It helped farmers, trade unionists, the elderly, the disabled, dependent children, the unemployed and many others who had been passed over in the social and financial shifts that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By providing social safety nets, opportunities for work and help for the needy, New Deal not only transformed America’s economic policies, but it also influenced the nation’s political and cultural outlooks. Under Roosevelt’s aegis, Congress unleashed an era of an activist, centralized government, and, at the same time, gave its stamp to a liberal Protestant mindset that sought, unironically, the best of all possible outcomes in this best of all possible worlds. What gave political credibility to liberal forces in American during the quarter-century following the Second Word War was their ability to argue effectively that the expansion of the welfare state and the adoption of the principles of Keynesian economics were not only compatible with economic prosperity but essential to it. The postwar liberal program was based on the interdependency of social justice and business
It helped farmers, trade unionists, the elderly, the disabled, dependent children, the unemployed and many others who had been passed over in the social and financial shifts that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By providing social safety nets, opportunities for work and help for the needy, New Deal not only transformed America’s economic policies, but it also influenced the nation’s political and cultural outlooks. Under Roosevelt’s aegis, Congress unleashed an era of an activist, centralized government, and, at the same time, gave its stamp to a liberal Protestant mindset that sought, unironically, the best of all possible outcomes in this best of all possible worlds. What gave political credibility to liberal forces in American during the quarter-century following the Second Word War was their ability to argue effectively that the expansion of the welfare state and the adoption of the principles of Keynesian economics were not only compatible with economic prosperity but essential to it. The postwar liberal program was based on the interdependency of social justice and business