A thought on Republican revisionist history…

OK, if we take the version of the Great Depression currently being shilled by Mitch McConnell and company, let’s look through it a bit.

FDR and the Democrats came up with the New Deal and engaged in Government Spending (TM) to build dams, roads, various types of infrastructure and so on to get people working.

But Government Spending doesn’t work!!! They languished in the Great Depression until the end of the ’30s. (Let’s ignore those inconvenient graphs of employment rates and GDP and such that disprove this.)

See, what really got us out of the Great Depression was World War II. See, the whole nation got together, sent soldiers and such overseas, and we built a whole bunch of guns, bullets, bombs, airplanes, tanks, ships, food, supplies, etc. etc. etc. so we could blow our enemies to tiny bits more efficiently.

How did we pay for all those soldiers and weapons and supplies and such so we could blow Bad Guys to smithereens?

Oh yeah, GOVERNMENT SPENDING!

But I thought government spending didn’t work…