Social Darwinism?

[Guy]

I think social darwinism affected economics in that many believed that the black couldn't labor for his own good so economically free-markets can't work since people of different races are unequally productive. In politics there were (and are) sterilization laws in insane asylums, oddly enough liberalism, imperialism and nazism, and immigration quotas. You're probably like, liberalism? But you see the monopoly and rich people were seen as being not dynamic enough, too conservative, unable to adapt and evolve with evolutionary pressure so gov. was needed to make it so (anti-trust, welfare). Also it was believed that social darwinism was just a positive description of the world so many liberals weren't worried about it. They made no laws concerning race because they believed that by natural selection, the best were selected. In culture it was another nail in the coffin for racial tolerance and it was more air in the already patriotic balloons of national pride.