When i see those arrows i go out of my way to walk down the wrong way even going out of my way to walk the opposite way.
I've searched and searched and can't find what I once read. It may have been in a book I was reading. Or, I'm flat out wrong. That could be the case here. My apologies for posting specious information.
Been along time so..................I think FDR ran a campaign against Hoover claiming he was a profligate spender and what was needed was frugality in gov. He got in to find the system collapsing around him. So as he was claimed to have said;
We will keep trying until we find something that works. Most things he tried, didn't work.
My Gramp said the only thing that did work was the Rural Electrification Assoc. Oddly enough, today we need a Rural Broadband Assoc.l but for some reason, they can't get that off the ground.
But FDR did prove one thing. As long as the gov looks like it is trying to do something to ameliorate the problem, the citizens will support it. Even if the effort is a failure.
My father's archives 1924-33 have a half dozen pieces of paper. Starting in 1933, gobs of stuff on farming, what to farm, how much you could grow etc. In 1939, no better off than 1933 but they all voted Democrat in 1940 when a bunch had gone for Hoover in 1932.