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Originally Posted by smc
Americans are quite deliberately NOT taught the true and full history of the Depression period. There was brutal repression by the forces of the government to put down labor unions, unemployed unions, political action on the left, and so on. The various aspects of the "New Deal" -- Social Security, unemployment insurance, and so on -- were enacted precisely because the ruling wealthy, or at least the segment that won the argument, recognized that giving up a bit of profit was preferable to the alternative, which was the very real possibility of social revolution in the United States and an end to all their profit.
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They only did this after their attempt to stage a coup, that failed to garner the military support, they needed to get FDR out of office.