How many depressions must supply-siders cause before accepting that their ideology is a failure?

You have posted so many inaccuracies that I won't even try to correct them: A little note for you to contemplate...and by all means, verify it for yourself: Starting in Reagan's last term the USA experienced a twenty year economic growth unparalleled in our history. But better yet, read BASIC ECONOMICS by Thomas Sowell.(fourth edition) True, you'll have to spend time away from your computer since this book contains over 650 pages, but you'll definitely improve your knowledge base.

You don't sound like you were alive, or an adult anyway, during the 1970s when the tax regulations you endorse as the "good old days" were destroying the country with both runaway inflation AND recession...two phenomenon that were thought to be mutually incompatible up to that point. Do you remember Jimmy Carter? Do you remember the "malaise" he described?

It was not all about Iranian hostages...it was also about the cost of living going up 20% a year as if the U.S. was just another failed Latin American economy. It was about getting a home loan at an interest rate of 19%. That's NOT a typo: 19% freakin' percent was considered a "good" loan in the late 1970s.

So who's ideology was "right" or "wrong"? The Reagan economic revolution was not perfect, but it took more money away from the government and put it back into the private sector...and the economy responded. Read some more history.

The 80s and 90s BOOMED (especially in comparison to the 70s) because of those "failed" economic ideologies you describe. Reagan got them rolling and Clinton had the good sense not to tamper with them too much is what it basically boils down to. Were mistakes made?

YES. Of course. Deregulation, for example, did go too far.

But the principle deregulation of the banking industry, that led to runaway housing prices, that led to the bubble bursting, that led to the recession of 2008, took place DURING CLINTON'S ADMINISTRATION! I had to struggle to get a modest house loan in 1995, but by 1998 the banks (after deregulation) were practically (and foolishly) trying to throw money at me for basically any lame-brain reason: Add on a room! Dig a swimming pool!

Take a trip to Hawaii! Put your dog through college! Bush Jr. did little to rectify the problems and they blew up in his face.

Obama has tried to patch them and is getting nowhere. It's a much more complicated history than your little biased summary indicates. My summary is not much better, but it is less biased.

Again, I suggest you read more history before posting your next question on this topic.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.