New Deal
Despite Roosevelt campaigning heavily against anti-new deal republicans, the new deal still faced some vocal conservative oppositions and criticisms that it was working actively for the democrats in the US. President Herbert Hoover argued that some of the programs of new deal were fascists.
Roosevelt highlighted that the issue of the government was whether a system of government or economics exists to serve individual men and women. Therefore honest men from time immemorial will differ with the questions relating to this thing. The American colonies were born in the struggle of ethical conception which a ruler bore responsibility.
On the speech to the commonwealth, he states that the American Revolution was the turning point in the struggle that continued and shaped itself in the public life of the country. He wrote that a force that assisted in the industrial revolution, advancing steam and machinery and also in the rise of forerunners was created in the 19th century.
Huey Long believed that the authority of law is not something which is imposed upon the people but it is the will of the people themselves and that patriotism is easy to understand in America. In a letter in 1935 to Frances Perkins, there was a growing feeling of people who worked that the government was conducted for the benefit of a few who thrilled unduly at the expense of all.
The people sought a balancing yet limiting force which came through town councils, trade guilds, parliaments and popular controls. The people who worked also believed that the American political life was such that it is of an individual against the system. When the depression came on a new section of land was opened in the west and their contemporary misfortunes served the manifest destiny.
Reference
Michael P. Johnson (Documents1932-1939) Reading the American Past 4th edition, volume II
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