"It’s not fashionable today to say so. But I’d argue that the past half century, when compared with other 50-year stretches in American or world history, stands up well." We'll miss it when it's gone - in less than a week.
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We are where we are now because of the last 50 years. We didn't just suddenly get Trump. This has been building since 1980. Crushing unions, tearing down the New Deal, dismantling regulations. Our food is unsafe, our banks are too big, and we have billionaires instead of a middle class.
It's very sad and feels like the end to me. I appreciate the few conservatives like you who speak up, but I agree with others that this started with Reagan and W. Income inequality, celebrating stupidity/stardom, etc. Don't pretend they were qualified.
Trump in 2016 marked the end of a rather miserable era. The failure of the American people to vote for someone with integrity and honor and instead voted for a con man proved that stupidity and ignorance reign supreme in todays America.
And the people that gave the country to Trump, actually believe Donald and Elon care about them and will protect their interests. How long until they figure out they’ve been conned and Trump no longer needs them for re-election? It’s like they are oblivious to the billionaires going to Mar-A-Lago.
When I was born we had a single console tv with maybe a 20" screen, a rotary phone, and no computer. We had a VCR but no cable until my late childhood.
At 40 my working class luxuries dwarf anything my middle class parents could've dreamed of. It truly was a golden age.
What a fucking load of bullshit. The past 50 years has seen the greatest transfer of wealth in human history. We’ve accelerated global warming. We’ve become the most corrupt country in human history. We’ve allowed a complete takeover of oligarchs. Are you fucking KIDDING with this shit??
Matches the ageing and the decline of the monocultural silent gens and boomers; electoral dominance, 'collective narcissism' & crashing everything on the way out via pensioner populism?
Hell no your good run stop when Reagan took office and it’s been a downhill slide ever since with Democrats trying to stem the bleeding 🩸 sad for all Americans who have been taken in by lies.
Who’s Surrendering?
Not me and Hopefully Not you.
There’s Three seats in FloriDAH To win.
Also to Gear up now to Win in 26.
That’s the goal now.
You must Win Younger Democrats and Win Independents.
Tell the Truth and Deliver.
We lived in a golden age, some of us knew it, many did not, and now it fades into history. Thank you to the greatest generation for your sacrifices, but we were not made of the same stuff, we wasted this opportunity.
Yes. We are about to realise that the eighty years after WWII the Western World, particularly Europe lived through a remarkable golden age and that it will be gone by the time most people understand that it occurred . Pax Romana lasted 200 years.
Ok…yes. But. A huge shift occurred when Clinton was elected. A shift in how the parties interacted. Two words…Newt Gingrich. This guy started the whole thing. His goal was to not just disagree with Dems, but to destroy. He made way for Rush Limbaugh et al in the media to
start using the same language. The Tea Party evolved from there, which then morphed into MAGA. How can we forget that infamous gathering in DC the night of Obama’s first inauguration? Orchestrated by Frank Luntz, but mc’d by none other than Newt Gingrich. All ranking GOP were there. Their goal
was to undermine Barack Obama at every turn. This was a pointed, targeted, intentional strategy by the GOP Congress! The genesis of this GOP venom, which included misinterpretation of fact, embellishing truth, and yes, even making s&$t up is NEWT. GINGRICH. And the rest is history…
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The demarcation is when the Democratic party lost the House finally to the GOP.
This marked the partisan alignment of the parties and our gov has been a mess since.
The GOP doesn't know how to govern in the House because most of them think gov is the problem.
At 40 my working class luxuries dwarf anything my middle class parents could've dreamed of. It truly was a golden age.
It's the wealth transfer that sickens me.
Not me and Hopefully Not you.
There’s Three seats in FloriDAH To win.
Also to Gear up now to Win in 26.
That’s the goal now.
You must Win Younger Democrats and Win Independents.
Tell the Truth and Deliver.
Eras don't come and go like a fish flopping around on the ground. You only get that kind of spasm when political parties die.
It happened before now. It's happening now. It will happen again someday. See Federalists and Whigs.
*trust* is difficult to regain once you lose it
and Americans just lost the trust they held in their fellow voters to do the right thing
It makes me sad, more than anything . . .