#Huey Long

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louisiana miku

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Huey Long 🏈🏈🏈

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Louisiana Governor DILFs

Earl Long, Jeff Landry, Henry L. Fuqua, Buddy Roemer, Dave Treen, Edwjn Edwards, Mike Foster, John Bel Edwards, Jimmie Davis, John M. Parker, Robert F. Kennon, John McKeithen, Huey Long

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Kaiserreich drives me crazy because this "most ideologically contested election ever" which triggers a massive 4-way civil war is between 3 people of which I'd choose ANY at any hour of any day over Donald "They're-Eating-The-Cats" and Kamala "Genocide-Is-Woke"

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Being a fanfic author is spending two hours fact checking every detail of a real life assassination that happened 80 years ago for a Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel chapter that you know damn well absolutely no one will care about.

[workersolidarity]

"No man must be allowed to have too much, no man must be allowed to have too little. Unless you limit the size of the big, it necessarily means that the small people must become more and more impoverished as time goes on."

-Huey Long

Huey Long was like the 20th Century American Robinhood, wanting to openly take from the rich and to ensure every American was provided with housing, transportation, food, clean water, power and even household appliances.

[racefortheironthrone]

What are your thoughts on Huey Long? His idea of redistribution sound good and yet he was seen by a lot of people as a dangerous demagogue, and inspired the Fascist Dictator in It Can't Happen Here?

So here's the thing about Huey Long: the dude was a rare genuine Southern populist. I say genuine in the sense that, unlike a lot of Louisiana politicians before him who had used the language of populism but who had secretly taken bribes from the oil interests that ran the state of Louisiana, Long actually was an anti-corporate dude who taxed the oil industry and used the money to fund his programs. And he wasn't even that racist by the standards of the time.

However, Long was never particularly much of a details guy, and this extended to his later career in the Senate and his putative presidential campaign. The Share Our Wealth plan was designed to sound good - and it really worked, hence the astonishing growth of the Share Our Wealth clubs - but it was not designed to actually make the math work. And that's kind of the thing about Long - politically, he got a lot of traction by saying the New Deal wasn't doing enough, but that's a very easy critique to make when you're not the one trying to persuade the rest of the Democratic Party to accept the basic principles of deficit spending, or when you're not the one responsible for putting the budgets together. I don't know whether that makes him a demogogue so much as it makes him a politician who made popular promises without being able to back them up, which is a rather common flaw among politicians.

Finally, the dude was also massively corrupt. Not so much in the sense of taking bribes from wealthy people or corporate interests (although that was occasionally alleged), but in the sense of creating a political machine where every single state contract and job was handed out on the basis of loyalty to Long, where every state employee had to kick back 10% of their income to the Long machine and every company doing business with the state had to kick back 20% of their contract to the Long machine. This machine was backed up by threats, intimidation, blackmail, bribery, and in some cases violence.

I think describing Long as a fascist dictator is totally wrong - the dude's politics were generally left-wing, not right-wing - but he definitely was someone who tried to centralize all political power into his own hands.

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Star Spangled History Lessons, Pt. 3

[enderexplorer1212]

Look buddy, there's only two people who know about Huey Long, Kaiserreich players, and historians, and I know for a fact you don't have a degree.

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Huey Long

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Robert Penn Warren and "All the King's Men"

The 20th century produced so many great Southern chroniclers of crackerdom (William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, Harper Lee and childhood friend Truman Capote, James Agee, Katharine Ann Porter, Flannery O’Connor) you will perhaps forgive me for placing Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) at the back of the pack, near the likes of Margaret Mitchell and Erskine Caldwell. I remind you that…

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[autisticsupervillain]

It's Magnificent Bastard Monday!

Today's Magnificent Bastard of the Week: Huey Long

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Huey Long : Every Man a King

from Spartan761 - History

Not ancient or medieval but a historical figure I am fascinated with

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"The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub he ain't got no business with."

Huey Long, 1934

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Interesting to call this “confiscating” when it’s just making the rich pay their fair share, especially considering all the stolen wealth from the bottom 99% and historic tax evasion.