Interview · moment 23 of 30
New Deal Energy vs New Frontier Malaise, and the Word 'Progressive'
from The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310 · #310
4 min
Guest
Curtis contrasts the electric, startup-like energy of FDR's New Deal with the comparatively dull Kennedy-era New Frontier, and traces the word 'progressive' back to 1930s American communism, including his own grandparents.
- Harvard economics grad in 2016 applies for unpaid internship on the Hill, needs family money to afford a shoebox-sized room.
- Congressmen don't write legislation; they edit lines from lobbyists and activists, the two real sides of Congress.
- FDR was a brilliant collector of talent, more like Peter Thiel than Elon Musk.
- FDR dying in 1944 but the public told he's in the best of health, fit as a fiddle.
- In the 1930s—the Red Decade—everyone who was cool was a communist.
- Henry Wallace ran on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948, drawing about one or two percent of voters.
- The word 'progressive' has never changed meaning; most progressives today don't know the history of the term.
- Cancellation is a communist practice documented in internal party memoirs from the 1950s.
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