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In reply to the discussion: America's current situation is just chickens from the '80s coming home to roost [View all]Yavin4
(35,437 posts)48. The 80s was the start of the class war against the middle and working class.
After Vietnam, the powers that be learned that in order to pay for wars around the world, they had to inflate the currency, but they had a major problem. In the 1970s, American labor was largely unionized and any inflated currency meant that labor would get automatic pay hikes. This lead to hyper inflation.
So, the answer was to go after labor and destroy their ability to put pressure on wages, and the best strategy to do that would be to use race as a cover for class.
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America's current situation is just chickens from the '80s coming home to roost [View all]
misanthrope
Jul 2017
OP
Well, the beginning of the backlash against whatever feminism had been able to accomplish in the 60s
meadowlander
Jul 2017
#108
50 yrs from now, most people won't know who those people are or those songs.
Honeycombe8
Jul 2017
#72
Yes, the 80's were a belligerent repudiation of Jimmy Carter and the direction he laid out for us.
NBachers
Jul 2017
#62
We had a president who asked nothing of us and blamed all ills on "the other".
Boomerproud
Jul 2017
#104
Reagan's trick, bad decisions and poor educations are the roosting chickens.
Democrats_win
Jul 2017
#78
Great rant! Also, Reagan colluded with Iran to manipulate U.S. election and in doing so kept
suffragette
Jul 2017
#79
I grew up in the DC Suburbs, went off to College in 1978, came back in 1983
Burma Jones
Jul 2017
#82
I usually find Bill Maher obnoxious, but he accurately nailed Reagan for our problems today.
robertpaulsen
Jul 2017
#93
This is when the Republicans began really using propaganda - Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America
kerry-is-my-prez
Jul 2017
#98
That is when Newt Gingrich came up with his propaganda tools - used to this day. It was cited
kerry-is-my-prez
Jul 2017
#107