How dare those Liberals end slavery in 1865! Now Black people think they are equal.

And now, thanks to those commie Liberals, I can’t even beat my children in public anymore.

The rest of this comment got deleted because I’m a jerk who insulted the people who run this blog, and anyway I’m too dumb to engage in rational argument.

It’s all about security, and safety, and avoiding risks. The only purpose in life is to make it to a comfortable retirement. The author seems to live in a world without God, art, adventures, great hopes for the future, without children and grandchildren, without love and passion, and utterly without self-sacrifice.

Of course these “liberals” weren’t liberals at all in the classical sense of laissez fair capitalism, individual freedom and liberty, but a much darker, more sinister ideology that believed in control and suppression of most human activity. Soon after, these statist, collectivist, communitarians co-opted the word “liberal” and made it into the dirty word it is today.

Now this new monstrosity created by these “liberals” had no clue as to the amount of power it had over the economy or what to do with it. It proceeded, with the best of intentions, to set the economy on a roller coaster-ride of loose and tight money that sent the markets sky-rocketting and then plunging due to their ignorant stewardship.

The economy had been through serious boom and bust cycles before, but in a largely un-regulated market these disruptions quickly corrected themselves, although not without pain for many. This pain played a critical role in restraining the next such event.

But in 1929, emboldened by a foolish notion that the government could control the markets, it tried to apply government measures it thought would help mitigate the problem. What these “liberals actually ended up doing was making things much, much worse by trying to fight against the market’s natural corrections. In a fit of do-gooderism that has caused so many calamities in this world, the “liberals” caused a disaster. Much worse than it had ever been and turned a severe market correction, one that was not at all unprecedented, into the longest prolonged depression in recorded economic history. In fact, the depression lasted so long that when the economy cratered again in the middle of it (when the full effect of the “liberal” policies took effect) they had to invent a new word to describe this condition, recession, which we have used ever since.

Of course the “liberals” then proceeded to make things even worse and grabbed even more power for a corrupt and incompetent government, the reminants of which we are still dealing with today.

Thanks “liberals”!

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This is cute. This heavyhanded attempt to rebut it is angry, humorless, and wrong.