The Great Depression

The last time Kansas elected a Democrat to the Senate? 1932.

in the teeth of the Great Depression, and, oh, by the way, 14 years before Trump was even born.

Maine? Well, that Senate race now appears in the polls to be edging toward four-term incumbent Susan Collins over the Democratic nominee Troy Jackson.

Now, yes, that is the state Kamala Harris carried in 2024.

I do have to read facts because that is what contributes to the conclusions that you come to when I'm talking about a particular subject.

So what do you think happened in the Great Depression? What do you think happened when the generation of the Great Depression lost everything they owned? Did they feel increasingly like the cost of a home was out of their reach? Did they end up sleeping in their cars, standing in bread lines? Did they tell themselves that that was the end? This is a milestone, but it's all society's fault.

that the Depression happened, and that the banks became insolvent.

We know through history and the history that we learned from the boomer generation, because it's not the history that's being taught today.

We learned from the mistakes of that investors made during the Great Depression and the poverty that it caused.

But wasn't that self-inflicted poverty? You bet it was.

They leveraged themselves into bankruptcy.

Revelation 18 addresses the economic fall of Babylon.

I call it the climax of God's fireworks show becomes an economic collapse that makes the Great Depression look rosy.

That's something like how I worded it in my book.

People overlook this, but God expends a whole chapter and then some of his last book of the Bible, right toward the end of the Bible, talking about a giant economic collapse.

After the war he went into banking and then marketing and public relations.

His entry into Nazi politics began in the early 1930s when the party was experiencing an enormous surge in support as a result of the impact of the Great Depression on Germany.

Thereafter, he fixed his mast to Heinrich Himmler and rose to a position of considerable importance within the SS, based on his organisational and administrative abilities.

Over time, he became a major point of contact between the head of the SS and Adolf Hitler, serving in Berlin and at the Wolf's Lair in Prussia after the invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941.

these macroeconomic issues in the city.

There's the Great Depression, Second World War.

But then the idea really comes to light in a really meaningful way in New York City when the MTA is formed in 1968.

That's

I do have to read facts because that is what contributes to the conclusions that you come to when I'm talking about a particular subject.

So what do you think happened in the Great Depression? What do you think happened when the generation of the Great Depression lost everything they owned? Did they feel increasingly like the cost of a home was out of their reach? Did they end up sleeping in their cars, standing in bread lines? Did they tell themselves that that was the end? This is a milestone, but it's all society's fault.

that the Depression happened, and that the banks became insolvent.

We know through history and the history that we learned from the boomer generation, because it's not the history that's being taught today.

We learned from the mistakes of that investors made during the Great Depression and the poverty that it caused.

But wasn't that self-inflicted poverty? You bet it was.

They leveraged themselves into bankruptcy.

Abraham Lincoln followed the failed presidency of James Buchanan and the crisis of slavery and secession.

Franklin Roosevelt followed the misguided presidency of Herbert Hoover and the challenges of the Great Depression.

Well, I don't know who's waiting in the wings.

The one possible Democratic presidential candidate for 2028 who brought forth the issue, which turned out to be surprisingly important in this race, that is corruption, is John Ossoff.

Yeah.

So like much of the country, Texarkana struggled economically during the Great Depression, but World War II brought significant growth to the economy and the city

itself.

Okay, because we're shipping and moving things.

It was a golden age in American history.

But guess what happened? The 1930s came along, and we were plunged into a Great Depression.

So we've got to keep our eye on the ball here, folks.

And one of the things I am so encouraged by is that evangelical churches are now stepping up and they're telling their church members, you have an obligation to go and vote.