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Ah, it happened way earlier than that—it was their fervor for Reagan that caused us to mortgage our future for a short-term boom. You can tie so many of our cur
by MangoToupe 1y ago
Ah, it happened way earlier than that—it was their fervor for Reagan that caused us to mortgage our future for a short-term boom. You can tie so many of our current problems (debt addiction, outsourcing, vanishing of pensions, busting of unions, deregulation—basically, prioritizing the health of the market over american workers) directly to this phenomenon.
MAGA is basically the attempt to continue to be in denial about this.
Ironically, reagan had a large number of policies that are now considered to the left of the democratic party—it took two parties agreeing to be in pro-corporate economic lockstep to fuck us over. Such is the risk when you only differentiate parties over culture wars.
- AnimalMuppet 1y ago40 years since Reagan. That's quite a "short term boom".
- MangoToupe 1y agoWell, whatever length you want to perceive it as, it's certainly not a sustainable way to run a country. Except into the ground.
- ZeroGravitas 1y agoI was just listening to 1981 song/poem "B Movie" by Gil Scott Heron about electing Ronald Reagan and found it sadly very timely. > The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia > They want to go back as far as they can-- > Even if it's only as far as last week > Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards
- dfxm12 1y agoThe Republican party has long held reactionary politics. You can barely describe them as conservative on most issues anymore.