June 2011: Our Republican Depression

A couple of images from that previous one, thanks to the Library of Congress FSA/OWI archive:

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant.
Dorothea Lange, 1937

Child of migrant berry pickers, Berrien County, Mich.
John Vachon, 1940

In the midst of this, they do what Republicans always do: all they can to enrich the elite by making the weakest suffer.

This should make it all better: poor Mitt having to subsist on an apparent worth of $208 million, at minimum.

The reality is the extreme rightward push of conventional bipartisan political wisdom since the last Republican depression. So that the idea that an administration elected with a mandate to tackle unemployment will so much as care about the growing ranks of devastated lives—that's so far in the past, the New Deal may as well be an ancient fable.

A strange tale from another world, when this, too, could have been thought patriotic:

Aberdeen, South Dakota.
John Vachon, 1942