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Actually I covered all that. "All of these events gave the federal government reasons to expand its powers," where "all of these events" includes "the crises of the Great Depression and the world wars."

I was going to gently explain to you something along the lines of "tone down the rhetoric if you want the people here to take your political views seriously," but then I saw you have more karma than me, so I guess you know what you're doing.

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What you wrote was the public school history book version. X gave Y reasons to do Z. The details of what happened are important. The Great Depression was not aww shucks bad luck, it was a self-inflicted wound. Many of the fixes tried were also self-inflicted wounds.

The rhetoric is toned down. The present political situation is unstable, and unstable situations are ripe for demagogues to take power. I fear that the expanded interstate commerce clause is our Treaty of Versailles. If we do not build a country to be proud of, someone will slap a few runes and occult symbols on the Flag and say "Here is something to be proud of." And the crematoria will run night and day.

Here's an elaborate and well-defined explanation of the new deal and the changes it wrought on the American political system: http://mises.org/daily/2726

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