I think the split happened before Reagan. About the closest we got to raising the standard of US society even higher was Roosevelt's second bill of rights spee

I think the split happened before Reagan. About the closest we got to raising the standard of US society even higher was Roosevelt's second bill of rights speech in 1944: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights#Roosevelt's_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights#Roosevel... Now we fight over some fraction of a part of one of his ideas, like lowering medicare eligibility to 60. It's mildly depressing to consider where we could be.