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> Why is the country being destroyed like this? Long story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Rise_of_the_Chicago_School_(1970s–presen

> Why is the country being destroyed like this? Long story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Rise_of_the_Chicago_School_(1970s–present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Ri... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror#Costs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror#Costs That's a start. And a rise to dominance of populist conspiratorial thinking. ContraPoints had a good intro video about it recently.

krapp 2y ago
And Obama. A lot of this is a trauma response from the American right to the election of a Black president.
- alabastervlog 2y ago
  Yeah, I could triple the "read this to learn more" links and it'd still not cover all of it. "The entire history of the Republican Party since Goldwater, our bad system of elections, the entire history of postwar 'think tanks', the McLuhan-sense 'message' of TV and especially the Internet, and a slow-motion more-successful knock-off of the Business Plot" covers a lot of ground.
conception 2y ago
You missed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
- alabastervlog 2y ago
  Yeah, I didn't even touch on foreign strategies over that time. Like I wrote, it was a start. Apt addition, though.

krapp 2y ago

And Obama. A lot of this is a trauma response from the American right to the election of a Black president.

alabastervlog 2y ago
Yeah, I could triple the "read this to learn more" links and it'd still not cover all of it. "The entire history of the Republican Party since Goldwater, our bad system of elections, the entire history of postwar 'think tanks', the McLuhan-sense 'message' of TV and especially the Internet, and a slow-motion more-successful knock-off of the Business Plot" covers a lot of ground.

conception 2y ago

You missed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

alabastervlog 2y ago
Yeah, I didn't even touch on foreign strategies over that time. Like I wrote, it was a start. Apt addition, though.