@bobsal u1553115,
Democrats/socialists actually do view the Great Depression as great because it is their weapon of fear to get the people to vote them in as economic rescue workers.
If you could go back to the time before the New Deal and have the people adapt economically to the depression conditions on their own voluntarily, maybe doing the things FDR suggested, such as reforestation projects and helping the poor and elderly; then we wouldn't have had a Keynesian economy grow out of control to where government stimulus is part and parcel of keeping an enormous industrial-consumer waste complex churning money around the planet.
Do you realize how difficult it is for people nowadays to adjust to more sustainable and generally lower-key levels of industrial-consumerism? Debt and business/income expectations are so out of control that people don't even know where to begin reducing their costs. They are just suspended between a bunch of high cost payments for house, vehicle, insurance, credit card bills, taxes, etc.
Under such high dependency conditions, it's almost impossible to adjust to a recessionary situation without government money. It should just be possible to say, "ok, I'm gonna give up my car and take transit to save money (and the environment), and/or I'm going to only heat/cool one room of the house, or I'm going to move into a more affordable place (if you rent), etc. etc.
Adjusting to recessionary trends in such cost-cutting ways is exactly how consumers shrink their CO2 footprints and make the environment/future more sustainable, yet the same Democrats who preach the Green New Deal also scream bloody murder regarding personal austerity and other budget cuts, and that is just a contradiction because buying/using less translates into less resource waste, which translates into a more sustainable future.
