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>If they couldn't make it happen then, when all of the stars were aligned and the winds of populist ferver were at their backs, I don't think anything more than
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>If they couldn't make it happen then, when all of the stars were aligned and the winds of populist ferver were at their backs, I don't think anything more than an occasional riot is going to happen in the future.
Gas was cheap and shelves were full then.
- krapp 5y agoI remember $5.00 a gallon gas during the recession, and there were two gas crises in the '70s and '80s. We've been here before.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoYour average person wasn't being crushed by their rent in '08 and wasn't over leveraged on consumer debt in the 70s and 80s. Those are just two factors that are different this time around. The information and media landscape is also very different now in ways that make disseminating "be a good little boy and everything will be all right" messages far less effective and the institutions such messages would come are more reputationally bankrupt than ever.