The Fact Is That The New Deal

The Statist Has An Insatiable Appetite For Control. His Sights Are Set On His Next Meal Even Before He Has Fully Digested His Last. He Is Constantly Agitating For Government Action. And In Furtherance Of That Purpose, The Statist Speaks In The Tongue Of The Demagogue, Concocting One Pretext And Grievance After Another To Manipulate Public Perceptions And Build Popular Momentum For The Divestiture Of Liberty And Property From Its Rightful Possessors.

The Statist Deflects Public Scorn For The Consequences Of His Own Central Planning By Blaming The Very Industry He Is Sabotaging For Supply Dislocations And Price Hikes.

The Fact Is That The New Deal Was, Overall, A Dismal Failure.

Where Utopianism Is Advanced Through Gradualism Rather Than Revolution, Albeit Steady And Persistent As In Democratic Societies, It Can Deceive And Disarm An Unsuspecting Population, Which Is Largely Content And Passive. It Is Sold As Reforming And Improving The Existing Society's Imperfections And Weaknesses Without Imperiling Its Basic Nature. Under These Conditions, It Is Mostly Ignored, Dismissed, Or Tolerated By Much Of The Citizenry And Celebrated By Some. Transformation Is Deemed Innocuous, Well-intentioned, And Perhaps Constructive But Not A Dangerous Trespass On Fundamental Liberties.

Government, Not The Oil Industry, Is The Biggest 'profiteer' From Oil. And It Uses The Tax Revenue To Expand Its Own Authority At The Expense Of The Individual, As It Does With An Endless Number Of Other Industries - Including Electric Power, Coal, Lumber, Pharmaceuticals, Automobiles, Aircraft, And Agriculture. The Statist's Intrusion To The Free Market Is Boundless.