• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It may be tempting to think that, but those policies all had precedent. Trickle-down just used to be called ‘Horse-and-sparrow’ economics. We had red scares before, and each of them were just as stupid, if not moreso (the one time we actually should have been wary, in the early-mid 40s, we were blithely complacent - go figure). And prior influenza epidemics and the spread of longer-term diseases had shown the danger of taking a lackadaisical approach to public health.

    Reagan wasn’t the birth of these policies - he was just the one most successful in lodging them long-term into the rotting craw of American politics.

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      1 year ago

      Reagan figured out that if you tell people what they want to hear, you can get away with anything.

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      1 year ago

      Thank you for providing more historical context. It just shows how much worse it was / is.

      Fuck… Politics just sucks in the US