Comment on ‘We deserve more’: US workers’ share of the pie dwindles
njm1314@lemmy.world 4 months agoNobody’s arguing that he’s still pulling strings man. They’re saying he got the ball rolling. That is policies have reverberated up until this day. That he started a trend that others continued.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Reagan had one of the highest approval ratings in modern US history; he didn’t force these policies on an unwilling country and he sure as hell didn’t draft them himself. My original point still stands that blaming current problems on an administration from forty years ago is harmfully reductive. The people we should be blaming are alive today and hold seats in Congress right now. We can worry about the historiography later.
njm1314@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Do you feel anyone who’s blaming the Reagan policies is claiming we shouldn’t do anything about today? Are you suggesting they’re all pining for time machines? In fact I’ll go further and ask this do you really think you can address the problems of today without understanding how they began? How can you even approach economic policy reform without looking back and understanding what went wrong?
Also there’s a long long history in our world of horrible evil brutal leaders being popular at the time. So I don’t think we need to go into that absurd argument any further.
alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
The people blaming Reagan are fighting a 3 decade old culture war.
Fact is, things really weren’t all that bad in the 80s and 90s.
They only really started getting bad after the financial crisis in 2008.
And which party got both the presidency and a majority in Congress that year? Hint: doesn’t start with R.
njm1314@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A financial crisis that was caused by those and the policies that sprung from those policies. The trends that were started then. The idea that you look at something as gargantuan as the economy and think that it’s not affected by things that happened decades before is insane. Also weird to complain about culture War when that’s what Reagan began. Though it’s policy that we’re concerned with at the moment. Policy.
Also the 2008 financial crisis started under Bush. I know why you think you could change history on that one.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 months ago
People were talking about it during Reagan’s Presidency.
There were giant homeless encampments in all major cities throughout the 1980s.
Read Hunter Thompson’s book “Hell’s Angels.” There’s a chapter that talks about the economics of being a biker/hippie/artist circa 1970. A part time waitress in New York could afford to support herself and her musician boyfreind. A biker could put in six months as a Union stevedore and make enough to hit the road for two years of carousing.
And the idea that Obama caused the melt down of 2008 is pretty hilarious.
Soggy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Things weren’t all that bad for land-owning whites, you mean.
And the president wasn’t in charge of the banks. Or housing.