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Fascist Coup in the USA! (The Business Plot of 1934)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Moral Aspects of the Business Plot

I wasn't alive back in 19 33, and i'm not an expert on all the relevant factors that applied at the time. While anti new deal business leaders had some legitimate points, i don't think that their wisdom was markedly superior to that of the american people as a whole. The way they were willing to use intimidation and force to get their way suggests that they recognized they couldn't get their way dem atically. And indeed, f d r would go on to win in a landslide in the 19 36 election. That makes me sceptical of the proposal that the conditions needed for armed resistance were fulfilled. If there had been the certain grave and prolonged violation of fundament rights and all

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