The Attempted Presidency Of Huey Long | Alternate History
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Former Louisiana Governor, Huey Long, was once a figure of great controversy and interest. During the Great Depression of the late 1920's and early 1930's, Long achieved prominence on a populist and seemingly socialistic platform which advocated redistribution of wealth, and much more. Often portrayed through history as an abuser of power, a misguided but good-intentioned politician, or even an aspiring dictator, there is much reason for the confusion surrounding this fascinating man who dreamed of bringing his policies to the national stage by winning the Presidential election of 1936, but never had the chance. What if in an alternate timeline, things went differently?
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deez nutz
@@redicity5884 gottem
Could his economics with abit of change actually work in today's day n age? 2024
“Democracy is like a raft: It won’t sink, but you will always have your feet wet.”
- Russell B. Long
Heh. It's sinking.
@@theoldsaxon6484 Rafts break up.
@@theoldsaxon6484 when the people on the raft trying to break it, what do you expect?
@@accurategamer7085 Public government < Private government. Read "Democracy the God that Failed" by Hans Herman Hoppe.
@@theoldsaxon6484 lolbergs get out
Interesting and very well-written, but I had to slow the video down to .75 speed to understand the narration.
Huey Long is fascinating to me. And not just for his politics. But for his love for his home state which is where I was born and for his love of his alma mater LSU. In fact he had so much love for LSU that in 1934, Huey Long helped the LSU student body at the time be able to afford round trip tickets to Nashville, Tennessee to go see LSU take on Vanderbilt in college football action. Ironically enough LSU won that game 29-0.
What if I never existed?
*BREAKING NEWS: Huey Long Wills Himself Back Into Existence, Comes Back To Kick Ass*
Absolutely BASED!
I fucking wish, I’d vote for him in a heartbeat
The cultural shock would destroy him anyway
Imagine Long running for presidency nowadays
If by some miracle he doesn’t win, I am fully prepared to march north as a traitor and come home as a king
Huey Long was a genuinely fascinating and often great politician, and it's a shame to see him lowered to an internet meme. Thanks for making this video!
Honestly, I’d say that he’s a meme but one that allows for him to be more respected
I'd say that rather than "lowered", his memetic portrayals net him a good deal of well deserved academic attention and help prevent him from being lost to history as so many other great minds likely have been.
@@winsonzhu4427 ooooof
@@winsonzhu4427 he was already getting academic attention, and by the nature of academics, it was not the majority of the population, or even a large minority of the internet. His attention now is PURELY comedic and memetic. Anyone who even takes a cursory glance at US history already knew about him for a good while.
@@sinkoprvi3477 Memes lead to curiosity about the source, which leads to research, aka "academic attention", as in attention from a learning and interest rather than purely comedic standpoint. Comedy is a great tool in teaching, imo.
"Who needs syndicalism when every man is a king?"- Huey Long, Keiserreich
Qing*
*Kaiserreich
Bruh I playing kaiserredux RN
The dog meat general approves
From a lore perspective I like the idea of the two major parties combining in a coalition under a Progressive leader in order to defeat the Syndicalists and whatever you wanna call the long movement.
In a world without *useless bodyguards* ,we might have been kings...
Plot twist: The bodyguards accidently shot Long
@@MonsieurDean plot twist²: his guards were actually the remnants of the pr*etorian "guard", and they killed him on purpose as is tradition
@@atillanandorfuri3343 the true shadowy cabal throughout the ages
@@atillanandorfuri3343 long was like aurelian but was insta killed before he save America instead of after he saved America
@@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569 for me he's more of a Caesar figure, as they were both friends of the poor and tried to save the republic by using a bit of dictatorial authority. But seems like politicians who want (or manage) to do good are the only ones getting murdered
I was almost right. I said “What if FDR lost the presidency”.
Close enough, pal!
Not extending the depression for 8 years
FDR was a totalitarian just like Biden, it’s time to reverse the new deal and go full warren j Harding and just abolish the government outside of a king and a militia literally everything else should be ended also punish all attacks against private property and lassiez faire capital with public torture its time to implement a sort of empire and just abolish democracy we must move forward and abolish all attacks against private property totally and absolutely
This is all theft and the previous establishment was amazing and the people similar to hoey long have taken over now
@@stevenandersen6989 sorry, not possible
"Are you a socialist?"
Huey: "well, yes but actually no"
Third way gang 😎
Third Positionists for the win
Third position gang
@@tubeguy4066 neo fascism sure is something
Socialism has a massively broad definition, yet people always boil it down to "wut marx said"
Huey Long: hey you dropped this 👑
He would reject the crown, but instead tell you to hold you head up High, for we are all Kings!
@@theoneandonlydetraebean8286
EVERY MAN A KING!
NO ONE WEARS A CROWN!
"every man a king" Huey Long Keiserreich
*Kaiserreich
Or Kaiserredux.
Huey Long period. That’s not just his thing from Kaiserreich.
Kaiserreich is the best Hoi4 mod period, because you can turn every man a king into king Huey long Dong
@@coleh9241 best mod apart from the Hirohito chin addition mod
I’m usually pretty firmly libertarian but I’m starting to like Huey Long. I live in southern West Virginia so his message really resonates with me after seeing what coal corporations did to my home. I just don’t know how confident I am in wealth redistribution. I will definitely be looking into Huey Longs early years in Louisiana.
I recommend the biography by T Harry Williams.
I live in Louisiana and Huey long fixed our state, we were in the Great Depression the longest, when he came along he made many economic reforms and brung us out of the Great Depression.
Ayyyyy I grew up in WV and I know how you feel, but I really don't think wealth redistribution would've been good at all lol.
@@thehussiteking
Most of the wealth came from the oil and telephone companies. It was used for hospitals, roads, and schools, all of which benefited the oil and telephone companies in the long run (pardon the pun)
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I recommend moving away from libertarianism
I love Huey P. Long. I’m from Louisiana. He’s the only reason we have a roll-free bridge across Lake Ponchatrain connecting the Northshore to New Orleans and the rest of the south shore. It also connects right at my hometown too.
Huey Long, despite being a Southern politician, was also surprisingly progressive on issues of race.
He didn't really focus on race at all, being solely economically focused.
Back when being "progressive on race" was a good thing
@@Will9c But unlike most politicians, he didn't use race as a cudgel.
As if that's a good thing. 13/52
@@internet5076 why is it not? Not saying it in a mean way just curious btw my bad mate
Dictatorship? More like "democracy with authoritarian characteristics"
Democracy : now with more authoritarianism flavour! (limited edition)
Authoritarian Democracy
Kaisserredux Edition.
@Humanity Galatica I agree. 😎👍
BASED Illiberal Authoritarian Democratic GANG!
@Humanity Galatica you're an idiot if you actually believe that. Or you've simply never experienced it
Or authoritarianism with democratic characteristics.
@Humanity Galatica What would Assad's Syria be? An Illiberal Republic?
So huey long the man himself wrote the script for this? 😂
Sorta, yeah.
Ok fu
He had to add SOME spice into it, not just Huey Long's book
Huey is really inspiring to me, especially in today's context. In spite of all the bullshit politics, he saw the truth. If empowering the people instead of keeping them as wage slaves is tyranny than I support a tyrant.
It's not tyranny tho fam...just plain human decency on your part
It's not, and that's not what he actually stood for. You just support a tyrant anyways.
It’s communism and it’s failed everywhere it’s tried
The Military-Industrial Complex wasn’t perverting everything government-related in those days, so politicians could actually tell the truth and still get elected to high office. These days it’s all a dog-and-pony show for us proletariat.
@@MrSmileyRay foreign interference is the bane of revolution. Look into Burkina Faso and Thomas Sankara, Chile’s 9/11, the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz, etc.
Huey Long is so based he created his own alt-history what if about himself, so Monsieur Z didn't have to.
He could see the future
“The national news media and cheap politicians continued to try to discredit Huey's ideas long after he was dead. Even today they can hardly mention Huey's name without kicking his corpse a few times."
- Calvit Walker, Share Our Wealth Society member
" every man a king " . Huey are you trying to recreate the HRE?
Of Course not God No. 😂🤣😂
HAE
Communist HRE huey?
@@jakegalvin6946 Huey Long wasn't a Communist.
@@crusader2112 i didnt say he was
Huey Long's idea of having one director from every state on the Federal Reserve Board is intriguing. Monetary policy would certainly be more democratic if that happened.
Huey Long Dong himself. Remember lads, we’re all Kings 👑
It is slander to say Huey Long was an authoritarian or wanted to be a dictator. Meanwhile FDR actually put people in camps...
Huey Long was still an authoritarian and a crony, he doesn't stop being one just because his opponent was one too.
Don't forget turning a blind eye to Jim Crow and other heinous crimes against minorities.
Both Long and FDR were quasi fascists
@@AnnabelRoss6789 yeah going against those laws would’ve cost both Long and Roosevelt politically. Long for his part focused more on economics as opposed to civil rights though.
Roosevelt couldn’t endorse the anti-lynching bill as it would’ve rallied the southern Democrats against his New Deal programs and perhaps even seen things like Lend-Lease go down in flames.
@@AnnabelRoss6789 and yet Huey told the KKK to eat shit, gave blacks free school books, and planned for them to be included in his share our wealth plan which led to black ministers organizing share our wealth clubs amongst their congregations.
In some ways Long's program sounds like Sir Francis Bacon's "The New Atlantis". It also reminds me of Adocentyn in "The Picatrix." The roots of Long's radicalism are much deeper than you might think.
Interesting, tell us more.
@@MonsieurDean It's just that having read "The New Atlantis" and the "Picatrix" ( a work of astrology and ritual magic at least 800 years old) your description of Long's economic and educational programs reminded me of those books. I'm sure the resemblance is superficial, but I think it is evidence of a long tradition of utopian ideas and values with a long history in the West. My major was history and early modern radical movements and the links between science and occult thought were my main area of interest.
@Zoomer Waffen Rand knew there were poor people. She just preferred to treat them like dirt. Long was corrupt, but he wanted a better life for the people. Rand was selfish, cruel, and proud to be so. There was a book written about her "Mean Girl" which suggested that her continuing influence was down to her mixing cruelty with optimism. A strange and repulsive mix indeed.
,,Every Man a King"
Elvis: *Bruh*
The NWO wants to make every man and woman a serf,and that's the truth
@@michaelwoodward9894 we already are dude, major bummer
Post apocalyptic Elvis: write that down
Elvis hated being called the king
Me listening to Monsieur Z describe FDR's presidency: Thanks, I hate it!
😂
Ok fu
@@MonsieurDean 😂
I must say it's refreshing to see you focus on a figure like "Huey Long" who had for the most part been used a background or side character in past video's. you should follow this video up with what if Egypt's "Gamal Abdel Nasser" lived longer?, i think it would be equaling impacting as this one.
10:55 well that explains why he was assassinated
oy vay
As always.
Every damn time.
@@Justin-yt7pi white christians run the banking sector of the USA, take your Nazi ideals elsewhere
Yup
Long is a truly fascinating figure. His time as governor was the closest thing to a dictatorship this country had, he was uncompromising, big mouthed, and sought to destroy anyone in his way. But it seems in his mind he did this to genuinely help the masses. And he did have great success in Louisiana with his methods. We can only imagine the legacy of a Long Presidency, good or bad
Strange coincidence that every politician who has seriously challenged the central bank has been killed. Lincoln (greenbacks), Kennedy (US Notes), Huey long (50-state representation).
And then DeSantis arrived.
As someone from Louisiana we were taught about him at length and we even had an assignment called was huey long a dictator. This is from the Louisiana textbook. The problem with huey long was he was very very sketchy and as an example when they tried to impeach him he had a box where government employee were made to donate to his fund. And when he was shot no one is completely sure who shot him and why exactly as some people believe that his bodyguards shot him on accident.
When ever there are suicides and people force u to one way. Take the opposite direction with the right questions
@@bellphorusnknight ? Uh no? That's just nonsensical, emotional and the recipe for getting fooled, stick to facts and finding reality.
You mean his war chest? Huey Long had a thing where all government employees were required to donate a small portion of their salaries to the war chest to fund his personal projects, such as providing free textbooks for Louisiana elementary schools, acquiring oil and gas to power industrial products like cars in the state, or building tens of thousands of miles of roads so people could actually get around the state, along with plenty of new schools, bridges, hospitals, and other public infrastructure, as previously, Louisiana had pretty much none of that, especially roads. Essentially, Huey Long turned Louisiana from one of the poorest states in the Union to a moderately prosperous state. Now, did he do it in incredibly controversial ways, including consolidation of power, strongarming his political opponents, and the aforementioned war chest, among other things, but you can't deny this man did a lot of good for his state, during a time when it should've floundered, withered, and died.
The main thing about Louisiana is we hate authoritarians. The Cajun people would barter and trade each other or outright give lagniappe to those in need. We were socialist in nature due to the struggles of being so poor and dealing with natural disasters. Long did raise the literacy but helped destroy the french heritage of the state and was apart of forcing people to speak english. He may have done programs to help people but became the elite he was fighting against. He even built the biggest capital building at the time to show off while trying to say it was part of his programs to help the everyman.
@@Dr_Disconnect same thing with the "creole new orleans" (refering to you comment on the destruction of Latin culture in LA). One thing that the video producer didn't discuss is that the cultural divide was basically Creole New Orleans (the big city urban center) & Acadiana vs Louisiana (anything north of Opelousas). Governors since Reconstruction have made it hard for Cajuns and New Orleans to keep their Latin based heritages.
Fyi... people tend to forget (maybe purposefully omit) that French, Italian, and Portuguese are Latin cultures along with their Spanish& Hispanic "cousins". New Orleans has all of the above.
Makes me wonder if Huey would have investigated the alleged "Business Plot" as leverage over Big Business for his agenda.
Huey Long & Smedley Butler?
BASED Bro Moment! 😎👍
Given Huey intended on keeping Smedley Butler in his Presidential Inner-Circle, it should be expected.
There is a shockingly low/no amount of content regarding the Business Plot. I hope this guy does a Business Plot scenario, because someone has to.
@@bullmoosemedia I agree.
"War Is A Racket"!
@@bullmoosemedia I covered it a long time ago, and touched upon it in my updated "What If America Became Fascist" video, but the plot itself deserves some fresh coverage.
"The system is rigged, people have been abandoned, he uses simple English to explain his points" - it reminds me
"You are rigged, You are a bear, No Life given to you." Some random 90 year old talking to a bear
Yea it sounds alot like bernie sanders
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Specific historical events don’t repeat but humanity makes the same stupid decisions over and over.
I highly recommend the fourth turning which goes over how its not history but how generations and there environment form cycles of history
EVERY MAN A KING.
But No One Wears A CROWN!
Down with the traitors. Up with the stars.
@@nobodyherepal3292 Screw off Macarthur.
We March North as Traitors, but we come home as KINGS!
EVERY MAN A KING NO ONE WEARS A CROWN! ✊🏻✊✊🏻
P.S. If you're not Macarthur, then I apologize.
@@crusader2112 well, F you Traitor.
The PSA will cross the mountain and restore the U S A !
@@deeznutz3712
Nah.
I do wonder how the relation between Huey Long and the Technocrats would have been, as in many aspects you'd think that they would be rather compatible
Maybe a political alliance?
I imagine Long would have a hard time trusting them, expecting their "rule by experts" to devolve into an alliance of monopolistic elites.
@@MonsieurDean wonder what Huey Long would of thought about Oswald Mosely
@@MonsieurDean that is a very good point, likely the single largest issue that could cause friction between the two groups,
though I do think there would have been somewhat of an opportunity for eventual collaboration, especially when it came to larger Govermemt plans like the construction of infrastructure etc
@@dad9979 I imagine he would have quite liked him as a political figure, and would have especially liked his Earl's court speech. Not too sure how they would get alng in a personal meeting. I always imagined Mosely to be fairly mild mannered (though I could very well be wrong), meanwhile it is well recorded that Huey was fairly flamboyant and somewhat eccentric in his personality, plus the whole American good-ole-boy southerner vs. refined English gentleman thing.
Back when politicians gave a crap.
Now it's filled with one's who'd rather heavy their pockets instead of help the people when they need it the most.
As if to make it worse a significant part of the public chooses the president based on their tweets rather than their actual policy.
@Humanity Galatica it genuinely surprises me how people could hate a guy so much despite him barely doing any bad things compared to previous presidents, I guess Churchill had a point
Long is cut from the same cloth as all other politicians
@@Sceptonic basically the state of America right now.
@@BlueGamingRage How?
Huey Long was nearly 100 years ahead of his time.
Last time i was this early, the americans were throwing tea at the sea to the dismay of the British
"TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!"
We were very dismayed. Waste of good tea
EVERY MAN A KING!
I never knew fdr had friendly terms with mouslini
"There seems to be no question that Mussolini is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy."
"I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Of course he was friendly, his own objective was to become a dictator, he even tried to pack the Supreme Court, his own party at the time did not allowed that at the time because it would destroy the republic.
FDR is a d level president
@@bobthebuilder3615 F level, his policies led to the extension of the Great Depression for years and years, only stoping because of the World War 2.
@@usuariosarcastico512 I only rank him not an f because of his war time actions
To have been so close to greatness...
*cries in Kingfish*
In history class they paint him as a villain
FDR won afterall
@@dad9979 "History is written by the Victors"
@@zyanego3170 FDR is pretty good president lol
Look at who made the Textbooks 🙄
@@josephcarstensen7450 exactly Huey long once fired every journalism professor and suspended every journalist student when the lsu newspaper wrote bad on him. But then he turned around and got all the professors manufacturing jobs and gave all the students scholarships provided they switched subjects. It’s a cruel act but definitely not heartless.
“Cries in king”
Scenarios for future Videos:
- What if Frederick the Great and Maria Theresia married (maybe with the extra that these two had also a son who inheritated prussia and austria and Title of holy roman emperor)? This would lead to an Austro-Prussian Empire. You can split this timeline into one where Frederick and Maria had a son and one without a son. I would prefer the first timeline, because i think the second would change little to our timeline :)
- What if Germany was unified with prussias greater german solution?
- What if Prussia splitted up Austria after the German war and annexed all Habsburg lands into the new german empire?
- What if germany backstabed Austria hungary with their war with serbia?
- What if the 30 years war never happend?
- What if America/the USA became a Monarchie, under Fredericks brothers, after their independence?
- What if the Confederacy took over the whole USA and implemented slavery in the north?
- What if Germany became communist after ww1?
- What if the Qing Empire never fall/never was pushed around by the european powers (Opium wars n stuff)/never lost territory to russia, japan and the europeans
- What if Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemberg and Switzerland became Part of the german empire (maybe a Greater German Empire Version with Austria, Bohemia, South Tyrol, Slovenia and Istria+ Switzerland and the Low-Countries)?
- What if germany formed earlier like france and britain, maybe due a sucessfull Roman conquest of germania or out of east frankia?
- What if Maria Theresias father had a son?
- What if the spanish Habsburg never died out?
-What if the HRE was able to hold nothern Italy?
- What if Catholic christianity never gain influence and was replaced by Orthodox christianity?
- What if the jews instead of the Christians became dominant in europe?
- What if the US colonized the whole american continent (North and South)
- What if Germany kept their Alliance with Russia?
- What if an German royal House was on the Russian throne (Like in Britain)
- What if Russia was able to colonize further into North America and was able to develope the Region?
- What if Luxemburg didn't lost Bohemia?
- What if imperial china never fell/ was able to colonize and westernize (Qing on it's largest extent) and so werr able to rival europa and japan/was able to hold them out of their sphere and never lost any territory at all, maybe where also able to grow
- What if the Dual Empire between France and Germany happened? Thats a short scenario i saw on reddit. The scenario is like this: A french phyrrhic victory in the battle of Leipzig lead to a Hohenzoller-Bonaparte Alliance.
- What if the catholics won the 30 years war?
- What if the Netherlands lost their revolution?
- What if there was never a spanish Austrian Habsburg split?
- What if the Bourbons never took over spain?
- What if no european power outside the HRE got involved in the 30 years war?
- What if there was never the free and slave state system, instead slavery in all US States?
- What if the Lands of Preußen and Pommerian got inherited by the Habsburgs?
- What if Karl V never split up his lands between his brother and his son, instead giving Austria, Spain and the HRE to his son?
- What if then Yuan Dynasty never fell/ stayed in power until the time where the Qing Dynasty took over?
- What if China became Christian?
- What if the allies conquered Berlin first?
- What if the allies never supported the UDSSR during WW2 instead fight germany independend from Russia?
- What if China joined the central powers in ww1?
- What if Qing china industrialized in the 1800s?
- What if the megaflora and megafauna never died out?
- What if the oxygen in the atmosphere never decreased? (Would lead to giant insects)
- What if Mexico won the mexican american war?
- What if the first mexican empire never fall apart?
- What if the Soviet-Union annexed Finland?
- What if Russia beat germany in ww1?
- What if the Qing Empire won their wars they had until WW1?
- What if bulgaria won the balkan war?
- What if italy joined the central powers?
- What if Frederick the Great never existed?
- What if Austria never get Hungary?
Holy shite. Nice.
Something tells me you like Germany.
What if the Habsburgs absorb Russia and china ?
Do you like Germany that much??
@@aparnaseetharaman9116 yeah! The greatest! The riech!
Based Huey Long, there also wouldn't have been the NFA without FDR
F the NFA
😔
@@jaydenbrockington4525 I agree the NFA is stupid
@@jakemocci3953 absolutely he was unironically a terrible president because of that
@@jakemocci3953 Jesus *christ* the dog whistling is strong.
God Bless Huey Long The Kingfish.
Every Man A King But No One Wears A CROWN! ✊🏻✊✊🏻
Huey Long is my inspiration for entering American politics
I think Huey Long can best be described as Americas Caesar, the south at the time was a lot like Rome in the waning days of the republic, an oligarchy of entrenched corrupt political bosses who represented the landed classes, and Huey who wanted to replace that system with benevolent tyranny.
Long's running mate was to be Father Coughlin. Father Coughlin had a national radio program that railed against the private banking consortium known as the Federal Reserve although it is neither federal nor has a reserve. It would be interesting if someone did a video of this man too. The Great Depression was mainly caused by tight money policies which neither FDR nor the Fed was willing to to do anything about.
I would like to see a video on him too.
Long would never have chosen Father Coughlin as a running mate!
@@jayrosen6663 Why is that. Who would he have Chozen?
*THERE'LL BE PEACE WITHOUT END, EVERY NEIGHBOR A FRIEND, AND EVERY MAN A KING*
Huey Long: Decides to not intervene in WW2
Also Huey Long: Looks at 1944 Europe what the hell happened here
by 1944 ww2 wouldnt have gone too much differently. Why do people think hitler had any chance in winning ww2? is it western propoganda?
@@gabbo7101 Yeah no I one hundred percent agree with you
@@gabbo7101 Western propaganda? Try being more specific, since the west includes the contless of nations buttfucked in a scenario where Hitler wins. Do you mean American propaganda? Yknow the "you would be speaking German if we hadn't showed up" bs, not really propaganda though, just misconception
@@gabbo7101 Research it a bit harder. If Hitler had a year or two of less pressure, and maybe could have devoted more forces towards Russia, things could have gone quite different. Nothing could match their jets or v2 rocket, which were just starting to hurt by war's end.
We also would have had more problems with fighting Japan, since we'd have had much less fighters and definitely no atomic bomb.
@@hydrocarbon82 the absolute state of wehraboos lmfao
His criminal justice reform sounds really appealing, actually.
Based
Based
@Roan Brady what does based mean?
@@soggywaffles3939 It means "I'm a young neocon and I like this"
@@keithklassen5320 owww thank you
What if every man was a king
The Soviets would not have «undoubtedly fallen» if not for the efforts of the United States in WW2, the part where you stated that the USSR had only «just started» to industrialize after operation Barbarossa isn’t true, massive industrialization programes were initiated as early as 1928 in the USSR by Stalin to better compete with capitalist economies, often by any means necessary, including forcing work and permitting unbearable working conditions, which was common for the time not just in the USSR.
After operation Barbarossa, Stalin immediately ordered the strategic positioning of factories and other means of production eastward to protect them from the incoming nazi invasion, to say that the Soviet industry was crippled after operation Barbarossa is an utter falsehood.
The largest error presented by the notion that the Soviets could not have won the war if not for the efforts of the United States is a matter of relation, nobody denies that america’s efforts in the second world war were tremendously helpful to achieving an allied victory in *the west*, but the United States had very little if any involvement on the *eastern front* during WW2, and the truth is, that US involvement did not have nearly the impact as previously stated in the video on the eastern front, and to say that if FDR wasn’t elected president then the Soviets would have «undoubtedly» lost WW2 is entirely false.
Boy does Long leave me of two minds. I'd have felt very supportive of most of his internal agenda, suspicious of his concentration of power and very concerned about allowing Germany and Japan to take control of a majority of the world.
Even so the concentration of power would have allowed him to do good things and generally that is the different between Democracies and Dictatorships as neither are inherently better than the other just different and dependent on the leadership, for example Democracies generally progress slower when it comes to issues due to divides but when they finally achieve that progress its harder to overturn whereas a Dictatorship allows a state to drastically progress in short time but makes it easier for the next person to overturn, in either case bad and good can happen it is just dependent on the person in charge
You know the difference between Huey and almost every president i know, specially in México? That he actually did say what he wanted to do, what was the logic behind it, and how he was going to do it. Simple as that, the man just knew what he wanted to do.
I can count only two pressidents in my country´s history that have done that.
Why weep or slumber America...
Land of brave and true...
With castles and clothing and food for all...
All belongs to you...
(EVERYBODY, NOW!)
Everyman a king
EveryMan a king!
FOR you can be a millionaire...
@@dad9979
🎶🎵🎶There's enough for all people to Share🎶🎵🎶
@@crusader2112 When it's sunny June and December too
@@archiedelapena7299 in the winter time or spring!
@@joemcamerica
There'll be peace without end
Every neighbor a friend
Huey Long, aka kingfish, is the best guy to be very nice to the poor! But RIP for his career… he got assassinated by a opposition politician.
Honestly the best of both worlds. Longism was lowkey lit
If he was president, US would be in a better place.
And so would the Nazi's
Correction the world would have been a better place
@@Murphinator-gx5on Yes, and that would be preferable to what we have now.
@@cdressel53191
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@@cdressel53191 you would prefer the 3rd reich? Most evil empire in history? Honestly some people on this sight are idiots
I'm not American but I'll definitely vote for Long lmao
Also, EVERY MAN A KING!
so life today is like the great depression. pandemic economic recession. civil unrest / rioting increasing lower class. global conflicts etc.
This time there Will not be exit, i Feel.
@Humanity Galatica shit. Do you know the book "dead of despair" ? About white condition in america
No, it's not. People always want to compare lesser events to greater ones to encourage the same bad decisions.
@@NeoNero83 it is worse. Si yeah, its not.
@@pierren___ trust me, things could easily be a lot worse and prolonged even further, which was the story of the Great Depression...but not the way most tell it.
Huey long sounds super cool
Oh he wanted to touch the federal reserve? Now we know why he died
Beginning: Huey Long does typical Huey Long things
Result: What TNO should have been
Why am I not surprised?
Yet another time line where the world would have been much better off. Makes you wonder if we really are in a simulation to see what would happen if evil won
It does make me think that sometimes, but guess what: if it was, the Nazis would won WW2.
@@isaackraus9779 the Winners right the history
@@dennisthemenace855 If the Nazis won, we'd all be cheering their defeat of the horrid people because of what we read in history books. So yeah, shit could've been very different
As if FDR wasn't a dictator himself.
"America's Almost Dictatorship" I thought this was going to be a video about Roosevelt.
Considering he apparently planned to have charles coughlin (far right catholic priest) as a vice president, how would his relations with catholic church be?
Technically Coughlin and Huey were both Far-Left, when economics was the main definer of the Left-Right scale, though socially Coughlin was well to the right. Now Long didn't fully agree with Catholics, but did try to appeal to them since they were a good portion of the Louisiana population. I imagine he'd be quite popular among Catholics, but wouldn't put forward explicitly pro-Catholic policies while in office.
a Long/Coughlin ticket would have been epic!
Possible video ideas: What if Woodrow Wilson lost the election in 1916? What a potential 2020 would be like if Germany won WW1 (You can make your own timeline based on historical on a possible scenario) ? What if the Bolsheviks lost the Russian Civil War? What if Erwin Rommel become the leader of Germany instead of Hitler.
@Fitz the dragon well at least you know how wrong you are
My problem with what you've said about the Soviet Union is that if Long would find trade with Japan beneficial, wouldn't he also find it beneficial with the Soviets? In fact, maybe he would want to send more resources, knowing full well they would be desperate to win the war and would pay more than usual to recieve such. I'm suspecting a timeline where the US doesn't get involved in Europe in WW2 results in the Soviets taking all of mainland Europe- especially given that Hitler was in rough shape in 1945 already, I think it's plausible taking Berlin would be the final straw. If it wasn't, they'd just outright push into France.
Additionally, such a universe I think sets up a 3rd European War during the 1990's- I don't see a way that France would stay sustainably communist, they've never really had stable governments in the last couple hundred years. Perhaps a revolution would start in France, and they would team up with the British to attack what would effectively be the corpse of the USSR.
Or maybe a stalemate between Germany and USSR?Leading to a cold war,maybe France still goes into full revolution,vowing to take revenge on Germany for the decades of humiliation?USSR and France team up against Germany
@@dad9979 I think a Stalemate is *theoretically* possible, but I don't think it could really last. This is because I think by the time a stalemate could happen, the Soviets would've effectively been so far into Nazi Germany that it wouldn't be able to hold anything. Much of Germany is flat, and the Nazis were done for by this point, so it is likely they would fall back to the next defensible border- which would be the Rhine River. This has historically been a very defensible border- Napoleon, for example, knew this, and wanted to annex areas south of the Rhine into France. The problem with the Rhine as the border, though, is that there is practically none of Germany to hold this land. Not to mention that France already had a prominent, well known Communist leader around this time named Maurice Thorez, and if the front stalls here, it's decently likely that the Soviets would've protected him and tried to overthrow the remnants of Nazi Germany, and given how weak the Nazis were it is likely this would have worked.
The one area of Axis Europe that I don't think could've been taken would be Italy, which would have strong geographic borders, and Yugoslavian and Albanian communists liberated themselves so it's unlikely the Soviets could move through here. Perhaps in this universe, Mussolini is never overthrown in Italy given it is never invaded and he never has much pressure to back down. But Italy would effectively kind of be a North Korea, in that nobody would want to work with them. The Soviets would reluctantly prop up this state to avoid a revolution into British hands, and the British wouldn't want to work with Italy because they demanded insane territorial games (it's been discussed and proven that Italy wanted Egypt & Sudan just to mediate a British-German peace treaty if it came up).
I’m pretty sure Long would send more resources to Germany considering they are initially succeeding in the eastern front, there will be no point on giving aid to someone who is loosing and also since long is president instead of FDR the US wouldn’t give a crap about USSR after seeing it failing in 1941, US aid was vital for USSR’s war effort especially food imports as the Soviet’s main source of food supply is under enemy occupation. Cant have an army when your man power is starving to death. The Germans would succeed more on the spring attack due to soviet troops starving for food for months and lack of equipment, and Stalingrad would’ve fallen putting the Volga river on german control and the cacassus would fall tho this would also require Hitler not splitting the south army group, if he done this act then all oil reserves would be under the germans, the oil in the far east wasn’t discovered yet so the Soviet found themselves on the cluster fire situation as their tanks and planes would be useless. After a bloody defeat in the 2nd battle of Moscow (which no doubt would be the bloodiest) the Soviets would ask for peace
The idea that the Soviets would have fallen without American support is ridiculous. The Soviets might have been so grateful at the time that they thought so, but hindsight makes it obvious Germany was doomed anyway. Germany simply did not have the manpower to support such a large scale invasion, and the Blitzkrieg method they were using doesn't work over such long distances. Moscow probably would have fallen, but the Soviets wouldn't have just surrendered at that point. Resistance to Mussolini's rule was growing in Italy, as was internal resistance in Germany. French resistance forces were, in real history, completely cut off from allied supply lines and were still growing stronger and bolder by the day. Germany's massive war-oriented economy started to falter, again, in real history, the moment the war machine slowed down, meaning that the Soviet campaign still would have been a huge blow to their economy.
Germany was doomed the moment they declared war on Poland. That tends to happen when you declare war on the entire planet.
The issue is without the United States alot of those issues would be different as undoubetly Germany would be better off in this scenario and with the Soviets heavily undersupplied it could go both ways
Your telling me from what you said life in fascist Italy was better than America now
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Life in any fascist nation would be better than what we have now. I will take fascism over a liberal democracy any day.
@@cdressel53191 Go to North Korea then
@@zyanego3170 Why? North Korea isn't fascist.
@@cdressel53191 But they're very close to it
I feel like a huey long like figure is what we actually need to unify the American people.
As long as they obey the constitution
Edit: No pun intended
@@Gray-Wolf which Long types wouldn't
@@newworldman2112 exactly
@@Gray-Wolf If you like Long and his ilk you're not a a follower of the constitution after all
@@newworldman2112 I'm not a follower, I think the constitution should be followed, it is the supreme law over the US, there's certain cases where the government should have more power than it does, for example: if a organization starts to protest and they have a history of rioting they should be able to arrest them or least be able to monitor them to protect the people.
I'm not sure if this has been done already, but you should make a video on what could've happened if the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing had actually caused the building to tip over. It would be interesting to see what you think would happen.
They would have needed bigger bombs....
Legend has it that when Louisiana's greatest time of need comes to pass, Huey Long shall arise from his eternal slumber and lead the state/county in a new golden age.
Huey Long could have been America's greatest president had the federal reserve oligarchs not had him offed
Though I probably wouldn’t like living under the Long regime, I imagine what it would be like if he succeeded, he sounds very technocratic I imagine all of his proposed policies would have plenty of blowback and not just glide through like he wanted but if it did work, I can’t really say I think America would be in a “better” position.
I think it would.
Every Man A King But No One Wears A CROWN!
Time traveler: Moves a rock on some stairs
The timeline:
When FDR put people in camps but the Long is the dictator? Lmao
Not FDRs best decision, I know. However, after Pearl Harbor the American public was enraged. The internment of those of Japanese descent may have saved some lives from those that would've acted out in a "lynch mob mentality".
@@captainamerica6525fdr was also president for 4 terms, which was only stopped by fucking dying, but yeah long is a dictator ofc
I’ll try to learn more about Huey Long sometime. Honestly, I know very little about the guy.
Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
@@kaidenhall2718 Why do you think so?
@@kaidenhall2718 So you believe the first part of the account but not the end?
Between this dude and Henry A Wallace, there's a better America that could have been. Have Wallace take over after fdr, then Long after 8 years of Wallace. Skip Truman and Eisenhower all together. The issue of segregation would have been tackled almost 2 decades sooner. Infrastructure would be handled, highways and school reform. Our relation with other nations wouldn't be so bad since we wouldn't have taken up the role of world police or made the USSR our rivals. No war in Vietnam, no assassination of world leaders in Latin America, Africa or Asia, no funding guerrillas or coups, wealth gap wouldn't be as bad, standards of life would be higher and so would quality of life.
God bless Huey Long. America sincerely needs more leaders like him to step up. Otherwise, we're going to be stuck in someone's pocket for the rest of our lives.
yeah capitalists pockets
We have to pick our poison, what ever kills us slower and painlessly.
More like there hands always in our pockets they dont care about our personal lives for the most part. If we just give up the power an wealth they wont why whould they?
@@afgor1088Capitalism still gives us rights and more control.
@@WarAndThunder-li2iv wrong.
Hmm, i dont know. Feel like he’d take a *Long* time to become president
When you are dyeing and still get elected president for the 4th time, yet someone else is seen as almost being a potential dictator-wow!
FDR had his international finance friends backing him on all fronts.
Huey would absolutely have been the best president we’ve ever had.
So the kingfish himself is our man then hey boys
Also second mexican american war please or the pig war goes hot
People: This Scenario is unrealistic
Me: The Long.. uh finds a way
Nah, I'd say it's pretty on the ball.
@@MonsieurDean I was joking lol. I wanted a excuse to make that JP reference
The US: okay Philippines you are free.
The Philippines: what?
The US: you're free. I no longer have control over you. You're free to make your own path.
The Philippines: ummm. That's nice and all, but do you think that you can maybe keep some troops? I'm kinda of worried about Japan.
The US: nope, they're leaving and coming back to US.
The Philippines: but then I will be nothing but fresh meat to the wolves that are the Japanese.
The US: I really don't see how that's my problem.
Don't call him a dictator but more of a mischievous god
Being from Louisiana, its pretty cool to learn about someone who could've drastically altered history
How can he be a dictator cuz he'll make every man a king
Every man a king!
How can one man be so incredibly based?
Because socialism is cool. 🙃
@@WEED-SMASH do you know how capitalism works?
@@WEED-SMASH yeah nvm you don't understand socialism but I'm surprised you acknowledge that capitalism is an exploitative system.
@@gabe.6273 sometimes i wonder about mentality when
typing this on a product made by capitalism, shipped through capitalism, sent on wifi developed by capitalism, in the comforts allowed by capitalism, et cetera et cetera
socialism will always be profitable i suppose
Natsoc economics are perfect
Long's son Russell was the first senator to employ black senate staff
He wasn't assassinated. He was accidentally shot by one of his bodyguards, at least according to a civil judge.
...yeah, he got assassinated
If a bodyguard accidentally fired the fatal shot, it was still a successful assassination. Leaners don't count in horseshoes, but ricochets sure as hell count in political violence.
They were letting it rip. The assasin had like 50 gunshot wounds
"accidentally" the bodyguard shouldn't have had his finger on the trigger, it's ironic that the man he hired to protect did the opposite thing XD
@@misterrea861 If you're were a bodyguard assigned to someone politically important, would you not also be a tad trigger happy of you perceived the person you were to protect, was being attacked? That said, not all of his body guards should have shot, it's fortune that the ricochets didn't hit anyone else.