Blog #4

I think when there is political and social/ economic strain new ideas in politics emerge because drastic measures are needed. It is obvious that whatever else is being done is not working and that something new must be done. Other times people try everything that they think could work and it still does not work. This is when human have to start thinking about new ideas, ones that they have never thought of before to save their country from the crisis. A good example for this was during the Great Depression. Nothing Herbert Hoover tried was working so people wanted someone who would come up with different ideas. When F. D. R. was elected he came up with a new idea, The New Deal, because he knew America had to do something different. His plan worked out well, and America got out of the Great Depression with the start of WWII.