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Related: About this forumThom Hartmann: Are We Going To Be The Flintstones OR The Jetsons?
America could be living like the Jetsons - but because of President Regan we're stuck in the Stone Age with the Flintstone.
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Deep13
(39,154 posts)The whiggish, progressive narrative of history is extremely problematic. History is not a slow, steady climb from the backward old days to shining modernity. Most of the intractable problems we now have are the products of modernity: constant war, ethnic and religious hatred, dispossession, global poverty, pandemic disease, institutional misogyny, and mass exploitation of all varieties.
PNW_Dem
(119 posts)Thom Hartmans comments mostly make sense here except that he overlooked one major factor. The figures and statistics that he mentions regarding the 1960s were mostly prior to a globalized world. Ronald Reagans poor economic policy certainly undermined the wealth of the middle class, but so did globalization. Other than good trade policy, there isnt much that we can do about globalization, but we can try to affect tax policy. K&R if you hate Reagan's legacy
defacto7
(13,485 posts)the line goes practically vertical out of nowhere. I would imagine the line could drop at a 90ᵒ angle just as easily.
We will be neither of those happy family analogies. Our hope as a successful and long lived organism on this planet pretty much ended with the destruction and decline of ancient Greece. By the beginning of the common era we were destined to be dust blowing over the rim of a dry canyon. Everything else was just a roller coaster ride.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Meanwhile:
Eventually America will wake up to the deception.