Why America abandoned the greatest economy in history

ivwshane

Lifer
May 15, 2000
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I thought this was a good read and good explanation of how we got here today, economically/politically speaking.

It definitely feels like we are on the verge of a new path away from Reaganomics but the right vehicle/politician is missing and that seems to be the hold up.


 

Indus

Lifer
May 11, 2002
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I would happily vote for Trump and Republicans if they gave me better than Dem results for:

Healthcare
LGBT equality and safety
Better job training and actual jobs
And end to mass shootings and unregulated guns

But think we're forced to put up with Dems because Trump and the Republicans have gone insane!
 

K1052

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Aug 21, 2003
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I would happily vote for Trump and Republicans if they gave me better than Dem results for:

Healthcare
LGBT equality and safety
Better job training and actual jobs
And end to mass shootings and unregulated guns

But think we're forced to put up with Dems because Trump and the Republicans have gone insane!

May it please you to learn that Trump, unprompted, has again promised to destroy the ACA.
 

woolfe9998

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It's a good article for historical analysis of modern currents in American politics. The ending says this:

The path out of our chaotic present to a new political-economic consensus is hard to imagine. But that has always been true of moments of transition. In the early ’70s, no one could have predicted that a combination of social upheaval, economic crisis, and political talent was about to usher in a brand-new economic era. Perhaps the same is true today. The Reagan revolution is never coming back. Neither is the New Deal order that came before it. Whatever comes next will be something new.

I think the author is missing that whatever "comes next" may not be something new at all. Perhaps, just new to America.
 
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Moonbeam

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It's a good article for historical analysis of modern currents in American politics. The ending says this:



I think the author is missing that whatever "comes next" may not be something new at all. Perhaps, just new to America.
I found the ending amusing exactly because it made no mention of that. I saw the piece as a piece meant to encourage a revival of progressive politics, a call for hope and not fear. Keep your chin up.

As far as the reasoning goes as to why we went off the rails, I see the issue as part of what happens to fortunate people who hate themselves. Good fortune and self confidence after what happened to us the last time we really had them, was that we experienced psychic death and turn away from good things for fear the experience will repeat. Democrats, also, began to want to win more than they had faith that what they used to do was right. I think the left lost faith.
 

trenchfoot

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Aug 5, 2000
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Part and parcel of the class warfare being perpetrated by some of the wealthiest plutocratic families in America against the middle class and the poor. Those affluent aristocrats are certainly not the compassionate patriots the conservative working class have been propagandized into believing.
 

feralkid

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In the early ’70s, no one could have predicted that a combination of social upheaval, economic crisis, and political talent was about to usher in a brand-new economic era.


Orly?
 
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