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I just had the scary thought. "Doctor New Deal" was replaced by Doctor Win-the-war" because the New Deal was a cardboard hero - and the Axis wasn't a cardboard villain. WWII might have had the effect of sobering up some of the cardboard heroes with the example of some real villains who transcended the cardboard ones with which cardboard heroes are eager to contend. Maybe it just took a while for that sobriety to wear off . . . and it won't be reestablished until such time, if ever, that we face another existential threat like the Axis Powers - and survive?

An interesting comment which definitely has merit.

As to the future, I hold great expectations for 'citizen journalism' to correct many errors of the past. Control of information flow is, in my opinion, more important than political theory and the execution thereof.

It doesn't so much matter what "is," but more what the electorate think "is" is. And they know only what they're told.

I cite as proof the hysteria with which the MSM view the prospect of citizen journalism and their corresponding loss of power.

We shall see.

I think the main component of the WW II success involving American industry is that FDR knew he needed business, and he needed it FREE. He unshackled most of the industries he had attacked and harassed during the New Deal, particularly Henry Kaiser. In my book, Halsey's Bluff, I describe a fictional conversation between FDR and Kaiser, but one that I think most likely took place in some form or another. Basically, FDR said to the businessmen: "we'll not regulate you and we'll pay whatever you want. Your end of the deal is you make great ships and good weapons and excellent planes in unbelievable numbers."

We’ll know that re-re-education effort is succeeding when Zinn is forgotten and his book’s sales run to zero in any quarter.

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