Jason A quick reframing - the Second World War completed the job that the New Deal had begun and it definitively ended the Great Depression in the USA. Not because of war, but because the war provided full employment. An America willing to mobilize as much humanpower and money on behalf of building schools, roads, trails, and housing in the absence of war would have also ended the Depression. The real problem with the New Deal and World War II - from the perspective of conservatives - was that they were great social and economic levelers that opened the way to a vast and growing middle-class as well as the Civil Rights movements of the 60s/70s. If the government was made up of all of us instead of (per the data) just the wealthiest Americans, we could invest in ourselves again and produce a veritable paradise in this, the richest country on Earth.

Jason A quick reframing - the Second World War completed the job that the New Deal had begun and it definitively ended the Great Depression in the USA. Not because of war, but because the war provided full employment. An America willing to mobilize as much humanpower and money on behalf of building schools, roads, trails, and housing in the absence of war would have also ended the Depression. The real problem with the New Deal and World War II - from the perspective of conservatives - was that they were great social and economic levelers that opened the way to a vast and growing middle-class as well as the Civil Rights movements of the 60s/70s. If the government was made up of all of us instead of (per the data) just the wealthiest Americans, we could invest in ourselves again and produce a veritable paradise in this, the richest country on Earth.

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