Kennedy said, "Make a peaceful revolution impossible and you guarantee a violent one." Why has history always proven that true so many times? Kennedy was a student of history and understood the toils of the Boxer Rebellion in China at the turn of the 20th century. He studied the rise and fall of colonialists and oligarchs in Europe and Africa. He was very familiar with how mass inequities fuel peasant revolts and how the disenfranchised can lose their self-worth and take to the streets.
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