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Different era. "Up until about the late 70s" makes it sound like this was the eternal state of affairs, but it wasn't. It was a few postwar decades.
by iguy 6y ago
Different era. "Up until about the late 70s" makes it sound like this was the eternal state of affairs, but it wasn't. It was a few postwar decades.
- UncleOxidant 6y agoRight, if I could edit (too late now it seems) I would add "from post WWII till about the late 70s".
- yters 6y agoSo we went from heavily left to middle of the road for a few decades to back to left? Sounds like reversion to normal state of affairs.
- fallingfrog 6y agoThe New York Times is generally a liberal publication, but not a leftist one. An example of a leftist publication might be Jacobin https://www.jacobinmag.com/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/ for example.
- yters 6y agoCommunism is s not very liberal :D
- arduanika 6y agoNo true year before the late 70s saw newspapers making up lies